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Date
Rule
Form: Street Level Reporting
Staff
Premerger Notification Office
Response/Comments

Yes, you may provide street-level information for physical locations and then an endnote that explains the remote sales structure and provides the states where the remote workers are located.

Question

Company A is an acquiring entity and has an overlapping NAICS code with the acquired person. Under the new HSR instructions, this NAICS code requires street-level reporting for the establishments from which dollar revenues were derived. Company A’s offices are in one state, but its sales personnel, who generate the revenue in the overlapping NAICS code, work remotely in other states. The remote sales personnel do not work (i.e., derive revenues) from any Company A-owned offices. In a prior informal interpretation (2009008), the PNO agreed that where sales were made by remote workers, the filer could provide, in response to a state-level reporting request, the state where the entity was physically located and include an endnote explaining the company’s operations.

Based on this, a proper response to the street-level reporting for remote workers would be to identify the street address of Company A’s offices and include an endnote explaining the remote sales structure of Company A, including the states in which Company A derives sales.

Would you please confirm that this approach is acceptable?

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