In a significant development for antitrust practitioners and dealmakers, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit denied the Federal Trade Commission’s motion for a stay pending appeal in the long standing litigation over the agency’s revised Hart-Scott-Rodino (HSR) filing requirements. The immediate consequence is a reversion to the pre-February 10, 2025 HSR filing
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Notice of Proposed Rulemaking under the Bank Merger Act to Increase Transparency
By John R. Ingrassia & Precious L. Penny on
The U.S. Office of the Comptroller of Currency (OCC) released a notice of proposed rulemaking (NPR) seeking to “increase the transparency of the standards that apply to the agency’s review of business combinations involving national banks and Federal savings associations.” The NPR includes several amendments to the procedures for reviewing proposed bank mergers under the Bank Merger Act (BMA).