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Antitrust, Artificial Intelligence, Data Privacy and Security, DealRisk®, Mergers and Acquisitions, Technology
March 12, 2025 | Ilana Kowarski
North America
Trade
March 12, 2025 | Bradley Dress
Asia, North America
Trade
March 12, 2025 | Joanna Sopinska
Europe
Antitrust View More
March 13, 2025 | Mike Swift
North America
Whether a jury of Texans will have a voice in Google’s penalty if a trial this year determines its ad tech business violated state and federal antitrust and consumer-protection laws sparked intense debate toda... (more story)
March 13, 2025
North America
MLex Summary: Amazon told a Washington federal judge the US Federal Trade Commission and plaintiff states that have sued the company for alleged illegal monopolization can and should provide factual informatio... (more story)
March 12, 2025
North America
MLex Summary: US Federal Trade Commission Chairman Andrew Ferguson has hired former American Principles Project Policy Director Jon Schweppe as a senior policy advisor, Schweppe announced in a March 9 social m... (more story)
Artificial Intelligence View More
March 12, 2025 | Andrew Boyce
Europe
Alphabet has informed EU regulators that it has acquired MutableAI, a US startup that provides a tool for software developers that converts code into Wikipedia-style articles. Google's parent company reported ... (more story)
March 12, 2025
Europe
MLex Summary: Six new sites across Europe have been selected by the European High Performance Computing Joint Undertaking to host additional AI factories, set to be deployed in Austria, Bulgaria, France, Germa... (more story)
March 12, 2025
Europe
MLex Summary: The Spanish government adopted national legislation implementing the EU’s AI Act yesterday, tasking the relevant national authorities that will be responsible for overseeing different parts of th... (more story)
Mergers and Acquisitions View More
March 13, 2025
Oceania
MLex Summary: The bid by multinational industrial-gas company Nippon Sanso’s Australian subsidiary NSC’ to acquire Coregas, Coregas NZ Limited and Blacksmith Jacks, currently owned by Australian conglomerate W... (more story)
March 13, 2025
Oceania
MLex Summary: Stevedoring and container-terminal manager DP World Australia’s play for publicly listed port-logistics provider Silk has raised antitrust concerns for the Australian competition regulator. In a ... (more story)
March 12, 2025 | Maria Júlia Baumert
Latin America
The Brazilian competition authority has queried industry competitors as part of its review of AB Mauri’s proposed acquisition of the Uniferm brand from Festpan. A questionnaire filed today addresses the potent... (more story)
Data Privacy and Security View More
March 13, 2025
Asia
MLex Summary: South Korea launched its MyData initiative today, implementing a phased approach that begins immediately with the healthcare and telecommunications sectors. According to the Personal Information ... (more story)
March 13, 2025
Oceania
MLex Summary: New Zealand companies are concerned about data breaches by third-party providers, for which outsourcing businesses can be held accountable, a report has found. In a statement today, New Zealand’s... (more story)
March 12, 2025
North America
MLex Summary: US Federal Trade Commission lawyer Jonathan Cohen filed a letter to US District Judge John Chun, who is presiding over the agency's case over Amazon's alleged use of "dark patterns" design to obs... (more story)
Intellectual Property View More
March 13, 2025 | Freny Patel
Asia
Johnson & Johnson has secured a significant victory in a trademark infringement lawsuit in India. The Delhi High Court awarded damages to the US multinational after counterfeit surgical devices, produced in In... (more story)
March 12, 2025 | Melissa Ritti
North America
In a precedential decision today, the US Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit said they will not disturb findings by the Trademark Trial and Appeal Board that ‘Fireball’ is non-generic for whiskey and that... (more story)
March 12, 2025
North America
MLex Summary: In what they deemed an issue of first impression, the US Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit said that an assessment of trademark genericness must be pegged to the date of registration. In t... (more story)
Financial Crime View More
March 12, 2025
North America
MLex Summary: In its quarterly earnings statement, Calavo Growers, a California-based food distributor, said the US Securities and Exchange Commission told the company that activity in its investigation into p... (more story)
March 12, 2025 | Samuel Rubenfeld
Asia, North America
The co-founder of Smartmatic and a former executive of the voting-machine producer have asked a US judge to delay pretrial motion deadlines for 30 days, without touching the scheduled trial date, as the govern... (more story)
March 12, 2025 | Samuel Rubenfeld
Middle East, North America
A Hezbollah financier was sentenced today in Brooklyn federal court to time served after admitting he had tried violating the sanctions imposed on him by surreptitiously moving funds out of the US and into Lebanon.
