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Financial Services
April 15, 2025 | Neil Roland
North America
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Antitrust, Technology
April 15, 2025 | Clayton Vickers
North America
Data Privacy and Security
April 14, 2025 | Xu Yuan
North America
Antitrust View More
April 16, 2025
North America
MLex Summary: EmblemHealth filed a US complaint today accusing Alexion Pharmaceuticals of unlawfully delaying the introduction of biosimilar competition for eculizumab, a humanized monoclonal antibody that tre... (more story)
April 16, 2025
North America
MLex Summary: Real Estate Exchange's request for a rehearing en banc at the US Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit in its antitrust case against Zillow and the National Association of Realtors has been deni... (more story)
April 16, 2025
North America
MLex Summary: Hop-on/hop-off New York City bus tour companies Big Bus Tours and Twin American have agreed to pay $2.5 million to settle claims brought by the state's attorney general over agreements to limit c... (more story)
Artificial Intelligence View More
April 16, 2025 | Luca Bertuzzi
Europe
Right holders in the EU are feeling increasingly marginalized by the current approach to artificial intelligence, which they believe prioritizes the needs of AI developers over their own. The drafting process ... (more story)
April 16, 2025
Europe
MLex Summary: The European Commission opened a public tender procedure today to outsource the AI Act service desk, which is meant to support compliance with the AI regulation by providing targeted answers in a... (more story)
April 16, 2025
Europe
MLex Summary: The Hamburg Commissioner for Data Protection and Freedom of Information has published a statement, urging users who don’t want their data from Instagram and Facebook to be fed into Meta Platforms... (more story)
Mergers and Acquisitions View More
April 16, 2025 | Ilana Kowarski
Asia, North America, Oceania
Global advertising agencies Omnicom Group and Interpublic Group, which are trying to combine in a deal that faces scrutiny from the US Federal Trade Commission, were founding members of a now-defunct ad indust... (more story)
April 16, 2025
Europe
MLex Summary: Romania's competition authority has expressed concerns about plans that call for Vodafone Romania to take over Telekom Romania Mobile Communications, while mobile operator Digi would also acquire... (more story)
April 16, 2025
Europe
MLex Summary: The Czech antitrust authority was involved in drafting changes to the nation’s competition law, in a move to expand its supervisory powers by introducing a new tool, the call-in model for merger ... (more story)
Data Privacy and Security View More
April 16, 2025
North America
MLex Summary: NetChoice announced today it has won a permanent injunction in federal court against Ohio’s age verification law. “The court declared that the First Amendment protects everyone’s right to speak a... (more story)
April 16, 2025
North America
MLex Summary: The University of California Student Association and the Student Defense and Public Citizen Litigation Group agreed to voluntarily dismiss their lawsuit against the US Department of Education for... (more story)
April 16, 2025 | Matthew Newman and Luca Bertuzzi
Europe, North America
European governments are supporting a plan by the EU’s executive arm to strengthen the security of the bloc’s power and Internet undersea cables. EU governments said that the damage to cables — especially in t... (more story)
Intellectual Property View More
April 16, 2025 | Melissa Ritti
North America
US Judge Rodney Gilstrap is keeping litigation over computer networking patents on track in Texas, this week denying a joint motion by Cisco, Palo Alto Network and Fortinet to stay the case while one of the th... (more story)
April 16, 2025 | Melissa Ritti
North America
Breach of contract and patent infringement allegations by Network Apps LLC against AT&T Mobility were recently dismissed but the defendant failed for a second time to shake a claim for correction of inventorsh... (more story)
April 16, 2025
Europe
MLex Summary: The Unified Patent Court has ordered Italian medtech company AorticLab to provide a 200,000-euro security for costs in its patent dispute with US-based Emboline. The Munich Local Division order ... (more story)
Financial Crime View More
April 16, 2025
Europe
MLex Summary: A senior UK Financial Conduct Authority enforcement official has urged her US counterparts to continue to cooperate and provide assistance in international cases. Therese Chambers, the authority'... (more story)
