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December 27, 2024 | Oscar Pandiello
Europe
Antitrust, DealRisk®, Mergers and Acquisitions
December 26, 2024 | Alex Wilts
North America
Artificial Intelligence
December 26, 2024 | Nick Robertson
North America
Antitrust View More
December 27, 2024
Latin America
MLex Summary: Brazil's Superintendence of the Administrative Council for the Economic, or CADE, has recommended the conviction of a company and three individuals for their involvement in an international carte... (more story)
December 27, 2024
North America
MLex Summary: OpenAI announced its plans to become a for-profit company by making its current for-profit arm into a public benefit corporation with ordinary shares of stock and the OpenAI mission as its public... (more story)
December 27, 2024 | Maria Júlia Baumert
North America
The Mexican government’s decision to dissolve the Federal Economic Competition Commission (Cofece) is a departure from broader Latin American trends that favor strengthening the independence of antitrust autho... (more story)
Artificial Intelligence View More
December 27, 2024 | Choonsik Yoo
Asia
South Korea's new artificial intelligence law, passed with overwhelming parliamentary support, aims to boost the country's competitiveness in AI by focusing on promotion rather than strict regulation. It contr... (more story)
December 27, 2024 | MLex Staff
Asia
Video-streaming platform iQIYI has initiated legal action against domestic AI startup MiniMax in a local Chinese court for copyright infringement related to AI model training and content generation, MLex has l... (more story)
December 26, 2024
Asia
MLex Summary: A group of South Korean civil society organizations criticized the parliament’s approval of the country’s first framework law on AI, arguing that it fails to include effective measures to ensure ... (more story)
Mergers and Acquisitions View More
December 27, 2024 | Wesley Brown
North America
Premerger notification filings dropped significantly to more normal levels in the 2023 fiscal year, but a flurry of action could be on the horizon. The 2023 Hart-Scott-Rodino report, released in October by the... (more story)
December 27, 2024 | Curtis Eichelberger
North America
Chinese threats, mitigation agreements and political influence will be among the top concerns for the Committee on Foreign Investment in the US next year. But of the three, perhaps the most insidious threat to... (more story)
December 27, 2024 | Flavia Fortes
Europe, North America
The analysis of the impact a merger might have on labor markets, which has been more of a focus in the past few years, is not expected to go away under the Trump administration. The incoming president’s populi... (more story)
Data Privacy and Security View More
December 27, 2024
North America
MLex Summary: Senators Edward J. Markey of Massachusetts and Rand Paul of Kentucky along with Representative Ro Khanna of California urged the US Supreme Court to reverse the decision by the US Court of Appeal... (more story)
December 27, 2024
North America
MLex Summary: US Representatives John R.Moolenaar and Raja Krishnamoorthi, respectively chair and ranking member of the Select Committee on the Strategic Competition Between the United States and the Chinese C... (more story)
December 27, 2024
North America
MLex Summary: More than a dozen former US national security advisors, including former National Cyber Director Chris Inglis and former Attorney General Jeff Sessions, urged the Supreme Court to uphold the Prot... (more story)
Intellectual Property View More
December 26, 2024 | Hiroki Yajima
Asia
Performing artists in Japan can find themselves at the mercy of unscrupulous talent agencies that often employ anticompetitive tactics, including restricting performers from switching to other managers or beco... (more story)
December 26, 2024 | MLex Staff
Asia
Avanci’s vehicle-level pricing model for standard essential patents overlooks the actual value contribution of different technologies and significantly overvalues the role of cellular communications technology... (more story)
December 25, 2024
Asia
MLex Summary: Japan's Intellectual Property High Court announced on Dec. 25 the court's grand panel will be deciding a patent-infringement case which centers on whether a medical procedure involving a patented... (more story)
Financial Crime View More
December 26, 2024
North America
MLex Summary: Days after a motions panel on the US Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit granted a government request for a stay of a nationwide injunction blocking implementation of the Corporate Transparenc... (more story)
