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Antitrust, DealRisk®, Mergers and Acquisitions
April 24, 2025 | Ilana Kowarski
Asia, North America, Oceania

Artificial Intelligence, Data Privacy and Security
April 24, 2025 | Amy Miller and Emma Whitford
Africa, Asia, Europe, Latin America, Middle East, North America, Oceania

Financial Services
April 24, 2025 | Sofia Gerace
Europe
Antitrust View More
April 25, 2025 | Matthew Newman, Mike Swift and Madeline Hughes
Europe,North America
Andrew Ferguson, chair of the US Federal Trade Commission, told a global gathering of data protection watchdogs this week that the FTC is concerned about censorship by social media companies, MLex understands.... (more story)
April 25, 2025
North America
MLex Summary: OptumRx told a US judge that a proposed plaintiff class of pharmacies' US antitrust claims alleging an unlawful tying arrangement should not proceed in court because the pharmacies had contracts ... (more story)
April 25, 2025 | Chris May
North America
US Federal Trade Commission employees have been offered three potential ways to cut short their employment at the nation’s competition and consumer protection watchdog, according to agency memoranda seen by MLex.
Artificial Intelligence View More
April 25, 2025 | Nick Robertson
North America
Ziff Davis, publisher of sites including IGN, Everyday Health, CNET, Mashable and PCMag, sued OpenAI for copyright infringement in the District of Delaware yesterday, accusing the artificial intelligence compa... (more story)
April 25, 2025
North America
MLex Summary: Publisher Ziff Davis, owner of IGN, Everyday Health and other web magazines, filed suit yesterday against OpenAI in the District of Delaware alleging the artificial intelligence company infringed... (more story)
April 25, 2025 | Amy Miller
Africa,Asia,Europe,Latin America,Middle East,North America,Oceania
Scrutiny is growing over how companies use artificial intelligence tools in the workplace as bots are inundating companies with resumes, and workers are increasingly concerned about their privacy and surveilla... (more story)
Mergers and Acquisitions View More
April 25, 2025
Europe
MLex Summary: Packaging maker Amcor said that it expects to close its acquisition of US rival Berry Global on April 30, after receiving approval from the EU's merger regulator.
April 25, 2025 | Flavia Fortes
North America
US states are ramping up antitrust enforcement, with several enacting broader antitrust laws and new requirements for companies to provide advance notice of proposed transactions. While these state-specific la... (more story)
April 25, 2025 | Flavia Fortes
Europe, North America
Software maker ServiceNow said that it will withdraw its US merger paperwork for the acquisition of artificial intelligence firm Moveworks by April 30, and it plans to refile no later than May 2. The company a... (more story)
Data Privacy and Security View More
April 25, 2025 | Matthew Newman
Europe, North America
Clearview AI, a US company that provides facial recognition software to law enforcement in the US, may be forced to comply with a data-deletion order by Italy's data protection authority, a senior official at ... (more story)
April 25, 2025 | Mike Swift
North America
Data brokers are likely to continue facing scrutiny from US regulators during the Trump administration. But given the huge uncertainty about the future of the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau, and to some ... (more story)
April 25, 2025
North America
MLex Summary: The US state of Missouri has dismissed its complaint alleging that Meta Platforms' addictive social media apps contributed to the deterioration of the mental health of young users, according to a... (more story)
Intellectual Property View More
April 25, 2025 | Inbar Preiss
Africa, Asia, Europe, Latin America, Middle East, North America, Oceania
As commercial space ventures gain traction, trademark experts are exploring how intellectual property systems might adapt to activity beyond Earth. International Trademark Association President Elisabeth Stewa... (more story)
April 25, 2025
Europe
MLex Summary: The Unified Patent Court's Court of Appeal granted Nicoventures access to selected documents in three patent disputes between Juul Labs and Njoy concerning European patents 3,430,921, 3,504,991, ... (more story)
April 25, 2025 | Toko Sekiguchi
Asia
The Tokyo District Court has affirmed the Japan Patent Office’s decision to reject an international patent examination request due to a delay in submitting the required Japanese translation. The ruling highlig... (more story)
Financial Crime View More
April 25, 2025
North America
