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Antitrust
August 14, 2025 | Henrique Santiago
Latin America
Trade
August 14, 2025 | Bradley Dress
North America
DealRisk®, Mergers and Acquisitions
August 13, 2025 | Flavia Fortes
Europe, North America
Antitrust View More
August 15, 2025
Europe
MLex Summary: Germany-based electric utility E.ON's UK business is the target of a UK competition claim, according to a UK High Court listing. The claimant is listed as Sofia Bambra, with two entities of E.ON ... (more story)
August 15, 2025 | James Panichi
Oceania
The Mastercard antitrust lawsuit unfolding in Australia remains mired in clashes over legal privilege and access to documents, with a court hearing today resolving some sticking points only to then grapple wit... (more story)
August 15, 2025 | Lewis Crofts
Europe
Czech rail incumbent České dráhy has turned to the EU’s highest court to seek the right to intervene in a parallel appeal by its Austrian competitor against a European Commission antitrust sanction imposed for... (more story)
Artificial Intelligence View More
August 15, 2025
Europe
MLex Summary: Jade Leung, the chief technology officer of the UK AI Security Institute, has been appointed as UK Prime Minister Keir Starmer’s new AI adviser, the government says. She will split her time betwe... (more story)
August 15, 2025
Europe
MLex Summary: The UK is aiming have an AI tool that will produce real time interactive maps to detect, track and predict where crime might occur in operation by 2030, the technology ministry says. The Concentr... (more story)
August 15, 2025 | Amy Miller
North America
Meta Platforms should face a congressional investigation after a policy document from the tech giant reportedly suggested its chatbot could engage in “romantic or sensual” conversations with children, a US sen... (more story)
Mergers and Acquisitions View More
August 15, 2025
Oceania
MLex Summary: Under Australia's new merger regime, certain acquisitions of leases and interests in land that meet the notification thresholds must be notified from Jan. 1, 2026, the Australian competition regu... (more story)
August 15, 2025 | MLex Staff
Asia
China’s antitrust review of Keysight Technologies’ planned acquisition of Spirent Communications has been paused for several weeks as the 180-day review deadline approaches, MLex has learned. The State Adminis... (more story)
August 15, 2025
Asia
MLex Summary: Real estate company Ivanhoé Cambridge's acquisition of partial equity interests in Bangalore Asset 2 PTE and Bangalore Asset 3 PTE, and the joint venture among state-owned fertilizer producer Pup... (more story)
Data Privacy and Security View More
August 15, 2025
Asia
MLex Summary: China’s State Administration for Market Regulation and the Ministry of Industry and Information Technology have jointly issued a draft notice to tighten defect investigations and recall managemen... (more story)
August 15, 2025 | MLex Staff
Asia
China’s Guangxi Zhuang Autonomous Region has issued a negative list in its free-trade zone that limits outbound data transfer restrictions to clearly defined categories, allowing all other data to flow freely.... (more story)
August 15, 2025 | Saloni Sinha
Oceania
The Australian privacy regulator should catch up with other parties in a case involving the same 2022 Singtel-Optus data breach, an Australian court heard today, with a judge pushing back on the watchdog’s “le... (more story)
Intellectual Property View More
August 14, 2025 | Nick Robertson
Asia, North America
Pharmaceutical deals led the way in patent business in the last two weeks. BioNTech and GSK grabbed headlines with a $500 million mRNA vaccine patent deal and settlement of infringement litigation, while Acces... (more story)
August 14, 2025 | Inbar Preiss and Charlotte Westphal
Europe
Boehringer secured a cross-border injunction against Zentiva, while The Hague court narrowed Winnow’s patent and found no infringement by Orbisk — among other Unified Patent Court decisions this week.
August 14, 2025 | Toko Sekiguchi
Asia, North America
Japan’s largest newspaper, Yomiuri Shimbun, is testing the limits of AI copyright law, suing Perplexity AI for unlicensed use of news content in a case closely watched by IP and media experts.
