The US FTC increases Hart-Scott-Rodino thresholds and adjusts filing fee structure

The Federal Trade Commission (FTC) announced on January 23 that it will increase the Hart­-Scott-­Rodino Act (HSR Act) jurisdictional filing thresholds, which, along with the new HSR Act filing fee thresholds contemplated by the Merger Filing Fee Modernization Act of 2022, will go into effect 30 days after the pending publication in the Federal Register, which is expected in the upcoming days. The new rules include an increase in the “size of transaction” test from transactions valued at more than $101 million to transactions valued at more than $111.4 million—which means that, under the new threshold, acquisitions valued for HSR Act