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Data Privacy and Security, Technology
March 31, 2025 | James Panichi
Oceania
DealRisk®, Mergers and Acquisitions
March 28, 2025 | Flavia Fortes
North America
Trade
March 28, 2025 | Samuel Rubenfeld and Bradley Dress
North America
Antitrust View More
March 31, 2025
Latin America
MLex Summary: The Brazilian competition authority has formally requested clarification from MSC Mediterranean Shipping and Maersk regarding alleged preferential treatment in port operations and freight pricing... (more story)
March 31, 2025
Latin America
MLex summary: The Administrative Council for Economic Defense, or CADE, has partnered with the Federal Prosecutor’s Office, or MPF, in a cooperation agreement to tackle cartels across Brazil. Both organization... (more story)
March 31, 2025 | Clayton Vickers and Chris May
North America
Meta Platforms and the US Federal Trade Commission aren’t discussing potential settlement in advance of a major antitrust trial over Meta’s alleged monopolization of social networking, the parties told a federal judge today.
Artificial Intelligence View More
March 31, 2025
North America
Cigna must face US claims that it violated plan terms when it entrusted medical necessity determinations to an algorithm, a US federal judge ruled. District Judge Dale A. Drozd determined that plaintiffs adequ... (more story)
March 31, 2025
Europe
MLex Summary: Civil society organizations have issued an urgent warning on the EU Code of Practice for AI models, saying that the latest version doesn’t sufficiently protect fundamental rights and children. Th... (more story)
March 31, 2025
Asia
MLex Summary: The exposure of South Koreans to one or more types of artificial intelligence products and services has continued to increase rapidly, with the latest survey finding that 60.3 percent of the coun... (more story)
Mergers and Acquisitions View More
March 31, 2025 | Maria Júlia Baumert
Latin America
Clients and competitors said tortillas and multigrain bread lack direct substitutes in the bread market, in responses submitted to Brazil’s competition authority as part of its review of Bimbo’s acquisition of... (more story)
March 31, 2025
North America
MLex Summary: Detroit-based Rocket Companies said it will acquire Dallas-based Mr. Cooper Group in an all-stock transaction with an equity value of $9.4 billion. Rocket Companies is a fintech platform that pro... (more story)
March 31, 2025 | Andrew Boyce
Europe
Liberty Media’s proposed takeover of motorcycling championship MotoGP is just days from the pivotal point where the European Commission will have to either escalate its probe with formal objections, or drop it... (more story)
Data Privacy and Security View More
March 31, 2025
North America
MLex Summary: Meta Platforms told a US appeals court that claims alleging the harmful design of its social media platform features are plainly barred by Section 230 because such claims directly target Meta’s r... (more story)
March 31, 2025
North America
MLex Summary: US Federal Trade Commission Chairman Andrew Ferguson issued a letter outlining how 23andMe must maintain its privacy protections amid its bankruptcy. "The FTC believes that, consistent with Secti... (more story)
March 31, 2025 | Patricia Figueiredo
Europe
UK lawmakers today criticized the government for reportedly asking Apple to give it access to users’ encrypted data through a notice served under the 2016 Investigatory Powers Act. The California-based company... (more story)
Intellectual Property View More
March 31, 2025 | Nick Robertson
North America
Motorola Solutions inter partes review petitions at the Patent Trial and Appeal Board will not be heard after US Patent and Trademark Office Acting Director Coke Morgan Stewart reversed the previous decisions ... (more story)
March 31, 2025 | Melissa Ritti
North America
A US judge in Delaware has granted judgment as a matter of law that technology directed to improved combustion device performance is ineligible for patenting, in a win for General Electric Co. According to the... (more story)
March 31, 2025 | Nick Robertson
North America
Intellectual Ventures II became one of the first parties to cite a new memo allowing more discretionary denials at the Patent Trial and Appeal Board due to staff cuts, with the firm asking the board to deny th... (more story)
Financial Crime View More
March 31, 2025 | Martin Coyle and Phoebe Seers
Europe
