Corporate & Securities Law

Today is HSR Day - 3rd Edition of Axinn/Fogg/Stoll/Prager/Nisa Out

By Manfred Gabriel

I am declaring today HSR Day. After the announcement of the new adjusted thresholds for 2009 came out, the Third Edition of Acquisitions Under the Hart-Scott-Rodino Antitrust Improvements Act: A Practical Analysis of the Statute & Regulations landed on my desk.

This trusted and indispensible resource for anyone who deals with premerger notification issues under HSR is now in three volumes, which I hope will make it a bit handier—the most relevant discussions are in Volume 1, and Volumes 2 & 3 are for occasional reference. (Volume 2, for example, contains the Statement of Basis and Purpose—or SBP, as it is known to HSR junkies.) The Third Edition adds Joe Nisa as an author, who is acknowledged in the Introduction as a primary contributor to the revised work. The treatise is published by the Law Journal Press, and more information can be found here. Congratulations to the authors! I’ll blog about my impressions as I’ll work my way through the Third Edition.

The final reason this is HSR Day on the Antitrust Review is that I will be kicking off a series of posts about HSR and the U.S. premerger notification process. The posts will be geared toward those who want a quick understanding of HSR filing requirements; I also hope to share some shortcuts and tricks for getting the question “Do we have to file?” right.

Happy HSR Day!

Full post as published by Antitrust Review on January 07, 2009 (boomark / email).