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 Federal Trade Commission Commissioners Rebecca Kelly Slaughter, left and FTC Commisioner Alvaro Bedoya, right, listen as Chair of the Federal Trade Commission Lina Khan testifies before the House Judiciary Committee in a hearing on "Oversight of the Federal Trade Commission (FTC) on Capitol Hill in Washington, DC on Thursday, July 13, 2023.

Antitrust, DealRisk®, Intellectual Property, Mergers and Acquisitions

June 09, 2025 | Dwight A. Weingarten

North America

Fired US FTC Commissioner Bedoya resigns from agency, but suit continues
Clearview AI logo on iPhone display screen

Artificial Intelligence, Data Privacy and Security

June 09, 2025 | Patricia Figueiredo

Europe, Oceania

Clearview AI faces UK regulator again as court hears appeal over annulled fine
FTC Commissioner Melissa Holyoak.

Antitrust, Artificial Intelligence, Data Privacy and Security, DealRisk®, Mergers and Acquisitions, Technology

June 05, 2025 | Ilana Kowarski

Asia, Europe, North America

US FTC eager to find ‘solutions’ to M&A antitrust concerns, Holyoak says

Antitrust View More

Agri Stats pushes for court recusal in US DOJ information-sharing case

June 09, 2025

North America

MLex Summary: Agri Stats argued that a Minnesota federal court  "should recuse itself from further consideration" of the US Department of Justice's information-sharing case against the company. "The only remed... (more story)

Disney hit with $2.6 million fine after Chilean high court upholds penalty

June 09, 2025

Latin America

MLex Summary: Disney must pay a $2.6 million fine after the Chilean Supreme Court upheld a decision issued by the nation's competition tribunal, which found Disney group entity TWDC Enterprises 18 Corp. submit... (more story)

US DOJ’s asset manager conspiracy concerns ‘theoretical,’ BlackRock tells judge

June 09, 2025 | Chris May

North America

BlackRock, Vanguard and State Street could theoretically leverage their investment portfolios to manipulate coal markets without requiring coal companies’ participation in an anticompetitive conspiracy, a seni... (more story)

Artificial Intelligence View More

Cyberthreats posed by agentic AI highlighted by South Korean agency

June 10, 2025

Asia

MLex Summary: A South Korean agency has published a report that summarizes cyberthreats associated with the use of agentic artificial-intelligence tools in the financial sector. The Financial Security Institut... (more story)

Getty Images accuses Stability AI of IP right violations as UK case opens

June 09, 2025 | Inbar Preiss

Europe

During the first day of a widely watched trial, Getty Images accused Stability AI of violating copyright and trademark laws through the training and output of its image-generating model, Stable Diffusion. The ... (more story)

Meta denies using AI in risk decisions after UK groups raise concern with regulator

June 09, 2025 | Patricia Figueiredo

Europe

Meta has denied using artificial intelligence to make decisions about risk after a group of UK charities and experts urged the country’s communications watchdog to investigate following a report the US technol... (more story)

Mergers and Acquisitions View More

Tving, Wavve win conditional approval in South Korea for executive overlap

June 10, 2025 | Jenny Lee

Asia

Tving and Wavve, two of South Korea’s major homegrown streaming platforms, have secured conditional approval from the country’s competition regulator to proceed with an executive overlap arrangement, following... (more story)

Tving–Wavve deal gets green light from South Korea with price conditions

June 10, 2025

Asia

MLex Summary: South Korean streaming rivals Tving and Wavve have received conditional approval from South Korea’s competition regulator to proceed with an executive overlap arrangement. The Korea Fair Trade Co... (more story)

Naura-Kingsemi among deals unconditionally cleared in China May 26-June 1

June 10, 2025

Asia

MLex Summary: China's semiconductor company Naura Technology's acquisition of a part stake in its rival Kingsemi, and a joint venture between CICC Capital and banking corporation China Cinda Asset Management a... (more story)

Data Privacy and Security View More

PIPC to assess smart devices for privacy-by-design certification

June 10, 2025

Asia

MLex Summary: South Korea’s privacy regulator will conduct privacy assessments of home cameras, in-vehicle video recorders, domestic robots and robot vacuum cleaners this year as part of its privacy-by-design ... (more story)

Federal employee union wins injunction against OPM sharing personal information

June 09, 2025

North America

MLex Summary: The decision by the Office of Personnel Management to make the personal data of federal workers available to the Department of Government Efficiency violated the Privacy Act, a federal judge in N... (more story)

Plaintiffs seek to certify three classes in US AirTag stalking suit against Apple

June 09, 2025

North America

MLex summary: Plaintiffs in against Apple over stalking are seeking certification of multiple classes of US residents who were allegedly tracked without consent using AirTags, arguing Apple ignored safety war... (more story)

Intellectual Property View More

Applicability of EcoFactor to Apple's US appeal could hinge on standard of review

June 09, 2025 | Melissa Ritti

North America

A recent rejection by the full US Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit of the methodology employed by an expert for EcoFactor has no bearing on that same expert’s proposal of reasonable royalty damages owe... (more story)

China highlights fairness in refunding damages after patent invalidation

June 09, 2025 | MLex Staff

Asia

In a landmark retrial, China's Supreme People’s Court has ruled that fairness — not just procedural timing — should guide whether patent damages must be returned after a patent is invalidated, a decision that ... (more story)

Optis pushes back on Apple citation to en banc EcoFactor decision in US appeal

June 09, 2025

North America

MLex Summary: The en banc ruling by the US Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit in a dispute over damages owed by Google to EcoFactor has no bearing on Apple's appeal of a $300 million damage award on alle... (more story)

