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DealRisk®, Mergers and Acquisitions

January 14, 2025 | Wooyoung Lee

Asia

South Korean review of Synopsys-Ansys nears conclusion, remedies expected

Artificial Intelligence, Data Privacy and Security, Intellectual Property, Technology

January 14, 2025 | Emma Whitford

North America

News outlets say facts will carry US copyright cases against OpenAI, Microsoft

Data Privacy and Security

January 14, 2025 | Maria Júlia Baumert

Latin America

Meta's new fact-checking policy won’t immediately apply in Brazil, company says

Antitrust View More

UK claim against Amazon, Apple derailed as court rejects class representative

January 15, 2025 | Simon Zekaria

Europe

Apple and Amazon have avoided having to defend at trial a mass claim in the UK over their retail practices after the action failed to win trial approval. The Competition Appeal Tribunal said it couldn’t author... (more story)

Octogon Gas & Logistics probed over possible dominance abuse in Romania

January 15, 2025

Europe

MLex Summary: Octogon Gas & Logistics is under investigation by the Romanian Competition Council, to see if it abused its dominant position by refusing to provide port-handling services to a company active in ... (more story)

France's antitrust watchdog imposed over EUR1.4 billion in fines in 2024

January 15, 2025

Europe

MLex Summary: The French competition authority levied over 1.4 billion euros in fines last year, making 2024 the second-highest year in terms of penalties imposed. The office assessed a record number of 295 me... (more story)

Artificial Intelligence View More

AI debate will dominate copyright landscape in 2025, regardless of locale

January 15, 2025 | MLex Staff

Asia,Europe,North America

Artificial intelligence has the power to transform industries, economies – and copyright law.  As courts and elected officials have coalesced on the need to get it right, the path for getting there varies by g... (more story)

Nvidia goes to court over EU regulator's move to review Run:ai deal

January 15, 2025 | Lewis Crofts and Natalie McNelis

Europe

Nvidia has filed an EU court challenge over the European Commission review of its takeover of Israeli start up Run:ai, MLex has learned. The deal came under EU scrutiny via a referral from Italy, where the nat... (more story)

Samsung seeks regulatory review in South Korea for Rainbow Robotics merger

January 14, 2025 | Jenny Lee

Asia

Samsung Electronics has filed for a merger review with the South Korean competition regulator following its move to become the largest shareholder in Rainbow Robotics, marking a significant step in the tech gi... (more story)

Mergers and Acquisitions View More

Anfarmag’s request to participate in SM-Purifarma review approved by Brazil’s CADE

January 14, 2025 | Henrique Santiago

Latin America

An association of compounding pharmacies raised concerns about the deal’s impact on competition in the pharmaceutical sector. Brazil’s watchdog said that Anfarmag’s request is legitimate and that it must parti... (more story)

KKR sues DOJ's Mekki, DOJ, FTC over 'politically-motivated enforcement'

January 14, 2025

North America

MLex Summary: KKR countered a US Justice Department suit by suing Acting Attorney General Doha Mekki, the DOJ and the Federal Trade Commission, alleging their enforcement action is politically motivated. "The ... (more story)

US judge in HSR lawsuit has been skeptical of regulatory authority

January 14, 2025 | Ilana Kowarski

North America

The federal judge overseeing the legal challenge to the Federal Trade Commission’s expanded premerger forms has issued multiple decisions against government agencies similarly accused of overreach.

Data Privacy and Security View More

EU health sector plan proposes testing, warnings to tackle cyberattacks

January 15, 2025

Europe

MLex Summary: The healthcare sector will receive guidance on implementing critical cybersecurity practices, testing and early warning, according to proposals from the European Commission. The plan proposes coo... (more story)

China unveils implementation plan to strengthen data security, marketization

January 14, 2025

Asia

MLex Summary: China has introduced an implementation plan to enhance data-circulation security and promote the marketization and valorization of data assets. Led by the National Development and Reform Commissi... (more story)

Solara Medical Supplies, maker of glucose monitors, pays $3 million US HIPAA settlement

January 14, 2025

North America

Solara Medial Supplies, a maker of glucose monitors and insulin pumps, will pay $3 million to settle allegations by the US Department of Health and Human Services, Office for Civil Rights that the company fail... (more story)

Intellectual Property View More

Nokia signs patent license agreement with Samsung for video technologies in TVs

January 15, 2025

Asia, Europe

MLex Summary: Nokia has signed a multi-year patent license agreement with Samsung for the use of its video technologies in Samsung’s televisions, it said in a statement published today. The agreement will resu... (more story)

UPC Court of Appeal revokes order on security for costs in Total-TI case

January 15, 2025

Europe

MLex Summary: The UPC Court of Appeal revoked the Mannheim Local Division's order concerning a 600,000-euro security for costs in a patent dispute between Total Semiconductor and Texas Instruments regarding Eu... (more story)

Japanese fashion institute secures victory in work-for-hire copyright dispute

January 15, 2025 | Toko Sekiguchi

Asia

A Japanese fashion institute won a work-for-hire copyright battle brought on by a former lecturer who claimed authorship of a textbook. Japan’s Intellectual Property High Court ruled that the textbook was crea... (more story)

