[Federal Register Volume 67, Number 110 (Friday, June 7, 2002)]
[Notices]
[Pages 39394-39395]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 02-14335]


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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 Division of the Department of Justice. Neither 
agency intends to take any action with respect to these proposed 
acquisitions during the applicable waiting period.

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   Trans         Acquiring         Acquired         Entities
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           TRANSACTIONS GRANTED EARLY TERMINATION--05/13/2002
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20020730.............  E*Trade Group,   Tradescape Corp  Tradescape
                        Inc.                              Momentum
                                                          Holdings, Inc.
                                                         Tradescape
                                                          Technology
                                                          Holdings, Inc.
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           TRANSACTIONS GRANTED EARLY TERMINATION--05/14/2002
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20020698.............  Alcoa Inc......  Ivex Packaging   Ivex Packaging
                                         Corporation.     Corporation
20020719.............  Eagle-Tribune    Dow Jones &      Essex County
                        Publishing       Company, Inc.    Newspapers,
                        Company.                          Inc.
                                                         Ottoway
                                                          newspapers,
                                                          Inc.
                                                         The Mail
                                                          Tribune, Inc.
20020723.............  EnCana           El Paso          Coastal Oil &
                        Corporation.     Corporation.     Gas Resources
                                                         El Paso
                                                          Production Oil
                                                          & Gas Company
20020724.............  Solectron        Lucent           Lucent
                        Corporation.     Technologies,    Technologies,
                                         Inc.             Inc.
20020728.............  Inverness/       Kellstrom        Kellstrom
                        Phoenix          Industries,      Industries,
                        Partners LP.     Inc. (debtor-    Inc. (debtor-
                                         in-possession).  in-possession)
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           TRANSACTIONS GRANTED EARLY TERMINATION--05/15/2002
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20020733.............  Level 3          Software         Software
                        Communications   Spectrum, Inc.   Spectrum, Inc.
                        , Inc.
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           TRANSACTIONS GRANTED EARLY TERMINATION--05/16/2002
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20020727.............  King             Johnson &        Ortho-McNeil
                        Pharmaceutical   Johnson.         Pharmaceutical
                        s, Inc.                           , Inc.
20020737.............  Mentor Graphics  Innoveda, Inc..  Innoveda, Inc.
                        Corporation.
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           TRANSACTIONS GRANTED EARLY TERMINATION--05/20/2002
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20020721.............  Jabil Circuit,   Compaq Computer  Compaq Computer
                        Inc.             Corporation.     Corporation
20020736.............  GTCR Fund VI,    Robert G. Owens  Millennium
                        L.P.                              Holdings I,
                                                          LLC
20020747.............  Intuit Inc.....  CBS Employer     CBS Employer
                                         Services, Inc.   Services, Inc.
20020755.............  MBNA             Ohio Savings     Ohio Savings
                        Corporation.     Financial        Bank
                                         Corporation.
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           TRANSACTIONS GRANTED EARLY TERMINATION--05/22/2002
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20020741.............  Morgan Stanley   Louis A. Weiss   Louis A. Weiss
                        Dean Witter      Memorial         Memorial
                        Capital          Hospital.        Hospital
                        Partners IV,
                        L.P.
20020746.............  General          Panametrics,     Panametrics,
                        Electric         Inc.             Inc.
                        Company.
20020758.............  Grupo IMSA,      Material         MSC Pinole
                        S.A. de C.V..    Sciences         Point Steel
                                         Corporation.     Inc.
                                                         MSC Pre Finish
                                                          Metals Inc.
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           TRANSACTIONS GRANTED EARLY TERMINATION--05/23/2002
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20020735.............  Schering         Collateral       Collateral
                        Aktiengesellsc   Therapeutics,    Therapeutics,
                        haft.            Inc.             Inc.
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           TRANSACTIONS GRANTED EARLY TERMINATION--05/24/2002
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20020744.............  MiTAC            Arrow            Arrow
                        International    Electronics,     Electronics,
                        Corp.            Inc.             Inc.
20020790.............  Sears, Roebuck   Gary C. Comer..  Land's End,
                        and Co.                           Inc.
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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.
[FR Doc. 02-14335 Filed 6-6-02; 8:45 am]
BILLING CODE 6750-01-M