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Increased HSR Act Thresholds Announced for 2022

USA - January 24 2022 The Hart-Scott-Rodino Antitrust Improvements Act of 1976, as amended (“HSR Act”), requires parties to acquisitions of voting securities, assets or…

Peter Jonathan Halasz

FTC and DOJ Issue Surprise Announcement: Temporary Suspension to Early Terminations to HSR Act Merger Filings

USA - February 4 2021 The Federal Trade Commission announced today that the FTC and the Antitrust Division of the Department of Justice (“DOJ”) will not grant early…

Peter Jonathan Halasz

Decreased HSR Act Thresholds Announced for 2021

USA - February 2 2021 The Hart-Scott-Rodino Antitrust Improvements Act of 1976, as amended (“HSR Act”), requires parties to acquisitions of voting securities, assets or…

Peter Jonathan Halasz

White House Bans Trading in 31 Chinese Companies

China, USA - November 13 2020 On Nov. 12, 2020, President Donald Trump signed an Executive Order1 that, effective Jan. 11, 2021, will impose a ban on trading by U.S. persons in the…

Brian T. Daly, Betty Santangelo, Gary Stein, Hannah Thibideau, Joshua B. Wright

National Security Foreign Investment Regulation and COVID-19: Impact on CFIUS and Expanded Review by Australia, Canada, the European Union and Spain

European Union, USA - April 24 2020 Not surprisingly, the COVID-19 pandemic is affecting government review of foreign investment. In the United States, the Committee on Foreign…

Peter Jonathan Halasz