Preparing Hart-Scott-Rodino filings is a time-intensive process requiring meticulous data collection across multiple NAICS codes, revenue categories, and competitive overlaps. M&A attorneys spend 6-8 hours manually compiling transaction details, analyzing horizontal overlaps, organizing attachments, and ensuring FTC/DOJ compliance—all while racing against tight deal timelines.
Preparing Hart-Scott-Rodino filings is a time-intensive process requiring meticulous data collection across multiple NAICS codes, revenue categories, and competitive overlaps. M&A attorneys spend 6-8 hours manually compiling transaction details, analyzing horizontal overlaps, organizing attachments, and ensuring FTC/DOJ compliance—all while racing against tight deal timelines.
CaseMark automates HSR filing preparation by intelligently extracting transaction details, revenue data, and competitive information from your documents. Our AI generates comprehensive, compliant notification forms with proper NAICS categorization, overlap analysis, and attachment indexing in under 15 minutes, allowing you to focus on strategic deal execution rather than administrative form completion.
This workflow is applicable across multiple practice areas and use cases
Private equity firms and VC funds making control investments or platform acquisitions frequently trigger HSR thresholds and need efficient filing preparation to avoid deal delays.
PE and VC transactions commonly exceed HSR filing thresholds, and these practitioners need to quickly prepare compliant filings to minimize waiting periods that could impact deal timing and financing arrangements.
Public company M&A transactions require HSR filings when threshold values are met, and securities lawyers must coordinate antitrust compliance with SEC disclosure obligations.
Securities attorneys handling public company acquisitions regularly encounter HSR filing requirements and need to ensure coordination between antitrust notifications and securities law compliance, particularly for tender offers and exchange transactions.
Asset purchase transactions exceeding HSR thresholds require antitrust notification filings, and attorneys need to accurately categorize acquired assets and revenues by NAICS codes.
Asset acquisitions frequently trigger HSR filing requirements when threshold values are met, and the workflow's NAICS categorization and revenue analysis features are directly applicable to asset purchase compliance.
Corporate finance attorneys structuring leveraged buyouts, recapitalizations, and strategic acquisitions must assess HSR filing requirements and prepare notifications when transaction values exceed statutory thresholds.
Corporate finance transactions involving acquisitions of voting securities or assets often trigger HSR requirements, requiring finance attorneys to understand filing obligations and prepare accurate notifications alongside financing documentation.
CaseMark automatically analyzes your revenue data and business descriptions to suggest appropriate NAICS code classifications. The system cross-references both acquiring and acquired party operations to identify overlapping codes, which is critical for competitive analysis. You maintain full control to review and adjust categorizations before finalizing the filing.
Yes, CaseMark analyzes revenue data, business descriptions, and geographic market information to automatically flag potential horizontal overlaps where both parties operate in the same NAICS codes. The system generates a preliminary competitive overlap assessment that you can refine with additional market-specific details.
CaseMark requires your transaction agreement, financial statements, and revenue data by NAICS code as core inputs. Optional documents like SEC filings, competitive analyses (Item 4(c)/4(d) documents), and prior acquisition records enhance the output. The system intelligently extracts relevant information from whatever documents you provide.
CaseMark's templates are built on current FTC/DOJ HSR notification form requirements, including all mandatory sections and certification language. The system prompts you for required information, validates data completeness, and generates properly formatted filings. However, you should always have counsel review the output before submission.
CaseMark assists by analyzing uploaded documents to identify potential Item 4(c) and 4(d) materials—studies or analyses prepared for officers or directors evaluating competitive aspects of the transaction. The system flags relevant documents and helps organize them for attachment, though final determination of responsiveness requires attorney judgment.
Most users generate a complete draft HSR filing in 10-15 minutes after uploading their transaction documents and financial data. This represents a 95% time savings compared to the 6-8 hours typically required for manual preparation. Additional time may be needed for attorney review and refinement of competitive analysis sections.
Yes, CaseMark extracts transaction value information from your purchase agreement and financial documents, presenting it in the format required for HSR filings. The system helps ensure accurate valuation reporting, though you should verify calculations against current HSR threshold amounts, which are adjusted annually by the FTC.