State AGs May Play a Bigger Role in Merger Review


8 minute read | October.07.2024

Requirements for state-level premerger notification and review – current and proposed – increasingly parallel a federal process created by the Hart-Scott-Rodino Act.

That puts state attorneys general on more equal footing as federal antitrust enforcers. As a result, parties to M&A transactions must more often navigate multiple reviews and enforcement regimes.

Orrick’s Christy Matelis explores the trend in a new article in The Threshold, a publication of the Mergers and Acquisitions Committee of the American Bar Association Antitrust Law Section.