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DealRisk®, Mergers and Acquisitions
January 14, 2025 | Wooyoung Lee
Asia
Artificial Intelligence, Data Privacy and Security, Intellectual Property, Technology
January 14, 2025 | Emma Whitford
North America
Data Privacy and Security
January 14, 2025 | Maria Júlia Baumert
Latin America
Antitrust View More
January 15, 2025 | MLex Staff
Asia
China's top competition regulator is expected to research and formulate penalty scales for monopolistic agreements and dominance abuses to standardize penalties and ensure consistent enforcement, according to ... (more story)
January 14, 2025 | Hiroki Yajima
Asia
Anticompetitive practices in the Japanese animation and film industries will be scrutinized by the nation’s competition watchdog in a new survey, which will aim to assess whether creators in these industries a... (more story)
January 14, 2025
Asia
MLex Summary: DGT Mobility, a KakaoT taxi franchise operator, has been hit with a fine of 228 million won (about $156,000) and issued corrective orders by the country's competition watchdog for unfairly collec... (more story)
Artificial Intelligence View More
January 14, 2025 | Jenny Lee
Asia
Samsung Electronics has filed for a merger review with the South Korean competition regulator following its move to become the largest shareholder in Rainbow Robotics, marking a significant step in the tech gi... (more story)
January 14, 2025
Asia
MLex Summary: South Korea’s science ministry said six task-force teams will be formed and start work as early as today on follow-up legislation for the AI law, which was approved at a cabinet meeting yesterday... (more story)
January 14, 2025 | Khushita Vasant
North America
State and federal legislation that defines and clarifies types of conduct involving algorithmic pricing tools as potentially anticompetitive would be a "good idea," the chair of the Multistate Antitrust Task F... (more story)
Mergers and Acquisitions View More
January 14, 2025 | Henrique Santiago
Latin America
An association of compounding pharmacies raised concerns about the deal’s impact on competition in the pharmaceutical sector. Brazil’s watchdog said that Anfarmag’s request is legitimate and that it must parti... (more story)
January 14, 2025
North America
MLex Summary: KKR countered a US Justice Department suit by suing Acting Attorney General Doha Mekki, the DOJ and the Federal Trade Commission, alleging their enforcement action is politically motivated. "The ... (more story)
January 14, 2025 | Ilana Kowarski
North America
The federal judge overseeing the legal challenge to the Federal Trade Commission’s expanded premerger forms has issued multiple decisions against government agencies similarly accused of overreach.
Data Privacy and Security View More
January 14, 2025
Asia
MLex Summary: China has introduced an implementation plan to enhance data-circulation security and promote the marketization and valorization of data assets. Led by the National Development and Reform Commissi... (more story)
January 14, 2025
North America
Solara Medial Supplies, a maker of glucose monitors and insulin pumps, will pay $3 million to settle allegations by the US Department of Health and Human Services, Office for Civil Rights that the company fail... (more story)
January 14, 2025 | Maria Dinzeo
North America
A US federal judge ruled that a group of PayPal users can proceed with a California invasion of privacy claim against data aggregator Yodlee, but only with respect to the storage of their credentialing information.
