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Trade

November 14, 2025 | Bradley Dress

Africa, Asia, Europe, Latin America, Middle East, North America, Oceania

US announces major trade deal with Switzerland
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Artificial Intelligence

November 14, 2025 | Luca Bertuzzi

Europe

EU's AI standard setters face hard balancing act with disappointment in sight
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Antitrust

November 14, 2025 | Nicholas Hirst

Europe

SAP offers worldwide 10-year concessions to settle EU antitrust probe

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Browser choice group begins LatAm push against Microsoft, starting in Brazil

November 14, 2025 | Maria Júlia Baumert

Latin America

The Browser Choice Alliance (BCA) is setting its sights on Latin America as part of a global campaign to challenge what it calls Microsoft’s “anti-competitive practices” in the browser market. In an exclusive ... (more story)

US judge inquires about potential federal antitrust, labor probes into MultiPlan

November 14, 2025 | Clayton Vickers and Chris May

North America

A US judge inquired Friday about potentially live investigations into MultiPlan by the Department of Justice’s Antitrust Division and the Department of Labor over its allegedly anticompetitive use of pricing a... (more story)

RealPage, landlords can't dodge US antitrust claims, Kentucky AG says

November 14, 2025

North America

MLex Summary: Kentucky’s attorney general told a federal court it should follow the example of other courts and maintain the state’s price-fixing claims against RealPage and residential landlords, opposing a m... (more story)

Artificial Intelligence View More

AI dominance, global antitrust gaps come under scrutiny in OECD papers

November 14, 2025

Europe

MLex Summary: AI infrastructure concentration is emerging as a central concern for competition regulators, the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development has said in a series of policy papers. The ... (more story)

Apple, OpenAI fail to get X Corp.’s US antitrust case dismissed

November 14, 2025

North America

MLex Summary: Apple and OpenAI have to face X Corp.’s US antitrust case over an allegedly anticompetitive agreement to integrate ChatGPT into the iPhone operating system, a Texas federal judge ruled in an orde... (more story)

Tesla, Volvo in China's Shanghai roll out AI chatbots after registration

November 14, 2025

Asia

MLex Summary: Automakers Tesla’s xBot customer-service model and Volvo’s intelligent assistant model have become the first large AI models from foreign companies to launch in China, according to the Shanghai C... (more story)

Mergers and Acquisitions View More

Valvoline, Greenbriar settlement with US FTC requires oil-change shop divestiture

November 14, 2025 | Curtis Eichelberger

North America

The US Federal Trade Commission will require Valvoline and private equity firm Greenbriar Equity Fund to divest 45 oil-change shops to get antitrust approval for their $625 million asset sale. Main Street Auto... (more story)

Valvoline, Greenbriar's Breeze reach merger divestiture settlement with US FTC

November 14, 2025

North America

MLex Summary: Oil change businesses Valvoline and Greenbriar Equity Fund subsidiary Breeze Autocare have agreed to divest 45 quick-lube oil change shops to resolve US Federal Trade Commission antitrust concern... (more story)

Petz–Cobasi merger in Brazil poses risks, small rivals warn

November 14, 2025 | Henrique Santiago

Latin America

Brazil’s competition watchdog received a host of concerns in a new round of input from market players regarding the merger between Petz and Cobasi, the two largest pet care companies in the country, while key ... (more story)

Data Privacy and Security View More

Reconsidering US FTC removal protections not up to president, 207 members of Congress say

November 14, 2025

North America

MLex Summary: A group of 207 members of US Congress told the Supreme Court that where the text of the Constitution does not expressly resolve a separation-of-powers issue, it should look to the practical const... (more story)

Removed US federal board members back Slaughter against firing from FTC

November 14, 2025

North America

MLex Summary: Removed board members from independent federal agencies and scholars filed a brief with the US Supreme Court in support of Rebecca K. Slaughter’s challenge to her removal from the Federal Trade C... (more story)

Former US FTC chairs says firing of Slaughter upsets balance of power

November 14, 2025

North America

MLex Summary: A bipartisan group of former US Federal Trade Commission chairs filed a brief telling the Supreme Court that allowing the president to exercise at-will removal power over agency commissioners wou... (more story)

Intellectual Property View More

Mexico’s Banda Maguey settles US trademark fight with former members

November 14, 2025 | Nick Robertson

North America

Mexican technobanda group Banda Maguey secured a settlement in its trademark and copyright litigation Friday against former members who were operating in the US. Attorney David Martinez of Robins Kaplan tells ... (more story)

InterDigital, Amazon square off at pivotal hearing before EU's UPC

November 14, 2025 | Charlotte Westphal

Europe

A UK court-ordered interim license won’t hinder patent enforcement elsewhere because other jurisdictions can make their own determination of whether the license is valid, Amazon told the EU Unified Patent Cour... (more story)

Ericsson files patent suits against Chinese phonemaker in Brazil, India, Nigeria, UPC

November 14, 2025 | Inbar Preiss

Asia, Europe, Latin America

Ericsson has sued Chinese smartphone maker Transsion in Brazil, India and Nigeria and also at the Unified Patent Court, alleging refusal to license its 4G and 5G Standard Essential Patents on FRAND terms.

