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DealRisk®, Mergers and Acquisitions, Trade
July 11, 2025 | Curtis Eichelberger
North America
Intellectual Property
July 11, 2025 | Melissa Ritti
North America
Artificial Intelligence
July 11, 2025 | Frank Hersey
Africa, Asia, Europe, Latin America, Middle East, North America, Oceania
Antitrust View More
July 12, 2025 | Khushita Vasant and Clayton Vickers
North America
Universities accused of price-fixing could not convince a US federal judge today to reopen discovery following allegations of unethical conduct by plaintiffs’ attorneys.
July 11, 2025
North America
MLex Summary: Fanatics Collectibles Topco told a New York federal judge that rather than compete on the merits, Panini instead launched a campaign of retaliation when athletes, leagues and players associations... (more story)
July 11, 2025
North America
MLex Summary: Purchasers of LinkedIn premium professional social networking services asked a US federal judge to grant preliminary approval for a settlement agreement resolving claims in monopolization litigat... (more story)
Artificial Intelligence View More
July 11, 2025 | Amy Miller
North America
Meta Platforms’ copying of authors’ books to train its artificial intelligence models legal was deemed legal by a US judge, but the tech company could still be held liable for illegally uploading those books f... (more story)
July 11, 2025 | Emma Whitford
North America
Lovo Inc., which offers artificial intelligence-powered voice generation services, has ducked a copyright infringement claim on the basis that AI-generated voice clones fall into a liability exclusion for imit... (more story)
July 11, 2025
Asia,North America
MLex summary: Hesai Technology was denied a judgment against the US Department of Defense including Hesai on its 1260H list in 2024. US District Judge Paul L. Friedman found that Hesai failed to show that it w... (more story)
Mergers and Acquisitions View More
July 11, 2025
North America
MLex Summary: Electricity providers Constellation Energy and Calpine Corporation asked the US Federal Energy Regulatory Commission to clear their merger "without further delay" and to dismiss complaints from t... (more story)
July 11, 2025 | Henrique Santiago
Latin America
Alexandre Cordeiro Macedo, the first in Brazil to hold the three most notable positions in the country's competition authority — councilor, superintendent and president — is departing as president of the Admin... (more story)
July 11, 2025 | Ilana Kowarski and Chris May
North America
US Federal Trade Commission's Bureau of Competition Director Daniel Guarnera said today that conservative antitrust law enforcers should be meticulous about ensuring that the government’s theories of harm mesh... (more story)
Data Privacy and Security View More
July 11, 2025 | Maria Dinzeo
North America
A prominent cybersecurity group is warning that a recent appellate court ruling upholding the conviction of former Uber security chief Joe Sullivan could undermine the use of bug bounty programs, a cornerstone... (more story)
July 11, 2025 | Madeline Hughes
North America
The US Federal Trade Commission won't overreach as it polices unfair and deceptive data privacy practices, Chris Mufarrige, director of the Bureau of Consumer Protection, said today.
July 11, 2025
North America
MLex Summary: US District Judge Araceli Martinez-Olguin granted a motion to stay a privacy case against online therapy platform Headway as the parties negotiate a settlement.
