Private equity firms are looking at increased exposure to antitrust review. The proposed rule from the Federal Trade Commission and Justice Department’s Antitrust Division would expand the meaning of a “person” that must report a transaction for antitrust review under the Hart-Scott-Rodino Act. By proposing to broaden the scope of the term “person,” the agencies would subject a lot more private equity-backed deals to the federal antitrust review process that normally wouldn’t warrant scrutiny, an Antitrust counsel at Goodwin. Read the Bloomberg Law article here.