Client Alert focuses on Washington and Colorado State Premerger Notification Statutes Becoming Effective This Summer

This month, effective as of July 27, 2025, the State of Washington will be the first state to have adopted the Uniform Law Commission’s Antitrust Premerger Act (“APNA”). Colorado is following close behind, with an APNA statute that becomes effective on August 6, 2025.

Each state’s version of APNA will apply to any transaction – regardless of industry – with the following key characteristics:

• Federal HSR Filing - The transaction and the parties need to be large enough to require a filing under the Hart-Scott-Rodino Antitrust Improvements Act of 1976, as amended (“HSR”);
  
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• Minimum Contacts with the State – At least one of the parties must have certain minimum contacts in the applicable state.

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