Financial Crime View More

Evita founder pleads not guilty to US charges he ran ‘pipeline’ for dirty funds

June 09, 2025 | Samuel Rubenfeld

North America

A financial technology entrepreneur who founded the cryptocurrency payments firm Evita has pleaded not guilty to US charges that he laundered more than $500 million on behalf of sanctioned Russian banks and ot... (more story)

Evita founder charged in US with bank fraud, sanctions evasion, export violation

June 09, 2025

North America

MLex Summary: Iurii Gugnin, a resident of New York and citizen of Russia, was charged in a 22-count indictment with various offenses related to using his cryptocurrency company Evita to funnel more than $500 m... (more story)

Chinese man pleads guilty in US to shipping weapons, ammo to North Korea

June 09, 2025

North America

MLex Summary: A Chinese man pleaded guilty to US criminal charges for illegally exporting firearms, ammunition and other military items to North Korea by concealing them inside shipping containers that departe... (more story)

Financial Services View More

US Fed’s bank-friendly oversight plan includes sweeping capital rule review

June 09, 2025 | Neil Roland

North America

Tucked in US Federal Reserve Governor Michelle Bowman’s bank-friendly oversight agenda, unveiled Friday, is a capital requirements plan also pursued by her predecessor in the Biden administration. Bowman, the ... (more story)

UK retains lead for foreign investment in financial services in Europe, EY says

June 09, 2025

Europe

MLex Summary: The UK retained its lead as the most attractive location in Europe for foreign direct investment in financial services in 2024, a survey by EY showed today. Although the UK recorded a 32 percent ... (more story)

UK financial services providers to test AI in FCA-Nvidia partnership

June 09, 2025

Europe

MLex Summary: UK financial services providers will be able to test artificial intelligence in a “Supercharged Sandbox” created through a collaboration between the Financial Conduct Authority and tech giant Nvi... (more story)

Trade View More

US trade court remands Commerce decision excluding spare tires from antidumping duty

June 09, 2025 | Zack Budryk

Asia, North America

The US Court of International Trade sided with a manufacturing workers’ union today, remanding a Commerce Department final scope ruling on temporary use spare tires imported by Taiwanese manufacturer Cheng Shi... (more story)

US trade court remands Commerce scope ruling on temporary spare tires

June 09, 2025

Asia, North America

MLex Summary: The US Court of International Trade sided with a manufacturing workers’ union today, remanding a Commerce Department final scope ruling on temporary use spare tires imported by Taiwanese manufact... (more story)

USITC initiates duty investigations into steel concrete rebar from four countries

June 09, 2025

Africa, Asia, Europe, North America

MLex Summary: The US International Trade Commission initiated antidumping and antisubsidy duty investigations into steel concrete reinforcing bar from Algeria, Bulgaria, Egypt, and Vietnam.

State Aid View More

Czechs sign Korean nuclear deal despite EU’s subsidy warnings

June 05, 2025 | Lewis Crofts, Joanna Sopinska and Nicholas Hirst

Europe

Korea Hydro & Nuclear Power and the Czech government have signed a deal to provide nuclear reactors at the Dukovany power plant less than a month after the European Commission warned such a move would breach a... (more story)

Audiovisual, cultural content to get EUR211 million in Irish aid boost

June 05, 2025

Europe

MLex Summary: Unscripted audiovisual programs with Irish and European cultural content can get national support, the European Commission said today, clearing a government program worth 211 million euros. The p... (more story)

Review of EU state aid rules to support affordable housing open for comments

June 05, 2025

Europe

MLex Summary: Companies, authorities and other interested parties now have the chance to provide input to the European Commission to help it assess how the service of general economic interest state aid rules ... (more story)

Energy View More

Simplify the EU Green Claims Directive, carmakers’ association urges

June 06, 2025

Europe

MLex Summary: EU companies are at risk of “a disproportionate and unworkable obligation” if the EU Green Claims Directive were adopted in its current text, the European Automobile Manufacturers’ Association AC... (more story)

Data access on Spanish blackout is lacking, electricity lobby group finds

June 06, 2025 | Eleonora Rinaldi

Europe

Electricity system operators are restricting access to data about the recent blackout in Spain and Portugal, the secretary-general of a European lobby group has said. Eurelectric and other associations represe... (more story)

Sustainable jet fuel industry risks EU penalties without mature production technologies

June 05, 2025 | Eleonora Rinaldi

Europe

Europe’s sustainable jet fuel industry has a clear mandate to reduce emissions but lacks the technologies needed to supply fuel at scale beyond 2030, according to a new study from SAF supplier SkyNRG. Most sus... (more story)

Technology View More

US DOJ files emergency motion opposing Google request over key deposition

June 09, 2025

North America

MLex Summary: The US Department of Justice and states told a federal judge that Google's request for an order limiting the agency's deposition of Arnaud Créput — "the chief executive officer of one of the few ... (more story)

BiT Global, Coinbase stipulate to dismissal of US antitrust suit

June 07, 2025

North America

MLex Summary: BiT Global and Coinbase agreed to have their antitrust dispute dismissed by a California federal court, according to a joint stipulation filed today. BiT Global filed the lawsuit last year accusi... (more story)

Daily Mail seeks limits on Google deposition in US DOJ adtech trial

June 06, 2025

North America

MLex Summary: The Daily Mail asked a Virginia federal judge to prohibit Google from raising matters unrelated to remedies proceedings in US Department of Justice-led adtech monopolization litigation during Goo... (more story)