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April 02, 2025 | Zack Budryk and Ansley Franco
North America
Financial Crime
April 02, 2025 | Samuel Rubenfeld
North America
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Antitrust, Data Privacy and Security, DealRisk®, Mergers and Acquisitions
April 02, 2025 | Claude Marx
North America
Antitrust View More
April 03, 2025 | Jet Damazo-Santos
Asia
When the Philippine antitrust agency first began investigating complaints that the country’s largest mall chain, SM Supermalls, was requiring its tenants to sell only its own brand of bottled water, it was bra... (more story)
April 03, 2025 | James Panichi and Saloni Sinha
Oceania
An unusual antitrust case involving Australian building-materials giant Brickworks has come to an end, with the company today announcing that it had reached a “settlement” with its rival BGC Australia — albeit... (more story)
April 02, 2025 | Khushita Vasant
North America
Andrew Ferguson, the Republican chairman of the Federal Trade Commission, today accused the Democratic Party of having appeased Big Tech firms under the eight years of the Obama administration, and said they m... (more story)
Artificial Intelligence View More
April 03, 2025 | MLex Staff
Asia
An updated academic proposal for China's potential AI law recommends clarifying fair-use rules for open-source foundation model training and enhancing the safe harbor rule for generative AI service providers' ... (more story)
April 03, 2025
Asia
MLex Summary: Apple is facing a probe by South Korea's competition regulator for allegedly violating advertising law after launching a stripped-down version of Apple Intelligence in Korean. The investigation b... (more story)
April 02, 2025 | Madeline Hughes
North America
The surveillance pricing study that began under former Federal Trade Commission Chair Lina Khan is continuing and a fuller report is due out hopefully by the end of the year, said Wells Harrell, an attorney in... (more story)
Mergers and Acquisitions View More
April 03, 2025
Oceania
MLex Summary: Australia’s competition regulator has issued draft guidance for dealmakers in response to last week’s publication by the Australian Treasury of an implementing regulation to clarify aspects of th... (more story)
April 02, 2025 | Wesley Brown & Flavia Fortes
North America
The US Justice Department is open to consent decrees in merger cases, but will exercise judgment in doing so, Assistant Attorney General for the Antitrust Division Abigail Slater said today. Slater said the DO... (more story)
April 02, 2025
North America
MLex Summary: Getty Images Holding Inc. and Shutterstock Inc. received a second request from the US Justice Department, Getty announced in a securities filing. The companies pulled and refiled paperwork for th... (more story)
Data Privacy and Security View More
April 02, 2025
North America
MLex Summary: A federal judge overseeing the approaching "high-stakes, national antitrust trial" between the US Federal Trade Commission and Meta Platforms ruled that subpoenaed tech industry witnesses — inclu... (more story)
April 02, 2025
North America
MLex Summary: Meta Platforms can present usage data for Facebook and Instagram that includes a January 2025 TikTok outage, during an upcoming trial in monopolization litigation brought by the US Federal Trade ... (more story)
April 02, 2025 | Mike Swift
North America
A group of federal appeal judges questioned both NetChoice's First Amendment arguments and the state's defense of what it said is the law's carefully tailored approach in the industry group's constitutional ch... (more story)
Intellectual Property View More
April 02, 2025 | Nick Robertson
North America
Samsung Display filed a trade secret misappropriation suit in the Eastern District of Texas yesterday against rival BOE Technology Group, accusing the Chinese company of stealing its trade secrets to build BOE... (more story)
April 02, 2025 | Nick Robertson
North America
Untrue claims of a product’s discontinuation are not actionable as false advertising under the Lanham Act, a California federal judge held yesterday. Memjet Technology’s claims of false advertising and trade l... (more story)
April 02, 2025 | Melissa Ritti
North America
Allegations by AT&T and other carriers that third-party defendant ASUSTeK Computer breached its obligation to offer patent licenses on fair, reasonable and nondiscriminatory terms are moving forward in Texas. ... (more story)
Financial Crime View More
April 02, 2025
North America
MLex Summary: Oleg Sergeyevhich Patsulya, a Russian national, was sentenced to 70 months in prison for his role in a conspiracy to export controlled aviation technology to Russia, and to launder money in conne... (more story)
