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Antitrust, DealRisk®, Mergers and Acquisitions
January 17, 2025 | Chris May and Ilana Kowarski
North America
Financial Services
January 17, 2025 | Sofia Gerace
Europe
Trade
January 17, 2025 | Oscar Pandiello
Europe
Antitrust View More
January 18, 2025
North America
MLex Summary: US Federal Trade Commission chair Lina Khan said agency staff filed petitions to enforce compliance with civil investigative demands issued to Cigna and CVS Health over a year ago. The CIDs were ... (more story)
January 17, 2025 | Chris May, Khushita Vasant, Curtis Eichelberger and Clayton Vickers
North America
The US Department of Justice’s antitrust division had more total active civil investigations open in fiscal year 2024 than in any year for nearly a decade, workload statistics released today show.
January 17, 2025 | Mike Swift, Khushita Vasant and Amy Miller
North America
A US Federal Trade Commission report detailing key concerns around more than $20 billion in partnerships between cloud service providers Amazon, Google and Microsoft with artificial intelligence developers Ope... (more story)
Artificial Intelligence View More
January 17, 2025 | Xu Yuan, Maria Dinzeo and Mike Swift
North America
Personal data such as location and web-browsing activities can be used to determine how different consumers pay differently for the same goods or services, a study by the US Federal Trade Commission shows.
January 17, 2025
North America
MLex Summary: US Federal Trade Commission Chief Technologist Stephanie Nguyen outlined major programmatic advances achieved across the agency and highlighted how the FTC's work on the "front lines of tech inno... (more story)
January 17, 2025
North America
MLex Summary: Missouri Attorney General Andrew Bailey plans to issue regulations that would require social media platforms to offer Missouri residents the option to select alternative algorithms, if they prefe... (more story)
Mergers and Acquisitions View More
January 17, 2025 | Flavia Fortes
Latin America
The market for supply of satellite capacity is competitive and has several players, according to most respondents in the market test the Brazilian competition authority is performing for its review of SES's me... (more story)
January 17, 2025
North America
MLex Summary: The US Department of Justice's antitrust division issued its 10-year workload statistics report, summarizing enforcement actions from 2015 through 2024. One of the statistics shows that the total... (more story)
January 17, 2025
North America
MLex Summary: Omnicom's acquisition of Interpublic Group, or IPG, must be approved by either antitrust or foreign direct investment authorities in 18 countries, including the US, UK, EU and China. Omnicom file... (more story)
Data Privacy and Security View More
January 17, 2025
North America
MLex Summary: In the wake of a ruling by the US Supreme Court, TikTok issued a statement on social media clarifying that it will "go dark" on the Jan. 19 deadline for the app to be divested of Chinese ownership.
January 17, 2025
North America
MLex Summary: Virginia Attorney General Jason Miyares has sued TikTok and ByteDance, it's China-based parent company, in Virginia state court for its allegedly addictive design features and false claims about ... (more story)
January 17, 2025 | Maria Dinzeo
North America
The Biden Administration’s 11th hour cyber executive order will require that companies looking to sell to the federal government show they meet basic cybersecurity standards, and the government isn’t afraid to... (more story)
Intellectual Property View More
January 17, 2025 | Nick Robertson
North America
Apple did not abandon its “Apple” trademark for use in educational and entertainment services, a California federal judge found yesterday, dismissing a trademark suit by jazz musician Charles Bertini for a sec... (more story)
January 17, 2025
Europe
MLex Summary: The Court of Appeal of the Unified Patent Court overturned a decision by the Hamburg Local Division, which had dismissed Fives ECL, SAS's case against REEL GmbH over determination of damages. The... (more story)
January 17, 2025
Europe
MLex Summary: Juul Labs International suffered a legal defeat when the Unified Patent Court revoked a patent related to electronic cigarette technology. The case, brought by e-cigarette producer Njoy’s Dutch s... (more story)
Financial Crime View More
January 17, 2025
North America
