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Financial Crime
February 21, 2025 | Sofia Gerace
Europe
DealRisk®, Mergers and Acquisitions
February 20, 2025 | Ilana Kowarski
North America
Trade
February 20, 2025 | Eliana Hubacker
Europe, North America
Antitrust View More
February 22, 2025 | Clayton Vickers
North America
A New Jersey federal judge has denied four major fragrance companies' motion to dismiss US price-fixing claims based on lack of jurisdiction, ruling that the plaintiffs' jurisdiction arguments aren't "clearly ... (more story)
February 22, 2025
North America
MLex Summary: US Senator Richard Blumenthal asked Federal Trade Commission chairman Andrew Ferguson raising concerns about steps Ferguson has taken to undermine the independence of the agency, threaten the fun... (more story)
February 21, 2025 | Khushita Vasant and Chris May
North America
A Federal Trade Commission official today said the market for synthetic data is growing, features many small and large players, and is an environment where market competition needs to be protected to ensure th... (more story)
Artificial Intelligence View More
February 21, 2025 | Ilana Kowarski
North America
Merger remedies are back “on the table” at the US Federal Trade Commission now that Republicans lead the agency, Commissioner Melissa Holyoak said today.
February 21, 2025 | Emma Whitford
North America
The US government could end up in a “wild west” using insufficiently vetted artificial intelligence tools if proper guardrails aren’t established and maintained, Travis LeBlanc, one of three recently fired Dem... (more story)
February 21, 2025
Asia
MLex Summary: China’s Internet regulator will enhance AI technology and information content management, strengthen the labeling of generated synthetic content and combat issues like the use of AI technology to... (more story)
Mergers and Acquisitions View More
February 22, 2025 | Flavia Fortes, Wesley Brown and Ilana Kowarski
North America
Dealmakers can expect faster decisions from the US Federal Trade Commission and more certainty in enforcement actions, Chairman Andrew Ferguson said, promising not to drag out investigations as a deterrence strategy.
February 21, 2025 | Curtis Eichelberger
Europe, North America
The US Department of Justice has laid the groundwork against a potential use by Global Business Travel Group and CWT Holdings of a failing firm defense in the DOJ's lawsuit to block the companies' merger.
February 21, 2025
North America
MLex Summary: The Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia scheduled oral arguments for US Steel case against the Committee on Foreign Investment in the United States for April 24.
Data Privacy and Security View More
February 22, 2025 | Maria Dinzeo, Xu Yuan and Mike Swift
North America
A US federal judge blocked DOGE from accessing the Treasury Department's payment systems to prevent the exposure of Americans' sensitive information and confidential financial data, noting that "the granting o... (more story)
February 21, 2025
North America
MLex Summary: A federal judge in New York has granted a motion for a preliminary injunction blocking Elon Musk's Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE) from access to personal information in the US Treasu... (more story)
February 21, 2025
North America
MLex Summary: The Republican leadership of the House Committee on Energy and Commerce, Chairman Brett Guthrie of Kentucky and Vice Chair John Joyce of Pennsylvania issued a request for information to stakehold... (more story)
Intellectual Property View More
February 21, 2025 | Melissa Ritti
North America
A cancer researcher and art collector saw his lawsuit against Sotheby’s Financial Services and Sotheby’s Inc. dismissed yesterday, when a US judge rejected claims the auction house violated the Lanham Act when... (more story)
February 21, 2025 | Melissa Ritti
North America
Apple, in a final judgment entered yesterday in California and on the heels of a January jury verdict in its favor, was declared a prevailing party and given two weeks to seek reimbursement of the attorney fee... (more story)
February 21, 2025 | Melissa Ritti
North America
In a dispute over the "Storm Coaster" rollercoaster in Dubai, a Florida federal judge yesterday rejected allegations that a Lichtenstein-based construction firm misappropriated trade secrets associated with th... (more story)
Financial Crime View More
February 21, 2025 | Samuel Rubenfeld
North America