April 02, 2025
North America
MLex Summary: CLS Global FZC LLC, a financial services firm known in the cryptocurrency industry as a “market maker,” was ordered to pay a total of $428,059, representing both a fine and seized cryptocurrency,... (more story)
April 02, 2025 | Samuel Rubenfeld
North America
US federal prosecutors are dropping bribery charges against two former executives of Cognizant Technology Solutions, citing a “recent assessment” of the case under President Donald Trump’s executive order paus... (more story)
Financial Services View More
April 02, 2025 | Fanny Roux
Europe
The European Parliament and the Council of the EU have asked the European Commission to simplify its financial data access proposal, known as FIDA, before resuming discussions on it. This request follows conce... (more story)
April 02, 2025 | Martin Coyle
Europe
Former Barclays boss Jes Staley made false claims about his relationship with disgraced financier Jeffrey Epstein, a UK court was told today as closing arguments began in a month-long trial. Staley is fighting... (more story)
April 02, 2025 | Sofia Gerace
Europe
A former non-executive director at collapsed Wyelands Bank was handed a fine of 72,000 pounds by the UK prudential watchdog for breaches of conduct rules between 2017 and 2020. Last month, audit company PwC ha... (more story)
Trade View More
April 03, 2025 | Joanna Sopinska
Europe
The EU will respond to the US reciprocal tariffs of 20 percent on the bloc’s imports with countermeasures “if negotiations fail,” European Commission President Ursula Von der Leyen said today. She emphasized t... (more story)
April 03, 2025
Asia
MLex Summary: South Korea responded swiftly after US President Donald Trump announced 25 percent reciprocal tariffs on South Korean imports, with Acting President Han Duck-soo saying during an emergency meetin... (more story)
April 03, 2025
Asia, North America
MLex Summary: Japan has conveyed its "extreme regret" over the US's reciprocal and automobile tariffs, and has requested Japan's exclusion from the trade measures announced by the Trump administration Wednesda... (more story)
State Aid View More
April 02, 2025 | Nicholas Hirst
Europe
Deutsche Lufthansa will defend its six billion-euro Covid-era recapitalization at the EU’s top court in early May, MLex has learned. The German flag carrier is appealing a lower court ruling that struck down t... (more story)
April 02, 2025
Europe
MLex Summary: A French support plan worth 380 million euros to back investment into the manufacture of renewable energy equipment such as batteries, solar panels or wind turbines can go ahead, the European Com... (more story)
April 02, 2025
Europe
MLex Summary: Ryanair has lost its legal challenge against the European Commission's approval of Polish aid worth 650 million euros for national air carrier LOT. In 2020, the state aid regulator cleared a 400 ... (more story)
Energy View More
April 02, 2025
Africa, Asia, Europe, Latin America, Middle East, North America, Oceania
MLex Summary: Energy innovation has provided significant economic and security benefits worldwide, but it now faces a critical juncture due to slowing financial momentum and shifting priorities, according to t... (more story)
April 02, 2025
Europe
MLex Summary: EU carmakers have called a European Commission proposal that gives them a three-year compliance period for the bloc's 2025 emissions-reduction target a "step in the right direction" but warned th... (more story)
April 01, 2025 | Ilana Kowarski
North America
Power company Constellation Energy's proposed acquisition of rival Calpine Corp. has drawn protests from the Maryland Office of People’s Counsel and the Pennsylvania Office of Consumer Advocate despite the mer... (more story)
Technology View More
April 02, 2025 | Lewis Crofts
Europe, North America
Tech gatekeepers such as Apple, Google and Meta Platforms will face “brave” enforcement of the EU’s key digital law, Teresa Ribera said today, stressing that the legislation was important for creating market o... (more story)
April 02, 2025
Europe
MLex Summary: Luxembourg's lawmakers have approved a law that implements the EU's Digital Services Act. The law designates the country's competition authority as the Digital Services Coordinator for Luxembourg... (more story)
April 02, 2025
Europe
MLex Summary: EU justice chief Michael McGrath will be in Ireland later this week to discuss issues including competitiveness, the "digitalization of justice," consumer protection and the future of civil and c... (more story)