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Energy
August 29, 2025 | Eleonora Rinaldi and Helena Freitas
Africa, Europe, Latin America, Oceania
Artificial Intelligence
August 29, 2025 | Luca Bertuzzi
Europe
Trade
August 28, 2025 | Zack Budryk and Eliana Hubacker
North America
Antitrust View More
August 31, 2025 | Jenny Lee
Asia
Chinese e-commerce platform AliExpress has been sanctioned by South Korea’s competition regulator for violating e-commerce and advertising laws, in a decision that underscores the country’s commitment to hold ... (more story)
August 31, 2025
Asia
MLex Summary: AliExpress was sanctioned by South Korea’s competition regulator for violating e-commerce and advertising laws, with affiliated sellers ordered to pay about 2.1 billion won ($1.5 million) in fine... (more story)
August 29, 2025 | Khushita Vasant
North America
Tactics to circumvent the antitrust legal process and hamper investigations by the US Department of Justice will be dealt with using the full range of penalties, and antitrust enforcers won't hesitate to bring... (more story)
Artificial Intelligence View More
August 29, 2025 | Amy Miller
North America
Parents suing Character.AI over their son’s suicide have lost a bid to obtain personal financial documents from the chatbot company’s co-founders, for now. US District Judge Anne Conway denied a request from t... (more story)
August 29, 2025
Europe
MLex Summary: The Franco-German economic agenda, released today, is part of a general reset of the relationship between the EU’s leading economic and political powers. This bilateral effort to reach a coordina... (more story)
August 29, 2025
Europe
MLex Summary: The UK government must address key concerns on safety and regulatory enforcement when it drafts its legislation on artificial intelligence, to bring the sector into line with others such as aviat... (more story)
Mergers and Acquisitions View More
August 29, 2025
North America
MLex Summary: Edwards Lifesciences submitted answers to the US Federal Trade Commission's complaint against its merger with JenaValve Technology. The company argues that the agency can't show that the transact... (more story)
August 29, 2025 | Maria Júlia Baumert
Latin America
Brazil’s competition authority has cleared the acquisition of Clear Channel’s out-of-home (OOH) media operations in Brazil by Publibanca, a wholly owned subsidiary of Eletromidia, which is itself controlled by... (more story)
August 29, 2025 | Maria Júlia Baumert
Latin America
Telefônica Brasil has filed for Brazilian regulatory approval to acquire full control of Fibrasil Infraestrutura e Fibra Ótica SA, a wholesale fiber network operator jointly owned by Telefônica and the Canadia... (more story)
Data Privacy and Security View More
August 30, 2025 | Maria Dinzeo
North America
Testimony in a multi-billion-dollar US privacy trial against Google closed today with a defense expert who said the company walls off user information when privacy controls are disabled.
August 29, 2025
North America
MLex Summary: US federal judge Georgia Alexakis narrowed a privacy lawsuit brought against ByteDance for its CapCut application. Alexakis dismissed allegations the company violated the Computer Fraud and Abus... (more story)
August 29, 2025 | Madeline Hughes
North America
The US Federal Trade Commission’s Division of Privacy and Identity Protection has seen a roughly 8 percent attrition rate since the start of the year. The division, which oversees privacy enforcement, has lost... (more story)
Intellectual Property View More
August 29, 2025 | Nick Robertson
North America
The Trump administration moved Thursday to exempt patent examiners at the US Patent and Trademark Office from union protection, citing their “national security” work under a March executive order. The announce... (more story)
August 29, 2025 | Inbar Preiss
Europe
Johnson & Johnson subsidiaries Cilag and Ethicon have lost their bid at the Unified Patent Court for urgent relief against Rivolution, as The Hague Local Division judges found no urgency. Cilag must instead pu... (more story)
August 29, 2025 | Douglas Clarke-Williams
Europe
EasyGroup says it will appeal against a UK High Court ruling that Premier Inn's “Rest easy” slogan didn't infringe its trademarks. The judge in the case said any reputation which the “easy” mark had with consu... (more story)
Financial Crime View More
August 29, 2025 | Martin Coyle
Europe
Three former Barclays traders convicted of rate rigging following Serious Fraud Office-led prosecutions have lodged appeals at a UK legal body tasked with overturning wrongful convictions. This follows Thursda... (more story)
August 28, 2025 | Martin Coyle and Phoebe Seers
Europe
Five more rate rigging convictions secured by the UK’s Serious Fraud Office could be unsafe, the prosecutor said today, after the Supreme Court quashed the conviction of former UBS trader Tom Hayes for the sam... (more story)
August 28, 2025
Europe
MLex Summary: Glencore and its former chief executive Ivan Glasenberg have been ordered to give investors suing the company documents related to a bribery probe by Dutch prosecutors. A UK judge said today the ... (more story)
Financial Services View More
August 28, 2025 | Neil Roland
North America
US Federal Reserve Governor Lisa Cook’s lawsuit against President Donald Trump over his allegedly illegal dismissal of her cites the Federal Reserve Act's requirements for dismissal and the Constitution's guar... (more story)
August 28, 2025
North America
MLex Summary: The US Commerce Department announced that it will begin posting real gross domestic product data on the blockchain beginning with the July 2025 data.