Financial Crime View More

Relax EU’s sanctions against Syria, six member states suggest

January 15, 2025 | Jean Comte and Luca Bertuzzi

Europe

Six EU member states — Germany, France, the Netherlands, Spain, Finland and Denmark — have suggested lifting some of the sanctions that the bloc has imposed on Syria since 2011, according to a joint written pr... (more story)

Advisory firm Navy Capital Green Management charged over US money-laundering compliance

January 14, 2025

North America

MLex Summary:  Investment adviser Navy Capital Green Management agreed to pay a $150,000 fine to settle US Securities and Exchange Commission charges that the firm made misrepresentations related to its anti-m... (more story)

US CFPB sues Capital One for allegedly cheating consumers out of proper interest payments

January 14, 2025

North America

MLex Summary: The US Consumer Financial Protection Bureau has sued Capital One for freezing savings account interest rates at low levels while promising that its flagship ‘360 Savings’ account provided one of ... (more story)

Financial Services View More

EU financial sector to see next step on securitization review by summer, commission says

January 15, 2025 | Helena Freitas

Europe

The next step on the review of the EU’s securitization framework will be unveiled before summer — and will amend the existing rules, rather than being a new piece of legislation — European Commission official ... (more story)

EU funds' costs reduced and performance improved in 2023, ESMA says

January 15, 2025

Europe

MLex Summary: The costs associated with EU funds continued to decline in 2023, according to the latest market report on the costs and performance of EU retail investment products published by the European Secu... (more story)

Exiting US FDIC Chair Gruenberg voices concern about non-bank financial institutions

January 14, 2025

North America

MLex summary: US Federal Deposit Insurance Corp. Chair Martin Gruenberg expressed concern about the potential risks to financial stability posed by non-bank financial institutions such as hedge funds, private ... (more story)

Trade View More

Vet outbound investments in advanced tech, EU Commission urges member states

January 15, 2025

Europe

MLex Summary: EU companies' external investments in semiconductors, artificial intelligence and quantum-computing technologies should undergo scrutiny to mitigate risks to the bloc's economic security, the Eur... (more story)

Dutch export controls on chip-manufacturing equipment to be tightened

January 15, 2025

Europe

MLex Summary: Dutch companies producing advanced semiconductor manufacturing equipment will face stricter export controls starting April 1, according to Reinette Klever, the minister for foreign trade and deve... (more story)

Seven US companies added to China's unreliable entity list over Taiwan arm sales

January 14, 2025

Asia

MLex Summary: Seven US companies, including Inter-Coastal Electronics, Axient, and IronMountain Solutions, have been included in China's unreliable entity list because of their arms sales to Taiwan, according ... (more story)

State Aid View More

Ryanair’s appeals of re-approved Italian Covid aid published by EU court

January 13, 2025

Europe

MLex Summary: The EU General Court today released summaries of appeals by Ryanair against an earlier decision to readopt Italian support to airlines to compensate them for damages triggered by the Covid pandem... (more story)

Italgas files 2i Rete Gas deal for EU foreign subsidy approval

January 10, 2025 | Andrew Boyce

Europe

Italian gas distributor Italgas has sought EU foreign subsidy clearance to buy its smaller rival 2i Rete Gas. The European Commission has set a Feb. 13 deadline to decide on the deal.

Rectify FSR measures against Chinese companies, its industry lobby urges EU

January 09, 2025

Asia, Europe

MLex Summary: China’s Chamber of Commerce to the EU has called on the bloc to “promptly rectify its improper measures under the Foreign Subsidies Regulation.” The statement followed an announcement in which Mo... (more story)

Energy View More

EU carmakers see center-left consider linking public funds to job guarantees

January 15, 2025 | Stefano Porciello

Europe

EU carmakers could see center-left lawmakers in the European Parliament defend the 2035 “combustion engine ban” and call for job guarantees and other social conditionalities to be attached to public funds, an ... (more story)

South Korea announces comprehensive plan to revitalize EV, battery industries

January 14, 2025

Asia

MLex Summary: South Korea has announced a comprehensive plan to boost its eco-friendly vehicle and secondary battery industries amid slowing market growth and global uncertainties. The government will provide ... (more story)

US FTC Republicans say statement on labor antitrust exemption 'senseless'

January 14, 2025

North America

MLex Summary: Republican US Federal Trade Commissioners Andrew Ferguson and Melissa Holyoak issued a joint dissent on the agency's enforcement policy statement on exemptions for protected labor activity by wor... (more story)

Technology View More

Kakao Mobility affiliate's 20 percent blanket commission draws fine in South Korea

January 14, 2025

Asia

MLex Summary: DGT Mobility, a KakaoT taxi franchise operator, has been hit with a fine of 228 million won (about $156,000) and issued corrective orders by the country's competition watchdog for unfairly collec... (more story)

US laws should clarify algorithmic collusion, NAAG antitrust task force chief says

January 14, 2025 | Khushita Vasant

North America

State and federal legislation that defines and clarifies types of conduct involving algorithmic pricing tools as potentially anticompetitive would be a "good idea," the chair of the Multistate Antitrust Task F... (more story)

Biden signs executive order aimed at powering AI data centers

January 14, 2025

North America

MLex Summary: US President Joe Biden has signed an executive order providing federal support to address energy needs for advanced artificial intelligence data centers, the White House announced. The order dire... (more story)