Granting of Request for Early Termination of the Waiting Period Under the Premerger Notification Rules

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identifier: "/us/fr/02-14335"
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title: "Granting of Request for Early Termination of the Waiting Period Under the Premerger Notification Rules"
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title_name: "Federal Register"
section_number: "02-14335"
section_name: "Granting of Request for Early Termination of the Waiting Period Under the Premerger Notification Rules"
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document_number: "02-14335"
document_type: "notice"
publication_date: "2002-06-07"
agencies:
  - "Federal Trade Commission"
fr_citation: "67 FR 39394"
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#  Granting of Request for Early Termination of the Waiting Period Under the Premerger Notification Rules

Section 7A of the Clayton Act, 15 U.S.C. 18a, as added by Title II of the Hart-Scott-Rodino Antitrust Improvements Act of 1976, requires persons contemplating certain mergers or acquisitions to give the Federal Trade Commission and the Assistant Attorney General advance notice and to wait designated periods before consummation of such plans. Section 7A(b)(2) of the Act permits the agencies, in individual cases, to terminate this waiting period prior to its expiration and requires that notice of this action be published in the *Federal Register* .

The following transactions were granted early termination of the waiting period provided by law and the premerger notification rules. The grants were made by the Federal Trade Commission and the Assistant Attorney General for the Division of the Department of Justice. Neither agency intends to take any action with respect to these proposed acquisitions during the applicable waiting period.

| Trans # | Acquiring | Acquired | Entities |
| --- | --- | --- | --- |
|  |  |  |  |
| 20020730 | E*Trade Group, Inc | Tradescape Corp | Tradescape Momentum Holdings, Inc. |
|  |  |  |  |
| 20020698 | Alcoa Inc | Ivex Packaging Corporation | Ivex Packaging Corporation |
| 20020719 | Eagle-Tribune Publishing Company | Dow Jones & Company, Inc | Essex County Newspapers, Inc. |
| 20020723 | EnCana Corporation | El Paso Corporation | Coastal Oil & Gas Resources |
| 20020724 | Solectron Corporation | Lucent Technologies, Inc | Lucent Technologies, Inc. |
| 20020728 | Inverness/Phoenix Partners LP | Kellstrom Industries, Inc. (debtor-in-possession) | Kellstrom Industries, Inc. (debtor-in-possession) |
|  |  |  |  |
| 20020733 | Level 3 Communications, Inc | Software Spectrum, Inc | Software Spectrum, Inc. |
|  |  |  |  |
| 20020727 | King Pharmaceuticals, Inc | Johnson & Johnson | Ortho-McNeil Pharmaceutical, Inc. |
| 20020737 | Mentor Graphics Corporation | Innoveda, Inc | Innoveda, Inc. |
|  |  |  |  |
| 20020721 | Jabil Circuit, Inc | Compaq Computer Corporation | Compaq Computer Corporation |
| 20020736 | GTCR Fund VI, L.P | Robert G. Owens | Millennium Holdings I, LLC |
| 20020747 | Intuit Inc | CBS Employer Services, Inc | CBS Employer Services, Inc. |
| 20020755 | MBNA Corporation | Ohio Savings Financial Corporation | Ohio Savings Bank |
|  |  |  |  |
| 20020741 | Morgan Stanley Dean Witter Capital Partners IV, L.P | Louis A. Weiss Memorial Hospital | Louis A. Weiss Memorial Hospital |
| 20020746 | General Electric Company | Panametrics, Inc | Panametrics, Inc. |
| 20020758 | Grupo IMSA, S.A. de C.V. | Material Sciences Corporation | MSC Pinole Point Steel Inc. |
|  |  |  |  |
| 20020735 | Schering Aktiengesellschaft | Collateral Therapeutics, Inc | Collateral Therapeutics, Inc. |
|  |  |  |  |
| 20020744 | MiTAC International Corp | Arrow Electronics, Inc | Arrow Electronics, Inc. |
| 20020790 | Sears, Roebuck and Co | Gary C. Comer | Land's End, Inc. |

**FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT:**

Sandra M. Peay, or Chandra L. Kennedy, Contact Representatives. Federal Trade Commission, Premerger Notification Office, Bureau of Competition, Room 303, Washington, DC 20580, (202) 326-3100.

By Direction of the Commission.

Donald S. Clark,

Secretary.