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Trade
April 03, 2025 | MLex Staff
Asia
Trade
April 02, 2025 | Zack Budryk and Ansley Franco
North America
Financial Crime
April 02, 2025 | Samuel Rubenfeld
North America
Antitrust View More
April 03, 2025
Europe
MLex Summary: EU cartel laws don’t preclude Spanish rules saying that the clock for bringing a damages action doesn’t start until a decision by the competition authority finding an infringement has “become fin... (more story)
April 03, 2025
Europe
MLex Summary: Umberto Berkani has been appointed General Rapporteur of the French competition authority, to succeed Stanislas Martin whose term has come to an end. Berkani served as case officer at the nationa... (more story)
April 03, 2025
Europe
MLex Summary: Only a defendant domiciled in the judicial district of a court can be an anchor defendant, Advocate General Juliane Kokott told the EU's top judges in a non-binding opinion today. The guidance co... (more story)
Artificial Intelligence View More
April 03, 2025
Europe
MLex Summary: Fifteen trade associations have asked the European Commission to make the EU code of practice for general-purpose AI models more innovation-friendly. For the industry groups, the third iteration ... (more story)
April 03, 2025 | MLex Staff
Asia
An updated academic proposal for China's potential AI law recommends clarifying fair-use rules for open-source foundation model training and enhancing the safe harbor rule for generative AI service providers' ... (more story)
April 03, 2025
Asia
MLex Summary: Apple is facing a probe by South Korea's competition regulator for allegedly violating advertising law after launching a stripped-down version of Apple Intelligence in Korean. The investigation b... (more story)
Mergers and Acquisitions View More
April 03, 2025
Europe
MLex Summary: FincoEnergies has received clearance from the Dutch competition authority to acquire rival oil company Oliehandel Klaas de Boer. Both companies supply marine fuels in various Dutch ports. The app... (more story)
April 03, 2025 | James Panichi
Oceania
Dealmakers in Australia would need to rely on a series of thresholds to know when they’re required to submit a detailed “long form” when notifying the country’s competition watchdog of a transaction, new draft... (more story)
April 03, 2025
Europe
MLex Summary: Independent music association Impala has welcomed a request from the Netherlands asking the European Commission to scrutinize Universal Music Group’s acquisition of Downtown Music. Impala said it... (more story)
Data Privacy and Security View More
April 03, 2025
Europe
MLex Summary: Disclosing the details of company directors or representatives does not constitute the processing of personal data under the General Data Protection Regulation, the EU's top court ruled today. Th... (more story)
April 03, 2025
Europe
MLex Summary: Despite a Swedish Supreme Court ruling that personal data must be kept confidential if it risks violating EU privacy laws, the Swedish Tax Authority continues to sell citizens’ information to dat... (more story)
April 02, 2025
North America
MLex Summary: A federal judge overseeing the approaching "high-stakes, national antitrust trial" between the US Federal Trade Commission and Meta Platforms ruled that subpoenaed tech industry witnesses — inclu... (more story)
Intellectual Property View More
April 03, 2025 | Toko Sekiguchi
Asia
The Tokyo District Court’s sentencing in February of a Chinese scientist found to have leaked research data to a Chinese company marks a rare conviction of a foreign national working in a Japanese government-f... (more story)
April 02, 2025 | Nick Robertson
North America
Samsung Display filed a trade secret misappropriation suit in the Eastern District of Texas yesterday against rival BOE Technology Group, accusing the Chinese company of stealing its trade secrets to build BOE... (more story)
April 02, 2025 | Nick Robertson
North America
Untrue claims of a product’s discontinuation are not actionable as false advertising under the Lanham Act, a California federal judge held yesterday. Memjet Technology’s claims of false advertising and trade l... (more story)
Financial Crime View More
April 02, 2025
North America
MLex Summary: Oleg Sergeyevhich Patsulya, a Russian national, was sentenced to 70 months in prison for his role in a conspiracy to export controlled aviation technology to Russia, and to launder money in conne... (more story)
