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Antitrust
September 15, 2025 | Chris May and Khushita Vasant
North America
Financial Crime
September 15, 2025 | Samuel Rubenfeld
North America
Energy
September 12, 2025 | Eleonora Rinaldi
Europe
Antitrust View More
September 16, 2025 | James Panichi
Oceania
So-called creeping and killer acquisitions would be outlawed under plans to overhaul New Zealand’s competition laws, in a move designed to align the regime with that of neighboring Australia, the government an... (more story)
September 16, 2025
Oceania
MLex Summary: New Zealand’s antitrust watchdog has welcomed the government’s announcement of an ambitious competition-law revamp, which will include changes to the regulator’s governance structure. In a statem... (more story)
September 16, 2025 | Ilana Kowarski
North America
Because decades have passed since the US Supreme Court last reviewed a merger challenge, the high court hasn’t yet clarified how the nation’s federal merger control statute — the Clayton Antitrust Act — “shoul... (more story)
Artificial Intelligence View More
September 16, 2025 | Choonsik Yoo
Asia
South Korea has pledged to ease regulatory hurdles for artificial intelligence developers by adopting fair-use guidelines for copyrighted content and revising related laws as early as November. The government ... (more story)
September 15, 2025 | Amy Miller
North America
The deep-pocketed tech industry has proven once again that it can block efforts to regulate artificial intelligence, even in California. Even though California legislators approved more than a dozen bills aime... (more story)
September 15, 2025 | Chris May and Khushita Vasant
North America
Unless a US federal judge’s decision on how to address Google’s monopolies over web search and search advertising gets a revamp, antitrust enforcers may have “lost our opportunity to fix this market,” a former... (more story)
Mergers and Acquisitions View More
September 16, 2025
Oceania
MLex Summary: A revamp of New Zealand’s competition laws will target creeping acquisitions and predatory-pricing practices, while allowing dealmakers to put forward remedies when proposing acquisitions. In a s... (more story)
September 15, 2025 | Maria Júlia Baumert
Latin America
The proposed acquisition of Grupo Wickbold’s baking business by Bimbo is expected to require remedies, MLex has learned, following concerns raised by Brazil’s antitrust authority over potential price increases... (more story)
September 15, 2025 | Ilana Kowarski
North America
A US Federal Trade Commission merger control official said merger divestiture proposals to US federal antitrust agencies must eliminate significant threats to competition in every market negatively affected by... (more story)
Data Privacy and Security View More
September 16, 2025
North America
MLex Summary: A US federal judge refused to overturn a jury’s privacy verdict against Meta Platforms, rejecting the company’s bid to decertify a California class or win a new trial after jurors found it illega... (more story)
September 16, 2025 | Maria Dinzeo, Madeline Hughes
North America
Last week’s bombshell US whistleblower disclosures made it clear that Meta went to great lengths to shield itself from liability over any potential harm to kids and teens from its products. But its in-house la... (more story)
September 15, 2025
North America
MLex Summary: Jill Hamer has been appointed by California Governor Gavin Newsom to the California Privacy Protection Agency Board. Hamer, who has already begun her board service, replaces the outgoing Jeffrey ... (more story)
Intellectual Property View More
September 15, 2025 | Toko Sekiguchi
Asia, Europe, North America
Artificial intelligence is reshaping intellectual property law in patenting and trade secrets, exposing gaps across jurisdictions and adding pressure on innovation policy, according to discussions at an intern... (more story)
September 12, 2025 | Douglas Clarke-Williams
Europe
A UK surgeon has lost a claim that he is entitled to the patent for a blood-flow monitoring device. The Intellectual Property Office found that Ali Kordzadeh’s initial proposal and subsequent contributions to ... (more story)
September 12, 2025 | Sachiko Sakamaki
Asia
Japanese cabinet ministers, led by Prime Minister Shigeru Ishiba, held the first meeting of the Artificial Intelligence Strategy Headquarters on Friday to discuss a draft basic plan under the recently implemen... (more story)
Financial Crime View More
September 15, 2025
North America
