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EDGAR Online Receives Early Termination of HSR Waiting Period for Merger with R.R. Donnelley

Tuesday 10. July 2012 - EDGAR Online, Inc. (NASDAQ: EDGR), a premier provider of fundamental financial data, analytics and disclosure management services, announced today that it has received notice from the Premerger Notification Office of the Federal Trade Commission that early termination of the waiting period under the Hart-Scott-Rodino Antitrust Improvements Act of 1976 was granted in connection with the previously announced merger of EDGAR Online, Inc. and R.R. Donnelley & Sons Company.

The transaction remains subject to other customary closing conditions, including approval by EDGAR Online’s stockholders. Subject to satisfaction of these other closing conditions, the merger is expected to close during the third quarter of 2012.