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Antitrust, DealRisk®, Mergers and Acquisitions
November 22, 2024 | Natalie McNelis
Europe
Data Privacy and Security, Technology
November 21, 2024 | Madeline Hughes
North America
Artificial Intelligence
November 21, 2024 | Amy Miller
North America
Antitrust View More
November 22, 2024 | Simon Zekaria
Europe
A court setback for the UK competition regulator this week in its long-running case against Pfizer and Flynn Pharma over drug pricing is a lesson that how it goes about finding infringements can be as importan... (more story)
November 22, 2024 | Lewis Crofts and Nicholas Hirst
Europe
Fashion house Pierre Cardin will face a formal EU sanction as soon as next week over suspicions it may have restricted cross-border sales in dealings with Ahlers Group, its largest licensee, MLex has learned. ... (more story)
November 22, 2024 | Simon Zekaria
Europe
Apple's mobile browser policies hurt competition, the UK antitrust regulator said today, adding that the iPhone maker and rival Google should see their "mobile ecosystem" operations investigated under the coun... (more story)
Artificial Intelligence View More
November 22, 2024
Africa,Asia,Europe,Latin America,Middle East,North America,Oceania
MLex Summary: The UK’s AI Standards Hub will host a global summit on standards for artificial intelligence technologies next March, a minister told an AI conference organized by the World Trade Organization. T... (more story)
November 22, 2024 | Frank Hersey
Europe
Developers of frontier artificial intelligence could see the UK continue to rely on a voluntary agreement with them to submit their models for testing by the national AI safety body, a minister has told senior... (more story)
November 22, 2024
Africa,Asia,Europe,Latin America,Middle East,North America,Oceania
MLex Summary: Artificial intelligence could significantly lower trade costs associated with trade logistics, supply chain management and regulatory compliance, the World Trade Organization has found in a new r... (more story)
Mergers and Acquisitions View More
November 22, 2024
Europe
MLex Summary: British private-equity firm Cinven’s acquisition of a stake in German pet food producer and retailer Fressnapf has been cleared by the European Commission. The EU regulator said the deal, under w... (more story)
November 22, 2024
Europe
MLex Summary: Spreadex must sell Sporting Index to remedy potential harm to competition in the market for licensed online sports spread betting services, the UK competition regulator has said. The Competition ... (more story)
November 22, 2024
Europe
MLex Summary: Viatris has been fined 1.5 million pounds ($1.9 million) by the UK competition regulator for failing to comply with compulsory restrictions imposed during the watchdog's review of its deal with T... (more story)
Data Privacy and Security View More
November 22, 2024
Europe
MLex Summary: The Italian food delivery company Foodinho, which is part of the Spain-based delivery Glovo group, has been fined 5 million euros by the national data protection authority for violating the EU's ... (more story)
November 22, 2024
North America
MLex Summary: The US Supreme Court dismissed the writ of certiori it had granted in a lawsuit brought by Facebook shareholders against the company. "The writ of certiorari is dismissed as improvidently granted... (more story)
November 22, 2024
North America
MLex Summary: Georgia Attorney General Christopher M. Carr and Meta Platforms filed a stipulation to dismiss the state's lawsuit alleging the company's addictive algorithms harmed children. The parties also ag... (more story)
Financial Crime View More
November 22, 2024 | Martin Coyle
Europe
Güralp Systems has breached the terms of a 2019 deferred prosecution agreement that the seismic equipment-testing struck over bribery allegations, the UK’s Serious Fraud Office has said. The company became the... (more story)
November 22, 2024
Europe
MLex Summary: The continued growth of digital material in complex criminal cases, particularly involving fraud, are causing problems for prosecutors, a legal expert tasked with examining the UK's legal regime ... (more story)
November 22, 2024 | Martin Coyle
Europe
The brother-in-law of Dmitry Ovsiannikov, an alleged close ally of Vladimir Putin, faces two additional criminal charges of breaching the UK’s sanctions regime over the alleged payment of private school fees, ... (more story)
Financial Services View More
November 22, 2024
Europe
MLex Summary: The European Central Bank provided several recommendations to strengthen the macroprudential perspective in the regulation of the nonbank financial intermediation (NBFI) sector. In its response t... (more story)
November 22, 2024
Europe
MLex Summary: Life insurance firms should settle claims quicker and improve how they measure customer experience, the UK's Financial Conduct Authority has concluded. The multi-firm review found evidence of goo... (more story)
November 22, 2024
Europe
MLex Summary: The Swiss Financial Market Supervisory Authority published a circular that clarifies and specifies the rules of conduct under the Financial Services Act. The document provides details on the auth... (more story)
Trade View More
November 22, 2024
Asia, North America
MLex Summary: The US Commerce Department initiated antidumping and antisubsidy duty investigations into overhead door counterbalance torsion springs from China and India.
November 22, 2024
Asia
MLex Summary: Apple may have increased its investment offer to Indonesia tenfold in a bid to get clearance to sell its iPhone 16 smartphone in the country, but Indonesian officials said they would consider whe... (more story)
November 22, 2024
Asia
MLex Summary: China is able to defuse and withstand the impact of external shocks because it is building a new development pattern that takes the domestic market as the mainstay, with the domestic and internat... (more story)
State Aid View More
November 22, 2024
Europe
MLex Summary: A German capital injection of 64.8 million euros in favor of casino operator Westdeutsche Spielbanken isn't in line with the EU's state aid rules and must, therefore, be clawed back, including in... (more story)
November 21, 2024
Europe
MLex Summary: Italian measures in favor of Cineca, a non-profit consortium, whose members include the Ministry of Education and Research as well as universities and institutions in the country, don't constitut... (more story)
November 21, 2024
Europe
MLex Summary: Romania has won state aid approval for its plan worth 578 million euros to fund the reduction of a power levy rate for energy-intensive businesses, which promotes electricity from renewable sourc... (more story)
Energy View More
November 22, 2024
Europe
MLex Summary: The EU should adopt a technology-neutral approach and back all low-carbon energy sources, including nuclear, the French, German and Italian industry associations have said in a joint declaration.... (more story)
November 21, 2024 | Stefano Porciello and Oscar Pandiello
Europe
EU automakers missing next year’s CO2 reduction goal should not be fined, the powerful center-right European People’s Party is set to say, according to a draft paper seen by MLex. The party also asks to revers... (more story)
November 21, 2024 | Martin Coyle
Europe
Isobel Dos Santos, once known as Africa’s richest woman, and Dmitry Firtash, a Ukrainian oligarch accused of bribery, were both sanctioned by the UK government today as part of a dirty money crackdown. The mea... (more story)
Technology View More
November 21, 2024 | Mike Swift
North America
Snap this week pushed back against a lawsuit filed by New Mexico’s attorney general, saying policies on the Snapchat platform enable the exploitation of children and the spread of Child Sexual Abuse Material, ... (more story)
November 21, 2024
North America
MLex Summary: The US Department of Justice's proposal to prohibit agreements between Google and web browsers to remedy the company's monopolistic conduct in search and search advertising markets "will negative... (more story)
November 21, 2024 | Jakub Krupa and Sara Brandstätter
Europe
The UK's planned overhaul of data protection rules seeks to maintain high standards and safeguards while creating a framework "permissive enough" for innovation such as automated decision-making, the technolog... (more story)