Wilmer Cutler Pickering Hale and Dorr Antitrust Series
Antitrust and Competition Law Update
Abstract
The US Federal Trade Commission(FTC) has announced sweeping changes to the Hart-Scott-Rodino (HSR) Act premerger reporting rules, including those governing transactions involving partnerships and LLCs, that will come into effect on April 6, 2005. See 70 Fed. Reg. 11526 (March 8, 2005). In addition to reconciling the HSR analysis of LLCs, partnerships and other unincorporated entities with that of corporations, the new rules will make a number of technical adjustments and codify some informal FTC interpretations. The changes will make some transactions reportable that have historically be exempt; this effect will be offset to some extent by new exemptions from filing, most notably a significant expansion of the exemption for acquisitions of voting securities of entities whose assets would be exempt if acquired directly. We discuss all of these changes in more detail below.
Subject Area
Antitrust
Recommended Citation
Ulrich Quack, James Burling, Claus-Dieter Ehlermann, John Ratliff, Suyong Kim, Douglas Melamed, William Kolasky, and Janet Durholz Ridge,
"Antitrust and Competition Law Update"
(March 2005).
Wilmer Cutler Pickering Hale and Dorr Antitrust Series.
Wilmer Cutler Pickering Hale and Dorr Antitrust Series.
Working Paper 52.
http://law.bepress.com/wilmer/papers/art52
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