Intellectual Property View More
January 15, 2025
Asia
MLex Summary: A comparison of Japan, China and South Korea's patent amendment procedures has been published, according to the Japan Patent Office. The report focuses on the requirements for corrections, or ame... (more story)
January 15, 2025
Asia
MLex Summary: Japan's Agency for Cultural Affairs, together with public interest groups, is launching a program to help pay content creators to go after copyright infringement on the Internet. The Society for ... (more story)
January 14, 2025
Asia
MLex Summary: Japanese automation component manufacturer Omron said it won a patent infringement lawsuit against South Korea's Autonics Corporation. The Seoul Central District Court on Dec. 13 ruled in favor o... (more story)
Financial Crime View More
January 14, 2025
North America
MLex Summary: Investment adviser Navy Capital Green Management agreed to pay a $150,000 fine to settle US Securities and Exchange Commission charges that the firm made misrepresentations related to its anti-m... (more story)
January 14, 2025
North America
MLex Summary: The US Consumer Financial Protection Bureau has sued Capital One for freezing savings account interest rates at low levels while promising that its flagship ‘360 Savings’ account provided one of ... (more story)
January 14, 2025
North America
MLex Summary: Four US lawmakers re-introduced the Combating Global Corruption Act, bipartisan legislation that would raise the profile of efforts to fight international corruption by evaluating and publicly na... (more story)
Financial Services View More
January 14, 2025
North America
MLex summary: US Federal Deposit Insurance Corp. Chair Martin Gruenberg expressed concern about the potential risks to financial stability posed by non-bank financial institutions such as hedge funds, private ... (more story)
January 14, 2025
North America
MLex summary: The US Office of the Comptroller of the Currency fined three former Wells Fargo executives a total of $18.5 million for "unsafe or unsound banking practices related to the bank's systemic and wid... (more story)
January 14, 2025
North America
MLex Summary: Republican US Federal Trade Commissioners Andrew Ferguson and Melissa Holyoak issued a joint dissent on the agency's enforcement policy statement on exemptions for protected labor activity by wor... (more story)
Trade View More
January 14, 2025
Asia
MLex Summary: Seven US companies, including Inter-Coastal Electronics, Axient, and IronMountain Solutions, have been included in China's unreliable entity list because of their arms sales to Taiwan, according ... (more story)
January 14, 2025
Asia, North America
MLex Summary: In a joint statement, the United States, Japan and the Republic of Korea provided a new warning to the blockchain technology industry regarding the ongoing targeting and compromise of a range of ... (more story)
January 14, 2025
Asia, North America
MLex Summary: The US Commerce Department initiated antidumping and antisubsidy duty investigations into active anode material, a component of lithium-ion batteries, imported from China.
State Aid View More
January 13, 2025
Europe
MLex Summary: The EU General Court today released summaries of appeals by Ryanair against an earlier decision to readopt Italian support to airlines to compensate them for damages triggered by the Covid pandem... (more story)
January 10, 2025 | Andrew Boyce
Europe
Italian gas distributor Italgas has sought EU foreign subsidy clearance to buy its smaller rival 2i Rete Gas. The European Commission has set a Feb. 13 deadline to decide on the deal.
January 09, 2025
Asia, Europe
MLex Summary: China’s Chamber of Commerce to the EU has called on the bloc to “promptly rectify its improper measures under the Foreign Subsidies Regulation.” The statement followed an announcement in which Mo... (more story)
Energy View More
January 14, 2025
Asia
MLex Summary: South Korea has announced a comprehensive plan to boost its eco-friendly vehicle and secondary battery industries amid slowing market growth and global uncertainties. The government will provide ... (more story)
January 14, 2025
North America
MLex Summary: The US Federal Trade Commission issued a policy statement clarifying that independent contractors, including gig workers, are shielded from antitrust liability when engaging in protected bargaini... (more story)
January 14, 2025
Europe
MLex Summary: An exemption allowing the use of fluorinated gases, or F-gases, in certain self-contained refrigeration equipment for another 18 months was published in the EU's Official Journal today. Certain s... (more story)
Technology View More
January 14, 2025
North America
MLex Summary: US President Joe Biden has signed an executive order providing federal support to address energy needs for advanced artificial intelligence data centers, the White House announced. The order dire... (more story)
January 14, 2025
North America
MLex Summary: US Representative Ben Cline has reintroduced the One Agency Act, which would consolidate federal antitrust enforcement within the Department of Justice's antitrust division. The Federal Trade Com... (more story)
January 14, 2025 | Patricia Figueiredo
Europe
Tech platforms in the UK could face new obligations to hand over data they hold on a deceased child to parents and coroners investigating the death. Junior technology minister Feryal Clark told lawmakers yeste... (more story)