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Antitrust
March 13, 2025 | Alex Wilts
North America
DealRisk®, Mergers and Acquisitions, Trade
March 13, 2025 | Curtis Eichelberger
Asia, Europe, North America
Financial Services, Technology
March 13, 2025 | Phoebe Seers
Europe
Antitrust View More
March 15, 2025
North America
MLex Summary: Apple and Amazon filed a notice to reactivate their motion for discovery sanctions in a US antitrust case accusing the companies of illegally agreeing to place a quantitative limit on the number ... (more story)
March 14, 2025 | Chris May and Clayton Vickers
North America
Walmart filed a massive antitrust complaint in Pennsylvania federal court today accusing dozens of generic drug manufacturers of a nationwide, anticompetitive conspiracy centered around a “fair-share” agreemen... (more story)
March 14, 2025
North America
MLex Summary: Google asked a California federal judge to dismiss antitrust claims from Yelp alleging the tech giant has monopolized the markets for local search services and local search advertising. Yelp can'... (more story)
Artificial Intelligence View More
March 14, 2025
North America
MLex Summary: Telecom industry trade association US Telecom urged the federal government to cut red tape and speed up broadband deployment to promote artificial intelligence in its response to the Trump admini... (more story)
March 14, 2025
North America
MLex Summary: Mozilla is calling for strong federal legislation to regulate artificial intelligence and for government investment in open-source models in its response to the Trump administration's request for... (more story)
March 14, 2025 | Luca Bertuzzi
Europe
Simplifying the AI Act and national governance approaches will be at the center of discussions between EU countries and the European Commission later this month at a meeting of the European AI Board. As part o... (more story)
Mergers and Acquisitions View More
March 14, 2025 | Maria Júlia Baumert
Latin America
The Brazilian competition authority has approved, without restrictions, the acquisition of Wilson Sons by SAS Shipping Agencies Services Sàrl, a subsidiary of the MSC Group. The transaction, which involves the... (more story)
March 14, 2025
North America
MLex Summary: The US government filed an unopposed motion today to push back the due dates for response-and-reply briefs and to reschedule oral arguments in the US Steel case against the Committee on Foreign I... (more story)
March 14, 2025
Europe
MLex Summary: The UK merger regulator says its reassessment of Spreadex’s acquisition of online sports betting rival Sporting Index’s consumer-facing business is scheduled to be completed around June/July. The... (more story)
Data Privacy and Security View More
March 14, 2025
North America
MLex Summary: Amazon must provide the US Federal Trade Commission some documents related to internal meetings of Amazon executives who the regulator says illegally created a system to obstruct Prime subscriber... (more story)
March 14, 2025 | Xu Yuan
North America
Tom Kemp, a privacy policy advisor who has written a book criticizing Big Tech’s collection of data and use of artificial intelligence, has been appointed the executive director of California’s privacy regulator.
March 14, 2025 | Mike Swift
North America
In a dispute that echoes the US Supreme Court’s recent scrutiny of TikTok’s privacy threats, a long-running suit against Tencent’s WeChat is approaching a crucial juncture in a California court, with a group o... (more story)
Intellectual Property View More
March 14, 2025
North America
MLex Summary: Qiagen must face US claims from Zymo Research accusing it of misusing its patents over technology that allows researchers to extract nucleic acids to stifle competition, a federal judge ruled. US... (more story)
March 14, 2025 | Nick Robertson
North America
A bipartisan group of four US senators reintroduced the Affordable Prescriptions for Patients Act yesterday, which aims to regulate patent thickets in the so-called “patent dance” of biosimilars litigation.