December 23, 2024
North America
MLex summary: The US Office of the Comptroller of the Currency issued a cease-and-desist order against Bank of America, the second largest US bank by assets, for deficiencies related to its Bank of Secrecy Act... (more story)
December 23, 2024
North America
MLex Summary: Following an order by the US Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit granting a stay requested by the government, the US Treasury Department's Financial Crimes Enforcement Network has extended a s... (more story)
Financial Services View More
December 27, 2024 | Phoebe Seers and Martin Coyle
Europe
A recent ban for a company director who lied about a serious violent crime has been a reminder of the UK financial watchdog's drive to act against non-financial misconduct, whether at work or outside. But a la... (more story)
December 24, 2024
North America
MLex Summary: US banking groups representing large banks such as JPMorgan Chase and Bank of America sued the Federal Reserve over what they called the "lack of transparency" in the agency's stress-testing proc... (more story)
December 24, 2024 | Clayton Vickers and Chris May
North America
A coalition of 11 state attorneys general has a steep hill to climb to succeed in their case alleging that the Big Three investment firms Vanguard, BlackRock and State Street colluded to suppress coal producti... (more story)
Trade View More
December 27, 2024
North America
MLex Summary: The Office of the US Trade Representative asked the US International Trade Commission to investigate the distributional effects of goods and services trade and trade policy on US micro, small, an... (more story)
December 27, 2024
Latin America, North America
MLex Summary: The US Commerce Department has terminated the antidumping investigation into glass wine bottles imported from Chile.
December 27, 2024
Asia, North America
MLex Summary: The US International Trade Commission initiated antidumping and antisubsidy duty investigations into crystalline silicon photovoltaic cells imported from Cambodia, Malaysia, Thailand, and Vietnam.
State Aid View More
December 25, 2024
Oceania
MLex Summary: Global telecommunications giant Ericsson and its local partner Intelia have been hit by multi-million-dollar fines in the French Pacific territory of New Caledonia for having agreed to establish ... (more story)
December 20, 2024
Europe
MLex Summary: Germany’s plans to grant Deutsche Energy Terminal 4.06 billion euros of state support to operate four floating Liquefied Natural Gas terminals have been approved by the European Commission. The a... (more story)
December 20, 2024
Europe
MLex Summary: The European Ombudsman has closed an inquiry into transparency around the application of a former member of DG Competition to take up a job at a lawfirm. The ombudsman "regrets" the commission's ... (more story)
Energy View More
December 23, 2024 | Oscar Pandiello
Europe, Middle East
QatarEnergy may halt EU gas exports if the bloc’s due-diligence rules result in fines, Qatar’s energy minister Saad al-Kaabi said. The EU’s Corporate Sustainability Due Diligence Directive, effective from 2027... (more story)
December 20, 2024
North America
MLex Summary: The Federal Trade Commission welcomed an order by the US Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit which affirmed a lower district court order against pharmaceutical maker Teva requiring it to del... (more story)
December 20, 2024 | Khushita Vasant
North America
The Federal Trade Commission said a US court ordering Teva Pharmaceuticals today to delist improperly listed drug patents sets the stage for removal of similar junk listings for other critical medications and ... (more story)
Technology View More
December 26, 2024 | Xu Yuan
North America
The sprawling California litigation against some of the biggest social media companies over their alleged role in the deterioration of young people’s mental health will in the upcoming year continue to be domi... (more story)
December 25, 2024 | James Panichi
Oceania
A 10-year import monopoly on Ericsson’s telecommunications equipment in New Caledonia was of a “significant seriousness” to warrant the multi-million-dollar penalty imposed on the Swedish multinational by the ... (more story)
December 24, 2024 | Xu Yuan
North America
Meta Platforms has asked a California federal court to sanction a group of states for failing to produce documents for discovery on time in multidistrict litigation alleging that its social media apps are harm... (more story)