August 28, 2025
Europe
MLex Summary: Italian bank UniCredit announced today that it entered into a new financial instrument allowing it to increase from just below 10 to 26 percent its stake in Greek lender Alpha Bank. The financial... (more story)
Trade View More
August 29, 2025
North America
MLex summary: The US Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit ruled that President Donald Trump's use of the 1977 International Emergency Economic Powers Act to impose "reciprocal" and fentanyl-based tariffs o... (more story)
August 29, 2025 | Bradley Dress, Eliana Hubacker
North America
The US Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit today struck down a majority of President Donald Trump’s emergency tariffs, imposed on most of the world, in a significant blow to the administration’s trade agenda.
August 29, 2025 | Zack Budryk
North America
The US Court of International Trade upheld the results of an administrative review of the Commerce Department’s countervailing duty orders on certain new pneumatic off-the-road tires.
State Aid View More
August 27, 2025 | Nicholas Hirst
Europe
Ryanair’s CEO has hailed yesterday’s deal on a framework for Booking to sell its flights as a victory for consumers and for the Irish low-cost airline. He also defended the Irish carrier's lawsuits against EU ... (more story)
August 25, 2025
Europe
MLex Summary: Denmark has secured approval for its plan to spend 626 million euros to support landowners in converting agricultural land into forests. The project comes as part of a national political agreemen... (more story)
August 22, 2025
Europe
MLex Summary: The steel industry may be covered by revised EU rules that determine when governments can use state funds to rescue and restructure companies. In a consultation opened today, the European Commiss... (more story)
Energy View More
August 29, 2025 | Eleonora Rinaldi
Europe
The EU should not be able to use international carbon credits to offset part of the bloc's emissions target for 2040, a group of European Parliament lawmakers has said. The recommendation from the Committee on... (more story)
August 29, 2025 | Eleonora Rinaldi
Europe
BP will have to wait longer for a decision on the contested development of a blue-hydrogen and carbon-capture project in the northeast of England after the UK government asked the landowners to provide additio... (more story)
August 29, 2025
Europe
MLex Summary: The EU should keep the Energy Efficiency First principle — known as EE1st — at the center of the revised climate law, industry participants have warned. EE1st requires energy-saving measures to t... (more story)
Technology View More
August 29, 2025
Europe
MLex Summary: UK telecom providers can expect tougher security obligations under an updated version of the 2022 Telecommunications Security Code of Practice. The changes, unveiled today, would require operator... (more story)
August 28, 2025
North America
MLex Summary: US Federal Trade Commission Chairman Andrew Ferguson sent a letter to Google CEO Sundar Pichai warning him that the company could be engaging in behavior that is deceptive or unfair under Section... (more story)
August 28, 2025 | Madeline Hughes
North America
The District of Columbia Court of Appeals declined TikTok’s interlocutory appeal seeking to dismiss DC Attorney General Brian Schwalb’s allegations the company violated the DC Money Transmitters Act by failing... (more story)