May 13, 2010
Antitrust Challenges to Small Transactions
Here is news culled from this Kaye Scholer memo:
Last week, the Federal Trade Commission filed a lawsuit seeking to unwind Dunn & Bradstreet Corporation’s $29 million acquisition from Scholastic Corporation of a competing database for marketing to kindergarten through twelfth-grade teachers, administrators, schools, and school districts. This is the fourth challenge to a consummated transaction below the Hart-Scott-Rodino filing threshold in the last six months, indicating that federal antitrust agencies are looking carefully at transactions of all sizes, and almost no transaction is too small to escape scrutiny.