Deals
The New M&A Rules That Would Delay Million-Dollar Deals
- New filing rules seek data on prior mergers, labor impacts
- New requirements could add 2-3 months to deal-review timetable
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The US antitrust agencies are requiring firms to turn over much more information about their transactions than before in an overhaul to merger rules that could delay deals by months.
The revamp of the so-called Hart-Scott-Rodino filing process, a move by the Justice Department and the Federal Trade Commission to crack down on illegal mergers, could add as much as two to three months to the timetable for deals, according to one estimate.