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DealRisk®, Mergers and Acquisitions, State Aid
June 20, 2025 | Andrew Boyce
Europe
Antitrust, Data Privacy and Security
June 20, 2025 | Sara Brandstätter
Europe
Artificial Intelligence, Intellectual Property
June 19, 2025 | Inbar Preiss
Europe
Antitrust View More
June 21, 2025 | Khushita Vasant
North America
A US federal judge told counsel for the US Department of Justice that documents they seek about Google's submissions to the European Commission as part of a parallel investigation into the tech giant's alleged... (more story)
June 20, 2025 | Henrique Santiago
Asia,Europe,Latin America,North America
American Axle & Manufacturing's proposed acquisition of Dowlais Group is undergoing a full-form review by Brazil’s competition authority. Both auto industry companies operate manufacturing sites across the country.
June 20, 2025
North America
MLex Summary: Amgen asked a US federal judge to enter a judgment in its favor after a jury awarded Regeneron damages in an antitrust suit over cholesterol-reducing medication, saying Regeneron offered no evide... (more story)
Artificial Intelligence View More
June 20, 2025
North America
MLex summary: US District Judge Sidney Stein will hear arguments on OpenAI's opposition to a May discovery order requiring the company to preserve user chats, including those marked for deletion, on a forward-... (more story)
June 20, 2025
North America
MLex Summary: Democratic Senators Ed Markey of Massachusetts and Ron Wyden of Oregon spearheaded a letter to the US Government Accountability Office requesting an investigation into the federal government's us... (more story)
June 20, 2025 | Frank Hersey
Europe
The BBC has written to large language model-based search engine provider Perplexity AI with a threat of legal action over what it says is the “verbatim” reproduction of its content without permission. Perplexi... (more story)
Mergers and Acquisitions View More
June 20, 2025
North America
MLex Summary: US Steel filed an amended corporate disclosure statement with the US Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia stating that Nippon Steel North America Inc. owns 100 percent of its common stoc... (more story)
June 20, 2025
North America
MLex Summary: Nippon Steel was granted a motion to dismiss US claims brought by steel consumers challenging its acquisition of US Steel. District Judge Eumi K. Lee determined that plaintiffs haven't alleged an... (more story)
June 20, 2025
North America
MLex Summary: US Anesthesia Partners asked a federal court in Texas to let it amend its answer to a US Federal Trade Commission lawsuit alleging the firm bought up anesthesiology practices in Texas and then co... (more story)
Data Privacy and Security View More
June 21, 2025 | Maria Dinzeo
North America
A US judge is weighing whether 23andMe can sell its trove of consumer genetic data to a nonprofit led by its former chief executive, after a marathon hearing in which lawyers for Texas and California argued th... (more story)
June 20, 2025 | Mike Swift
North America
Judging that the "narrow, hollowed out, ideologically inflected conception" of Reagan-era privacy enforcement limited to deceptive conduct could no longer protect American consumers in the modern digital econo... (more story)
June 20, 2025 | Jean Comte
Europe
Microsoft fully complies with the EU's "gatekeeper" law, company representatives said today in the first of a series of public workshops to discuss how well big platforms fulfill their obligations under the Di... (more story)
Intellectual Property View More
June 20, 2025
Europe
MLex Summary: Emboline, the claimant in a patent infringement case against AorticLab, has seen Unified Patent Court appeal judges overturn a ruling that required AorticLab to pay 200,000 euros ($230,000) in se... (more story)
June 20, 2025
Europe
MLex Summary: Telefonaktiebolaget LM Ericsson has failed in its attempt to impose an “external eyes only” confidentiality regime in its patent infringement dispute with Asustek Computer, Arvato Netherlands and... (more story)
June 20, 2025 | Melissa Ritti
North America
The US Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit this week left intact a jury verdict that Walmart Inc. and Wal-Mart.com USA are directly liable for infringing the copyrighted sculptural work of a homemaker-entre... (more story)
Financial Crime View More
June 20, 2025 | Martin Coyle
Europe
