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Trade
December 17, 2025 | Bradley Dress
Asia, North America
DealRisk®, Mergers and Acquisitions
December 17, 2025 | Flavia Fortes
North America
Data Privacy and Security, Technology
December 16, 2025 | Madeline Hughes
North America
Antitrust View More
December 18, 2025 | MLex Staff
Asia
China’s market regulator has intensified enforcement against antitrust violations in sectors closely tied to people’s livelihoods, completing 35 monopoly-agreement cases and 25 cases of abuse of dominant marke... (more story)
December 18, 2025
Asia
MLex Summary: Japan’s industry ministry said the country’s digital transparency law — which requires major tech companies to treat Japanese business users fairly and transparently — has improved transaction co... (more story)
December 18, 2025
Asia
MLex Summary: Google said it has updated its service terms in Japan to comply with the Mobile Software Competition Act, which took effect on Thursday. The US tech giant said it has expanded alternative in-app ... (more story)
Artificial Intelligence View More
December 18, 2025 | Choonsik Yoo
Asia
South Korea adopted a national strategy to accelerate AI-applied biotechnology, with the Ministry of Science and ICT laying out plans to mobilize AI models, data and infrastructure across five priority researc... (more story)
December 18, 2025
Asia, North America
MLex Summary: China’s Minister of Industry and Information Technology Li Lecheng met with AMD Chair and Chief Executive Lisa Su in Beijing on Wednesday to discuss expanded cooperation in the digital economy an... (more story)
December 18, 2025
Asia
MLex Summary: South Korea on Thursday approved a strategic roadmap to advance the artificial-intelligence-applied biotechnology industry, aiming to strengthen the country’s position in the global competition f... (more story)
Mergers and Acquisitions View More
December 18, 2025
Africa, Asia
MLex Summary: Major Japanese brewer Asahi Group Holdings agreed on Wednesday to acquire 100 percent of Diageo Kenya and a 53.68 percent stake in UDV (Kenya) from Diageo for $3 billion, as it seeks to expand it... (more story)
December 18, 2025
Oceania
MLex Summary: Yamaha Motor Australia’s agreement with Bombardier Recreation Products and BRP Australia to acquire 100 percent of the shares in Telwater has been rejected by the Australian competition regulator... (more story)
December 17, 2025
North America
MLex Summary: Mountain View, California-based Coursera will combine with San Francisco-based Udemy in an all-stock transaction that gives the combined company an equity value of $2.5 billion. The goal is to cr... (more story)
Data Privacy and Security View More
December 18, 2025 | Saloni Sinha
Oceania
The two major challenges brought by Reddit and Digital Freedom Project to Australia's social-media ban should proceed in tandem, the country's top court has said. In transcripts from the High Court of Australi... (more story)
December 18, 2025 | Mike Swift
North America
Individual lawsuits filed against smart-TV makers Sony, Samsung, LG, TCL and Hisense by Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton this week said the collection of personal data through automated content recognition te... (more story)
December 17, 2025
North America
MLex Summary: The US Attorney’s Office for the Eastern District of Michigan announced a coordinated action with international partners and Michigan police to take down the online infrastructure used to operate... (more story)
Intellectual Property View More
December 17, 2025 | Nick Robertson
North America
The 2026 National Defense Authorization Act includes an amendment to the Copyright Act that will vest title with the authors of academic works at the Uniformed Services University of the Health Sciences and no... (more story)
December 17, 2025 | Nick Robertson, Emma Whitford
North America
As more media giants partner with AI companies to license their content, tech firms left on the outside face mounting legal risk that will only grow with the burgeoning licensing market. After OpenAI and the W... (more story)
December 17, 2025 | Inbar Preiss and Charlotte Westphal
Europe
Neoperl’s appeal of an EUIPO decision regarding a trademark was dismissed by the EU's General Court on Wednesday. In the review of its own earlier judgment, the court has now limited its assessment to aspects ... (more story)
Financial Crime View More
December 17, 2025
North America
MLex Summary: Albert Saniger, the former chief executive of e-commerce platform Nate, pleaded not guilty to fraud charges stemming from claims about the company's proprietary artificial intelligence system. Sa... (more story)