April 16, 2025
North America
MLex Summary: The US Treasury Department's Office of Foreign Assets Control has sanctioned a China-based independent “teapot” refinery Shandong Shengxing Chemical Co., Ltd. for its role in purchasing more than... (more story)
April 16, 2025
North America
MLex Summary: In a motion to stay a forfeiture proceeding, US prosecutors said they are pursuing additional criminal charges related to their investigation into corruption associated with the Malaysian soverei... (more story)
Financial Services View More
April 16, 2025 | Sofia Gerace
Europe
The UK's move to a faster trade settlement cycle, planned for late 2027, is already proving challenging for more than 100 global businesses that have said they aren't ready to comply with some pre-requirements... (more story)
April 16, 2025
Europe
MLex Summary: Of the more than 550 companies surveyed about their readiness to move to T+1 in the UK — a one-day trade settlement cycle, set to take effect in October 2027 — more than 200 have said they still ... (more story)
April 16, 2025 | Phoebe Seers
Europe
News of a probe into EY’s audits of the UK postal operator highlights a little-used but significant power that the audit watchdog has to “reclaim” jurisdiction over audits of businesses over which it typically... (more story)
Trade View More
April 16, 2025 | Bradley Dress
Africa, Asia, Europe, Latin America, Middle East, North America, Oceania
Democratic California Governor Gavin Newsom filed a lawsuit today against the Trump administration that challenges the use of emergency authorities for tariffs, making his state the first to stand up against t... (more story)
April 16, 2025 | Zack Budryk
Africa, Asia, Europe, Latin America, Middle East, North America, Oceania
The Trump administration’s 90-day moratorium on steep new tariffs for most other countries will keep world trade from further contractions, but the lingering uncertainty means continued downside risk, the Worl... (more story)
April 16, 2025
Asia, North America
MLex summary: The US filed a reply at the World Trade Organization accepting talks with Canada over a 25 percent tariff on cars and car parts. The US said the tariffs are national security-related and not able... (more story)
State Aid View More
April 15, 2025
Europe
MLex Summary: Norway has secured approval by the EFTA Surveillance Authority for its plan to fund a program to develop a wind farm in Utsira Nord, located in the North Sea. The farm will raise renewable energy... (more story)
April 15, 2025 | Jean Comte
Europe
The EU General Block Exemption Regulation needs to be simplified, according to comments from several member states seen by MLex. The legal text, which sets out some conditions to exempt state aid from the Euro... (more story)
April 15, 2025
Europe
MLex Summary: Spain has won European Commission approval for its plan to spend 400 million euros to boost its generation of renewable hydrogen. Production will be supported through the “Auctions-as-a-Service” ... (more story)
Energy View More
April 16, 2025
Europe
MLex Summary: Steel and aluminum, textiles, furniture, tires and mattresses are the products to be prioritized over the next five years in ecodesign and energy labeling requirements, according to a working pla... (more story)
April 16, 2025
Europe
MLex Summary: Lowering EU gas storage filling targets could reduce gas prices in the summer, according to a report by the EU energy watchdog ACER. High gas storage filling targets can drive gas prices up due t... (more story)
April 16, 2025
Europe
MLex Summary: The EU roadmap to phase out Russian energy dependency is set to be presented on May 6, according to the European Commission's latest agenda. The plan, aimed to further reduce dependencies and com... (more story)
Technology View More
April 16, 2025 | Júlia Tar
Europe
The EU’s cyber crisis response hub, EU-CyCLONe, would have a more prominent role under a revised coordination framework, according to a suggestion in a new draft compromise text prepared for EU governments as ... (more story)
April 16, 2025 | Júlia Tar
Europe
EU member states are discussing the challenges they face in aligning national laws with the European Media Freedom Act, or EMFA. The exchange of views aims to identify difficult provisions and share strategies... (more story)
April 16, 2025
Europe
MLex Summary: DPP Law, based in northwestern England, has been fined 60,000 pounds (around $80,000) by the UK Information Commissioner’s Office, for failing to protect its clients’ data from cyberattacks. The ... (more story)