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Antitrust
April 04, 2025 | Simon Zekaria
Europe
Financial Crime
April 04, 2025 | Martin Coyle
Europe
Antitrust, Artificial Intelligence, Data Privacy and Security, DealRisk®, Financial Services, Mergers and Acquisitions, Trade
April 04, 2025 | Wooyoung Lee
Asia
Antitrust View More
April 04, 2025 | Flavia Fortes and Khushita Vasant
North America
The Republican-led US Federal Trade Commission is not ideologically opposed to private equity firms being considered as potentially viable divestiture buyers in a merger, MLex has learned, which is a departure... (more story)
April 04, 2025 | Wesley Brown
North America
Merging parties who propose a fix to address competition concerns should bear the burden of proving that their proposed remedy is sufficient to restore lost competition, a US Federal Trade Commission official said.
April 04, 2025 | Chris May
North America
Most social media apps have “converged” toward a point where most now share the same core features, Instagram’s top employee said today during a courtroom tutorial for a Washington, DC, federal judge preparing... (more story)
Artificial Intelligence View More
April 05, 2025 | Amy Miller
North America
OpenAI and Microsoft had reason to investigate and uncover copyright infringement by users of their artificial intelligence tools, a US judge in New York said, explaining why he allowed lawsuits filed by The N... (more story)
April 05, 2025 | Amy Miller
North America
Elon Musk's legal battle against OpenAI and Microsoft over the founding of the company behind ChatGPT is moving quickly, and US District Judge Yvonne Gonzalez Rogers said she'll stay antitrust claims in the ca... (more story)
April 04, 2025 | Flavia Fortes
Latin America,North America
Antitrust authorities need to maintain their independence despite political pressure, the president of the Brazilian competition authority said.
Mergers and Acquisitions View More
April 04, 2025 | Khushita Vasant
North America
Roger Alford, a senior US Department of Justice antitrust enforcer, warned against bottlenecks in the merger review pipeline and advised merging parties and counsel to put forth exit strategies.
April 04, 2025 | Flavia Fortes
Latin America, North America
Regulation of the artificial intelligence sector in Brazil shouldn’t be rigid, but rather there is an expectation about “transparency, auditability, accountability and ethical boundaries,” the president of the... (more story)
April 04, 2025
Latin America
The Brazilian competition authority has formally asked Bimbo and Wickbold to disclose detailed 2023 sales figures and competitive market data as part of its review of Bimbo’s proposed acquisition of six Wickbo... (more story)
Data Privacy and Security View More
April 04, 2025 | Xu Yuan
North America
Behavioral advertising will be removed from California’s proposed regulations on automated decision-making, risk assessment and other issues, in what the state’s privacy agency considers a significant move in ... (more story)
April 04, 2025 | Mike Swift
North America
The Trump administration and the Privacy and Civil Liberties Oversight Board have told a federal judge in Washington that Humphrey’s Executor v. US — the 1935 Supreme Court case which governs a president's pow... (more story)
April 04, 2025 | Mike Swift
North America
Google is trying to prevent CEO Sundar Pichai from testifying in a privacy trial scheduled to begin this summer in California, arguing plaintiffs are trying to leverage his testimony to force a settlement. Goo... (more story)
Intellectual Property View More
April 04, 2025 | Maria Júlia Baumert and Flavia Fortes
Latin America, North America
Motorola and Ericsson settling their patent dispute does not mean that the Brazilian competition authority won’t investigate the case and apply antitrust sanctions to the companies. To avoid a probe and potent... (more story)
April 04, 2025
North America
MLex Summary: Numerous examples of OpenAI's ChatGPT and Microsoft's Copilot allegedly regurgitating copies of protected news articles — including "more than 100 pages of examples" provided by the New York Time... (more story)
April 04, 2025 | Nick Robertson
North America
The Office of Unfair Import Investigations at the US International Trade Commission believes BOE Technology Group misappropriated Samsung Display trade secrets in violation of Section 337 of the Tariff Act, ac... (more story)
Financial Crime View More
April 04, 2025 | Samuel Rubenfeld
North America
A luxury condominium in a Trump Organization building in New York is part of a US criminal investigation, the government said in a motion to stay its effort to seize the apartment over corruption allegations. ... (more story)
April 04, 2025
Europe
MLex Summary: OKX, one of the largest cryptocurrency exchanges in the world, has seen its European subsidiary OKCoin Europe fined 1.05 million euros by Maltese regulators for anti-money laundering failures. Th... (more story)
April 04, 2025 | Martin Coyle
Europe
Jurors hearing the sanctions prosecution of a former Russian government minister were sent out to reach their verdicts today as the case against him and his family concluded. The case is the first criminal pro... (more story)
Financial Services View More
April 04, 2025
Asia
MLex Summary: South Korea’s Constitutional Court has unanimously ruled to remove President Yoon Suk Yeol from office by upholding the impeachment motion against him. The court said Yoon’s declaration of martia... (more story)
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)
Trade View More
April 04, 2025 | Eliana Hubacker
Africa, Asia, Europe, Latin America, Middle East, North America, Oceania
US President Donald Trump's use of emergency powers to impose across-the-board and retaliatory tariffs, and the backlash from members of Congress that followed, raises questions about the extent to which Trump... (more story)
April 04, 2025 | Bradley Dress
North America
President Donald Trump announced this week tariffs on countries from every corner of the globe, magnifying an existing enforcement challenge for US Customs and Border Protection, importers and brokers that are... (more story)
April 04, 2025 | Zack Budryk
Asia, North America
A conservative legal advocacy group sued the Trump administration yesterday on behalf of a Florida-based planner business to block the emergency authority used to implement 20 percent tariffs on Chinese imports.
State Aid View More
April 04, 2025
Europe
MLex Summary: The European Commission has published a public version of its decision to clear, under foreign subsidy rules, United Arab Emirates-backed telecom company e&’s acquisition of telecom assets from C... (more story)
April 04, 2025
Europe
MLex Summary: Investments into the generation of biofuels and renewable fuels of non-biological origin will get a boost in Greece, under a government plan worth 300 million euros that won state aid approval to... (more story)
April 04, 2025
Europe
MLex Summary: Poland’s plan to grant 1.5 billion euros of state support to reinsure transport in Ukraine has been approved by the European Commission. The EU’s state aid regulator said the program would contri... (more story)
Energy View More
April 04, 2025
Asia, Europe
MLex Summary: The EU will strengthen its climate-related relations with Central Asia, elevating those relations to a strategic partnership, the president of the Council of the EU António Costa has said. This p... (more story)
April 04, 2025
Europe
MLex Summary: The EU Commission announced today a investment of 12 billion euros in Central Asia to support “transport, critical raw materials, clean energy and digital connectivity.” The package, framed under... (more story)
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.
Technology View More
April 04, 2025
North America
MLex Summary: US President Donald Trump posted to Truth Social that the TikTok ban deadline* will be extended for another 75 days under a new executive order as the government works with China on the sale. *... (more story)
April 04, 2025 | Matthew Newman and Luca Bertuzzi
Europe
EU governments have called on the European Commission to study the need for a “coordinated initiative” to develop a “backbone terrestrial and submarine network” using the bloc's funds, MLex has learned. The ca... (more story)
April 04, 2025 | Khushita Vasant and Flavia Fortes
North America
Marie Martin, an enforcer from Utah Office of the Attorney General, has been appointed vice chair of the Antitrust Task Force of the National Association of Attorneys General, a newly-created position, as the ... (more story)