{"id":4029,"date":"2018-04-06T07:18:17","date_gmt":"2018-04-06T11:18:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lifeinsurance-orleans.ca\/Life-Insurance-Blog\/?guid=ef55f7c8456c5b29c7a8986156cbbf57"},"modified":"2018-04-06T07:18:17","modified_gmt":"2018-04-06T11:18:17","slug":"hydro-one-deal-to-buy-u-s-company-avista-receives-antitrust-clearance","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.lifeinsurance-orleans.ca\/index.php\/2018\/04\/06\/hydro-one-deal-to-buy-u-s-company-avista-receives-antitrust-clearance\/","title":{"rendered":"Hydro One deal to buy U.S. company Avista receives antitrust clearance"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>TORONTO &#8212; Hydro One Ltd. says it has received antitrust clearance in the United States for its deal to acquire U.S. energy company Avista Corp.<\/p>\n<p>The Ontario-based utility says the 30-day waiting period under the Hart-Scott-Rodino Antitrust Improvements Act expired Thursday night.<\/p>\n<p>Hydro One announced the friendly deal to acquire Avista last summer in an agreement that valued the company at $6.7 billion.<\/p>\n<p>The deal still requires several other approvals, including those from utility commissions in Washington, Idaho, Oregon, Montana and Alaska.<\/p>\n<p>The U.S. Federal Communications Commission must also sign off on the transaction and clearance is required by the Committee on Foreign Investment in the United States.<\/p>\n<p>The agreement has received approval from the U.S. Federal Energy Regulatory Commission as well as Avista shareholders.<\/p>\n<p>Companies in this story: (TSX:H)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>TORONTO &mdash; Hydro One Ltd. says it has received antitrust clearance in the United States for its deal to acquire U.S. energy company Avista Corp. The Ontario-based utility says the 30-day waiting period under the Hart-Scott-Rodino Antitrust Improvements Act expired Thursday night. Hydro One announced the friendly deal to acquire Avista last summer in an [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":578,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[],"tags":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.lifeinsurance-orleans.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4029"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.lifeinsurance-orleans.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.lifeinsurance-orleans.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.lifeinsurance-orleans.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/578"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.lifeinsurance-orleans.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4029"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/blog.lifeinsurance-orleans.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4029\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4030,"href":"https:\/\/blog.lifeinsurance-orleans.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4029\/revisions\/4030"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.lifeinsurance-orleans.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4029"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.lifeinsurance-orleans.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4029"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.lifeinsurance-orleans.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4029"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}