Tom Smith is widely regarded as one of the leading experts in the United States on Hart-Scott-Rodino pre-merger notification requirements. He has extensive merger, acquisition, and takeover counseling and litigation experience, with an emphasis in the energy industry. Tom’s practice is primarily concentrated in antitrust and related areas of government regulation and includes litigation, counseling, and agency practice before state and federal courts, antitrust enforcement agencies, and various specialized agencies (e.g., DOD and FERC) where competition policy or antitrust issues arise. He has especially broad experience in dealing with mergers and acquisitions and with the full range of antitrust issues involving the energy, retail products, and steel industries. Representative clients in recent public matters include Abbott Laboratories, Allied Waste Industries, Albertsons, Flowers Foods, International Steel Group, J.M. Smucker, Magellan Midstream Partners, and Roadway Express. He is a member of the bars of the commonwealth of Virginia and the District of Columbia, as well as the American Bar Association’s Antitrust and Litigation Sections and the Energy Bar Association. He is admitted to practice before the United States Supreme Court and various U.S. District Courts and Courts of Appeals.
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The U.S. Federal Trade Commission (FTC) has voted to issue a proposed rulemaking amending the rules governing Hart-Scott-Rodino (HSR) filings made by parties to a proposed merger. The amendments would (1) codify the informal "pull and refile" process and (2) mandate automatic withdrawal of (...)
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A plea agreement entered into last week with the U.S. Department of Justice Antitrust Division (DOJ) provides a sobering reminder of the serious consequence of obstruction of justice, and highlights the fact that such obstruction issues can arise even in connection with seemingly routine merger (...)
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On January 24, 2012, the Federal Trade Commission announced revised thresholds for Hart-Scott-Rodino ("HSR") Premerger Notification filings and for the jurisdictional thresholds that trigger the prohibition on interlocking directorates under Section 8 of the Clayton Act. These thresholds are (...)
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In the first substantial change to the U.S. premerger filing requirements since 2005, the Federal Trade Commission and Department of Justice have issued a revised Premerger Notification and Report Form ("HSR Form") and final amendments to the rules governing the information reporting parties (...)
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On January 19, 2010 the Federal Trade Commission announced revised thresholds for Hart-Scott-Rodino ("HSR") Premerger Notification filings and for the jurisdictional thresholds that trigger the prohibition on interlocking directorates under Section 8 of the Clayton Act. These thresholds, which (...)
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On January 19, 2010 the Federal Trade Commission announced revised thresholds for Hart-Scott-Rodino ("HSR") Premerger Notification filings and for the jurisdictional thresholds that trigger the prohibition on interlocking directorates under Section 8 of the Clayton Act. These thresholds, which (...)
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The detection and punishment of illegal cartels are at the top of the European Commission’s enforcement agenda. In 2001, the Commission meted out record fines in cartel cases totaling $ 1.6 billion, eclipsing the U.S. single-year record of $ 1.1 billion. Historically, the Commission’s fabled « (...)
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