Financial Crime View More

Mexican casinos blocked from US financial system for laundering cartel funds

November 13, 2025

North America

MLex Summary: The US Treasury Department's Financial Crimes Enforcement Network (FinCEN) issued a finding and notice of proposed rulemaking that blocked 10 Mexican casinos from the US financial system, deeming... (more story)

Georgia businessman should serve at least 15 years for Honduran corruption, US says

November 13, 2025

North America

MLex Summary: Georgia businessman Carl Zaglin should serve at least 15 years in prison after being convicted of paying bribes to Honduran officials for police uniform supply contracts, US prosecutors told a judge.

TMF Management fined over Dutch money laundering failures

November 13, 2025

Europe

MLex Summary: Accounting and legal firm TMF Management has been fined €130,500 by Dutch prosecutors for failing to file reports over suspected money laundering to the authorities. TMF failed to report two unus... (more story)

Financial Services View More

UK life insurers asked for feedback on boosting access to alternative capital

November 14, 2025

Europe

MLex Summary: The UK's prudential watchdog is seeking views on facilitating life insurers' access to alternative forms of capital that do not stem from direct issuance equity or debt. The discussion paper by t... (more story)

Greener financial systems targeted with new European Investment Bank fund

November 14, 2025

Europe

MLex Summary: The European Investment Bank Group’s development arm, EIB Global, has set up a new climate fund, the Greening Financial Systems Fund. Signed on Thursday at the UN climate conference in Brazil, th... (more story)

Euronext says all regulatory approvals received for ATHEX acquisition

November 14, 2025

Europe

MLex Summary: Pan-European stock exchange Euronext said on Friday that it received the approval of the Greek financial and energy regulators for its intended acquisition of national stock exchange ATHEX. "The ... (more story)

Trade View More

US carves out tariff exemptions on food, agricultural products

November 14, 2025

Africa, Asia, Europe, Latin America, Middle East, North America, Oceania

MLex Summary: President Donald Trump signed an executive order to authorize exemptions from tariffs on certain agricultural products, effective for goods that have entered into the US or been withdrawn for con... (more story)

US strikes long-sought trade deal with Switzerland

November 14, 2025

Africa, Asia, Europe, Latin America, Middle East, North America, Oceania

MLex Summary: The US and Switzerland reached a trade agreement that will see the Trump administration lower the tariff rate on Swiss goods from 39 percent to 15 percent. Switzerland has pledged to invest at le... (more story)

US, South Korea finalize major details in trade agreement

November 14, 2025 | Bradley Dress

Africa, Asia, Europe, Latin America, Middle East, North America, Oceania

The US and South Korea finalized a substantial trade agreement that includes lowered tariff rates and investment commitments from Seoul. 

State Aid View More

Zenobē Energy appeals subsidy decision of UK regulator

November 14, 2025

Europe

MLex Summary: Zenobē Energy is challenging a subsidy decision made by the UK energy regulator, according to the UK antitrust tribunal. The claimant said the regulatory board for the UK's gas and electricity ma... (more story)

ADNOC’s Covestro commitments addressed subsidy concerns, EU regulator says

November 14, 2025 | Andrew Boyce

Europe

State subsidies from the United Arab Emirates could have allowed Abu Dhabi National Oil Company and Covestro to restrict competition by making the companies indifferent to risk and able to engage in “aggressiv... (more story)

ADNOC-Covestro deal wins EU foreign subsidy clearance

November 14, 2025

Europe

MLex Summary: Abu Dhabi National Oil Company has won conditional EU foreign subsidy approval for its takeover of German chemicals group Covestro. The European Commission said commitments offered by ADNOC addre... (more story)

Energy View More

Eurowind, European Energy complain to EU over Danish offshore wind project aid

November 14, 2025 | Nicholas Hirst

Europe

Power companies Eurowind Energy and European Energy have complained to EU regulators that the Danish government's plan to provide up to €7.4 billion euros to support the construction of offshore wind farms is ... (more story)

EU must modernize grid regulation, cap permitting to six months, lobby group says

November 14, 2025

Europe

MLex Summary: The European Commission should urgently modernize grid regulation to unlock critical infrastructure investments and accelerate the energy transition, Eurelectric said in a paper published Friday.... (more story)

China urges tighter control of rare earths, tungsten output to ensure sustainability

November 14, 2025

Asia

MLex Summary: China’s vice minister of natural resources and head of the China Geological Survey, Xu Dachun, urged tighter control over the extraction of key minerals such as rare earths and tungsten to ensure... (more story)

Technology View More

US states say FTC removal protections maintain agency mission, stability

November 14, 2025

North America

MLex Summary: Colorado, Illinois and 20 other states and the District of Columbia filed a brief with the US Supreme Court, saying that eliminating tenure protections for the commissioners at the Federal Trade ... (more story)

Professors say US govt can't show FTC removal protections interfere with presidential power

November 14, 2025

North America

MLex Summary: A group of professors of administrative law, legislation and the regulatory state, and separation of powers told the US Supreme Court that the government has not met its burden of demonstrating t... (more story)

Open Markets Institute says US president does not have absolute removal power

November 14, 2025

North America

MLex Summary: The Open Markets Institute told the US Supreme Court that the government’s argument for the president having unlimited power to fire anyone in the executive branch runs directly counter to the pl... (more story)