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Antitrust, DealRisk®, Mergers and Acquisitions
December 30, 2025 | Khushita Vasant
North America
Data Privacy and Security
December 30, 2025 | Xu Yuan
North America
Antitrust, Technology
December 29, 2025 | Alex Wilts
North America
Antitrust View More
December 30, 2025
North America
MLex Summary: Cumulus Media has a strong likelihood of successfully showing that The Nielsen Co. has enacted an anticompetitive "tying policy" to illegally maintain monopoly power over local and national radio... (more story)
December 30, 2025
North America
MLex Summary: Industry group Anesthesia Associates asked a Texas federal judge to dismiss antitrust claims from nurses challenging noncompete restrictions. Declaratory and injunctive relief sought by the plain... (more story)
December 30, 2025 | Nick Robertson
North America
The US Patent and Trademark Office on Monday announced the formation of a standard-essential patent (SEP) working group. The move follows recent statements of interest from office leadership favoring stronger ... (more story)
Artificial Intelligence View More
December 31, 2025 | Choonsik Yoo
Asia
South Korea’s parliament has approved the first amendment to the AI Basic Act, codifying institutional changes such as the reorganization of the presidential AI committee and measures to prepare for the advent... (more story)
December 31, 2025
Asia
MLex Summary: South Korea’s National Assembly has approved the first amendment to the AI Basic Act, largely aimed at providing legal foundations for initiatives announced after the law was first enacted in lat... (more story)
December 30, 2025 | Luca Bertuzzi
Europe
The drafters of the EU’s first code of practice for generative AI transparency face a series of key trade-offs between ambition and feasibility, prescriptiveness and flexibility, open solutions and closed syst... (more story)
Mergers and Acquisitions View More
December 30, 2025
Asia, North America
MLex Summary: SoftBank's acquisition of DigitalBridge will require approvals from the US Committee on Foreign Investment in the US, the US Federal Energy Regulatory Commission, the US Federal Communications C... (more story)
December 30, 2025 | Flavia Fortes and Curtis Eichelberger
Asia, Europe, Latin America, North America
US merger enforcement in 2025 is showing clear signs of a return to long-standing legal and economic principles after a period of change in enforcement policy — but that reset remains fragile. As antitrust age... (more story)
December 30, 2025
Europe
MLex Summary: Schwarz Group, which plans to take over Romanian supermarket chain La Cocoș, has offered to continue its current business model to secure national antitrust approval for the acquisition. Schwarz ... (more story)
Data Privacy and Security View More
December 31, 2025
Asia
MLex Summary: Personal information handlers in China can now apply for cross-border certification through three professional certification entities, after the Cyberspace Administration of China, or CAC, and th... (more story)
December 31, 2025 | Jenny Lee
Asia
South Korea’s wave of data breaches in 2025 laid bare how easily basic controls can fail even at the country’s biggest platforms, and how little reassurance certification offered once those failures surfaced. ... (more story)
December 31, 2025
North America
MLex Summary: Disney has agreed to pay $10 million in civil penalties to settle allegations it violated the Children’s Online Privacy Protection Act and its implementing regulations in connection with Disney’s... (more story)
Intellectual Property View More
December 30, 2025 | Douglas Clarke-Williams
Europe
Another record year for trademark filings at the UK Intellectual Property Office was driven by applications from China, which contributed more than all other non-UK filings put together. The trend continues to... (more story)
December 29, 2025 | Nick Robertson
North America
Masimo’s attempt to reinstate a limited-exclusion order to bar the import of Apple watches over patent infringement claims was dismissed in District of Columbia district court last week after the US Internatio... (more story)
December 29, 2025 | Toko Sekiguchi
Asia
Japan’s Cabinet Office is seeking public comment on a draft principles code that would press generative AI businesses to disclose model training and web crawling practices and respond to limited training-data ... (more story)
Financial Crime View More
December 31, 2025 | Neil Roland
North America
A federal judge ruled that the Trump administration must continue to seek funding for the US Consumer Financial Protection Bureau from the Federal Reserve even though the Fed has been operating at a loss. US D... (more story)
