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Synopsys' (NASDAQ:SNPS) planned $35 billion acquisition of Ansys (NASDAQ:ANSS) received a request for more information from the Federal Trade Commission.
The FTC issued second requests on April1 after the companies did a pull-and-refile in an effort to avoid a second request, according to a S-4 filing on Thursday.
The update comes after a report last month that China's antitrust regulator is engaging with third parties as it evaluates the Ansys (ANSS) deal. The parties raised some horizontal concerns and asked the regulator to review the deal even though it fell below newly implemented thresholds.
News of the second request was earlier reported by Capitol Forum.
Synopsys (SNPS) agreed in January to buy engineering software firm Ansys (ANSS) in a cash-and-stock deal valued at about $35B.