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Artificial Intelligence
November 22, 2024 | Mike Swift
Africa, Asia, Europe, Latin America, Middle East, North America, Oceania
DealRisk®, Mergers and Acquisitions
November 22, 2024 | Ilana Kowarski
North America
Antitrust, DealRisk®, Mergers and Acquisitions
November 22, 2024 | Natalie McNelis
Europe
Antitrust View More
November 24, 2024
Europe
MLex Summary: Big Tech companies should face tight regulatory oversight with investigations of all alleged anti-competitive practices that could hit UK publishers and affect the sustainability of news, a parli... (more story)
November 24, 2024 | Freny Patel
Asia
The head of India’s antitrust watchdog has urged trade associations play a vital role in the market and tread carefully within the bounds of competition law. Addressing a workshop on Friday, Competition Commis... (more story)
November 22, 2024 | Khushita Vasant and Wesley Brown
North America
The Trump administration will be inclined towards rigorous antitrust enforcement, with federal enforcers expected to keep up the fight against serial acquisitions and vertical mergers, a top Federal Trade Comm... (more story)
Artificial Intelligence View More
November 22, 2024 | Amy Miller
North America
As the use of artificial intelligence explodes, federal agencies are increasingly trying to rein in misleading statements made by startups and investors about the technology’s capabilities — so-called "AI wash... (more story)
November 22, 2024
Latin America
The National Data Protection Authority announced the opening of a call for partnerships with universities and public institutions interested in providing consulting services for the agency's Regulatory Sandbox... (more story)
November 22, 2024
Africa,Asia,Europe,Latin America,Middle East,North America,Oceania
MLex Summary: The UK’s AI Standards Hub will host a global summit on standards for artificial intelligence technologies next March, a minister told an AI conference organized by the World Trade Organization. T... (more story)
Mergers and Acquisitions View More
November 22, 2024 | Flavia Fortes
North America
Under a second Trump administration, merger enforcement is overall expected to decrease, as is the application of some of the more novel antitrust theories of harm from the Biden administration, but the change... (more story)
November 22, 2024
North America
MLex Summary: ConocoPhillips said it has completed its acquisition of Marathon Oil Corporation.
November 22, 2024 | Natalie McNelis
Europe
The EU's top merger official has expressed surprise that a merger between Vodafone and Three's UK operations could be approved by the country's competition authority on the basis of behavioral remedies, includ... (more story)
Data Privacy and Security View More
November 22, 2024
North America
MLex Summary: A US federal judge granted Meta Platforms’ motion to dismiss a lawsuit filed by Ethan Zuckerman, a professor at the University of Massachusetts, seeking a declaratory judgment giving him immunity... (more story)
November 22, 2024 | Madeline Hughes
North America
Georgia agreed to dismiss its addictive algorithms lawsuit against Meta Platforms today because of resource constraints, but pledged to keep exploring legal options to further protect the state’s children.
November 22, 2024
North America
MLex Summary: US Senators Mike Lee and John Cornyn, Representative Chip Roy and 20 other members of Congress asked the Supreme Court to reaffirm that the government can prohibit the dissemination of pornograph... (more story)
Financial Crime View More
November 22, 2024 | Martin Coyle
Europe
Güralp Systems has breached the terms of a 2019 deferred prosecution agreement that the seismic equipment-testing struck over bribery allegations, the UK’s Serious Fraud Office has said. The company became the... (more story)
November 22, 2024
Europe
MLex Summary: The continued growth of digital material in complex criminal cases, particularly involving fraud, are causing problems for prosecutors, a legal expert tasked with examining the UK's legal regime ... (more story)
November 22, 2024 | Martin Coyle
Europe
The brother-in-law of Dmitry Ovsiannikov, an alleged close ally of Vladimir Putin, faces two additional criminal charges of breaching the UK’s sanctions regime over the alleged payment of private school fees, ... (more story)
Financial Services View More
November 22, 2024 | Neil Roland
North America
United Parcel Service, the fabled courier-delivery service whose fortunes have been sinking as Amazon’s have been rising, agreed to pay $45 million to settle US Securities and Exchange Commission charges that ... (more story)
November 22, 2024
North America
MLex Summary: United Parcel Service agreed to pay $45 million to the US Securities and Exchange Commission to resolve claims that it materially misrepresented its earnings because it failed to follow generally... (more story)
November 22, 2024
Europe
MLex Summary: The European Central Bank provided several recommendations to strengthen the macroprudential perspective in the regulation of the nonbank financial intermediation (NBFI) sector. In its response t... (more story)
Trade View More
November 22, 2024
North America
MLex Summary: The US has asked Mexico to review whether workers’ rights to freedom of association and collective bargaining are being denied at the Akwel Juárez México facility.
November 22, 2024
North America
MLex Summary: The US Department of Homeland Security announced that it added 29 Chinese entities to the Uyghur Forced Labor Prevention Act Entity List. The list is now comprised of 107 companies total.
November 22, 2024
Asia, North America
MLex Summary: The US Commerce Department initiated antidumping and antisubsidy duty investigations into overhead door counterbalance torsion springs from China and India.
State Aid View More
November 22, 2024
Europe
MLex Summary: A German capital injection of 64.8 million euros in favor of casino operator Westdeutsche Spielbanken isn't in line with the EU's state aid rules and must, therefore, be clawed back, including in... (more story)
November 21, 2024
Europe
MLex Summary: Italian measures in favor of Cineca, a non-profit consortium, whose members include the Ministry of Education and Research as well as universities and institutions in the country, don't constitut... (more story)
November 21, 2024
Europe
MLex Summary: Romania has won state aid approval for its plan worth 578 million euros to fund the reduction of a power levy rate for energy-intensive businesses, which promotes electricity from renewable sourc... (more story)
Energy View More
November 22, 2024 | Alex Wilts and Chris May
North America
The rejection of Amazon’s motion to dismiss the US Federal Trade Commission’s claims that it engaged in unfair methods of competition is unlikely to deter FTC leadership under the Trump administration from par... (more story)
November 22, 2024
Europe
MLex Summary: The EU should adopt a technology-neutral approach and back all low-carbon energy sources, including nuclear, the French, German and Italian industry associations have said in a joint declaration.... (more story)
November 21, 2024 | Stefano Porciello and Oscar Pandiello
Europe
EU automakers missing next year’s CO2 reduction goal should not be fined, the powerful center-right European People’s Party is set to say, according to a draft paper seen by MLex. The party also asks to revers... (more story)
Technology View More
November 22, 2024 | Xu Yuan
North America
State agencies, particularly those in California, risk facing contempt proceedings for failure to comply with court orders over the production of documents in multidistrict litigation over social media’s alleg... (more story)
November 22, 2024
North America
MLex Summary: Ohio, Indiana and 22 other states told the US Supreme Court that states have undisputed power to restrict minors’ access to obscene content, including pornography, urging it to uphold Texas’ age-... (more story)
November 22, 2024 | Patricia Figueiredo
Europe
Online platforms and tech companies were told today that the UK has "no current plans" to ban social media or smartphones for children or under 16s, despite an earlier suggestion by minister Peter Kyle that it... (more story)