Intellectual Property View More
July 11, 2025 | Melissa Ritti
North America
Bank of New York Mellon Corporation and the Bank of New York Mellon were denied summary judgment this week in a case brought by their former investment analyst André Pauwels. The ruling, which could carry big ... (more story)
July 11, 2025 | Douglas Clarke-Williams
Europe
The UK became the first major signatory of an emerging global treaty to streamline procedures for design protection today, joining 19 other countries. For the UK to sign the Riyadh Design Law Treaty potentiall... (more story)
July 11, 2025 | Toko Sekiguchi
Asia
A Japanese appeals court has overturned a lower court ruling that found Daiso Industries infringed a registered design for plastic storage bins, rejecting the claim brought by patent-holder Hachiman-kasei. The... (more story)
Financial Crime View More
July 11, 2025 | Samuel Rubenfeld
North America
A US judge denied an effort on the eve of trial by Tornado Cash co-founder Roman Storm to throw out conspiracy charges due to a lack of venue, but she was skeptical of the government’s evidence and said the ma... (more story)
July 11, 2025
North America
MLex Summary: Methode Electronics disclosed it has received a second subpoena from the US Securities and Exchange Commission seeking documents and information regarding the company's operations abroad, and its... (more story)
July 10, 2025
Africa
MLex Summary: South Africa has made progress in detecting and investigating foreign bribery cases, despite an undermining of the rule of law and weakening of its law enforcement institutions during a period of... (more story)
Financial Services View More
July 12, 2025
Europe
MLex Summary: The UK government has confirmed that the Bank of England will monitor the acceptance of cash, following a report from the parliamentary Treasury committee. The committee had voiced concerns that ... (more story)
July 11, 2025 | Neil Roland
North America
A US Federal Reserve that has become increasingly divided on regulatory matters during the Trump administration issued a bank-friendly proposal yesterday to revise its supervisory rating framework for large ba... (more story)
July 11, 2025
Europe
MLex Summary: EU companies will see some of the 2024 simplified rules on sustainability reporting extended to the 2025 and 2026 financial years, the European Commission said in a statement today. Under the cur... (more story)
Trade View More
July 11, 2025 | Eliana Hubacker
Asia, North America
The US Court of International Trade has affirmed the Commerce Department’s calculation methods for a separate dumping rate for Vietnamese catfish exporter Green Farms.
July 11, 2025
North America
MLex Summary: US President Donald Trump ordered Suirui International Co., a Hong Kong-based company that is majority owned by China-based Suirui Group Co., and Delaware-based Jupiter Systems, to unwind their 2... (more story)
July 11, 2025
Asia, North America
MLex Summary: The US International Trade Commission preliminarily determined that allegedly dumped and subsidized imports of Chinese l-lysine materially injure US industry. The Department of Commerce will cont... (more story)
State Aid View More
July 11, 2025 | Simon Zekaria
Europe
The New Lottery Company told a UK judge today that it needs clarity on the defense of its lawsuit against the Gambling Commission, a non-departmental public body of the UK government, over an alleged unlawful ... (more story)
July 11, 2025
Oceania
MLex Summary: Australia shouldn’t retaliate against tariffs imposed by the US government on goods and services because to do so would “come at a cost” for the economy, Australia’s independent economic-advisory... (more story)
July 09, 2025
Europe
MLex Summary: Rail-freight operators in Norway may receive compensation for economic losses suffered after a bridge was closed due to safety concerns, the EFTA Surveillance Authority said today. The watchdog c... (more story)
Energy View More
July 11, 2025
Europe
MLex Summary: French companies have pledged to invest a total of more than 1 billion pounds ($1.3 billion) in the UK's energy, aviation, tech and finance sectors, as part of a new UK-France industrial strategy... (more story)
July 11, 2025
Asia, Europe
MLex Summary: EU and Chinese officials will meet on Monday for the sixth EU-China High-Level Environment and Climate Dialogue, the European Commission said in a statement today. Discussions will focus on the E... (more story)
July 11, 2025 | Choonsik Yoo
Asia
South Korea plans to develop a national power-grid innovation plan, that includes building an energy superhighway using advanced technologies such as HVDC and distributed power grids, to support the growth of ... (more story)
Technology View More
July 11, 2025 | Xu Yuan
North America
A California law that would require Facebook Marketplace, Nextdoor and other online marketplaces to scrutinize transactions on their platforms was halted by a federal judge on the grounds that it is preempted by federal laws.
July 11, 2025
North America
MLex Summary: The US House committee for energy and commerce will mark up the SCORE Act, a bipartisan piece of legislation that seeks to standardize name, image and likeness (NIL) protections for student athle... (more story)
July 11, 2025
North America
MLex Summary: A federal judge in California halted enforcement of a law that imposes requirements on Facebook Marketplace, Nextdoor and other online marketplaces over transactions involving stolen goods. The s... (more story)