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Artificial Intelligence
April 17, 2025 | Emma Whitford
North America
State Aid
April 17, 2025 | Jean Comte and Lewis Crofts
Europe
Data Privacy and Security
April 16, 2025 | Maria Dinzeo
North America
Antitrust View More
April 18, 2025 | Sachiko Sakamaki
Asia
Japanese antitrust experts have commended the Japan Fair Trade Commission's issuance of a cease-and-desist order against Google, addressing the company's default setting arrangements for search apps. It marks ... (more story)
April 18, 2025
Asia
MLex Summary: Beijing's market regulator has rolled out multiple measures to address irregularities in online sales, such as “best price guarantees,” during a meeting yesterday with platform companies includin... (more story)
April 18, 2025 | MLex Staff
Asia
Seven companies from diverse sectors — shipping, autos, dairy, real estate, electronics, hospitality and pharmaceuticals — have engaged with the country's top competition regulator on arbitrary business fees. ... (more story)
Artificial Intelligence View More
April 18, 2025
Asia
MLex Summary: China's National Development and Reform Commission announced today that it has signed two cooperation agreements with Vietnamese authorities. The documents, finalized during Chinese President Xi ... (more story)
April 18, 2025
Asia
MLex Summary: China's National Development and Reform Commission yesterday signed three cooperation documents with Cambodian authorities, according to a statement issued by the commission. The three documents,... (more story)
April 18, 2025 | MLex Staff
Asia,North America
Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang pledged to continue serving the China market during meetings with Chinese trade officials in Beijing, emphasizing the company's efforts to balance competing demands from the US and Chin... (more story)
Mergers and Acquisitions View More
April 17, 2025 | Curtis Eichelberger
North America
Illinois and Minnesota have joined the US Federal Trade Commission's lawsuit seeking to block GTCR BC Holdings' $627 million acquisition of Surmodics. The FTC's amended complaint also adds GTCR, LLC as an addi... (more story)
April 17, 2025
North America
MLex Summary: The US Federal Trade Commission filed an amended complaint in the Northern District of Illinois, adding Illinois and Minnesota as plaintiffs in its lawsuit challenging GTCR BC Holdings, LLC’s acq... (more story)
April 17, 2025
Europe
MLex Summary: French poultry meat group Lambert Dodard Chancereul Group has won unconditional approval from the Autorité de la Concurrence for its takeover of the Pierre Martinet Group, a provider of fresh del... (more story)
Data Privacy and Security View More
April 18, 2025
Asia
MLex Summary: Six Chinese government departments, including the central bank and the Internet regulator, have jointly issued a set of compliance guidelines for financial institutions in a bid to boost and regu... (more story)
April 18, 2025
Asia
MLex Summary: China has never requested, nor will it ever request, companies to collect or store data unlawfully, according to Foreign Ministry spokesperson Lin Jian. Lin made the remarks in response to a medi... (more story)
April 18, 2025 | Wooyoung Lee
Asia
A privacy complaint from South Korean civil society groups over Meta Platform and X’s alleged unlawful collection of personal data for artificial intelligence training is the focus of a preliminary fact-findin... (more story)
Intellectual Property View More
April 18, 2025 | Inbar Preiss
Europe
The UPC Court of Appeal rejected Meril’s request to suspend an injunction issued against it in a patent infringement case brought by Edwards Lifesciences. Meril argued that the lower court decision was procedu... (more story)
April 18, 2025
Europe
MLex Summary: Meril Life Sciences has failed to pause the Unified Patent Court's earlier decision ordering the medical devices producer to cease-and-desist, recall and destroy products that were found to infri... (more story)
April 18, 2025 | MLex Staff
Asia
Biopharma licensing deals and related intellectual property exchanges remain possible even in the context of recent escalating trade tensions between China and the US, Robert Merges, a co-founder of the Berkel... (more story)
Financial Crime View More
April 17, 2025
North America
MLex summary: US Senator Elizabeth Warren, the top Democrat on the Senate Banking Committee, decried reports that President Donald Trump's acting US Consumer Financial Protection Bureau director sent reduction... (more story)
April 17, 2025
North America
MLex Summary: Yulia Svyrydenko, Ukraine's first deputy prime minister and minister of economy, said in a statement on X that Ukrainian officials have signed a memorandum of intent that paves the way toward an ... (more story)
April 17, 2025
North America
MLex Summary: The US Treasury Department's Office of Foreign Assets Control (OFAC) is sanctioning Yemen-based International Bank of Yemen for its financial support to Ansarallah, commonly known as the Houthis.... (more story)
Financial Services View More
April 17, 2025
North America
MLex Summary: The US Federal Reserve requested comments on a proposal to reduce the volatility of the capital requirements stemming from the Board's annual stress test results.
