# Granting of Request for Early Termination of the Waiting Period Under the Premerger Notification Rules > Briefs, arguments, decisions, and more. URL: https://www.frixlaw.com/law-library/documents/fr%3AE8-22567 ## Record - **Collection:** Federal Register - **Document type:** Notice - **Published:** September 26, 2008 - **Citation:** 73 FR 55843 ## Text FEDERAL TRADE COMMISSION 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 Antitrust 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 No. Acquiring Acquired Entities Transactions Granted Early Termination—07/21/2008 20081459 Prism Holding Corporation Passport Holding Corporation Passport Holding Corporation. 20081464 Quicksilver Resources Inc The Perot Investment Trust I Hillwood Oil Gas, L.P Nortex Minerals, L.P. 20081469 Duke Energy Corporation Diamond Castle Partners IV, L.P Catamount Energy Corporation. 20081487 Allied World Assurance Company Holdings Ltd Alleghany Corporation Darwin Professional Underwriters, Inc. 20081490 Health Care Service Corporation MEDecision, Inc MEDecision, Inc. Transactions Granted Early Termination—07/22/2008 20081403 NTR plc Green Plains Renewable Energy, Inc Green Plains Renewable Energy, Inc. 20081430 Flowers Foods, Inc Lloyd Edward Eisele, Jr Holsum Bakery, Inc. 20081433 Sageview Capital Master, L.P Invitrogen Corporation Invitrogen Corporation. 20081434 Flowers Foods, Inc C&G Holdings, Inc C&G Holdings, Inc. Transactions Granted Early Termination—07/24/2008 20081470 LTX Corporation Credence Systems Corp Credence Systems Corp. Transactions Granted Early Termination—07/28/2008 20081437 Parexel International Corporation ClinPhone plc ClinPhone plc. 20081438 Newco David H. Domsife Gillig Corporation Herrick-Pacific Corporation. 20081439 Newco Dorothy H. Jernstedt Gillig Corporation Herrick-Pacific Corporation. 20081443 AT&T Inc Dennis L. O'Neill MilkyWay Broadband, LLC. 20081457 GTCR Fund VII, L.P GTC Biotherapeutics, Inc GTC Biotherapeutics, Inc. 20081488 EGI-Fund (08-10) Investors, L.L.C MiddleBrook Pharmaceuticals, Inc MiddleBrook Pharmaceuticals, Inc. 20081495 Audax Private Equity Fund III, L.P Hamid Mirafzali and Shadan Mirafzali MiraMed Global Services, Inc. 20081504 K.K. BCJ-1 D&M Holdings Inc D&M Holdings Inc Transactions Granted Early Termination—07/29/2008 20081476 Sageview Capital Master, L.P Advanced Medical Optics, Inc Advanced Medical Optics, Inc. 20081502 Wyeth The Procter & Gamble Company The Procter & Gamble Company. 20081503 Progress Software Corporation IONA Technologies PLC IONA Technologies PLC. 20081508 Wind Point Glenn W. Hasse Partners VI, L.P International Assembly LLC, Ryt-way Industries, LLC, T&G Transport LLC. 20081510 Edward L. Maletis CoHo Distributing LLC CoHo Distributing LLC. 20081513 HKW Capital Partners III, L.P David R. Porter & Angela L. Porter FURGOPet, Inc., FURminator, Inc., Shed Shack, Inc. 20081516 Exterran Holdings, Inc Joe Scott EMIT Water Discharge Technology, LLC. 20081523 OHS Inc Cenex Finance Association, Inc Cofina Financial, LLC. 20081531 United Drug plc Superior Group, Inc Sharp Corporation. Transactions Granted Early Termination—07/30/2008 20081299 Honeywell International Inc Intelligent Automation Corporation Intelligent Automation Corporation. Transactions Granted Early Termination—08/01/2008 20081478 TowerBrook Investors II, L.P Broadlane, Inc Broadlane, Inc. 20081497 Harding Energy Partners, LLC Exxon Mobil Corporation DDJET Limited LLP. 20081501 Applied Industrial Technologies, Inc Henry L. Hillman Bay Advanced Technologes, LLC, Carolina Fluid Components, LLC, DTS Fluid Power, LLC, Fluid Power Resource, LLC, FluidTech, LLC, H.E.B., LLC, Hughes-HiTech, LLC, Hydro Air, LLC, Mach V, Inc. 20081507 Hicks Acquisition Company I, Inc Blackstone Capital Partners III Merchant Banking Fund L.P GPO Capital Corp. II. 20081509 J. Luther King, Jr Industrial Distribution Group, Inc Industrial Distribution Group, Inc. 20081519 P. Morgan McCague BCE Inc BCE Inc. 20081521 BBN Holdings, Inc Landmark Communications, Inc Landmark Communications, Inc. 20081526 Puget Holdings LLC Puget Energy, Inc Puget Energy, Inc. 20081528 Snow Phipps Group, L.P ACC Holdco, Inc ACC Holdco, Inc. 20081545 Odyssey Investment Partners Fund III, L.P EAG Limited EAG Limited. 20081555 Diamond Castle Partners IV, L.P Landmark Communications, Inc NewsChannel 5 Network, LLC. FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Sandra M. Peay, Contact Representative, or Renee Hallman, Contact Representative, Federal Trade Commission, Premerger Notification Office, Bureau of Competition, Room H-303, Washington, DC 20580, (202) 326-3100. By Direction of the Commission. Donald S. Clark, Secretary. [FR Doc. E8-22567 Filed 9-25-08; 8:45 am] BILLING CODE 6750-01-M --- Source: Frix Law Library, https://www.frixlaw.com/law-library/documents/fr%3AE8-22567. Public record. Not legal advice.