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DealRisk®, Mergers and Acquisitions
March 28, 2025 | Flavia Fortes
North America
Trade
March 28, 2025 | Samuel Rubenfeld and Bradley Dress
North America
Intellectual Property
March 28, 2025 | Inbar Preiss
Europe
Antitrust View More
March 29, 2025 | Khushita Vasant
North America
The Antitrust Division of the US Department of Justice faces potential reorganization, including closure of field offices, as senior enforcers examine the division's priorities to minimize any adverse impact, ... (more story)
March 28, 2025 | Khushita Vasant
North America
US District Judge Loren L. AliKhan has been assigned to preside over a lawsuit brought against President Donald Trump in opposition to his firing this month of Federal Trade Commissioners Rebecca Kelly Slaught... (more story)
March 28, 2025
North America
MLex Summary: The National Collegiate Athletic Association opposed class certification in a US antitrust case challenging its price money restrictions, saying plaintiffs fail to show that the relief they seek ... (more story)
Artificial Intelligence View More
March 28, 2025
North America
MLex Summary: Utah Gov. Spencer Cox has enacted three laws aimed at improving transparency around artificial intelligence: HB 452, which regulates the use of mental health chatbots in the state; SB 226, which ... (more story)
March 28, 2025 | Amy Miller
North America
Anthropic’s copying of authors’ books to train its large language model, Claude, is “transformative in the extreme,” and a US judge should find the practice is fair without going to trial, the artificial intel... (more story)
March 28, 2025
North America
MLex Summary: NetChoice told a US federal judge that the California “deepfake” election campaign law would unconstitutionally replace websites’ private content-moderation decisions with government compulsion t... (more story)
Mergers and Acquisitions View More
March 28, 2025 | Wesley Brown
North America
GTCR, a private equity firm, told a US federal court that it won’t control over 50 percent of the market for outsourced hydrophilic coatings after acquiring Surmodics because the latter does not compete direct... (more story)
March 28, 2025
North America
MLex Summary: GTCR and Surmodics filed their answers to a US Federal Trade Commission complaint seeking to block their proposed merger and requesting a temporary restraining order and preliminary injunction to... (more story)
March 28, 2025
North America
MLex Summary: Canada’s Competition Bureau announced that the filing fee for merger reviews will increase from C$86,358.76 ($60,000) to C$88,690.45 ($63,000), effective April 1.
Data Privacy and Security View More
March 28, 2025 | Maria Dinzeo
North America
At a hearing today, a US federal judge overseeing a sweeping privacy lawsuit accusing Google of illegally collecting data on Chrome users weighed whether she should certify a potential class of millions of peo... (more story)
March 28, 2025 | Xu Yuan
North America
Planner 5D's copyright claims against Meta Platforms and Princeton University over the use of three-dimensional design tools from a Planner 5D website to train artificial intelligence models for scene recognit... (more story)
March 28, 2025 | Patricia Figueiredo
Europe
Meta’s settlement of a landmark UK lawsuit challenging its use of personal data for targeted ads last week is already making waves: an advocacy group has asked US social-media company to stop showing targeted ... (more story)
Intellectual Property View More
March 28, 2025 | Melissa Ritti
Europe
An appellate court in the UK refused today to undo findings that continued use by Merck & Co. and Merck Sharp & Dohme of “Merck” online in the UK ran afoul of not only its promise to Germany’s Merck KGaA but a... (more story)
March 28, 2025 | Inbar Preiss
Europe
A Hong Kong alcohol wholesaler has been hit with penalties from a Dutch court for its counterfeit vodka and whiskey brands. In cases brought by Moët Hennessy, the Glenmorangie Company and Bacardi, The Hague Di... (more story)
March 28, 2025 | Nick Robertson
North America
Former Republican Representative Bob Goodlatte, a vocal proponent of the American Invents Act, which created the Patent Trial and Appeal Board, said yesterday that recent US Patent and Trademark Office changes... (more story)
Financial Crime View More
March 28, 2025
North America
MLex summary: US District Judge Amy Berman Jackson issued a preliminary injunction in a case filed by citizens' groups against the Trump administration's US Consumer Financial Protection Bureau and the agency'... (more story)
March 28, 2025
North America
MLex Summary: Car Zaglin, a Georgia-based businessman, has asked a US judge to reschedule his corruption trial to accommodate expected defense witness testimony. Zaglin, who is charged with paying bribes to Ho... (more story)
March 28, 2025
Europe
MLex Summary: Four individuals have been arrested in the UK on suspicion of fraud and money laundering as part of a police operation involving the Financial Conduct Authority and City of London Police. The reg... (more story)
Financial Services View More
March 28, 2025
North America
MLex Summary: US banks can participate in crypto-related activities without prior approval from the US Federal Deposit Insurance Corp., provided that they adequately manage the associated risks, the agency said in guidance.
March 28, 2025
North America
MLex Summary: US federal bank regulatory agencies announced, in light of pending litigation, their intent to issue a proposal to both rescind the Community Reinvestment Act final rule issued in October 2023 an... (more story)
March 28, 2025
Europe
MLex Summary: Capital requirements on financial firms considered systemically important for the UK's domestic economy but not necessarily for the global economy are under consultation by the Bank of England's ... (more story)
Trade View More
March 28, 2025
North America
MLex Summary: Secretary of Agriculture Brooke Rollins will travel this year to India, Brazil, the U.K., Japan, Vietnam and Peru in a bid to boost US agricultural exports, according to a Department of Agricultu... (more story)
March 28, 2025 | Zack Budryk
Asia, North America
The US International Trade Commission voted unanimously today to continue an investigation into imports from China of a chemical intermediate used primarily in the manufacture of polyurethanes.
March 28, 2025 | Bradley Dress
North America
US Customs and Border Protection has found that a US importer is circumventing an antidumping order on quartz surface product by misrepresenting the country of origin as Thailand, though it said three other Am... (more story)
State Aid 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 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)
Energy View More
March 28, 2025
Europe
MLex Summary: The EU's environment chief Jessika Roswall and the UN Environment Program executive director Inger Andersen today agreed on further cooperation on environment and climate issues, at a meeting in ... (more story)
March 28, 2025
Europe
MLex Summary: Energy-intensive industries need immediate and structural measures to reinvigorate the sector in the EU, industry representatives have said. “Without urgent and decisive action, the EU risks acce... (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.
Technology View More
March 28, 2025
Europe
MLex Summary: UK tech and media companies got sight today of communications regulator Ofcom's workplan for 2025 and 2026, which is built around supporting long-term economic growth. Online safety, media trust,... (more story)
March 28, 2025
Europe
MLex Summary: The European Commission has said it will invest 1.3 billion euros (around $1.4 billion) in artificial intelligence, cybersecurity and digital skills. These investments, through the Digital Europe... (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)