New HSR Regime and the Implications for M&A Deals: Form Requirements, Filing Obligations, Emerging Trends
A live 90-minute premium CLE video webinar with interactive Q&A
This CLE webinar will provide an overview of recent changes made to the Hart-Scott-Rodino (HSR) premerger notification report form as well as the premerger notification rules implementing the HSR Act. The panel will review the impact these changes have had for M&A dealmakers, how the FTC's enforcement policies are evolving, trends that have emerged during the initial months since the new rules took effect, and best practices for navigating the changes and ensuring compliance.
Outline
- Overview: new HSR rule and premerger notification form and their implications for M&A deals
- Key changes to the HSR filing requirements
- Competitive overlaps
- Supply relationships
- Foreign subsidies
- Ownership structure
- Private equity
- How the new rule differs from the prior rule and process
- Practical steps to optimize filings under the new HSR regime
- Emerging trends and developments
- Impact of the new rule on non-reportable transactions
- Practical considerations and key takeaways
Benefits
The panel will review these and other key issues:
- What are the key changes to the HSR filing requirements?
- What are the practical implications for M&A deals?
- What trends, practices, and policies are evolving with the HSR premerger notification report form?
- How can companies contemplating mergers or acquisitions proactively minimize delays and simplify the HSR filing process?
Faculty
Barbara T. Sicalides
Partner
Troutman Pepper Locke
Ms. Sicalides’ practice covers the full range of antitrust and competition matters. She routinely handles... | Read More
Ms. Sicalides’ practice covers the full range of antitrust and competition matters. She routinely handles antitrust litigation, conduct and merger investigations, and counseling, as well as distribution disputes and arrangements, for domestic and international companies. Her antitrust litigation experience includes a wide range of antitrust claims, such as class action and individual plaintiff actions. Additionally, this experience includes actions challenging agreements among competitors such as price fixing, customer allocation, output restraints, and other similar horizontal agreements. Ms. Sicalides has extensive experience responding to government investigations of alleged cartel activity, including price-fixing and market allocation. She also advises clients on acquisitions and joint venture transactions before the FTC, DOJ, state attorneys general, and international regulatory agencies. Ms. Sicalides is also experienced in non-merger civil and criminal antitrust investigations before the enforcement agencies, and defends against antitrust class actions and individual claims. Her counseling practice also involves helping international and domestic companies to minimize or avoid antitrust liability, and to implement effective compliance programs. Ms. Sicalides speaks regularly and has authored numerous articles and book chapters on competition-related issues. She is immediate past chair of the ABA Business Law Section Antitrust Committee.
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