December 31, 2025
North America
MLex Summary: Former Honduran procurement official Juan Ramon Molina Rodriguez was sentenced in the US to 30 months in prison after pleading guilty and cooperating with authorities over his role in a police-un... (more story)
December 29, 2025 | Neil Roland
North America
US Securities and Exchange Commission Chair Paul Atkins should appear at a House Financial Services Committee oversight hearing for the first time since he assumed office in April, said Representative Maxine W... (more story)
Financial Services View More
December 30, 2025 | Sofia Gerace
Europe
Law firms and their advisers are wondering whether the UK financial regulator's slimmer work plan will translate into the growth-boosting cut in red tape that ministers have been demanding. While it suggests a... (more story)
December 30, 2025
Europe
MLex summary: The European Commission has clarified that the EU's sustainable framework—the Sustainable Finance Disclosure Regulation, the EU taxonomy, and the Benchmark Regulation—is compatible with investing... (more story)
December 30, 2025
Europe
MLex Summary: EU financial benchmark administrators have seen “controversial weapons” redefined as “prohibited weapons” in a regulation published today in the bloc's Official Journal. The former definition lef... (more story)
Trade View More
December 30, 2025
North America
MLex Summary: The US Commerce Department has determined certain Indian exporters of carbazole violet pigment 23 received countervailable subsidies in 2022. The determination follows preliminary results publish... (more story)
December 30, 2025 | MLex Staff
Asia, Europe
Europe's determination to press on with more policy initiatives to boost economic competitiveness and cut its dependency on products from China, coupled with Beijing's shift to strengthen domestic demand, coul... (more story)
December 30, 2025 | Henrique Santiago
Latin America, North America
Brazil’s president used his political skills to eliminate a 50 percent tariff from the US this year, bringing both presidents closer and also resulting in the withdrawal of a major 40 percent levy on several g... (more story)
State Aid View More
December 23, 2025
Europe
MLex Summary: Corsair is set to benefit from €167.8 million in support after the EU approved the state aid from France following an in-depth probe. In a statement, the European Commission said the aid for the ... (more story)
December 23, 2025 | Lewis Crofts
Europe
More European industries will benefit from compensation under the bloc’s state aid rules as technical guidelines get an update to ensure companies don’t shift activities outside of the EU to countries with wea... (more story)
December 22, 2025
Europe
MLex Summary: The Czech government's planned €18 million support for three digital terrestrial television infrastructure operators, České Radiokomunikace, Digital Broadcasting and Česká televize, was incompati... (more story)
Energy View More
December 26, 2025 | Choonsik Yoo
Asia
The administration of South Korean President Lee Jae Myung’s early AI overhaul has succeeded in reviving momentum after some delay due to domestic politics, but his AI policy agenda now faces tougher regulator... (more story)
December 24, 2025
Europe
MLex Summary: The European Commission moved to tighten oversight of plastic imports by introducing separate customs codes for virgin and recycled plastics and stepping up monitoring of EU and global markets, l... (more story)
December 23, 2025 | Cynthia Kroet
Europe
The British Chamber of Commerce has listed 25 recommendations to the UK government in order to improve ties between the EU and UK, five years after the trade agreement between the two regions was concluded. Th... (more story)
Technology View More
December 30, 2025
Europe
MLex Summary: Pornographic content featuring adults digitally altered to resemble children is illegal, Switzerland’s Federal Supreme Court has said in a statement referring to an appeal judgment from Nov. 20 t... (more story)
December 30, 2025 | Jenny Lee
Asia
South Korea's government on Tuesday approved legislation designed to combat the online spread of fabricated and manipulated content, combining tougher civil liability with a new push for large platforms to pol... (more story)
December 30, 2025
Asia
MLex Summary: The South Korean parliament’s research unit has called for additional measures to better address social issues arising from the increasing use of conversational services provided by artificial in... (more story)