Financial Crime View More
August 14, 2025 | Neil Roland
North America
An unlikely coalition asked the US Congress to fix a "flaw" in the new stablecoin law that lets any state-chartered, uninsured bank with a stablecoin unit perform traditional activities nationwide through that... (more story)
August 14, 2025
North America
MLex Summary: The US Treasury Department's Office of Foreign Assets Control (OFAC) is redesignating the cryptocurrency exchange Garantex Europe OU — along with its successor, Grinex — and taking action against... (more story)
August 13, 2025 | Neil Roland
North America
A US Federal Reserve Bank of Kansas City paper raised a red flag for the first time about the possibly harmful impact of the GENIUS Act on US credit markets, as other questions about the stablecoin regulatory ... (more story)
Financial Services View More
August 15, 2025 | Sofia Gerace
Europe
UK consumers risk switching their pensions from one provider to another for "near-term reward" without considering the full financial implications, the Financial Conduct Authority has said as it published a re... (more story)
August 15, 2025
Europe
MLex Summary: UK life insurers are well-intentioned and seek to ensure consumers receive good outcomes when transferring their pensions, the sector regulator said following a review. The Financial Conduct Auth... (more story)
August 14, 2025
North America
MLex Summary: Ryan Wear and his entities, Water Station Management and Creative Technologies, were accused by the US Securities and Exchange Commission of operating two related Ponzi-like schemes between Septe... (more story)
Trade View More
August 15, 2025
Asia
MLex Summary: China filed a complaint at the World Trade Organization, or WTO, against Canada on Friday over import restrictions on steel and other products, a spokesperson for the Ministry of Commerce said in... (more story)
August 14, 2025
North America
MLex Summary: The US International Trade Commission announced an antidumping and countervailing duty investigation into Brazilian and Norwegian imports of high-purity dissolving pulp. The initiation of the pro... (more story)
August 14, 2025
Asia, Europe, Latin America, Oceania
MLex summary: The Office of the US Trade Representative announced new tariff rate quotas for imported raw cane sugar, certain sugars, syrups and molasses, and other sugar products, for the fiscal year 2026, ru... (more story)
State Aid View More
August 15, 2025
Europe
MLex Summary: The dismissal of a claim against Greater Manchester Combined Authority alleging it breached subsidy rules through a loan to a property developer can't be challenged, the Competition Appeal Tribun... (more story)
August 14, 2025 | Jean Comte
Europe
Top EU judges have been asked to rule whether airline group SAS must pay interest on a state aid that had been authorized by the European Commission, but subsequently cancelled by the EU's lower-tier court. Th... (more story)
August 14, 2025
Europe
MLex Summary: Hungary has secured European Commission approval for its plans to grant 264 million euros in public funding to Sunwoda Automotive Energy Technology to set up an electric vehicle battery factory i... (more story)
Energy View More
August 14, 2025
Europe
MLex Summary: The EU economy’s greenhouse gas emissions increased by 3.4 percent in the first quarter of 2025 compared to the same period in 2024, reaching 900 million metric tons of CO₂, the EU statistical of... (more story)
August 14, 2025
Europe
MLex Summary: The UK Sustainability-Linked Loans market is more mature and shows better practice when compared to 2023, the Financial Conduct Authority said today, while pointing out that there are still barri... (more story)
August 14, 2025
Europe
MLex Summary: EU energy regulator ACER today approved the 2024 security of supply risk assessment produced by the European Network of Transmission System Operators for Electricity, or ENTSO-E. The 10-year outl... (more story)
Technology View More
August 15, 2025
Europe
MLex Summary: Messaging platform 4chan has received a provisional notice of a breach of the Online Safety Act for failing to comply with two information requests from the media regulator Ofcom. The watchdog la... (more story)
August 15, 2025
North America
MLex Summary: Google filed a petition for panel rehearing and petition for rehearing en banc after a US appeals court found for Epic Games in an app store monopolization lawsuit and imposed an injunction again... (more story)
August 14, 2025 | Chris May
North America
Meta Platforms’ bid to stave off a break-up attempt from the US Federal Trade Commission in high-profile antitrust litigation over social media highlights a paradox that challenges economists' fundamental assu... (more story)