MLex Summary: The US Securities and Exchange Commission said in a status report that the agency is continuing its efforts to serve Indian billionaire Gautam Adani and his nephew, Sagar Adani, in its lawsuit al... (more story)
April 25, 2025 | Martin Coyle
Europe
Units of Dutch conglomerate Damen are set to be charged with bribery, sanctions evasion, fraud and money laundering, prosecutors in the Netherlands said today. Damen Shipyards has been under investigation by t... (more story)
April 25, 2025
Asia
MLex Summary: The Ministry of Digital Economy and Society, or MDES, plans to upgrade its Anti-Online Scam Operation Center into a full department to strengthen its authority and accountability in tackling onli... (more story)
Financial Services View More
April 25, 2025
North America
MLex Summary: Senator Elizabeth Warren, the top Democrat on the Senate Banking Committee, wrote to Paul Atkins, the newly sworn-in chair of the US Securities and Exchange Commission, asking how the agency plan... (more story)
April 25, 2025 | Sofia Gerace
Europe, North America
The chief of the Financial Conduct Authority said in a TV interview on Friday said he does not fear a "race to the bottom" prompted by Donald Trump's administration when it comes to deregulation of the financi... (more story)
April 25, 2025
Europe
MLex Summary: The European Banking Authority, the EU body overseeing the banking sector to support financial stability, today released a monitoring tool on Environmental, Social and Governance-related risk acr... (more story)
Trade View More
April 25, 2025 | Henrique Santiago
Latin America, North America
The Lula administration has been following a path that has established Brazil as a prominent global diplomat. Flavia Loss de Araujo, a professor of International Relations at the Instituto Mauá de Tecnologia, ... (more story)
April 25, 2025 | Bradley Dress and Mike Swift
Asia, North America
A top South Korean official raised concerns about the US Trade Representative’s claims that his country has several digital trade barriers and said he plans to discuss the issue this week while in Washington.
April 25, 2025 | Bradley Dress
North America
The head of a major biosafety group told a Commerce Department advisory committee today that enhanced screening of synthetic nucleic acids is needed for compliance with export controls, warning of the danger o... (more story)
State Aid View More
April 25, 2025
Europe
MLex Summary: The Romanian antitrust authority has said that ensuring a balanced tax regime for all transport modes, to avoid favoring one transport means over less-polluting options, is one of the suggestions... (more story)
April 25, 2025
Europe
MLex Summary: Last year, the European Commission continued to "vigorously enforce" EU competition rules in the fields of antitrust, merger and state aid control, including its two internal market tools, the Di... (more story)
April 24, 2025 | Nicholas Hirst
Europe
The billions of euros handed to Air France and KLM during the coronavirus pandemic face further scrutiny from EU judges, after Ryanair filed an appeal against the state aid regulator’s latest approval for the ... (more story)
Energy View More
April 25, 2025
Europe
MLex Summary: The Italian oil and gas company ENI closed a deal worth 2 billion pounds with the UK Government for its Liverpool Bay Carbon Capture and Storage project. The sum will finance supply chain contrac... (more story)
April 25, 2025 | Sofia Gerace
Europe
The UK's efforts to become a global leader in transition finance may be hindered by competing government priorities, warns Vanessa Havard-Williams, who recently chaired the Transition Finance Market Review. Th... (more story)
April 25, 2025
Europe
MLex Summary: Entso-E — the European Network of Transmission System Operators for Electricity — has been found to be reporting insufficient data in monitoring balancing markets. In such markets, operators make... (more story)
Technology View More
April 25, 2025
North America
MLex Summary: US District Judge Leonie Brinkema has scheduled an evidentiary hearing on May 2 regarding equitable remedies to be imposed in the US Department of Justice's lawsuit against Google over illegal mo... (more story)
April 25, 2025 | Frank Hersey and Patricia Figueiredo
Europe
A suicide discussion forum has made its site unavailable to UK users and another site is under investigation for potential violation of the Online Safety Act, the UK technology minister said. Ofcom's Peter Kyl... (more story)
April 25, 2025
Europe
MLex Summary: Integrating DeepSeek models into a platform could put providers in violation of the EU’s Digital Services Act, according to an answer to European lawmakers by EU digital chief Henna Virkkunen. Th... (more story)