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Energy
September 12, 2025 | Eleonora Rinaldi
Europe
Antitrust
September 12, 2025 | Nicholas Hirst
Europe
DealRisk®, Mergers and Acquisitions
September 11, 2025 | Flavia Fortes and Curtis Eichelberger
North America
Antitrust View More
September 13, 2025 | Nicholas Hirst
Europe
Investor calls by companies will draw EU scrutiny where executives make statements about their competitors that are “not legally required,” according to a senior EU cartel enforcer. The remarks suggest the EU ... (more story)
September 12, 2025 | Chris May
North America
Google faces an uphill battle as it seeks to reverse a US federal court order requiring the company to open up its Play Store to competition from Android app-distribution services, an appeals court said today.
September 12, 2025
North America
MLex Summary: Google will not get a panel rehearing or rehearing en banc after the US Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit court found for Epic Games in an app store monopolization lawsuit and imposed an inj... (more story)
Artificial Intelligence View More
September 13, 2025 | Amy Miller
North America
California Gov. Gavin Newsom is facing a balancing act as more than a dozen bills aimed at regulating artificial intelligence tools in a wide range of settings head to his desk for approval. He could approve b... (more story)
September 12, 2025 | Mike Swift
North America
Achieving perfect political neutrality in artificial intelligence large-language models is impossible, but it can be approximated, a group of researchers say in a new study, in the wake of a recent Trump Admin... (more story)
September 12, 2025 | Frank Hersey and Sofia Gerace
Europe
The UK’s approach to achieving both sovereign AI capabilities and technology-driven economic growth by building physical infrastructure such as data centers could be ineffective, a senior Microsoft official ha... (more story)
Mergers and Acquisitions View More
September 13, 2025 | Nicholas Hirst
Europe
Protecting the right of European companies to scale up is the driving force behind an EU case against Rome for impeding Unicredit’s takeover of Banco BPM, Inge Bernaerts told a conference. The senior European ... (more story)
September 13, 2025 | Nicholas Hirst
Europe
A promise to invest in a market or a company is unlikely to resolve EU concerns when reviewing a merger, if the acquirer has no business interest in carrying it out, according to a senior EU official. The Euro... (more story)
September 12, 2025
North America
MLex Summary: Pipeline operator Western Midstream and infrastructure company Aris Water Solutions submitted their US federal premerger forms Aug. 27, according to a filing submitted to the US Securities and Ex... (more story)
Data Privacy and Security View More
September 13, 2025 | Mike Swift
North America
Class-action privacy settlements often put a monetary check before business changes, but a group of plaintiffs who alleged Google’s “Real-Time Bidding” ad auction violates their privacy say they've achieved a ... (more story)
September 12, 2025
North America
MLex Summary: The US Department of Agriculture is attempting to bury the fact that there is no reasoned decision-making in the administrative record regarding its collection of Supplemental Nutrition Assistanc... (more story)
September 12, 2025
North America
MLex Summary: The US Department of Agriculture told a federal judge it has the statutory and regulatory authority to gather Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program benefits data that is currently spread acro... (more story)
Intellectual Property View More
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)
September 12, 2025 | James Panichi
Oceania
Katy Perry’s reputation as a singer didn’t spill over into a reputation as a purveyor of clothing, and her decision to use her name to brand her clothing couldn’t have been predicted, Australia’s top court has... (more story)
Financial Crime View More
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)
September 12, 2025
North America
MLex Summary: The Financial Transactions and Reports Analysis Centre of Canada imposed a C$1.2 million administrative monetary penalty on the Saskatchewan Indian Gaming Authority, also operating as SIGA, for f... (more story)
September 12, 2025
Europe
MLex Summary: Almost £300 million worth of dirty cash was stripped from criminals in the UK last year, the government said Friday. The asset recoveries saw nearly £50 million returned to victims, a record figu... (more story)
Financial Services View More
September 12, 2025
Europe
MLex Summary: The UK Financial Conduct Authority has launched a £1 million advertising campaign, warning those seeking car-finance compensation against using a Claims Management Company or a law firm to submit... (more story)
September 12, 2025
Europe
MLex Summary: The European Banking Authority has published final draft technical standards revising how resolution authorities report decisions on minimum requirement for own funds and eligible liabilities, or... (more story)
September 12, 2025 | Hoa Dinh
Asia
Vietnam’s new decree to pilot a digital asset market for five years is expected to curb financial fraud and create a more transparent environment for cryptocurrency investment in the country, which ranks among... (more story)
Trade View More
September 12, 2025
Latin America, North America
MLex Summary: The US International Trade Commission released its annual report on the Caribbean Basin Economic Recovery Act program, concluding that the program has a minor impact on the US economy, but has po... (more story)
September 12, 2025 | Oscar Pandiello & Eleonora Rinaldi
Europe
The EU automotive industry urged clarity and action on CO2 standards and local content rules at high-level talks in Brussels, warning that delays risk undermining Europe’s green transition and competitiveness ... (more story)
September 12, 2025
North America
MLex summary: The US International Trade Commission voted unanimously to preliminarily determine there is a reasonable indication a domestic industry is materially injured from dumped and subsidized imports of... (more story)
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 12, 2025 | Eleonora Rinaldi
Europe
Denmark, currently leading legislative talks for EU governments, decided on Friday afternoon to postpone a final vote, scheduled for Sept. 18, on ministers’ position on the EU 2040 climate-target proposal, a s... (more story)
September 12, 2025
Europe
MLex Summary: Two delegations of lawmakers from ITRE — the European Parliament's committee on industry, research and energy — will next week travel to Canada and Sweden in separate missions to discuss nuclear ... (more story)
September 12, 2025
Europe
MLex Summary: The European Commission has stepped up efforts to secure the future of Europe’s car industry, announcing fresh initiatives at a high-level meeting with industry and unions. A new alliance on conn... (more story)
Technology View More
September 12, 2025
Europe
MLex Summary: Online platforms’ design features often leave users passive when encountering misinformation, hateful content or risks to children, a UK study on media literacy showed on Friday. The report, comm... (more story)
September 12, 2025
Europe
MLex Summary: Online platforms’ safety features remain underused, with many parents uncertain about available controls, a UK government study with 100 parents showed on Friday. The Department for Science, Inno... (more story)
September 12, 2025
Europe
MLex Summary: The interplay between the EU's Digital Services Act and the General Data Protection Regulation is addressed in new guidelines published on Friday by the European Data Protection Board, the umbrel... (more story)