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Energy
May 22, 2025 | Eleonora Rinaldi
Europe
Antitrust, DealRisk®, Mergers and Acquisitions, Technology
May 22, 2025 | Khushita Vasant
North America
DealRisk®, Energy, Mergers and Acquisitions
May 21, 2025 | Ilana Kowarski
North America
Antitrust View More
May 22, 2025
Europe
MLex Summary: Muriel Lacoue-Labarthe, senior judge at the French Court of Auditors, has been appointed to the Board of the French competition authority, to replace Jean-Baptiste Gourdin, who has resigned, the ... (more story)
May 22, 2025
North America
MLex Summary: The US Department of Justice's Antitrust Division and the Federal Trade Commission filed a statement of interest in a lawsuit brought by a Texas-led multistate coalition against BlackRock and oth... (more story)
May 22, 2025
Europe
MLex Summary: Innsworth Capital, a litigation funder, has said it might take legal action over the settlement approved by the UK competition court for the UK mass action against Mastercard over card fees. Inns... (more story)
Artificial Intelligence View More
May 22, 2025 | Emma Whitford
North America
A plan to block US states from enforcing artificial intelligence laws and regulations for 10 years cleared a significant hurdle early this morning, passing the House of Representatives as part of Congress’s on... (more story)
May 22, 2025 | Luca Bertuzzi
Europe
The European Commission and the EU data protection authorities have decided to “closely cooperate” on upcoming guidelines concerning the interplay between the GDPR and the AI Act. Following tensions unfolding ... (more story)
May 22, 2025 | Luca Bertuzzi
Europe
AI model providers and rights holders have seen the timeline of a European Parliament report on copyright and artificial intelligence take shape. While non-binding, the report intervenes in a hot debate betwee... (more story)
Mergers and Acquisitions View More
May 22, 2025 | Jon Menon
Europe
China-owned Maple Armor Group has gained clearance to acquire Fireblitz — a UK fire extinguisher and detection company — with several conditions designed to prevent security threats following a government revi... (more story)
May 22, 2025 | Jean Comte
Europe
Milk cooperatives Arla and DMK aim to notify their merger to the EU regulator around June 19, following approval by their respective boards. They hope to get "clarity on the regulatory approvals" by the end of... (more story)
May 22, 2025 | Jon Menon
Europe
Honeywell International’s 1.8 billion-pound acquisition of Johnson Matthey’s catalyst unit will need antitrust approvals in countries including the UK, US and China. The UK-listed chemicals company agreed to s... (more story)
Data Privacy and Security View More
May 22, 2025 | Sara Brandstätter
Europe
Tech companies — ranging from US giants such as Meta, Google and Microsoft to European startups — could see an agreement on the EU’s GDPR procedural regulation in June at the earliest. The new law was due to b... (more story)
May 22, 2025
Europe
MLex Summary: The CNIL, France's data protection authority, has imposed 10 fines so far in 2025, under its simplified enforcement procedure for violations of the EU's General Data Protection Regulation. Most c... (more story)
May 22, 2025
Europe
MLex Summary: UK supermarket group Asda has seen a complaint made to the Information Commissioner’s Office over its trial of live facial recognition. Big Brother Watch, a campaign group, lodged what it calls a... (more story)
Intellectual Property View More
May 22, 2025
North America
MLex Summary: Google is entitled to a new trial on damages owed to EcoFactor for infringing its smart thermostat patent, according to a divided en banc ruling by the US Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit... (more story)
May 22, 2025
Europe
MLex Summary: The European Commission flagged China at the top of a country watchlist identifying nations where weak intellectual property enforcement poses the greatest economic risk to EU businesses, accordi... (more story)
May 22, 2025
Europe
MLex Summary: The Patent Mediation and Arbitration Centre of the Unified Patent Court has launched a public consultation on its draft Mediation Rules, inviting input from experts and companies globally until J... (more story)
Financial Crime View More
May 22, 2025
Oceania
MLex Summary: Mercedes Benz Financial Services Australia will have to open its books to an external auditor appointed by Australia’s financial-crime watchdog over concerns about the financier’s compliance with... (more story)