April 02, 2025
North America
MLex Summary: CLS Global FZC LLC, a financial services firm known in the cryptocurrency industry as a “market maker,” was ordered to pay a total of $428,059, representing both a fine and seized cryptocurrency,... (more story)
April 02, 2025 | Samuel Rubenfeld
North America
US federal prosecutors are dropping bribery charges against two former executives of Cognizant Technology Solutions, citing a “recent assessment” of the case under President Donald Trump’s executive order paus... (more story)
Financial Services View More
April 03, 2025
Europe
MLex Summary: The European Securities and Markets Authority today opened a consultation on its draft changes to "insider list" rules under the EU's Listing Act. Insider lists refer to records that publicly tra... (more story)
April 03, 2025
Europe
MLex Summary: The UK Prudential Regulation Authority and Financial Conduct Authority today set out details of a proposal to exempt more small lenders from its loan to income flow limit. The LTI flow limit requ... (more story)
April 03, 2025
Europe
MLex Summary: The UK’s Financial Ombudsman Service expects to resolve 270,000 cases in 2025-26, a 20 percent increase from the current year. The FOS, which resolves disputes between consumers and regulated fir... (more story)
Trade View More
April 03, 2025
Asia
MLex Summary: India is assessing its trade relationship with the US and actively exploring "opportunities that may arise" in the wake of US President Donald Trump's executive order imposing additional tariffs,... (more story)
April 03, 2025
Asia
MLex Summary: China firmly opposes the US tariff measures based on the so-called "Section 232 investigation," which will result in a 25 percent levy on auto imports starting April 2, China’s Ministry of Commer... (more story)
April 03, 2025
Asia, Europe
MLex Summary: China and the European Union agreed to promptly restart negotiations on the price commitment regarding the electric vehicle anti-subsidy case, the Ministry of Commerce said at a regular press con... (more story)
State Aid View More
April 02, 2025 | Nicholas Hirst
Europe
Deutsche Lufthansa will defend its six billion-euro Covid-era recapitalization at the EU’s top court in early May, MLex has learned. The German flag carrier is appealing a lower court ruling that struck down t... (more story)
April 02, 2025
Europe
MLex Summary: A French support plan worth 380 million euros to back investment into the manufacture of renewable energy equipment such as batteries, solar panels or wind turbines can go ahead, the European Com... (more story)
April 02, 2025
Europe
MLex Summary: Ryanair has lost its legal challenge against the European Commission's approval of Polish aid worth 650 million euros for national air carrier LOT. In 2020, the state aid regulator cleared a 400 ... (more story)
Energy View More
April 03, 2025
Europe
MLex Summary: The European Commission is today opening a call for proposals worth up to 600 million euros for key cross-border EU energy infrastructure projects, which have obtained a special status under the ... (more story)
April 03, 2025
Europe
MLex Summary: New provisions regarding the availability and accessibility of data on alternative fuels infrastructure were today published in the EU's Official Journal. The new rules provide details related to... (more story)
April 02, 2025
Africa, Asia, Europe, Latin America, Middle East, North America, Oceania
MLex Summary: Energy innovation has provided significant economic and security benefits worldwide, but it now faces a critical juncture due to slowing financial momentum and shifting priorities, according to t... (more story)
Technology View More
April 03, 2025
Europe
MLex Summary: Hungary’s Media Council, Mediatanács, breached EU law when it refused to renew the contract of the commercial radio station Klubrádió and excluded it from a subsequent call for tenders to allocat... (more story)
April 02, 2025 | Khushita Vasant
North America
Andrew Ferguson, the Republican chairman of the Federal Trade Commission, today accused the Democratic Party of having appeased Big Tech firms under the eight years of the Obama administration, and said they m... (more story)
April 02, 2025 | Mike Swift
North America
A group of federal appeal judges questioned both NetChoice's First Amendment arguments and the state's defense of what it said is the law's carefully tailored approach in the industry group's constitutional ch... (more story)