After completing a review, the government told a US federal judge today that it intends to proceed to trial next month in a corruption case against two former Cognizant Technology Solutions executives. The dec... (more story)
February 21, 2025 | Samuel Rubenfeld
North America
Charlie Javice, the founder of tech startup Frank, and her “right-hand man,” former executive Olivier Amar, sold the college financial-planning platform to JP Morgan Chase for $175 million in a deal “based on ... (more story)
February 20, 2025
North America
MLex Summary: The Canadian government convened the first working meeting of the new Integrated Money Laundering Intelligence Partnership, which it said will support the permissible sharing of money laundering ... (more story)
Financial Services View More
February 21, 2025
North America
MLex Summary: Coinbase announced that the US Securities and Exchange Commission has agreed in principle to dismiss an enforcement case against it. “What changed over those two years was the political leadershi... (more story)
February 21, 2025
Europe
MLex Summary: The European Central Bank has updated the rules on the use of credit ratings for private-sector assets in the Eurosystem collateral framework. With this move, for private-sector assets the second... (more story)
February 21, 2025
Europe
MLex Summary: The cryptoassets sector has until March 28 to provide feedback to the implementation of the Financial Stability Board's global regulatory framework for cryptoasset activities. The framework cover... (more story)
Trade View More
February 22, 2025 | Bradley Dress
North America
US President Donald Trump today signed a memorandum that opens the door to imposing tariffs on countries that have a digital services tax or other digital restrictions or fines.
February 22, 2025
North America
MLex Summary: US President Donald Trump has directed goverment officials to look into the need for tariffs and other actions in response to other countries' digital taxes and regulation. "My Administration wil... (more story)
February 21, 2025 | Eliana Hubacker
North America
The US Court of International Trade determined that the Commerce Department was reasonable to include cabinets made with phragmite, a perennial wetland grass, within the scope of the antidumping and antisubsid... (more story)
State Aid View More
February 21, 2025
Europe
MLex Summary: Large fish-processing companies active in Denmark will be eligible for direct grants under a national package worth 122 million euros meant to reduce greenhouse gas emissions in the sector. The p... (more story)
February 21, 2025
Europe
MLex Summary: Romanian aid worth 6.6 million euros in favor of the Târgu Mureş airport to finance operating costs and the acquisition of ground handling infrastructure is in line with the bloc's state aid prov... (more story)
February 21, 2025
Europe
MLex Summary: Uniper Hydrogen may receive a direct grant worth 41 million euros from the German government to back the company's generation of renewable hydrogen in Huntorf, Lower Saxony. Its "CHESS" project i... (more story)
Energy View More
February 21, 2025
Europe
MLex Summary: Renewable energy sources accounted for 45.3 percent of electricity consumption in the EU in 2023, 4.1 percentage points higher than in 2022, the European Commission said based on Eurostat data. T... (more story)
February 21, 2025
Europe
MLex Summary: The EU’s plan to cut red tape and simplify sustainability reporting laws won’t roll back key European Green Deal initiatives, European Commissioner Valdis Dombrovskis said in a speech today. The ... (more story)
February 21, 2025
Europe
MLex Summary: Belgium has secured state aid approval for its plan to keep its two newest nuclear power reactors — Doel 4 and Tihange 3 — open for an additional 10 years, the European Commission said today. The... (more story)
Technology View More
February 21, 2025 | Patricia Figueiredo
Europe
Apple will no longer offer its highest-level data protection feature in the UK, the company announced today. This added layer of security, which is optional for users, protects cloud data with end-to-end encry... (more story)
February 21, 2025 | Patricia Figueiredo
Europe
The UK's imminent enforcement of illegal content shared online, most notably child sexual abuse material shared in private messages, threatens a flare-up in a long-running dispute between privacy campaigners a... (more story)
February 21, 2025
Europe
MLex Summary: US-based social media app Bluesky joined today a network of platforms using Internet Watch Foundation’s tools to fight child sexual abuse material, also known as CSAM. As regulators across the wo... (more story)