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DealRisk®, Mergers and Acquisitions
March 27, 2025 | Flavia Fortes and Curtis Eichelberger
North America
Trade
March 27, 2025 | Bradley Dress, Joanna Sopinska, Zack Budryk
Asia, North America
Data Privacy and Security, Technology
March 27, 2025 | Patricia Figueiredo
Europe
Antitrust View More
March 28, 2025 | Lewis Crofts
Europe
Glass manufacturer Orora said that investigators from the French competition authority visited its company yesterday as part of a probe into the industry. The investigation focuses on glass containers used for... (more story)
March 28, 2025
Asia
MLex Summary: A total of 45 Japanese companies involved in game software, animation production, and relaxation and fitness clubs received guidance from the antitrust regulator to comply with the freelance wor... (more story)
March 28, 2025 | MLex Staff
Asia
China's dual-penalty regime, which fines both companies and their executives, aims to curb improper personal gains from monopoly agreements while enhancing compliance in corporate management, according to a st... (more story)
Artificial Intelligence View More
March 28, 2025
Asia
MLex Summary: China's market regulator plans to establish data security standards targeting generative AI data labeling and optimization training to secure the entire generative AI process, according to Wang Q... (more story)
March 28, 2025
Europe
MLex Summary: The third draft of the General-Purpose AI Code of Practice undermines the objectives of the AI Act, goes against EU law and ignores the intention of the EU legislator, a coalition of creator and ... (more story)
March 28, 2025
Europe
MLex summary: The third draft of the EU AI Act’s general-purpose AI code of practice is criticized by a group of authors, performers and other rightsholders active across the EU’s cultural and creative sectors... (more story)
Mergers and Acquisitions View More
March 28, 2025 | Andrew Boyce
Europe
French aircraft-parts maker Safran’s plan to buy part of Collins Aerospace’s actuation business raises concerns for “trimmable horizontal stabilizer actuation systems,” the UK’s antitrust watchdog said today. ... (more story)
March 28, 2025
Asia
MLex Summary: Japan's MS&AD Insurance Group Holdings announced today that it will merge its two core non-life insurance companies, Mitsui Sumitomo Insurance and Aioi Nissay Dowa Insurance. The merger, aimed at... (more story)
March 28, 2025 | James Panichi and Saloni Sinha
Oceania
The $125.8 million turnover-notification threshold that will trigger a review under Australia’s new merger laws can be calculated by adding up the turnover of the parties to the deal, as well as the turnover o... (more story)
Data Privacy and Security View More
March 28, 2025 | Saloni Sinha
Oceania
The planned removal of a privacy safeguard from a proposed biometrics code in New Zealand has been criticized by the country’s leading consumer-rights group, which has argued that people need to give their con... (more story)
March 28, 2025 | Sachiko Sakamaki
Asia
Japanese lawmakers are weighing up two bills aimed at introducing active cyber defense in response to the rising threat of cyberattacks from state-sponsored actors and other sources. The bills mark a significa... (more story)
March 28, 2025 | Maria Dinzeo
North America
23andMe’s most valuable asset is a trove of genomic and biometric data from some 15 million people, which the company plans to sell off to the highest bidder. While the company has said buyers will have to hon... (more story)
Intellectual Property View More
March 28, 2025
Europe
MLex Summary: An attempt to invalidate Red Bull’s EU trademark “Gives You Wings” registered at the EU Intellectual Property Office was unsuccessful. The Cancellation Division found that the slogan is not decep... (more story)
March 28, 2025 | Toko Sekiguchi
Asia
In a recent ruling, Japan's Intellectual Property High Court dismissed a lawsuit challenging the validity of a trademark held by the International Olympic Committee related to the Tokyo 2020 Olympics. The trad... (more story)
March 28, 2025
Asia
MLex Summary: The IP Strategy Promotion Office of Japan's Cabinet released the opinions it gathered from various organizations on the government's annual IP strategy. Many emphasized the need for internatio... (more story)
Financial Crime View More
March 28, 2025
Asia
MLex Summary: At the request of South Korea's financial authorities, Google has blocked domestic access to apps from 17 unregistered foreign virtual asset service providers on its Play Store. According to the ... (more story)
March 27, 2025
North America
MLex Summary: Federal prosecutors filed a civil forfeiture action today to recover approximately $23 million in cryptocurrency alleged to be the proceeds of fraud and a market manipulation conspiracy involving... (more story)
March 27, 2025
North America
MLex Summary: The chief executive of a Latin music conglomerate and his talent agency today were found guilty by a jury of conspiring to violate US sanctions by conducting business with a Guadalajara-based con... (more story)
Financial Services View More
March 27, 2025 | Neil Roland
Asia, North America
Paul Atkins, President Donald Trump’s nominee to chair the US Securities and Exchange Commission, said he would carry out a law requiring US stock exchanges to delist China-based companies audited by a firm th... (more story)
March 27, 2025
North America
MLex Summary: The American Bankers Association issued a statement applauding the US Senate passage of the Congressional Review Act resolution nullifying the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau’s overdraft rul... (more story)
March 27, 2025
Europe, North America
MLex Summary: The US Securities and Exchange Commission voted to end its defense of the rules requiring disclosure of climate-related risks and greenhouse gas emissions.
Trade View More
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 28, 2025
Asia
MLex Summary: Chinese President Xi Jinping has assured foreign enterprises operating in the country of the government's continued support, according to a report by state-run Xinhua news agency. In a meeting to... (more story)
March 28, 2025
Asia
MLex Summary: China's Beijing Academy of Artificial Intelligence, or BAAI, said it was shocked at being added to the US entity list as a private non-profit scientific research institution, describing the move ... (more story)
State Aid View More
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)
March 27, 2025 | Nicholas Hirst and Lewis Crofts
Europe
Nuctech’s attempt to put a temporary block on EU subsidy investigators using evidence collected during a dawn raid has been rejected by the EU's Court of Justice, a lawyer with the European Commission said tod... (more story)
March 27, 2025
Europe
MLex Summary: The EU's top court should rule that the European Commission didn't demonstrate that Bulgaria had failed to take the necessary measures to claw back illegal state aid granted to private forest own... (more story)
Energy View More
March 27, 2025
Europe
MLex Summary: Belgium, Bulgaria, Germany, Greece, Luxembourg, Austria, Poland, Romania and Slovenia were warned by the European Commission to fully transpose into national law EU rules on phasing out financial... (more story)
March 27, 2025
Europe
MLex Summary: The European Commission has notified 26 member states for failing to fully transpose into national law some of the provisions of the new electricity market design rules. Countries had until Jan. ... (more story)
March 26, 2025
Europe
MLex Summary: The second mid-term matching round to coordinate EU gas purchases aggregated 29 billion cubic meters of demand for gas from European companies, and almost 20 bcm were matched, the commission has ... (more story)
Technology View More
March 27, 2025 | Khushita Vasant, Madeline Hughes and Chris May
North America
Alvaro Bedoya and Rebecca Kelly Slaughter, two Federal Trade Commissioners who said they were illegally fired by US President Donald Trump, today sued him over his "indefensible" action, as well as FTC Chairma... (more story)
March 27, 2025 | Clayton Vickers
North America
The US Department of Justice filed an amicus brief telling an Illinois federal court that Multiplan and defendant health insurers have an incorrect understanding of the law and how the Sherman Act covers pricing algorithms.
March 27, 2025
North America
MLex Summary: The US Department of Justice’s statement of interest in an antitrust lawsuit against MultiPlan and major health insurers including Aetna, Cigna, Elevance, and United, affirms that competitors' co... (more story)