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Trade

December 12, 2025 | Bradley Dress

North America

US shipbuilding effort faces big obstacles in bid to challenge China
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Artificial Intelligence

December 12, 2025 | Amy Miller

North America

US state lawmakers try to tackle rising costs of data center building boom

DealRisk®, Mergers and Acquisitions

December 11, 2025 | Flavia Fortes

North America

HPE says states’ requested hold-separate would split fully integrated Juniper

Antitrust View More

Pepsi worked with Walmart to create price gaps to hurt rivals, US FTC complaint says

December 12, 2025 | Khushita Vasant

North America

Pepsi worked with Walmart to create a retail “price gap” or “price hedge” between the hypermarket chain and its competitors in the resale of Pepsi soft drinks, according to an unsealed complaint filed by the B... (more story)

Publishers look to certify subclasses in US Google digital advertising case

December 12, 2025

North America

MLex Summary: Publishers accusing Google of monopolizing the markets for publisher ad servers and ad exchanges and engaged in illegal tying asked a US federal judge to certify two proposed subclasses. If appro... (more story)

US judge mulls departure from ‘old-fashioned’ scheduling in vape antitrust case

December 12, 2025 | Chris May

North America

A California federal judge overseeing multidistrict litigation over an alleged antitrust conspiracy involving cannabis oil vaporizing systems said on Friday that he’s been reconsidering a negative “knee-jerk r... (more story)

Artificial Intelligence View More

Music publishers want to question Anthropic founder and CEO in US copyright case

December 12, 2025

North America

MLex Summary: Music publishers are renewing a request to question Anthropic founder and CEO Dario Amodei, saying testimony from other witnesses shows that he has unique, first-hand knowledge of the copyright i... (more story)

Ross, Westlaw appeal tackles both longstanding US precedent, novel AI

December 12, 2025 | Emma Whitford and Melissa Ritti

North America

There is no shortage of interest in an ongoing clash between Ross Intelligence and Thomson Reuters in what could yield the first US appellate ruling on whether the use of copyrighted materials to train an arti... (more story)

Tighter rules for AI are needed in EU’s Digital Omnibus, German data watchdogs say

December 12, 2025

Europe

MLex Summary: More safeguards and clearer legal bases are necessary for processing personal data through AI systems that go beyond the EU’s proposal to reform the EU's data protection rules — also known as the... (more story)

Mergers and Acquisitions View More

US FTC failed to meet its burden, Edwards, JenaValve argue in post-trial brief

December 13, 2025

North America

MLex Summary: Edwards Lifesciences and JenaValve Technology submitted their post-trial brief and redacted proposed findings of fact and conclusions of law today, arguing that the US Federal Trade Commission fa... (more story)

Brazil’s CADE imposes three behavioral remedies in Petz-Cobasi merger approval

December 12, 2025 | Henrique Santiago

Latin America

Petz and Cobasi are set to become the largest player in the pet care sector, but their dominance will be subject to a prohibition on exclusive contracts and requiring most-favored nation clauses with suppliers.

Edwards-JenaValve deal better for patients, companies argue in post-trial brief

December 12, 2025 | Wesley Brown

North America

Edwards Lifesciences and JenaValve Technology submitted a post-trial brief Friday, arguing that their transaction is the best way forward for the companies and patients. The companies maintain that the US Fede... (more story)

Data Privacy and Security View More

US judge considers jury instructions for social media addiction trial

December 13, 2025 | Xu Yuan

North America

A US state court judge in Los Angeles heard arguments from Meta Platforms, ByteDance, Google and Snap, as well as plaintiffs suing them, related to how to instruct jurors on issues including key immunity doctr... (more story)

USTR requests review of Mexican food product facility

December 12, 2025

North America

MLex Summary: The Office of the US Trade Representative invoked the Rapid Response Labor Mechanism of the United States-Mexico-Canada Agreement to review whether labor rights have been violated for Mexican wor... (more story)

Fallout of EU court ruling on pseudonymized data use fuels debate

December 12, 2025 | Matthew Newman

Europe

Online advertisers, medical device makers, and privacy advocates have discussed how EU regulators should provide guidance on how the bloc’s data protection rules apply when they share pseudonymized data, perso... (more story)

Intellectual Property View More

OpenAI appeal of German copyright ruling looks to focus on 'memorization' question

December 12, 2025 | Inbar Preiss and Frank Hersey

Europe

OpenAI’s decision to appeal a German court ruling in favor of music rights group GEMA may set a new precedent on whether “memorization” inside large language models counts as reproduction. In its early indicat... (more story)

OpenAI to focus on ‘memorization’ in appeal against Munich court copyright ruling

December 12, 2025 | Frank Hersey

Europe

OpenAI looks set to focus its attempt to dismantle a Munich court’s ruling on copyright on the finding that its model memorized training data, according to senior staff members. 

Novo Nordisk denied interim stay in Indian semaglutide patent appeal

December 12, 2025 | Freny Patel

Asia

Novo Nordisk failed to secure interim relief before an Indian court, allowing Dr. Reddy’s Laboratories to continue manufacturing and exporting semaglutide amid a credible challenge to patent validity.

