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Artificial Intelligence, Data Privacy and Security
November 26, 2024 | Choonsik Yoo
Asia
DealRisk®, Mergers and Acquisitions
November 26, 2024 | Curtis Eichelberger and Wesley Brown
North America
Antitrust
November 26, 2024 | Simon Zekaria
Europe
Antitrust View More
November 26, 2024
North America
MLex Summary: The US Department of Justice urged a federal appellate court to hold that Fubo "established a likelihood of success" on its claim under Section 7 of the Clayton Act as Walt Disney, Fox, and Warne... (more story)
November 26, 2024
North America
MLex Summary: The US Federal Trade Commission and state attorneys general filed their reply in support of their motion to compel Amazon to produce personnel reviews and documents related to foreign antitrust e... (more story)
November 26, 2024 | Clayton Vickers and Alex Wilts
North America
Plaintiffs suing pork suppliers told a Minnesota federal judge today they don’t need to rely “exclusively on conscious parallelism” to demonstrate there was an illegal agreement to fix prices, since “there is ... (more story)
Artificial Intelligence View More
November 26, 2024
Oceania
MLex Summary: A key Australian government-led committee has proposed the creation of standalone laws to regulate high-risk uses of artificial intelligence. In a report published late on Tuesday, the Select Com... (more story)
November 26, 2024 | Mike Swift
Africa,Asia,Europe,Latin America,Middle East,North America,Oceania
Anthropic has published a "Voluntary Commitment Hub" that details 72 promises the AI provider has made over the past 16 months on the trust and safety of Claude AI models. The commitments hub is Anthropic's ef... (more story)
November 26, 2024
North America
MLex Summary: The US Federal Trade Commission announced that it has reached a proposed settlement barring Evolv Technologies from making misrepresentations about its AI-powered technologies that claimed to det... (more story)
Mergers and Acquisitions View More
November 26, 2024
Asia
MLex Summary: Global building materials company Saint-Gobain has received merger clearance from the Indian antitrust watchdog for the $1.03-billion global acquisition of Fosroc. The Competition Commission of I... (more story)
November 26, 2024
Asia
MLex Summary: Chinese packaging company Shandong NewJF's acquisition of its rival Greatview Aseptic Packaging is among the 14 transactions that received unconditional antitrust approval from China's State Admi... (more story)
November 26, 2024 | MLex Staff
Asia
A set of guidelines for reviewing horizontal mergers and acquisitions will be promulgated soon, a senior official at China’s top merger-control regulator told a recent competition conference. In the same perio... (more story)
Data Privacy and Security View More
November 26, 2024
Asia
MLex Summary: The Japanese government has disclosed draft implementation rules for a security-clearance system to be introduced next year, following a meeting by an experts' panel. The rules aim to protect hum... (more story)
November 26, 2024 | Madeline Hughes
North America
TikTok’s time operating in the US may almost be up. Two avenues for a reprieve exist, though: its Chinese-based parent company, ByteDance, is challenging the pending ban of the social media application, which ... (more story)
November 26, 2024 | Sara Brandstätter and Matthew Newman
Europe
An advisory group of experts has urged EU lawmakers to pursue concrete initiatives in a “dedicated roadmap” that would take recommendations for new EU-wide rules on data access and retention for law enforcemen... (more story)
Financial Crime View More
November 26, 2024
North America
MLex Summary: The US Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit sided with users of Tornado Cash, finding that the US government can't impose sanctions on the cryptocurrency mixer because it doesn't belong to anyo... (more story)
November 26, 2024 | Samuel Rubenfeld
North America
Digicel Group, a mobile network provider concentrated in the Caribbean, confirmed to MLex that it has disclosed information related to potential bribery to US authorities.
November 26, 2024
North America
MLex Summary: Bank Julius Baer has met the terms of a deferred-prosecution agreement with the US government, prosecutors said in a motion to dismiss the charges. The case related to the Swiss lender's role in ... (more story)
Financial Services View More
November 26, 2024
Europe
MLex Summary: The UK Financial Conduct Authority has said its strategy for the next five years will focus on enhancing regulatory efficiency, supporting growth and innovation, reducing fraud cases and protecti... (more story)
November 26, 2024 | Sofia Gerace
Europe
Skepticism over the UK's plans for "Pisces," a regulated private stock exchange billed as a world first, appears to be fading thanks to a redesign of the proposal in response to industry worries. The final dra... (more story)
November 26, 2024 | Martin Coyle
Europe
The UK's sanctions agency is advancing with several “egregious” and “sophisticated” breach cases, with enforcement expected in coming months, UK lawmakers were told today. Giles Thomson, director at the Office... (more story)
Trade View More
November 26, 2024
North America
MLex Summary: Richard Shih, the founder and former chief executive officer of a California-based international logistics and freight forwarding company, pleaded guilty to conspiring to violate US export laws b... (more story)
November 26, 2024
Asia, Europe, Latin America, Middle East, North America
MLex Summary: The US Aluminum Extruders Coalition and the United Steelworkers Union have contested the US International Trade Commission’s final determination in the antidumping and antisubsidy duty investigat... (more story)
November 26, 2024
North America
MLex Summary: Canadian Deputy Prime Minister Chrystia Freeland and Canadian Public Safety Minister Dominic LeBlanc released a joint statement on X in which they highlighted the benefits of a strong US-Canada t... (more story)
State Aid View More
November 26, 2024 | Nicholas Hirst
Europe
Just under half of all companies needing EU approval for an acquisition due to the presence of foreign subsidies are from the bloc, which contradicts claims the tool is protectionist, according to top EU enfor... (more story)
November 26, 2024
Europe
MLex Summary: Swedavia, the operator of international and regional airports in Sweden, may receive over 122 million euros in state funding to offset damages it suffered during the pandemic, the European Commis... (more story)
November 26, 2024 | Lewis Crofts
Europe
Anthony Whelan, a long-serving European Commission official currently working with President Ursula von der Leyen, will take up a new role heading the executive’s work policing the legality of subsidies grante... (more story)
Energy View More
November 26, 2024 | Martin Coyle
Europe
A director at an under-construction UK nuclear power plant who reported suspected bribery involving an employee at power company EDF to his managers was unfairly dismissed, an employment tribunal has ruled. Bu... (more story)
November 26, 2024
Europe
MLex Summary: EU solar inverters need support to face global overcapacity and a deceleration in key European markets of the rooftop solar photovoltaic segment, SolarPower Europe has said. The lobby called for ... (more story)
November 26, 2024
Asia
MLex Summary: China's market regulator and energy supervisor have strengthened oversight of natural monopoly segments in the energy sector, according to a statement issued by the State Administration for Marke... (more story)
Technology View More
November 26, 2024 | Khushita Vasant
North America
Google's reliance on a US Supreme Court ruling in an American Express antitrust case as its defense against a federal lawsuit accusing it of monopolizing the advertising technology markets was met with skeptic... (more story)
November 26, 2024
Europe
MLex Summary: Major online platforms and search engines must publish reports starting this week on risks such as illegal content, disinformation, and child safety under the EU's Digital Services Act, the Euro... (more story)
November 26, 2024 | Patricia Figueiredo
Europe
Tech providers have seen the UK government include two new categories of companies in their newly published framework for trustworthy digital verification services. The latest version of the Digital Identity a... (more story)