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Data Privacy and Security
January 15, 2025 | Mike Swift and Chris May
North America
Antitrust
January 15, 2025 | Maria Júlia Baumert
Latin America, North America
DealRisk®, Mergers and Acquisitions
January 14, 2025 | Wooyoung Lee
Asia
Antitrust View More
January 15, 2025
Oceania
MLex Summary: The chief executive officer of Australia's competition regulator is set to depart and join the financial regulator in a senior leadership position. In an announcement today, the Australian Compet... (more story)
January 15, 2025
Asia
MLex Summary: Yunfu MingLiang Street Lamp Management, a public facilities company in China's Guangdong Province, was fined 1.75 million yuan ($239,000) for gun-jumping on a merger. According to the penalty dec... (more story)
January 15, 2025
North America
MLex Summary: The US Department of Justice is asking the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeal to allot it five minutes Feb. 3 when Circuit Judges will hear arguments in Google's appeal against an injunction in an app... (more story)
Artificial Intelligence View More
January 15, 2025 | Khushita Vasant
North America
Pamela Bondi today affirmed her commitment to continue working on big-ticket monopolization lawsuits brought by federal enforcers under Biden and pledged that antitrust law enforcement will be a “priority” if ... (more story)
January 15, 2025 | Melissa Ritti
North America
A Massachusetts federal judge yesterday refused to dismiss allegations MIM Software infringes four Progenics Pharmaceuticals patents which claim, among other things, a neural network-based method for determini... (more story)
January 15, 2025
North America
MLex Summary: Nvidia told a US judge Xockets’ opposition to dismissal merely “underscores the flaws in its antitrust claims” and its claims should be dismissed with prejudice. Xockets fails to account for alle... (more story)
Mergers and Acquisitions View More
January 15, 2025 | Joanna Sopinska
Europe
EU businesses' outbound investments across three strategic sectors should be monitored by member states to identify risks to the EU’s economic security with a view to tackling any that are found, the European ... (more story)
January 15, 2025 | Natalie McNelis
Europe
French company Roquette has requested EU approval to acquire International Flavors & Fragrances subsidiary IFF Pharma Solutions. The commission has set a Feb. 18 deadline to decide on the deal.
January 15, 2025 | Lewis Crofts and Natalie McNelis
Europe
Nvidia has filed an EU court challenge over the European Commission review of its takeover of Israeli start up Run:ai, MLex has learned. The deal came under EU scrutiny via a referral from Italy, where the nat... (more story)
Data Privacy and Security View More
January 15, 2025 | Freny Patel
Asia
Data localization, consent mechanisms and potential impact on children's data were the key concerns raised and debated at the first consultation session on India's draft rules on data protection. Representativ... (more story)
January 15, 2025 | Maria Dinzeo
North America
A New Jersey law meant to protect the personal information of public officials and their family members is being weaponized against a range of industries. With the absence of a comprehensive federal privacy la... (more story)
January 15, 2025
Oceania
MLex Summary: The Australian privacy watchdog has announced the appointment of a key official who will lead the taskforce responsible for implementing privacy law changes. In a social media post today, Austral... (more story)
Intellectual Property View More
January 15, 2025 | Nick Robertson
North America
A preliminary injunction against the Hong Kong retail site Pandabuy was dissolved yesterday, after US District Judge Jessica Clarke of the Southern District of New York determined the site is not likely respon... (more story)
January 15, 2025 | Nick Robertson
North America
The US Patent and Trademark Office reached a new collective bargaining agreement with National Treasury Employees Union Chapter 243, the office announced today, securing a continued labor agreement for the USP... (more story)
January 15, 2025
Europe
Motorsport company Alpinestars is granted an extension until Feb. 27 by the Unified Patent Court for filing its Statement of Defence and counterclaim for revocation in an infringement case brought by Dainese, ... (more story)
Financial Crime View More
January 15, 2025 | Samuel Rubenfeld
Africa, Asia, Europe, Latin America, Middle East, North America, Oceania
Block was fined $80 million by regulators from 48 states over failures in its anti-money laundering compliance program at Cash App, its digital money-transfer platform.