December 17, 2025
North America
MLex Summary: The US Securities and Exchange Commission sued Danh C. Vo, founder and chief executive of VBit Technologies Corp., for fraudulently raising over $95.6 million from approximately 6,400 investors a... (more story)
December 17, 2025 | Samuel Rubenfeld
North America
The indictment of former Goldman Sachs banker Asante Berko was properly sealed, a US judge ruled Wednesday, denying his motion to dismiss charges stemming from an alleged bribery scheme in Ghana. Prosecutors s... (more story)
Financial Services View More
December 17, 2025 | Martin Coyle
Europe
Two former bankers who fled the UK to avoid criminal trials were jailed for a total of 11 years on Wednesday over a fraud that saw millions of dollars in secret fees siphoned from Libya’s sovereign wealth fund... (more story)
December 17, 2025
Europe
MLex Summary: Swedish lender Svea Bank has been fined 170 million kronor (around $18.3 million) for anti-money laundering failures, by the country's financial regulator. Finansinspektionen said Svea Bank hadn'... (more story)
December 17, 2025
Europe
MLex Summary: Bulgarian insurance company Euroins lost its legal challenge against the European Insurance and Occupational Pensions Authority, with the EU’s General Court confirming that the authority acted la... (more story)
Trade View More
December 17, 2025
North America
MLex Summary: US Customs and Border Protection said Wednesday that the agency has collected $1 billion in revenues since the de minimis exemption was terminated in May. CBP initially began the phaseout in May,... (more story)
December 17, 2025 | Bradley Dress
North America
The US Court of International Trade partly remanded the Commerce Department’s 2023 circumvention orders on circular welded steel pipe from India, China and South Korea, finding the federal agency failed to ide... (more story)
December 17, 2025
Asia, Europe, Latin America, Oceania
MLex Summary: The office of the US Trade Representative modified the eligibility of several mostly Latin American countries to receive duty-free sugar imports into the US market. A country’s trade surplus for ... (more story)
State Aid View More
December 17, 2025
Europe
MLex Summary: On Wednesday, the European Commission approved a €4.1 billion Hungarian state aid scheme to support investment toward net zero technology manufacturing capacity and its components, under CISAF, t... (more story)
December 17, 2025
Europe
MLex Summary: Germany's plan to give state support to aid the roll out of fast-charging stations for electric heavy-duty vehicles at non-serviced rest sites along motorways has won EU approval. The European Co... (more story)
December 17, 2025
Europe
MLex Summary: Planned Dutch state-owned nuclear company Nucleaire Energie Organisatie Nederland has been cleared to receive €172 million, from the country's government to support preparatory activities for the... (more story)
Energy View More
December 17, 2025
Europe
MLex Summary: A competition probe into the North Sea Link Interconnector has ended after concessions made by Norway were accepted by antitrust investigators. The EFTA Surveillance Authority, which oversees rul... (more story)
December 17, 2025
Europe
MLex Summary: EU lawmakers on Wednesday approved a law to end imports of Russian gas, banning spot liquefied gas from early 2026 and phasing out pipeline supplies by late 2027. The deal also secures a pledge f... (more story)
December 17, 2025
Europe
MLex Summary: The EU and the UK plan to begin negotiations on UK’s participation in the EU’s internal electricity market, with details to be set out in letters to be published in the coming days. In a joint st... (more story)
Technology View More
December 18, 2025
Asia
MLex summary: Major digital platforms in Beijing have removed more than 17,000 pieces of illegal or objectionable housing-related content by Dec. 12 after being summoned by regulators over market misinformatio... (more story)
December 18, 2025 | Nicholas Hirst
Asia
Apple announced on Thursday that it was allowing alternative app stores and payment methods on the iPhone in Japan, as part of a raft of changes to comply with the country’s new law for the largest digital pla... (more story)
December 18, 2025
Asia
MLex Summary: Apple has unveiled new iOS rules and revised business terms for app developers in Japan to comply with the Mobile Software Competition Act, which took full effect on Thursday. The US tech giant s... (more story)