MLex Summary: A federal jury in Miami, Florida, convicted a US businessman for his role in a nearly five-year scheme to bribe Honduran government officials and to launder money to secure business for a Georgia... (more story)
September 15, 2025
North America
MLex Summary: In a filing, Mexican national Ramon Alexandro Rovirosa Martinez argued that the “main character” of his corruption case is his co-defendant, fugitive businessman Mario Alberto Avila Lizarraga. Th... (more story)
September 12, 2025 | Samuel Rubenfeld
North America
A Georgia businessman bribed Honduran officials to win business and to get paid on government contracts, prosecutors said Friday in their closing argument of his corruption trial, while the defense said he had... (more story)
Financial Services View More
September 15, 2025 | Fanny Roux
Europe
The European Banking Authority has said it has initiated the appointment process to select a new chair, following José Manuel Campa's surprise announcement of his resignation for family reasons. The new chair ... (more story)
September 15, 2025
Europe
MLex Summary: The European Commission has outlined a set of features for EU countries to adopt when establishing frameworks for Savings and Investment Accounts, in a draft recommendation seen by MLex. The comm... (more story)
September 15, 2025
Europe
MLex Summary: Spanish companies Helibética, Hola, Policlínico Centro Médico de Seguros and Medicina Asturiana have withdrawn their legal challenges against EU decisions on the 2017 resolution of Banco Popular.... (more story)
Trade View More
September 15, 2025 | Zack Budryk
North America
The US Court of International Trade on Monday sustained the Commerce Department's method of calculating rates under an antidumping order on Italian imports of mechanical tubing.
September 15, 2025 | Bradley Dress
North America
The US Court of International Trade on Monday sustained a third remand from the Commerce Department on multilayered wood flooring from China, backing the latest revision of an antidumping review order.
September 15, 2025 | Bradley Dress
Asia, North America
The US International Trade Commission on Monday voted unanimously to determine a domestic industry is injured by dumped and subsidized imports of overhead door counterbalance torsion springs from China.
State Aid View More
September 11, 2025
Europe
MLex Summary: The European Commission has started a full investigation into whether Slovenia’s transfer of assets from the municipality of Ljubljana to pharmacy chain Lekarna Ljubljana complied with EU state a... (more story)
September 11, 2025
Europe
MLex Summary: Austria has won its legal challenge to Hungary's investment aid for the construction of two new nuclear reactors at the Paks II power station. In a judgment delivered on Thursday morning, the EU'... (more story)
September 10, 2025
Europe
MLex Summary: Steps have been taken to simplify rules, cut red tape and to back European leadership in Artificial Intelligence and clean tech, President Ursula von der Leyen said on Wednesday in her first stat... (more story)
Energy View More
September 15, 2025
Europe
MLex Summary: The EU’s proposed 2040 climate goal will be unrealistic without “enabling conditions” to secure industry competitiveness, including urgent demand-side measures to stimulate markets for circular, ... (more story)
September 15, 2025 | Eleonora Rinaldi
Europe
EU member states introduced more flexibility to the EU’s plan to ban Russian oil and gas contracts, according to a leaked draft dated Sept. 12 and seen by MLex. The January 2026 deadline for new short-term sup... (more story)
September 15, 2025 | Eleonora Rinaldi
Europe
EU member states will submit a “statement of intent” at next week's UN General Assembly — rather than a fully fledged climate plan — according to a leaked communication dated Sept. 15 and seen by MLex. The ind... (more story)
Technology View More
September 15, 2025 | Xu Yuan
North America
Two California bills aimed at enhancing online protection for children have passed the state legislature as the current session comes to an end and are heading to the governor for approval.
September 15, 2025
North America
MLex Summary: Lawyers for US Federal Trade Commission member Rebecca Slaughter told the US Supreme Court that it should follow the lead of federal district and appeals courts in denying a stay of a district co... (more story)
September 15, 2025 | Patricia Figueiredo
Europe
Use of Virtual Private Networks came under scrutiny in the UK on Monday as peers in the House of Lords, the UK's unelected upper chamber, questioned whether the technology is undermining child-safety rules in ... (more story)