Financial Services View More
March 12, 2025 | Phoebe Seers
Europe
The head of the UK’s payments regulator said today that he only found out that his organization was to be abolished hours before it was announced last night as part of a government drive for deregulation. Davi... (more story)
March 12, 2025
North America
MLex Summary: The US House of Representatives passed H.J. Res 25, a resolution that, if it becomes law, would revoke the Biden-era rule that requires decentralized financial transaction brokers to report digit... (more story)
March 12, 2025
Europe
MLex Summary: The UK's Financial Conduct Authority and the Prudential Regulation Authority have abandoned a 2023 proposal to boost diversity and inclusion in Britain’s financial services industry. In his lette... (more story)
Trade View More
March 13, 2025
Asia
MLex Summary: US biotech company Illumina announced that it respects the decision of China's Ministry of Commerce and will continue to comply with all applicable laws and regulations wherever the company opera... (more story)
March 12, 2025
Latin America
MLex Summary: The Brazilian ministries of Foreign Affairs and Development, Industry and Commerce have issued a joint statement expressing regret over the US decision to raise steel and aluminum tariffs to 25 p... (more story)
March 12, 2025
Asia, North America
MLex summary: Commerce has amended its dumping margin for Chinese company Kenda Rubber following a 2024 ruling from the US Court of International Trade that partly sustained its latest determination in an anti... (more story)
State Aid View More
March 12, 2025
Europe
MLex Summary: An update to a Norwegian employee share-option tax plan for start-up and growth companies is in line with state aid rules, the EFTA Surveillance Authority said today. Under the modifications, th... (more story)
March 12, 2025
Europe
MLex Summary: The ČEZ Group has seen the European Commission issue the text of its earlier decision to clear Czechia's support to the company's subsidiary Elektrárna Dukovany II. Last year, the state aid regul... (more story)
March 12, 2025
Europe
MLex Summary: PGI Spain, and other companies including Berry Superfos and RPC Envases, today lost an appeal at the EU General Court where they were challenging a measure allowing Spain and Portugal to support ... (more story)
Energy View More
March 12, 2025
Europe
MLex Summary: Compensation for grid operators in the EU covering the costs of hosting cross-border power flows registered a new record in 2023, according to the annual report on the implementation of the Inter... (more story)
March 12, 2025
Europe
MLex Summary: The European Commission published today a report on the process for approving capacity mechanisms in the EU, which refer to member states' support to remunerate items such as generators and stora... (more story)
March 12, 2025
Europe
MLex Summary: The second mid-term matching round to coordinate EU gas purchases is starting, the European Commission has said. EU gas buyers will be able to submit and aggregate their demand for multiple six-m... (more story)
Technology View More
March 12, 2025 | Frank Hersey
Europe
Google hopes for flexibility in how it can respond to online emergencies as the UK's online safety regulator prepares new codes for consultation later in the spring. The regulator is expanding its codes of pra... (more story)
March 12, 2025 | Patricia Figueiredo
Europe
Large online platforms such as Facebook, Instagram, YouTube and X will likely be required to ramp up the use of proactive technologies to monitor and take down illegal content before it’s reported by users, a ... (more story)
March 12, 2025
North America
MLex Summary: The US Court of Appeals for the DC Circuit has denied Apple's motion to schedule oral argument on its appeal of a lower court's denial of its intervention in the US Department of Justice's antitr... (more story)