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DealRisk®, Mergers and Acquisitions
April 03, 2025 | Flavia Fortes
North America
Trade
April 03, 2025 | Zack Budryk
North America
Financial Crime
April 03, 2025 | Martin Coyle
Europe
Antitrust View More
April 03, 2025 | Curtis Eichelberger
North America
A US Federal Trade Commission attorney said the agency takes serial acquisitions seriously and that it doesn’t take special aim at private equity buyers.
April 03, 2025 | Nicholas Hirst
Europe
The “credibility” of the EU’s new tech legislation is at risk if the bloc does not pursue its enforcement efforts, despite US government opposition, according to the EU’s antitrust boss.
April 03, 2025 | Lewis Crofts, Clayton Vickers and Nicholas Hirst
Europe,North America
Antitrust agencies in the EU and US want to continue working together on competition enforcement globally, trying to keep their relationship insulated from political “noise,” Olivier Guersent said. Changes in ... (more story)
Artificial Intelligence View More
April 03, 2025 | Emma Whitford
North America
Twelve copyright cases against OpenAI and Microsoft currently pending in New York and California will be consolidated in the US Southern District of New York, the US Judicial Panel on Multidistrict Litigation ... (more story)
April 03, 2025 | Madeline Hughes
North America
Data and AI governance policies and risk assessments can be key to deterring regulators from bringing enforcement actions, Maneesha Mithal, a partner at Wilson Sonsini Goodrich & Rosati, said today.
April 03, 2025
North America
MLex Summary: Twelve US copyright cases against OpenAI and Microsoft have been consolidated in the Southern District of New York by the Judicial Panel on Multidistrict Litigation. The panel said that centraliz... (more story)
Mergers and Acquisitions View More
April 04, 2025
Oceania
MLex Summary: Food safety-testing services provider Mérieux NutriSciences’ bid to acquire 51 percent of Bureau Veritas AsureQuality has been cleared in Australia, with the country's competition watchdog announ... (more story)
April 03, 2025 | Alex Wilts
North America
Multiple state antitrust enforcers said today that they likely wouldn’t hesitate to challenge a merger without the backing of the federal government if they believed doing so was necessary to protect their constituents.
April 03, 2025 | Lewis Crofts
Europe, North America
New powers obliging companies to notify certain mergers for review in Ireland are likely to see more action over the coming year, despite no formal cases being triggered so far. Una Butler, a member of Ireland... (more story)
Data Privacy and Security View More
April 03, 2025 | Xu Yuan
North America
A privacy bill in the US state of Arkansas that originally broadly covered multiple issues including artificial intelligence and biometric privacy is moving forward after being significantly truncated and pote... (more story)
April 03, 2025
North America
MLex summary: A US federal judge finds a group of federal employees have plausibly alleged that the Department of Government Efficiency violated the Privacy Act's provision against disclosing personnel records... (more story)
April 03, 2025 | Mike Swift
North America
The US Federal Trade Commission told a federal judge that Kochava is delaying the deposition of senior engineer James Benoit, a witness crucial to the FTC's geolocation privacy litigation against the Idaho dat... (more story)
Intellectual Property View More
April 03, 2025 | Nick Robertson
North America
BioMarin Pharmaceutical filed a complaint at the US International Trade Commission accusing Ascendis Pharma and Wacker Biotech of importing illegal quantities of C-type natriuretic peptides into the US in prep... (more story)
April 03, 2025
North America
MLex Summary: BioMarin Pharmaceutical accused European rivals Ascendis Pharma and Wacker Biotech of importing illegal quantities of patented C-type natriuretic peptide (CNP) compounds in a US International Tra... (more story)
April 03, 2025
North America
MLex Summary: A patent application filed in 2016 and rejected in 2022 which, were it to be revived and granted, would result in an already-expired patent bestows no provisional rights on the patentee, the US C... (more story)
Financial Crime View More
April 03, 2025
North America
