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Antitrust, Data Privacy and Security, DealRisk®, Mergers and Acquisitions, Technology
September 22, 2025 | Dwight A. Weingarten
North America
Data Privacy and Security
September 22, 2025 | Mike Swift
North America
Trade
September 22, 2025 | Oscar Pandiello
Asia, Europe
Antitrust View More
September 23, 2025 | Khushita Vasant
North America
Google is a "recidivist monopolist" whose dominance in the digital advertising technology markets can only be addressed through the divestiture of its ad exchange and publisher ad server products, the Departme... (more story)
September 23, 2025 | Saloni Sinha
Oceania
Harcourts Group, a real-estate company and franchisor, along with its franchisees, are facing civil court proceedings for allegedly engaging in cartel activity, the New Zealand antitrust regulator said. In a s... (more story)
September 23, 2025 | Alex Wilts and Khushita Vasant
North America
The US Department of Justice’s Antitrust Division is signaling a more aggressive approach to criminal antitrust enforcement through the launch of a whistleblower-rewards program and potential changes to its le... (more story)
Artificial Intelligence View More
September 23, 2025
Asia
MLex Summary: China’s national cybersecurity standards body, TC260, issued a set of emergency-response practical guidelines on Monday for security incidents involving generative artificial intelligence service... (more story)
September 23, 2025 | Choonsik Yoo
Asia
Courts in China are actively adopting artificial intelligence and other digital technologies but their role is limied to assisting judges instead of deciding cases, a judge from the country's highest court sai... (more story)
September 23, 2025 | MLex Staff
Asia
China’s Internet regulators flagged illegal facial-image processing by vending machines and compliance lapses at an AI service provider, while public-security authorities cited cross-border data transfer breac... (more story)
Mergers and Acquisitions View More
September 23, 2025
Asia
MLex Summary: Investment company Pontegadea Inversiones’ acquisition of nearly half of PD Ports; a joint venture between ALJ UK, part of Abdul Latif Jameel, and GAC Motor International in Hong Kong; and CVC Ca... (more story)
September 22, 2025
North America
MLex Summary: Opponents of electricity provider Constellation Energy's proposed acquisition of Calpine Corp. who requested a new hearing for that transaction at the US Federal Energy Regulatory Commission rece... (more story)
September 22, 2025
Europe, North America
MLex Summary: Fuel producer and distributor Sunoco saw the US premerger waiting period for its planned acquisition of fuel distributor, marketer and retailer expire on Sept. 19, according to a US securities filing.
Data Privacy and Security View More
September 23, 2025 | Saloni Sinha and James Panichi
Oceania
Businesses sharing images of suspected shoplifters on store walls or social-media platforms may be breaking laws, the New Zealand privacy regulator has warned. Publishing new guidance for store operators, New ... (more story)
September 23, 2025 | James Panichi
Oceania
Fortrend Securities interfered with the privacy of an employee when it released medical records to a client to explain the worker’s decision to leave the company, Australia’s competition watchdog found. In a d... (more story)
September 23, 2025 | Sachiko Sakamaki
Asia
Japan’s data protection chief is calling for closer cooperation with Asia-Pacific privacy regulators, saying the region’s growing digital economies make cross-border data flows and compatible privacy framework... (more story)
Intellectual Property View More
September 22, 2025
North America
MLex Summary: Ross Intelligence asked a US appeals court to reverse a judgment in favor of Thomson Reuters on direct copyright infringement of certain Westlaw headnotes and against Ross’ affirmative defenses, ... (more story)
September 22, 2025 | Emma Whitford
North America
The largely-redacted results of a data sampling exercise by OpenAI and news outlets including the New York Times show the parties are still bogged down in a discovery dispute that for months has forced OpenAI ... (more story)
September 22, 2025 | Nick Robertson
North America
Verizon announced Monday that it's partnering with smartphone manufacturers as well as leading wireless standards contributors to create a 6G innovation forum focused on furthering the development of the upcom... (more story)
Financial Crime View More
September 22, 2025
North America
