News Releases for January 2009

January 6, 2009

• For Release: January 6, 2009
  General Counsel William Blumenthal To Leave FTC Federal Trade Commission Chairman William E. Kovacic announced today that William Blumenthal, the agency’s General Counsel for almost four years, will leave the agency to return to private law practice.
• For Your Information: January 6, 2009
  Commission Announces Revised Jurisdictional Thresholds for Section 7A and Section 8 of the Clayton ActThe Commission, by a vote of 4-0, has approved a Federal Register notice announcing the revised thresholds for the Hart-Scott-Rodino (HSR) Antitrust Improvements Act of 1976 required by the 2000 amendments to Section 7A of the Clayton Act. Section 7A(a)(2) requires the FTC to revise the jurisdictional thresholds annually, based on the change in gross national product, in accordance with Section 8(a)(5).