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DealRisk®, Mergers and Acquisitions

November 10, 2025 | Curtis Eichelberger

North America

Judge allows GTCR, Surmodics to merge while awaiting US FTC trial (update*)
US Assistant Attorney General Gail Slater

Antitrust

November 08, 2025 | Khushita Vasant

North America

Trump tells US DOJ to probe meatpacking firms over beef pricing
ai and chatbot icons on smartphone with tech imagery in background

Artificial Intelligence

November 08, 2025 | Amy Miller

North America

Companion chatbots face growing legal risk after adult users sue OpenAI

Antitrust View More

Some Big Tech companies faced big legal, regulatory bills this quarter

November 11, 2025 | Mike Swift

Europe, North America, Oceania

From Amazon’s $2.5 billion settlement with the US Federal Trade Commission to Google’s $3.5 billion European antitrust fine to Snap building an age verification system to comply with Australia’s forthcoming so... (more story)

Gasoline prices lowest in cities with greatest retail competition: Australian watchdog

November 11, 2025

Oceania

MLex Summary: Gasoline prices in Australian cities that have more small-to-medium-sized independent fuel retailers competing with larger chains are lower, according to a report published on Tuesday by Australi... (more story)

Google hit with US adtech antitrust complaint from rival Index Exchange

November 11, 2025 | Clayton Vickers

North America

Google has been hit with another US adtech antitrust complaint from rival ad exchange Index Exchange, adding to a suite of litigants suing the tech giant over its alleged monopoly maintenance in US and global ... (more story)

Artificial Intelligence View More

US Fed survey finds surge in market practitioners' concerns over AI, interest rates

November 10, 2025 | Neil Roland

North America

US market practitioners’ near-term risk concerns have soared with regard to artificial intelligence and higher long-term interest rates during the last six months, a Federal Reserve financial stability survey ... (more story)

US FTC gets responses to chatbot survey as it prioritizes kids' privacy, Ferguson says

November 10, 2025 | Madeline Hughes

North America

The US Federal Trade Commission is beginning to receive responses to its probe on chatbots that will inform policy across the country, Chairman Andrew Ferguson said Monday.

UK defense ministry to pilot platform to accelerate adoption of AI tools

November 10, 2025

Europe

MLex Summary: The UK Ministry of Defence is set to pilot a new platform to simultaneously assess AI models to accelerate testing and adoption. The ministry’s Defence AI Centre has worked with UK AI company Adv... (more story)

Mergers and Acquisitions View More

Substitutability of digital, TV ads a key question for Nexstar-Tegna deal

November 10, 2025 | Curtis Eichelberger and Wesley Brown

North America

The US antitrust review of television broadcasters Nexstar and Tegna could rest on whether the government concludes that advertisements on digital services are reasonable substitutes for broadcast TV’s 30-seco... (more story)

Private equity consortium, Electronic Arts filed HSR paperwork Nov. 3, US SEC filing says

November 10, 2025

North America

MLex Summary: Electronic Arts and the private equity consortium — comprised of the Public Investment Fund, Silver Lake and Affinity Partners — aiming to buy the video game leader all filed relevant Hart-Scott-... (more story)

Alliança’s acquisition of Grupo Meddi under review in Brazil

November 10, 2025 | Maria Júlia Baumert

Latin America

Brazil’s competition authority is reviewing the proposed acquisition of Grupo Meddi by Alliança Saúde, with a particular focus on diagnostic imaging services across the state of Bahia. The deal will be subject... (more story)

Data Privacy and Security View More

Meta joins EU data transfer appeals that could set precedent for future cases

November 10, 2025 | Júlia Tar

Europe, North America

Meta Platforms Ireland has been allowed to intervene in two joined appeals before the EU’s top court, supporting the European Commission in a dispute over alleged unlawful data transfers to the US via the Face... (more story)

Platforms must actively maintain geoblocks to comply with law, UK regulator says

November 10, 2025

Europe

MLex Summary: Restricting access to online content based on the user's location, or geoblocking, must be actively maintained by platforms that choose to implement it as a legal compliance measure, regulator Of... (more story)

US removes Chinese electronics company from entity list

November 10, 2025

North America

MLex summary: The US Commerce Department's Bureau of Industry and Security has removed Chinese company Arrow China Electronics Trading Co., Ltd., and its affiliates, from an entity list. BIS said the company a... (more story)

Intellectual Property View More

Patent attorneys warn of continued uncertainty, chill in innovation

November 10, 2025 | Nick Robertson

North America

Patent attorneys said in a webinar Monday that recent policy changes rolled out by US Patent and Trademark Office Director John Squires make clear that uncertainty in patent litigation will continue. They pred... (more story)

US court keeps cards close to the vest in hearing on Idaho patent law

November 10, 2025 | Melissa Ritti

North America

A three-judge panel of the US Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit gave little indication Monday of their leanings in a dispute over an Idaho statute aimed at deterring baseless patent-infringement allegations.