MLex Summary: US Senators Catherine Cortez Masto, a Democrat from Nevada, and Chuck Grassley, a Republican from Iowa, reintroduced their legislation to help the US Secret Service better detect and deter cyberc... (more story)
April 03, 2025 | Samuel Rubenfeld
North America
Two former executives of Cognizant Technology Solutions welcomed a US government decision yesterday to drop the corruption charges against them. In e-mailed statements sent to MLex after the US federal judge f... (more story)
April 03, 2025
North America
MLex Summary: The US Senate Banking, Housing, and Urban Affairs Committee announced it has voted to advance the nominations of Paul Atkins to be Chair of the Securities and Exchange Commission, Jonathan Gould ... (more story)
Financial Services View More
April 03, 2025
North America
MLex Summary: Families who bank at JP Morgan Chase, Wells Fargo and Navy Federal Credit Union have the most to lose if Congress overturns a US Consumer Financial Protection Bureau rule capping overdraft fees ... (more story)
April 03, 2025
North America
MLex Summary: The US Securities and Exchange Commission needs to tighten its oversight and monitoring of the agency's Consolidated Audit Trail, the SEC Inspector General said. The CAT tracks all activity in n... (more story)
April 03, 2025
Africa, Asia, Europe, Latin America, Middle East, North America, Oceania
MLex Summary: The United Nations Trade and Development arm projected the AI market will grow to roughly the size of Germany's economy by 2033 and ultimately affect 40 percent of the world's jobs, but that the ... (more story)
Trade View More
April 03, 2025 | Bradley Dress
North America
The Court of International Trade today delivered a mixed ruling in a 2021 administrative review from the Commerce Department on multilayered wood flooring from China, partly sustaining it and remanding other a... (more story)
April 03, 2025 | Zack Budryk
Asia, North America
A coalition of American epoxy resin manufacturers argued before the US International Trade Commission today in favor of imposing antidumping duties on resin imports from China, India, South Korea, Taiwan and Thailand.
April 03, 2025
North America
MLex summary: The Court of International Trade partly sustained a 2021 administrative review from the Commerce Department on multilayered wood flooring from China. Judge Timothy Reif ruled against Commerce on ... (more story)
State Aid View More
April 03, 2025 | Lewis Crofts
Europe, North America
Giving EU judges the power to change a regulator’s decision and not just review its legality would avoid the “unsatisfactory ping-pong” of cases, according to Ulf Öberg, a judge at the EU’s lower-tier General Court.
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)
Energy View More
April 03, 2025
Europe
MLex Summary: The delay of the application of the Corporate Sustainability Reporting and Corporate Sustainability Due Diligence directives and the law's transposition deadline was approved by EU lawmakers toda... (more story)
April 03, 2025
Europe
MLex Summary: Energy-intensive industries must be supported in their transition to cleaner technologies while remaining competitive, lawmakers say in a non-binding position adopted today by the European Parlia... (more story)
April 03, 2025
Asia, Europe
MLex Summary: The EU and Azerbaijan will strengthen their strategic energy partnership during a visit by the EU's energy chief Dan Jørgensen to Baku tomorrow, the European Commission has said. Discussions will... (more story)
Technology View More
April 03, 2025 | Claude Marx and Curtis Eichelberger
North America
Former US Federal Trade Commission member Rebecca Slaughter said today that her firing by President Donald Trump has made her scared personally and professionally, but she is encouraged by the widespread suppo... (more story)
April 03, 2025 | Frank Hersey and Patricia Figueiredo
Europe
Offers to US Big Tech companies of digital services tax concessions and weakened online safety enforcement are not part of UK trade discussions with Washington, business and trade minister Jonathan Reynolds ha... (more story)
April 03, 2025
North America
MLex Summary: MultiPlan and health insurers filed relies in support of their motions to dismiss US claims that they conspired to reduce the reimbursements they pay to healthcare providers for out-of-network he... (more story)