MLex Summary: As part of a coordinated effort, the US Commerce Department's Bureau of Industry and Security (BIS) and the Treasury Department's Office of Foreign Assets Control (OFAC) imposed approximately $2.... (more story)
January 17, 2025
North America
MLex Summary: Manuel Chang, the former Mozambican minister of finance, was sentenced to a term of imprisonment of 102 months and ordered to pay $7 million in forfeiture. Chang was convicted after a four-week t... (more story)
January 17, 2025
North America
MLex Summary: Two former FirstEnergy executives have been indicted by a federal grand jury and charged with one count of participating in a racketeering (RICO) conspiracy through a pattern of activity — includ... (more story)
Financial Services View More
January 17, 2025
Europe, North America
MLex Summary: The US Federal Reserve said it has withdrawn from the Network of Central Banks and Supervisors for Greening the Financial System. "While the Board has appreciated the engagement with the NGFS and... (more story)
January 17, 2025
North America
MLex Summary: Vanguard Group agreed to pay $106.4 million to resolve US Securities and Exchange Commission charges that the mutual fund company misled ordinary investors who held Target Retirement Funds in tax... (more story)
January 17, 2025
North America
MLex Summary: The US Consumer Financial Protection Bureau ordered Honda to pay $12.8 million for wrongfully reporting Honda and Acura drivers as delinquent to credit reporting companies, particularly during th... (more story)
Trade View More
January 17, 2025 | Laina S. Miller
North America
The US Court of International Trade has sustained the Department of Commerce’s second remand redetermination of the fourth antisubsidy review for corrosion-resistant steel products from South Korea, affirming ... (more story)
January 17, 2025
Asia, North America
MLex Summary: The US Court of International Trade sustained the Commerce Department’s remand redetermination results in regard to the antisubsidy duty review of Korean corrosion-resistant (CORE) steel products.
January 17, 2025 | Laina S. Miller
Asia, North America
The US International Trade Commission has voted to continue the antidumping and antisubsidy investigations of float glass products from China and Malaysia.
State Aid View More
January 16, 2025
Europe
MLex Summary: The Italian region of Campania can order Scai to repay support, based on a recovery decision the European Commission made with regard to Buonotourist, and on account of economic continuity betwee... (more story)
January 16, 2025
Europe
MLex Summary: The Portuguese territory of Madeira has lost its appeal at the EU's top court against the European Commission's order for Portugal to recover tax reductions granted to companies. In 2023, the low... (more story)
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)
Energy View More
January 17, 2025 | Stefano Porciello
Europe
European carmakers can expect support from EU policymakers, but they must direct investments and maintain jobs in Europe, the bloc’s industry chief has said. Stéphane Séjourné hinted at various policy options ... (more story)
January 16, 2025
Europe
MLex Summary: The Financial Stability Board today released a report on the assessment of climate-related vulnerabilities, which contains an analytical framework and toolkit to assess those vulnerabilities. The... (more story)
January 16, 2025
Europe
MLex Summary: The industrialization of the EU automotive sector should be based on market rather than penalties, and a “reality check” and “realignment” of the Green Deal is needed, the European Automobile Man... (more story)
Technology View More
January 17, 2025 | Madeline Hughes
North America
Enforcement of the US law that forces the divestiture or ban of TikTok is uncertain as it comes into effect amid a presidential administration transition. The controversial law, which gave TikTok and parent co... (more story)
January 17, 2025 | Xu Yuan
North America
Meta Platforms is fighting to get its insurers to cover the social media giant’s costs in fending off a multitude of US lawsuits accusing it of contributing to the deterioration of young people’s mental health... (more story)
January 17, 2025
North America
MLex Summary: Senior Republican lawmakers in the House Judiciary Committee Jim Jordan and Scott Fitzgerald wrote to outgoing Federal Trade Commission Chair Lina Khan requesting "a confidential staff briefing r... (more story)