A fraudster sentenced to 14 years in jail in his absence after going on the run during his trial has been ordered by a UK judge to pay tens of million of pounds back to investors or face a further 14-year sent... (more story)
June 19, 2025 | Sofia Gerace and Martin Coyle
Europe
A former analyst at asset manager Janus Henderson and his sister have been found guilty of insider dealing and money laundering after a four-month trial in a London court. Two other defendants at the same tria... (more story)
June 19, 2025 | Martin Coyle
Europe
Cybersecurity company Exclusive Networks Corporate, or EXN, has been fined 16 million euros as part of settlement reached with French prosecutors over bribery allegations. The Parquet National Financier began ... (more story)
Financial Services View More
June 20, 2025 | Sofia Gerace
Europe
EuroCTP, a consortium backed by all 15 EU stock exchanges, and Frankfurt-based data and analytics company big xyt confirmed today that they are applying to operate the bloc's first central repository for data ... (more story)
June 20, 2025
Europe
MLex Summary: European entities wishing to become the first consolidated tape provider for equities data can now apply to the European Securities and Markets Authority. The equity consolidated tape will serve ... (more story)
June 20, 2025 | Fanny Roux
Europe
Any EU securitization proposals that risk weakening the bloc's prudential regime or financial stability would face opposition from EU lawmakers, according to a draft compromise report obtained by MLex. The non... (more story)
Trade View More
June 20, 2025
North America
MLex Summary: The US Senate parliamentarian advised the chamber on several provisions in Senate Banking, Housing and Urban Affairs’ Committee Chairman Tim Scott’s section of the "Big Beautiful Bill." The Parli... (more story)
June 20, 2025 | Zack Budryk
North America
The US Supreme Court today declined two educational toy companies’ request to fast track their lawsuit against the Trump administration over its imposition of tariffs under an emergency powers law.
June 20, 2025 | Eliana Hubacker
Asia, North America
Canada may impose new tariffs on US steel and aluminum imports on July 21 depending on the status of negotiations between the two countries, Canadian Prime Minister Mark Carney said.
State Aid View More
June 20, 2025
Europe
MLex Summary: Romania's 250 million-euro recapitalization of the majority state-owned Exim Banca Românească doesn't amount to state aid, the European Commission today said. The state aid regulator reviewed Ro... (more story)
June 20, 2025
Europe
MLex Summary: Poland has won European Commission approval to move forward with plans for a new technology hub in Katowice, focused on the gaming industry. The project will be backed by a direct grant worth 192... (more story)
June 17, 2025 | Jean Comte
Europe
European companies in the defense sector won't be held back from building scale by EU merger-control and antitrust rules, the European Commission pledged today while unveiling initiatives to boost EU security.... (more story)
Energy View More
June 20, 2025 | Eleonora Rinaldi
Europe
Shielding small companies from excessive reporting obligations is the reason behind the announced withdrawal of the Green Claims Directive, the European Commission said in a statement today. The move was welco... (more story)
June 20, 2025
Europe
MLex Summary: EU-UK political agreements on fisheries and energy cooperation were officially formalized today. The deals, previously reached during the first EU-UK Summit in May, ensure mutual access to waters... (more story)
June 20, 2025
Europe
MLex Summary: Greenhouse gas emissions from the liquefied natural gas supply chain could be reduced by 60 percent using existing technologies, according to a new report by the International Energy Agency. The ... (more story)
Technology View More
June 20, 2025
Oceania
MLex Summary: Age assurance “can be done” in a private, robust and effective way, according to preliminary findings from an independent evaluation of technical options ahead of implementing a social media ban ... (more story)
June 20, 2025
Asia
MLex Summary: China’s national Internet regulator, in collaboration with eight other government agencies, has released draft measures for classifying online information that may affect the physical and mental ... (more story)
June 20, 2025 | MLex Staff
Asia
The Shanghai Internet regulator yesterday summoned the operator of a popular Chinese companionship artificial intelligence chatbot amid concerns it generated vulgar and inappropriate content, in the latest reg... (more story)