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DealRisk®, Mergers and Acquisitions
January 14, 2025 | Wooyoung Lee
Asia
Artificial Intelligence, Data Privacy and Security, Intellectual Property, Technology
January 14, 2025 | Emma Whitford
North America
Data Privacy and Security
January 14, 2025 | Maria Júlia Baumert
Latin America
Antitrust View More
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)
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)
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
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)
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)
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
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)
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)
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
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)
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)
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
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)
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)
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
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)
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)
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
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)
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)
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
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)
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)
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
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)
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.
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
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)
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)
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
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)
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)
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)