InterDigital brings Amazon patent fight to US with infringement suit

November 10, 2025 | Nick Robertson

Europe, Latin America, North America

InterDigital filed patent infringement suits against Amazon in the US, Unified Patent Court, Brazil and Germany on Monday over licensing for video coding patents, adding to its ongoing licensing dispute with t... (more story)

Financial Crime View More

Millicom unit agrees to pay $118m in US probe over bribery in Guatemala

November 11, 2025 | Samuel Rubenfeld

North America

A subsidiary of Millicom International Cellular agreed to pay $118 million to resolve a US investigation into bribery of Guatemalan officials, the Luxembourg-based company announced late Monday. The deferred p... (more story)

Prince Group chairman to file claim for seized bitcoin in US scam center case

November 11, 2025

Europe, North America

MLex Summary: A lawyer for Chen Zhi, chairman of the Cambodian conglomerate Prince Group, asked for an extension for claims on $15 billion of bitcoin seized by US authorities as part of an investigation into s... (more story)

UK police report on new front against shops used to launder cash

November 11, 2025

Europe

MLex Summary: Thousands of UK premises have been targeted in the second phase of a nationwide effort to target economic crime through shops and other businesses. Dubbed Operation Machinize 2, the crackdown acr... (more story)

Financial Services View More

Brazil’s Central Bank publishes new rules for virtual assets, cryptocurrency

November 10, 2025

Africa, Asia, Europe, Latin America, Middle East, North America, Oceania

MLex Summary: Brazil’s Central Bank, or BC, has issued regulations governing the use of virtual assets, including cryptocurrencies, as well as the operation and authorization of institutions that participate i... (more story)

EU's distributed ledger technology pilot to be extended, draft shows

November 10, 2025 | Fanny Roux

Europe

The EU’s temporary distributed ledger technology pilot is set to be extended until 2030 before the bloc's executive arm decides whether to integrate the program into relevant financial services legislation, ac... (more story)

Denmark presented compromise on revamped EU securitization framework

November 10, 2025 | Fanny Roux

Europe

A compromise on a revamped EU securitization framework last week was presented to EU countries by Denmark, which is currently chairing legislative talks among EU member states. Denmark aims to strike a deal on... (more story)

Trade View More

China tightens export controls on fentanyl precursors, adds US, Mexico, Canada to list

November 11, 2025

Asia, North America

Mlex Summary: China has expanded its export controls on precursor chemicals, the Ministry of Commerce said in a joint statement with four other agencies on Monday. The move adds the US, Mexico and Canada to th... (more story)

US export-controls rule suspended for year following China trade deal

November 10, 2025 | Samuel Rubenfeld

Asia, North America

The US government formally suspended an export-controls rule, aimed largely at China, for a year as part of a trade deal negotiated during President Donald Trump’s recent trip to Asia. When in effect, the rule... (more story)

US delays new export control restrictions after China deal

November 10, 2025

North America

MLex Summary: The US Commerce Department's Bureau of Industry and Security delayed new export control restrictions called the Affiliates Rule for roughly a year, until Nov. 9, 2026, after the US and China reac... (more story)

State Aid View More

Spain’s €700 million clean tech plan wins EU approval

November 06, 2025

Europe

MLex Summary: The European Commission has approved a €700 million Spanish plan to support investments in net-zero technology production. The program, open to companies across Spain until the end of 2028, will ... (more story)

Ryanair pushes EU to recover ‘illegal’ Covid-19 state aid from rivals

November 05, 2025 | Jean Comte and Nicholas Hirst

Europe

The low-cost airline used a meeting with European Commission officials to reiterate arguments that the French and German governments should recoup state aid disbursed to Air France-KLM and Deutsche Lufthansa d... (more story)

CRRC’s bid for Lisbon metro tender sparks EU in-depth subsidy probe

November 05, 2025

Europe

MLex Summary: Chinese rail company CRRC is under investigation at the European Commission, on suspicion that its inclusion in a bid to construct part of the metro system in Lisbon may have benefited from forei... (more story)

Energy View More

Renewables plans exceeding fossil fuel capacity in many countries, report shows

November 10, 2025

Asia, Europe, Latin America, North America

MLex Summary: More than half of the countries responsible for the lion's share of global emissions have a total renewable energy pipeline that exceeds their existing fossil fuel capacity, a sign of momentum of... (more story)

North Macedonia blackout caused by overvoltage effects, expert panel says

November 10, 2025

Europe

MLex Summary: A blackout in North Macedonia on May 18 this year was triggered by overvoltage that caused a separation between the country’s transmission networks, according to an expert panel led by the Europe... (more story)

EU Parliament committee backs 90% emissions cut by 2040 with international credits

November 10, 2025 | Eleonora Rinaldi

Europe

Europe’s economy should reach 90 percent reductions in greenhouse gas emissions by 2040, according to the European Parliament’s environment committee, which voted on Monday on amending the European Commission’... (more story)

Technology View More

X may face its first formal decision under EU’s Digital Services Act

November 10, 2025 | Matthew Newman

Europe

Social media platform X, formerly Twitter, may soon face a final decision under the EU's content moderation rules as the EU regulator said it plans to "advance fast" in the nearly 2-year-old investigation. Par... (more story)

Online services to get crisis protocol, AI poll guidance under EU Democracy Shield

November 10, 2025 | Sara Brandstätter, Luca Bertuzzi and Lewis Crofts

Europe

A new crisis protocol for online services and guidance on the use of artificial intelligence in electoral processes is being prepared as part of a broader EU effort to counter information manipulation, accordi... (more story)

Australia braces for under-16 social media restrictions even as questions remain

November 10, 2025 | Saloni Sinha

Oceania

Australia is just a month away from enforcing the world's first social media restrictions for children under 16. Despite the fast-approaching deadline, concerns persist about the reliability of age-assurance t... (more story)