Reported transactions2,052+12.0% vs FY2016Rank 5 of 10 by volume
Filings received4,083+409 vs FY2016Individual filings; not a transaction count
Adjusted review universe1,992+220 vs FY2016Rank 5 of 10 by adjusted count
U.S. premerger notification program / fiscal-year profile
Federal merger review FY2017
October 2016 through September 20172,052 reported transactions, 1,992 in the adjusted review universe, and 51 FTC and DOJ Second Requests. This is a record of federal procedure, not a census of all mergers or a finding of competitive harm.
Ten-year positionReported HSR transactions
10 official fiscal years- Reported transactions
- 2,052
- +12.0% vs FY2016
- Adjusted universe
- 1,992
- Second Request denominator
- Second Requests
- 51
- 2.6% of adjusted transactions
- Profile coverage
- 13
- 1 annual / 12 monthly
Annual review pipeline
Eight measures, kept in their own procedural lanes
Reported transactions, filings, adjusted transactions, in-depth review, and early termination are related administrative fields. They are not sequential conversion stages and do not form an agency performance score.
Second Requests51-3 vs FY2016Rank 5 of 10 by count
Second Request rate2.6%-0.4 pp vs FY2016Rank 2 of 10; adjusted denominator
Requests1,552332 not grantedRules and publication practices vary by year
Grants1,220+118 vs FY2016Administrative action, not an outcome measure
Grant rate78.6%-1.6 pp vs FY2016Grants divided by requests
Agency composition
FTC and DOJ Second Requests
- Federal Trade Commission
- 33
- 64.7% of combined requests
- Department of Justice
- 18
- 35.3% of combined requests
Fiscal-month field
October through September cadence
Peak monthAugust219 transactions
Monthly average171reported transactions
Lowest monthMarch146 transactions
| Fiscal month | Transactions | Transaction share | Filings | Filing share |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 01October | 163 | 7.94% | 329 | 8.06% |
| 02November | 215 | 10.48% | 416 | 10.19% |
| 03December | 148 | 7.21% | 297 | 7.27% |
| 04January | 153 | 7.46% | 307 | 7.52% |
| 05February | 153 | 7.46% | 298 | 7.30% |
| 06March | 146 | 7.12% | 302 | 7.40% |
| 07April | 150 | 7.31% | 290 | 7.10% |
| 08May | 209 | 10.19% | 402 | 9.85% |
| 09June | 191 | 9.31% | 388 | 9.50% |
| 10July | 146 | 7.12% | 291 | 7.13% |
| 11August | 219 | 10.67% | 446 | 10.92% |
| 12September | 159 | 7.75% | 317 | 7.76% |
Transaction-size field
Reported value-band coverage
Published coverage gap
Open FY2025 size field No transaction-size table for FY2017
The source release provides ten years of annual and monthly HSR activity, but its transaction-size table covers FY2025 only. Antitrust Radar does not infer or backfill value bands for this profile.
Evidence custody
Coverage, source, and reproducible rows
Official source
48th Hart-Scott-Rodino Annual Report (FY 2025)
Federal Trade Commission and U.S. Department of Justice
- Source reviewed
- Jul 18, 2026
- Fiscal-year basis
- October through September
- Ten-year transaction share
- 9.2%
Profile-scoped data
Exact JSON and CSV packets
Interpretation boundary
HSR transactions are notifications reported under the federal premerger program, not a census of every U.S. merger. A reported transaction can involve multiple filings, and the adjusted denominator removes matters for which the agencies could not issue a Second Request.
Second Requests and public enforcement actions are different stages with different timing rules. Their counts must not be treated as a finding that every reviewed or reported transaction was anticompetitive.
Early termination statistics reflect requests and agency action under the rules operating in each fiscal year. Policy and publication changes make this series unsuitable as a standalone measure of enforcement intensity.
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