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What does the Regulatory column show?

What it means and how to read it on a deal.

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What it is

A deal's approvals in one status, naming the approval it is about.

On the site asRegulatoryRegulatory statusApprovals clearedNone required
As it looks on the site, with made-up values
  • China SAMR failed
  • HSR second request
  • HSR wait ends Oct 16
  • HSR wait ended Oct 2, no result
  • EU phase 1 review
  • 2 pending, no stage given
  • Cleared; the vote is left
  • Approvals cleared

How to read it

It shows the first of these that holds, in this order, which is also the order the column sorts in:

An approval failed
China SAMR failed.
In-depth review or challenge
A second request, a phase 2 review or a challenge: HSR second request.
Waiting period running
HSR wait ends Oct 16.
Waiting period ended, no result filed
HSR wait ended Oct 2, no result.
Pending, with a stage
EU phase 1 review.
Pending, no stage given
2 pending, no stage given.
Only the vote or tender left
Cleared; the vote is left.
Approvals cleared
Approvals cleared, Cleared or not required, or None required.

A dash means the deal has no approval published yet. The Regulatory status filter picks deals by these statuses. Point at the status, or focus it, for the regulatory card: a one-line summary, then each approval with its regulator, its stage in words and dots, its date, a line on what the stage is when its name doesn't say, and the filing it comes from, which opens its quote; then the vote, the tender, the outside date and how far it can move, and a link to the deal page.

As it looks on the site, with made-up values
  • China SAMR failed
  • HSR second request
  • HSR wait ends Oct 16
  • HSR wait ended Oct 2, no result
  • EU phase 1 review
  • 2 pending, no stage given
  • Cleared; the vote is left
  • Approvals cleared

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