MLex Summary: The House Select Committee on the Strategic Competition between the United States and the Chinese Communist Party sent a letter to Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent asking whether a Primary Money ... (more story)
September 22, 2025
North America
MLex Summary: The US Treasury Department's Office of Foreign Assets Control said it is sanctioning the Lex Instituto de Estudos Juridicos LTDA and Viviane Barci de Moraes for their support to Brazilian Supreme... (more story)
September 22, 2025 | Samuel Rubenfeld and Henrique Santiago
Latin America, North America
The US continued its campaign against Brazil’s government by imposing sanctions on the wife and holding company of a Brazilian judge, and by revoking or restricting the visas of multiple Brazilian officials, i... (more story)
Financial Services View More
September 22, 2025
North America
MLex Summary: The US Treasury Department's Office of Foreign Assets Control (OFAC) announced that ShapeShift AG, a defunct digital asset exchange incorporated in Switzerland and operated from Denver, Colorado,... (more story)
September 22, 2025
North America
MLex Summary: The US House of Representatives Select Committee on the Chinese Communist Party has written to PayPal seeking assurances that its new integrations with Tencent’s Tenpay Global—the operator of Wei... (more story)
September 22, 2025
Europe, North America
MLex Summary: The UK and the US are set to explore closer cooperation on digital assets, Britain's finance ministry said on Monday. UK finance minister Rachel Reeves and US Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent hav... (more story)
Trade View More
September 22, 2025
North America
MLex Summary: The US Department of Commerce secured a $4.2 billion trade deal between the Government of Kazakhstan and US rail tech company Wabtec. Wabtec will provide 300 locomotives to Kazakhstan under the agreement.
September 22, 2025 | Zack Budryk
North America
US Customs and Border Protection has initiated an investigation of eight importers of Chinese-origin tow-behind lawn groomers (TBLGs) on allegations of evading antidumping orders.
September 22, 2025
Asia, Europe, Middle East, North America
MLex Summary: The US Commerce Department has found that hexamine from Saudi Arabia and Germany is being dumped into the US, and hexamine from India is subsidized.
State Aid View More
September 22, 2025
Europe
MLex Summary: Irish budget airline Ryanair said today that it will turn to the EU courts to fight a European Commission decision deeming unlawful its agreement on airport charges with French regional airport C... (more story)
September 22, 2025
Europe
MLex Summary: Marketing and airport services agreements signed between the Carcassonne airport and Ryanair between 2001 and 2011 amounted to €1.8 million in incompatible state aid that must be recovered, the E... (more story)
September 22, 2025
Europe
MLex Summary: Casino operator Merkur Spielbanken has filed an appeal at the EU's first-tier court to contest the European Commission's order for Germany to recoup a capital injection of €64.8 million euros in ... (more story)
Energy View More
September 23, 2025 | Eleonora Rinaldi
Europe
Data centers are straining the stability of Europe’s grid infrastructure due to their disproportionate concentration, power lobby group Eurelectric said in a new study released Tuesday. In 2024, data centers a... (more story)
September 22, 2025 | Eleonora Rinaldi
Europe
Lawmakers from the European Parliament’s energy committee are set to vote on the European Commission’s delegated act on low-carbon hydrogen greenhouse-gas emissions on Oct. 16, a Parliament official told MLex.... (more story)
September 22, 2025
Europe
MLex Summary: A group of national leaders and energy bodies have issued a joint call for a just and equitable clean energy transition ahead of the COP30 climate conference in Brazil in a joint letter published... (more story)
Technology View More
September 23, 2025 | Xu Yuan
North America
A jury of nine was selected in a federal court in Seattle for trial over allegations by the US Federal Trade Commission that Amazon deployed manipulative and confusing design and language for its Prime subscription service.
September 22, 2025
North America
MLex Summary: The US Supreme Court has agreed to review the District of Columbia appeals court panel's reinstatement of Federal Trade Commissioner Rebecca Kelly Slaughter. The court also issued a stay of the o... (more story)
September 22, 2025
Europe
MLex Summary: AI-generated child sexual abuse material, or CSAM, has been identified for the first time on AI chatbots, the Internet Watch Foundation said on Monday. Analysts at the group, a UK-based hotline f... (more story)