May 21, 2025 | Samuel Rubenfeld
North America
Former Safemoon chief executive Braden John Karony was convicted today of defrauding investors by lying about his use of the decentralized financial firm’s liquidity pool tokens to buy luxury cars and homes fo... (more story)
May 21, 2025 | Samuel Rubenfeld
North America
Former Safemoon chief Braden John Karony lied to investors about his use of the decentralized finance firm’s liquidity pool tokens, prosecutors said in their closing arguments at his fraud trial, while the def... (more story)
Financial Services View More
May 22, 2025
Europe
MLex Summary: The Bank of England’s prudential arm has published an update to its “near-final” policy statement on the SME and infrastructure lending adjustments to its bank-specific capital requirements, Pill... (more story)
May 22, 2025
Europe
MLex Summary: The UK wealth manager Strowz has had restrictions imposed by the financial markets watchdog that prevent it from undertaking any regulated activity without express permission. The Financial Condu... (more story)
May 22, 2025
Europe
MLex Summary: UK financial services firms have been asked for feedback on a revision to complaints data reporting requirements, which seeks to consolidate five existing returns into one. Currently, 41 percent ... (more story)
Trade View More
May 22, 2025 | Joanna Sopinska
Europe, Latin America
The European Commission plans to expedite the ratification of the EU-Mercosur trade agreement by submitting it for signature by EU governments next month or early July, a senior EU trade official said. Sabine ... (more story)
May 22, 2025
Europe
MLex Summary: Belarus, Russia, Myanmar and North Korea have been designated as “high risk” countries under the EU’s deforestation law, according to an implementing regulation published today by the European Co... (more story)
May 22, 2025
Europe
MLex Summary: The European Parliament today endorsed a proposal to impose new import tariffs on Russian and Belarusian fertilizers and agricultural products — including sugar, flour, vinegar and animal feed — ... (more story)
State Aid View More
May 22, 2025
Europe
MLex Summary: Additional Lithuanian aid, needed for the construction of a sports complex in Vilnius, has received European Commission backing. The Covid pandemic and the Ukraine war have significantly increase... (more story)
May 22, 2025
Europe
MLex Summary: Livestock farmers in the Netherlands have seen the European Commission back a budget increase for a program already in place, under which the state can compensate them for the voluntary closure o... (more story)
May 21, 2025 | Nicholas Hirst
Europe
Czechia’s president used a trip to Brussels to air concerns to the head of the European Commission about a looming EU subsidies probe into the award of a 16 billion-euro contract to Korea Hydro & Nuclear Power... (more story)
Energy View More
May 22, 2025
Europe
MLex Summary: The Joint Research Centre — the European Commission's science and knowledge service — has established a new modeling hub for nuclear applications. This hub aims to strengthen Europe’s nuclear ind... (more story)
May 22, 2025
Europe
MLex Summary: The current design of the EU's Carbon Border Adjustment Mechanism could accelerate carbon leakage in the aluminum sector, a study published by the European Aluminium Association said. "We strongl... (more story)
May 22, 2025
Europe
MLex Summary: The EU’s proposal to simplify its Carbon Border Adjustment Mechanism won broad support from the European Parliament this morning, with 564 votes in favor, 20 against and 12 abstentions. The plan ... (more story)
Technology View More
May 22, 2025
North America
MLex Summary: NetChoice and the Computer & Communications Industry Association have standing to challenge Florida’s social media content moderation law in court because it has plausibly alleged an imminent thr... (more story)
May 22, 2025
Europe
MLex Summary: To achieve the government’s mission for economic growth, there should be a “shared growth mindset” across regulators, a greater role for the Regulatory Innovation Office in supporting innovation ... (more story)
May 22, 2025 | MLex Staff
Asia
Oversight of information recommendation algorithms in China will strengthen, following last year’s campaign led by the country's Internet regulator, underscoring that algorithm governance is a long-term, syste... (more story)