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Data Privacy and Security
June 12, 2025 | Mike Swift
North America
Trade
June 12, 2025 | Bradley Dress
North America
Artificial Intelligence
June 12, 2025 | Bradley Dress
North America
Antitrust View More
June 13, 2025 | Jenny Lee
Asia
Kakao Mobility is headed to South Korea’s top court after the country’s antitrust watchdog appealed an appellate ruling that had overturned a 27.1 billion won (about $20 million) sanction over the company’s us... (more story)
June 12, 2025 | Chris May
North America
Valve is the latest company turning to controversial tactics as corporate America looks for a new litigation escape hatch now that the days of arbitration appear to be numbered.
June 12, 2025
Europe,North America
MLex Summary: German pharmaceutical company BioNTech, which collaborated with Pfizer to create a globally popular COVID vaccine, intends to purchase mRNA treatment designer CureVac for roughly $1.25 billion, a... (more story)
Artificial Intelligence View More
June 12, 2025 | Frank Hersey
Europe
EU codes of practice on general-purpose AI are in such a poor state that implementation of upcoming parts of the AI Act should be suspended, an EU lawmaker who's in a working group tasked with monitoring the l... (more story)
June 12, 2025 | Luca Bertuzzi
Europe
EU countries designing their AI Act sanction regimes should each introduce a “fallback” clause to cover all potential violations, the European Commission has urged. It is also asking them to include specific s... (more story)
June 12, 2025 | Frank Hersey
Europe
UK companies using and developing artificial intelligence are set to get more opportunities and clarity on using the technology when the government's data reform bill become law shortly and from the planned in... (more story)
Mergers and Acquisitions View More
June 13, 2025 | MLex Staff
Asia
Shanghai market regulators have completed 402 merger reviews since 2022, when China introduced a pilot program allowing entrusted local regulators to handle simple case reviews, according to a senior official ... (more story)
June 13, 2025
Oceania
MLex Summary: Australian cement company Adbri is proposing to acquire, through its subsidiaries Adbri Concrete and Quarries SA, a 100 percent stake in Premix Concrete S.A., Seelander Quarries, Clinton Quarries... (more story)
June 12, 2025 | Jon Menon
Europe
UK merger control will seek to prioritize more traditional theories of harm to competition as part of an overhaul of regulatory guidance, according to a senior competition enforcer today. The regulatory proces... (more story)
Data Privacy and Security View More
June 13, 2025
Oceania
MLex Summary: Australia’s online-safety agency is gearing up for a consultation to develop guidelines on what steps digital platforms must take to ensure that a social-media ban on children aged under 16 is ad... (more story)
June 13, 2025 | Maria Dinzeo
North America
A US federal judge threw out a proposed $25 million settlement over claims GoodRx illegally shared sensitive health data with Google, Meta and Criteo, blasting both sides for failing to justify the deal as the... (more story)
June 12, 2025 | Mike Swift
North America
Lawyers for Change Healthcare urged a federal judge in Minnesota to trim back litigation claims stemming from the largest healthcare data breach in US history in February 2024, saying consumer plaintiffs in th... (more story)
Intellectual Property View More
June 13, 2025 | Freny Patel
Asia
In a major win for Newgen Software, an Indian court ruled that if a company agrees in a contract to respect another's trademark, it can't later claim it innocently started using a similar name after their busi... (more story)
June 13, 2025 | Freny Patel
Asia
Zeria Pharmaceutical has been refused a patent by an Indian court, stopping the Japanese pharmaceutical company from extending its existing patent on an intermediate chemical compound. The Delhi High Court uph... (more story)
June 12, 2025 | Nick Robertson
North America
The Senate Judiciary Committee today advanced John Squires’s nomination to be the next director of the US Patent and Trademark Office in a 20-2 vote, clearing the final hurdle before he can be voted into the p... (more story)
Financial Crime View More
June 12, 2025 | Martin Coyle
Europe, North America
Toronto Dominion Bank has been placed under observation by Norway’s sovereign wealth fund for four years, due to the corruption and financial crime risks it poses. The bank was fined a record $3 billion by US ... (more story)