March 14, 2025 | Inbar Preiss
Europe
DW Windsor, a UK manufacturer of outdoor lighting, has prevailed in a patent dispute against Urbis Schreder over LED street lighting technology. While the court invalidated some claims due to a lack of inventi... (more story)
Financial Crime View More
March 14, 2025 | Martin Coyle
Europe
An Indian defense middleman facing money laundering and tax evasion charges faces a challenge to a UK appeal court ruling that blocked his extradition to India. A UK court official said today that the Indian g... (more story)
March 13, 2025
Europe, North America
MLex Summary: A Spanish judge has ordered provisional imprisonment for a former United Nations official, identified as Vitaly V., who is wanted by the US on charges of bribery, fraud and money laundering, acco... (more story)
March 13, 2025
North America
MLex Summary: A federal jury convicted Rowland Marcus Andrade of wire fraud and money laundering in connection with the fraudulent marketing and sale of a cryptocurrency called AML Bitcoin, a scheme that raise... (more story)
Financial Services View More
March 14, 2025
Europe
MLex Summary: The European Commission has published a summary report of its consultation on the adequacy of macroprudential policies for non-bank financial intermediation. It found that both national and EU pu... (more story)
March 14, 2025 | Sara Brandstätter
Europe
An EU proposal for a new kind of company with the freedom to follow one simple set of uniform rules everywhere in the bloc should be put forward soon, the EU's justice chief has said, adding some practical det... (more story)
March 14, 2025
Europe
MLex Summary: The European Banking Authority today opened a public consultation on its draft rules defining the threshold for prudential risk management requirements of central securities depositories providin... (more story)
Trade View More
March 14, 2025 | Bradley Dress and Eliana Hubacker
Asia, North America
Canada has fiercely opposed US tariffs, while Mexico has been more conciliatory. The outcomes for each country could illuminate what approach — if any — may be productive in reckoning with President Donald Tru... (more story)
March 14, 2025 | Bradley Dress
Asia, North America
An influential advocacy group told the US Commerce Department officials this week that it must work harder to crack down on semiconductor chips that are flowing to China and powering critical technology like a... (more story)
March 14, 2025
Asia, North America
MLex summary: Several American companies and groups signed deals with Vietnamese businesses after a visit to Washington from Vietnamese Minister of Industry and Trade Nguyễn Hồng Diên this week. The Vietnamese... (more story)
State Aid View More
March 12, 2025
Europe
MLex Summary: An update to a Norwegian employee share-option tax plan for start-up and growth companies is in line with state aid rules, the EFTA Surveillance Authority said today. Under the modifications, th... (more story)
March 12, 2025
Europe
MLex Summary: The ČEZ Group has seen the European Commission issue the text of its earlier decision to clear Czechia's support to the company's subsidiary Elektrárna Dukovany II. Last year, the state aid regul... (more story)
March 12, 2025
Europe
MLex Summary: PGI Spain, and other companies including Berry Superfos and RPC Envases, today lost an appeal at the EU General Court where they were challenging a measure allowing Spain and Portugal to support ... (more story)
Energy View More
March 14, 2025
Europe
MLex Summary: The EU energy sector participants are invited to submit their Power Purchase Agreement templates to the Agency for the Cooperation of Energy Regulators. ACER ran a consultation last year on the n... (more story)
March 14, 2025 | Helena Freitas
Europe
The disparity between prices for gas and electricity is one of the main problems that undermine the uptake of heat pumps in the EU, European Heat Pump Association chair Patrick Crombez told MLex. The heat pump... (more story)
March 13, 2025 | Chris May and Clayton Vickers
North America
A pause on US Federal Trade Commission litigation defending a controversial nationwide ban of noncompete agreements, alongside a new agency labor antitrust task force, has offered a mixed bag for employers try... (more story)
Technology View More
March 14, 2025
North America
MLex Summary: Anthropic told a District of Columbia federal judge presiding over the remedies phase of monopolization litigation between the US Department of Justice and Google that the AI company's interventi... (more story)
March 14, 2025
Europe
MLex Summary: Privacy International says it has filed a legal challenge against a recent UK government request to access encrypted data held by Apple users. The privacy advocacy group went to the Investigatory... (more story)
March 14, 2025 | Júlia Tar
Europe
New measures to protect the mental health of children and adolescents are essential in the digital age, according to a document recently issued by the Polish Presidency of the Council of the EU, seen by MLex. ... (more story)