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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
Artificial Intelligence
May 21, 2025 | Luca Bertuzzi
Africa, Asia, Europe, Latin America, Middle East, North America, Oceania
Antitrust View More
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)
May 22, 2025 | Sachiko Sakamaki
Asia
Eiji Chatani, the newly appointed Japanese competition chief, said today that he intends to continue his predecessor’s approach and pursue antitrust enforcement and advocacy in digital regulation. He also plan... (more story)
May 22, 2025 | MLex Staff
Asia
A Chinese cabinet advisor has called for targeted modifications to the ongoing revision of the Anti-Unfair Competition Law to better implement the country’s new Private Economy Promotion Law. Speaking to a med... (more story)
Artificial Intelligence View More
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)
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
Europe
MLex Summary: UK regulators can now bid for a share of 5.5 million pounds of funding from the Regulatory Innovation Office to develop projects to cut red tape for innovation. The fourth round of the Regulators... (more story)
Mergers and Acquisitions View More
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)
May 22, 2025
Asia
MLex Summary: The transaction in which German car parts suppliers Bosch and Knorr-Bremse Commercial Vehicle Systems increased their shareholding in Alltrucks, a provider of commercial vehicle maintenance and r... (more story)
May 22, 2025
Europe
MLex Summary: The European Commission released the public version of its earlier decision to approve British packaging maker Mondi's acquisition of rival Schumacher’s corrugated packaging businesses in Germany... (more story)
Data Privacy and Security View More
May 22, 2025
Europe
MLex Summary: The European Commission has abandoned the idea of drawing up a rulebook for registered data-altruism organizations. Under the EU Data Governance Act, organizations supporting data-sharing for the... (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)
May 22, 2025 | Sachiko Sakamaki
Asia
Keio University Professor Satoru Tezuka received parliamentary approval today to become Japan’s new data protection chief. After securing support from the Upper House yesterday, lawmakers in the Lower House ap... (more story)
Intellectual Property View More
May 22, 2025 | Inbar Preiss
Europe
EU lawmakers and member states have reached a political agreement on new compulsory licensing rules for crisis situations, toughening protections for trade secrets after months of negotiations. The final text ... (more story)
May 22, 2025 | MLex Staff
Asia
TikTok’s sister app Douyin has received extended protection for its “well-known” trademark, after the Beijing High People’s Court upheld an initial judgment by a lower court that prevented a tourism company fr... (more story)
May 22, 2025 | Toko Sekiguchi
Asia
Japan’s Agency for Cultural Affairs recently unveiled a draft of a new system designed to streamline the reuse of ambiguously copyrighted materials in the digital era, also known as orphan works. The proposed ... (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: 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)
May 22, 2025 | Fanny Roux
North America
The European Parliament today adopted a proposal to maintain EU rules on liquidity requirements for short-term securities financing transactions. The text extends a transitional measure under the current EU ba... (more story)
May 21, 2025 | Fanny Roux
Europe
The European Commission has proposed amendments to the Markets in Financial Instruments Directive and to the Prospectus Regulation, in a new package proposal aimed at extending supportive measures to small mid... (more story)
Trade View More
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)
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)
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: Liquefied natural gas has become an increasingly important source of gas supply in the EU, with its share rising from 23 percent in 2020 to around 40 percent in 2024, according to a report by the... (more story)
May 22, 2025
Europe
MLex Summary: Luossavaara-Kiirunavaara Aktiebolag, a Swedish state-owned mining company, today lost its legal dispute at the EU Court of Justice against the European Commission over free CO2 emission permits f... (more story)
May 21, 2025
North America
MLex Summary: The US Federal Trade Commission sent warning letters to Novartis, Amphastar Pharmaceuticals, Mylan Specialty, Covis Pharma and three Teva entities, stating that it disputes the appropriateness of... (more story)
Technology View More
May 22, 2025
Asia
MLex Summary: China's Internet regulator has launched a two-month campaign, cracking down on malicious online defamation and privacy infringements that harm the rights of businesses and entrepreneurs, the Cybe... (more story)
May 22, 2025 | Mike Swift
North America
As the US Department of Justice scrutinizes digital markets for antitrust problems, the agency is considering the quality of consumers’ privacy protections as one element of competition, a senior DOJ official ... (more story)
May 21, 2025
North America
MLex Summary: Google told a US federal judge that the Department of Justice’s proposed remedies in a lawsuit over Google’s illegal monopoly in Internet search markets amount to legislation overtly regulating a... (more story)