June 12, 2025 | Martin Coyle
Europe
UK companies will be provided with training and guidance by the Serious Fraud Office as part of its “prevent” strategy, which the prosecutor hopes will help push the country’s economic growth. The new approach... (more story)
June 12, 2025
Europe
MLex Summary: KPMG has been fined 690,000 pounds ($930,000) for breaches of independence requirements in its 2021 audit of UK agricultural business Carr’s Group. The issue arose because the audit relied on the... (more story)
Financial Services View More
June 12, 2025
Europe
MLex Summary: Members of Britain's upper chamber have urged UK financial regulators to move away from their "overly risk-averse" culture, which they say makes the financial regulatory framework too expensive a... (more story)
June 12, 2025 | Neil Roland
North America
US Senator Elizabeth Warren cited a Clinton administration derivatives debacle that contributed to the 2008 financial crisis to warn Senate Republican leader John Thune against steamrolling a stablecoin bill. ... (more story)
June 12, 2025
North America
MLex Summary: US Senators Chris Murphy and Todd Young reintroduced the Workforce Mobility Act, bipartisan legislation to limit the use of noncompete clauses. The law would narrow the use of noncompete agreemen... (more story)
Trade View More
June 12, 2025 | Zack Budryk
Asia, North America
Representatives of the US golf cart manufacturing industry called on the International Trade Commission to impose antidumping and countervailing duties on Chinese imports at a hearing today.
June 12, 2025
North America
MLex summary: US steelmaker Nucor Corporation filed a lawsuit at the Court of International Trade to challenge the Commerce Department's 2022 review of corrosion-resistant steel from South Korea. The May 9 Com... (more story)
June 12, 2025 | Eliana Hubacker
Asia, North America
Antidumping and antisubsidy duty orders would provide greater trade relief for the US hardwood and plywood domestic industry, as recent tariffs from the Trump administration are proving temporary, petitioners said.
State Aid View More
June 11, 2025
Europe
MLex Summary: The transfer of public land free of charge to Norwegian property developer Masserud Utvikling — due to the municipality’s failure to enforce its claim under the sale agreement — amounts to unlawf... (more story)
June 10, 2025
Europe
MLex Summary: EU heads of state and governments will return to the issue of competitiveness at the European Council meeting of June 26 and 27, according to an outline for the final statement. The leaders are e... (more story)
June 05, 2025 | Lewis Crofts, Joanna Sopinska and Nicholas Hirst
Europe
Korea Hydro & Nuclear Power and the Czech government have signed a deal to provide nuclear reactors at the Dukovany power plant less than a month after the European Commission warned such a move would breach a... (more story)
Energy View More
June 12, 2025
Europe
MLex Summary: The EU's “omnibus” package aimed at simplifying sustainability reporting rules should reduce the number of companies covered by the amended directives and eliminate mandatory climate transition p... (more story)
June 11, 2025 | Ilana Kowarski
North America
If power generator Constellation Energy is allowed to buy rival Calpine Corporation, electricity rates are likely to surge, Illinois’ Office of the Attorney General asserted in a memo to the US Federal Energy ... (more story)
June 11, 2025 | Simon Zekaria
Europe
Technology company Global-365's lawsuit over alleged dominance abuse in the pre-pay energy market is flawed, UK payment services company PayPoint told a UK judge today. Global-365 said it was stymied in its pl... (more story)
Technology View More
June 12, 2025
North America
MLex Summary: Vermont Governor Phil Scott has signed S.69, the state's age-appropriate design bill, into law saying that as more children use technology they need to be protected. Scott said that while he expe... (more story)
June 12, 2025 | Patricia Figueiredo
Europe
Digital platforms should expect proposals for new UK online safety measures that go beyond current legislation, technology minister Peter Kyle said today. A package of proposals "in the not too distant future"... (more story)
June 12, 2025 | Phoebe Seers
Europe
A cautious approach to cryptoassets by the UK financial services regulator risks holding back the sector's potential in Britain, although there is no lack of buzz about the industry in London, according to the... (more story)