January 15, 2025
North America
MLex Summary: Srimanikandan Ramamoorthy, the star cooperating witness in the bribery case of two former executives of Cognizant Technology Solutions, is expected to travel to the US to testify at trial in Marc... (more story)
January 15, 2025
North America
MLex Summary: In a coordinated enforcement action by 48 state financial regulators, Block, Inc. will pay an $80 million fine and undertake corrective action for violations of the Bank Secrecy Act and anti-mone... (more story)
Financial Services View More
January 15, 2025
North America
MLex Summary: HDR Global Trading, also known as BitMEX, was sentenced to a fine of $100 million for violating the Bank Secrecy Act by willfully failing to establish, implement and maintain an adequate anti-mon... (more story)
January 15, 2025 | Sofia Gerace
Europe
A Bank of England's executive director said that the calls for deregulation of the financial services sector reminded him of calls made to financial regulators prior to the 2008 global financial crisis. Nathan... (more story)
January 15, 2025 | Phoebe Seers and Martin Coyle
Europe
Eugene Shvidler, a Russian-born businessman and friend of former Chelsea Football Club owner Roman Abramovich, today took his bid to overturn the UK sanctions designation imposed on him in the wake of the inva... (more story)
Trade View More
January 15, 2025 | Laina S. Miller
Middle East, North America
The US Court of International Trade has affirmed the Department of Commerce’s antidumping duty review for steel concrete reinforcing bar imported from Turkey between July 1, 2021, and June 30, 2022.
January 15, 2025 | Laina S. Miller
Asia, North America
The US Court of International Trade has affirmed the Department of Commerce’s remand redetermination for a 2019-20 antidumping review for circular welded non-alloy steel pipe from Korea, which removed the cons... (more story)
January 15, 2025
Europe, North America
MLex Summary: The US and Norway issued a report presenting the two countries’ shared understanding of the non-market policies and practices of certain third-party countries that may distort critical mineral markets.
State Aid View More
January 13, 2025
Europe
MLex Summary: The EU General Court today released summaries of appeals by Ryanair against an earlier decision to readopt Italian support to airlines to compensate them for damages triggered by the Covid pandem... (more story)
January 10, 2025 | Andrew Boyce
Europe
Italian gas distributor Italgas has sought EU foreign subsidy clearance to buy its smaller rival 2i Rete Gas. The European Commission has set a Feb. 13 deadline to decide on the deal.
January 09, 2025
Asia, Europe
MLex Summary: China’s Chamber of Commerce to the EU has called on the bloc to “promptly rectify its improper measures under the Foreign Subsidies Regulation.” The statement followed an announcement in which Mo... (more story)
Energy View More
January 15, 2025 | Jean Comte and Luca Bertuzzi
Europe
Six EU member states — Germany, France, the Netherlands, Spain, Finland and Denmark — have suggested lifting some of the sanctions that the bloc has imposed on Syria since 2011, according to a joint written pr... (more story)
January 15, 2025 | Stefano Porciello
Europe
EU carmakers could see center-left lawmakers in the European Parliament defend the 2035 “combustion engine ban” and call for job guarantees and other social conditionalities to be attached to public funds, an ... (more story)
January 15, 2025
Europe
MLex Summary: The French competition authority levied over 1.4 billion euros in fines last year, making 2024 the second-highest year in terms of penalties imposed. The office assessed a record number of 295 me... (more story)
Technology View More
January 15, 2025 | Maria Dinzeo, Maddie Hughes
North America
The US Supreme Court examined longstanding tensions between free speech, privacy and evolving technology today in weighing whether Texas' law requiring age verification for adult websites should be reviewed un... (more story)
January 15, 2025 | Matthew Newman and Júlia Tar
Europe
Orange, Deutsche Telekom and Vodafone should see a single EU regulation on telecom rules this year as the EU Electronic Communications Code is reviewed and reforms proposed to boost the sector's competitivenes... (more story)
January 15, 2025
Europe
MLex Summary: Threats to democracy from online disinformation will be examined by UK lawmakers as part of a parliamentary inquiry confirmed today. The inquiry, led by the Foreign Affairs Committee in the House... (more story)