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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 31, 2025
Europe
MLex Summary: Sixteen metal smelters active in Italy, as well as their trade association Assofond, have been fined €70 million for coordinating sudden increases in the list prices for cast-iron castings. The i... (more story)
December 31, 2025 | Jean Comte
Europe
National regulators are pushing the European Commission to avoid scrapping a provision that allows them to sanction companies that are abusive to smaller rivals, but not big enough to be classified as the domi... (more story)
December 31, 2025
Asia
MLex Summary: China’s Ministry of Commerce issued nonbinding guidance this week urging Chinese companies operating abroad to strengthen compliance, labor, environmental and community practices. The ministry sa... (more story)
Artificial Intelligence View More
December 31, 2025 | Patricia Figueiredo and Matthew Newman
Europe
Privacy-enhancing technologies were meant to free online advertising from the tangle of tracking cookies, but UK and EU regulators end 2025 signaling that more work is required. Meta’s proposal of an encrypted... (more story)
December 31, 2025 | Sofia Gerace
Europe
The UK's regime for overseeing technology suppliers deemed critical to the financial system is set to reach its first anniversary without a single company being formally designated, despite warnings from lawma... (more story)
December 31, 2025 | Freny Patel
Asia
India has opened its nuclear power sector to private investment as it seeks to reach 100 GW of capacity by 2047. While companies can now build and operate reactors under the 2025 Sustainable Harnessing and Adv... (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
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 | Jenny Lee
Asia
Coupang’s interim South Korea chief Harold Rogers has been thrust into a political and legal storm after the country’s intelligence agency asked parliament to file a perjury complaint, saying his testimony abo... (more story)
December 31, 2025
Asia
MLex Summary: China’s internet regulator in Chongqing’s Kaizhou District has warned a local company after uncovering multiple cybersecurity-compliance failures following an investigation, according to an offic... (more story)
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)
Intellectual Property View More
December 31, 2025 | MLex Staff
Asia
A local court in China’s northwest Xinjiang region has that images generated by artificial intelligence software with a single click do not qualify as “works” under the Copyright Law, clarifying the legal stat... (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)
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)
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 31, 2025
Asia
MLex Summary: China’s Ministry of Commerce said Wednesday it has finalized a safeguard ruling on imported bovine meat, finding that a sharp rise in volumes caused serious injury to the domestic industry and or... (more story)
December 31, 2025
Asia
MLex Summary: In a move to protect India's domestic steel industry from a "recent, sudden and sharp" surge in foreign shipments, the government has imposed a graded safeguard duty on various non-alloy and allo... (more story)
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)
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 31, 2025
Asia
MLex Summary: China’s National Radio and Television Administration said it will launch a monthlong enforcement campaign starting Jan. 1, 2026 to curb the spread of “artificial intelligence–manipulated” videos.... (more story)
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)