---
title: "HSR filing information request list"
url: "https://ailawframework.com/precedents/competition-and-consumer-law/us-hsr-information-request"
type: "precedent"
site: "AI Law Framework"
id: "a29-us-hsr-information-request"
area_id: "A29"
kind: "checklist"
ai_level: "yellow"
version: 1
task_ids: ["A29-T1-R4", "A29-B2-2"]
law_stated_as_at: "2026-10-22"
---

# HSR filing information request list

> Request list for the facts used to test section 7A of the Clayton Act, with the 2026 adjusted thresholds from the FTC page. It does not restate HSR form items and it has no affidavit.

Canonical page: https://ailawframework.com/precedents/competition-and-consumer-law/us-hsr-information-request  
Law stated as at: 2026-10-22

Site index for agents: https://ailawframework.com/llms.txt

## Key facts

- Kind: Checklist. Steps or checks to work through and tick off.
- Practice area: [Competition & Consumer Law](https://ailawframework.com/precedents/competition-and-consumer-law.md)
- Jurisdictions: United States
- AI level: Yellow. You and the tool draft together, with you directing. You check every statement you rely on.
- Law stated as at: 2026-10-22
- Status: Maintained. Checked on 2026-10-22 against the 2 authorities it cites, for United States.

## When to use it

Use when a transaction may need a premerger notification and the team needs the facts for the threshold tests. Do not use it as the HSR form, as an affidavit, or as a decision that a filing is required.

## Used for these tasks

- [Build a merger-notification threshold table from the deal facts](https://ailawframework.com/practice/competition-and-consumer-law/build-a-merger-notification-threshold-table-from-the-deal-facts.md)
- [Prepare a merger notification document index](https://ailawframework.com/practice/competition-and-consumer-law/prepare-a-merger-notification-document-index.md)

## How AI may be used

Yellow: the lawyer applies the statute and the current FTC thresholds to the figures the parties supply.

**AI may:**

- Ask for the facts the statute uses: commerce, voting securities, assets, sales, and whether the deal is a tender offer.
- Place the FTC's 2026 adjusted figures next to the statute's original figures, and say they took effect on 17 February 2026.
- Tell the team to complete the current HSR form from the FTC's own instructions.

**AI must not:**

- Do not decide that a filing is required.
- Do not prepare an affidavit, a sworn certification, or any part of the HSR form.
- Do not state a filing fee. The fee page was not opened.
- Do not invent form item numbers. The form instructions were not opened.

**The lawyer checks:**

- Recheck the FTC thresholds page. The figures adjust.
- Read both filing sentences in § 18a(a), including the tender-offer sentence, before saying who files.
- Use the parties' own sales and asset figures. Do not estimate them.

## Authorities

- [15 U.S.C. § 18a](https://www.law.cornell.edu/uscode/text/15/18a)
- [FTC, Current HSR thresholds (page opened 22 October 2026)](https://www.ftc.gov/enforcement/premerger-notification-program/current-thresholds)

## Full text and drafting notes

The full text and the drafting notes are not part of this public page. Signed-in firm accounts can read them at https://ailawframework.com/precedents/competition-and-consumer-law/us-hsr-information-request and through the signed-in MCP connector https://ailawframework.com/mcp/firm.

*Practice guidance for planning and review. Confirm current primary sources and the requirements of the actual matter. This is general information, not legal advice.*