A bid to force the UK government to reveal details of any discussions between crypto exchange Binance and officials, including the former City minister, has been blocked by judges today. This follows an Inform... (more story)
March 31, 2025
Europe
MLex Summary: Amazon, Barclays, Google, HSBC, Monzo and other big name tech companies and banks have pledged to share live data in a bid to stop fraud. Under the umbrella of the Stop Scams organization, the co... (more story)
March 31, 2025 | Phoebe Seers
Europe
Banks and payment providers in the UK will soon be asked to provide metrics to financial services regulators on the levels of “on us” Authorized Push Payment fraud they are reimbursing, MLex has learned. “On u... (more story)
Financial Services View More
March 31, 2025
Europe
MLex Summary: The European Commission will present its proposal on the review of the EU securitization framework on June 17, according to its agenda published today. This legislative review is one of the initi... (more story)
March 31, 2025
Europe
MLex Summary: Clarifying the scope of the EU's securitization regulation, broadening the definition of public securitization, and simplifying transparency and reporting requirements are some of the recommendat... (more story)
March 31, 2025
Europe
MLex Summary: The European Commission has proposed maintaining the current rules on liquidity requirements for certain financial transactions, namely short-term securities financing transactions. Under current... (more story)
Trade View More
March 31, 2025 | Oscar Pandiello
Europe
The European Commission plans to present the EU-Mercosur trade deal for ratification to EU countries and lawmakers before the summer break. The legal review is nearly complete, and an economic impact assessmen... (more story)
March 31, 2025
Asia, North America
MLex Summary: The US Commerce Department determined that countervailable subsidies are being provided to Indian producers and exporters of hard empty capsules.
March 31, 2025 | Joanna Sopinska
Europe
Hungary plans to back Chinese electric-vehicle producers and US producer Tesla in their appeals against EU anti-subsidy duties on imports of electric vehicles made in China, MLex has learned. It is understood ... (more story)
State Aid View More
March 31, 2025
Europe
MLex Summary: Agricultural business Tartu Agro has filed an appeal at the EU first-tier court to contest the European Commission's order for Estonia to claw back public funding from the company. Last year, the... (more story)
March 28, 2025
Europe
MLex Summary: Nuctech has failed to convince judges at the EU's highest court to put an interim block on evidence gathered during raids carried out under the rules governing foreign subsidies. The company was ... (more story)
March 27, 2025 | Andrew Boyce
Europe
Chinese companies shouldn’t feel “targeted” by EU rules designed to combat distortive state subsidies from foreign countries, a senior EU official said today. Eddy de Smijter was responding to comments by a re... (more story)
Energy View More
March 31, 2025
Europe
MLex Summary: Renewable power generation increased significantly in 2024, with a record share of 47 percent of the power mix, while the share of fossil fuels fell to 28 percent, according to the European Commi... (more story)
March 31, 2025
Europe
MLex Summary: Nord Stream 2 challenged the ruling of the bloc's General Court over the EU's revised gas directive, which it lost in November. The legal dispute refers to the extension of the application of cer... (more story)
March 28, 2025
Europe
MLex Summary: The EU's environment chief Jessika Roswall and the UN Environment Program executive director Inger Andersen today agreed on further cooperation on environment and climate issues, at a meeting in ... (more story)
Technology View More
March 31, 2025 | Luca Bertuzzi
Europe
The largest online platforms, including the likes of Meta Platforms, TikTok and Google, were collectively charged 58 million euros by the European Commission for its supervision of the EU digital rulebook in 2... (more story)
March 31, 2025
Europe
MLex Summary: Updates to the UK’s current satellite filing rules were proposed today under new plans by telecom regulator Ofcom. Proposed changes include stricter requirements for satellites in the low Earth o... (more story)
March 31, 2025
Europe
MLex Summary: The European Democracy Shield, an initiative that takes a broad approach to the protection and promotion of democracy in the EU, is now open for public feedback, according to the website of the E... (more story)