Financial Crime View More

Florida man convicted of laundering $300m for drug traffickers, criminals

December 12, 2025 | Samuel Rubenfeld

North America

A federal jury in Brooklyn, New York convicted a Florida businessman on Friday on charges stemming from his role as the leader of an organization that laundered more than $300 million on behalf of drug traffickers and others.

Florida man convicted in US of leading $300m money laundering organization

December 12, 2025

North America

MLex Summary: Alain Bibliowicz Mitrani, a resident of Miami, Florida and a citizen of France and Colombia, was convicted on five counts of a superseding indictment charging him with money laundering conspiracy... (more story)

TIGO Guatemala paid $118m to resolve US bribery probe

December 12, 2025

North America

MLex Summary: In November 2025, Comunicaciones Celulares, doing business as TIGO Guatemala, paid more than $118 million to resolve an investigation by the US Justice Department into a long-running scheme to br... (more story)

Financial Services View More

EU countries seek method to bridge differences on capital markets proposal

December 12, 2025 | Fanny Roux

Europe

EU finance ministers on Friday highlighted expected differences between those favoring more centralized markets supervision and those opposed. They had their first discussion on revamped EU market infrastructu... (more story)

UK car-finance redress plan fails to deliver fairness, FLA says

December 12, 2025

Europe

MLex Summary: The UK Financial Conduct Authority's plan to compensate car-finance customers who received unfair treatment from lenders is failing to deliver fairness, the Finance & Leasing Association has said... (more story)

Uncertainty lingers in UK non-financial misconduct rules as experts flag gaps

December 12, 2025 | Sofia Gerace

Europe

UK non-financial misconduct rules still have gray areas, legal experts have warned, despite the release of the Financial Conduct Authority’s latest guidance to clarify its expectations. The FCA will extend its... (more story)

Trade View More

USCIT sustains use of Maersk price quotes for Chinese equipment dumping finding

December 12, 2025 | Eliana Hubacker

Asia, North America

The US Commerce Department was correct to use price quotes from Maersk, a Danish shipping and logistics company, as a surrogate value for ocean freight costs to determine whether Chinese mobile access equipmen... (more story)

EU, Taiwan discuss economic security as part of ongoing trade dialogue

December 12, 2025

Asia, Europe

MLex Summary: The EU and Taiwan have met under the TID — their Trade and Investment Dialogue — to discuss bilateral trade and investment matters, including critical value chains, as well as economic security a... (more story)

Fixed €3 fee for low-value e-commerce parcels agreed by EU countries

December 12, 2025 | Oscar Pandiello

Europe

A fixed €3 customs duty on e-commerce parcels valued below €150 will apply across the EU from July 1, 2026, under a plan endorsed by national governments. The temporary measure will cover about 93 percent of l... (more story)

State Aid View More

Austria's €100m boost for cleantech production capacity wins EU clearance

December 12, 2025

Europe

MLex Summary: Companies in Austria investing in additional manufacturing capacity for net-zero technologies as well as their components will be eligible for direct grants under a €100 million plan that has won... (more story)

Danish aid to boost carbon capture, storage wins EU approval

December 12, 2025

Europe

MLex Summary: Denmark can spend €3.8 billion to promote the capture and storage of biogenic, fossil and atmospheric carbon emissions, the European Commission said on Friday. The plan is expected to result in t... (more story)

In-depth EU probe into Lithuania's power reserve program extended

December 12, 2025

Europe

MLex Summary: The European Commission has widened its in-depth investigation to assess whether Lithuanian support worth €361 million to energy company AB Ignitis Gamyba for a strategic reserve for electricity ... (more story)

Energy View More

Belgium circumvented state aid law over arbitration awards, EU Commission says

December 11, 2025

Europe

MLex Summary: The European Commission has opened an infringement procedure against Belgium, accusing it of circumventing state aid rule procedures. The country had recognized arbitration awards that would obli... (more story)

Hungary warned over breaches of intra-EU investor-state arbitration ban

December 11, 2025

Europe

MLex Summary: The European Commission has opened a case against Hungary, for its failure to stop breaches of the ban on investor-state arbitration within the EU. The commission says that the state-owned energy... (more story)

Finland’s lack of methane-rule watchdog prompts EU warning

December 11, 2025

Europe

MLex Summary: The European Commission has issued a warning to Finland for its failure to name an authority to oversee and enforce the Methane Regulation, which requires countries to report methane emissions fr... (more story)

Technology View More

Shareholders push to certify class in Meta securities case tied to 'Facebook Files'

December 13, 2025

North America

MLex Summary: Lead plaintiffs are seeking class certification in the Meta securities case, arguing the company misled investors in 2021 about the safety of its platforms for young users and the scope of its “X... (more story)

Age assurance providers should face compulsory privacy standards, UK groups say

December 12, 2025

Europe

MLex Summary: Age assurance providers should face further regulation and be made to comply with compulsory privacy and security standards in the UK, civil society organization Open Rights Group told the UK gov... (more story)

For the world's online safety overseers, 2026 will be the year of the child

December 12, 2025 | Mike Swift, Sara Brandstätter, Patricia Figueiredo and Maria Dinzeo

Europe, North America, Oceania

Regulators worldwide have woken up to a need to police online safety for minors. Australia has arguably gone the furthest, banning social media for under-16s from this week. In Europe, America, Asia and beyond... (more story)