April 17, 2025 | Oscar Pandiello and Jean Comte
Europe
EU companies caught under the scope of the bloc’s due diligence law could see reduced supply chain obligations and potential fines capped at 5 percent of their net global turnover, according to a Polish propos... (more story)
April 17, 2025
Europe
MLex Summary: A proposal to allow UK banks to include certain foreign covered bonds as part of their capital buffers has been withdrawn by the Prudential Regulation Authority. The watchdog had recently said th... (more story)
Trade View More
April 18, 2025
Asia
MLex Summary: China's Ministry of Commerce has been in contact with its US counterparts, ministry spokesperson He Yongqian said in a press conference. Responding to a media inquiry about US President Donald Tr... (more story)
April 18, 2025 | MLex Staff
Asia
Chinese President Xi Jinping called for unity and cooperation to counter protectionism and unilateralism during his visit to Cambodia, as Beijing seeks allies amid escalating trade tensions with the US. Cambod... (more story)
April 17, 2025 | Zack Budryk
Asia, North America
Representatives of the US ceramic tile industry argued before the US International Trade Commission that Indian imports have materially harmed their business, while the respondents pointed to recent positive d... (more story)
State Aid View More
April 15, 2025
Europe
MLex Summary: Norway has secured approval by the EFTA Surveillance Authority for its plan to fund a program to develop a wind farm in Utsira Nord, located in the North Sea. The farm will raise renewable energy... (more story)
April 15, 2025 | Jean Comte
Europe
The EU General Block Exemption Regulation needs to be simplified, according to comments from several member states seen by MLex. The legal text, which sets out some conditions to exempt state aid from the Euro... (more story)
April 15, 2025
Europe
MLex Summary: Spain has won European Commission approval for its plan to spend 400 million euros to boost its generation of renewable hydrogen. Production will be supported through the “Auctions-as-a-Service” ... (more story)
Energy View More
April 17, 2025
Europe
MLex Summary: EU countries have taken a step forward on the first “omnibus” simplification law covering sustainability and due-diligence reporting duties, with the presentation of a compromise text. Poland, wh... (more story)
April 16, 2025
Europe
MLex Summary: Steel and aluminum, textiles, furniture, tires and mattresses are the products to be prioritized over the next five years in ecodesign and energy labeling requirements, according to a working pla... (more story)
April 16, 2025
Europe
MLex Summary: Lowering EU gas storage filling targets could reduce gas prices in the summer, according to a report by the EU energy watchdog ACER. High gas storage filling targets can drive gas prices up due t... (more story)
Technology View More
April 17, 2025 | Clayton Vickers
North America
The US Department of Justice told a federal court that any remedies the court adopts following Google’s monopolization of the search and text ad markets must pry those markets open to restore competition, prim... (more story)
April 17, 2025
North America
MLex Summary: Joseph Coniglio, director of antitrust and innovation for the Information Technology and Innovation Foundation, said today that US District Judge Leonie Brinkema "took an extremely narrow view of... (more story)
April 17, 2025
North America
MLex Summary: The New York attorney general said her team looks forward to continuing the Google adtech monopoly case to help restore competition to online advertising platforms after a US federal judge found ... (more story)