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Antitrust, Data Privacy and Security, Technology
July 21, 2025 | Khushita Vasant
North America
Artificial Intelligence
July 21, 2025 | Emma Whitford
North America
Artificial Intelligence, Intellectual Property
July 21, 2025 | Douglas Clarke-Williams
Europe
Antitrust View More
July 22, 2025
North America
MLex Summary: Timothy Leiweke, the co-founder and former chief executive officer of the Oak View Group, has pleaded not guilty to US Department of Justice charges that he engaged in a bid-rigging conspiracy wi... (more story)
July 22, 2025
North America
MLex Summary: The US Federal Communications Commission should protect local television broadcasting in Paramount's merger with Skydance, the Center for American Rights said in an ex parte letter. The letter re... (more story)
July 22, 2025
North America
MLex Summary: A petition filed by private equity firm Quantum Energy and natural gas extractor EQT Corp. that asks the US Federal Trade Commission to revoke its 2023 consent decree against the two companies is... (more story)
Artificial Intelligence View More
July 22, 2025
North America
MLex Summary: A broad coalition of more than 90 tech, economic justice, consumer protection, labor, environmental justice, and civil society organizations launched the People’s AI Action Plan as a counterweigh... (more story)
July 22, 2025 | Luca Bertuzzi
Europe
The European Commission has at last confirmed a grace period to AI companies that sign the AI Act’s code of practice, giving them time to comply with rules on general-purpose AI models before full enforcement ... (more story)
July 22, 2025
Europe
MLex Summary: AI model providers have received guidance on how EU data protection rules could apply to AI models from France's privacy watchdog. The guidance covers how model providers should analyze whether t... (more story)
Mergers and Acquisitions View More
July 22, 2025
North America
MLex Summary: Eli Lilly and Verve Therapeutics were granted early termination by the US Federal Trade Commission today, according to a securities filing. The companies agreed to their $1 billion deal on June 1... (more story)
July 22, 2025
North America
MLex Summary: The Bank of New York Mellon acquiring Northern Trust would be a combination "that would present significant concerns under federal antitrust law," according to a letter from US Senator Elizabeth ... (more story)
July 22, 2025 | Ilana Kowarski
North America
Power plant operators Constellation Energy and Calpine Corporation complained today about demands from critics of their merger who desire a 3 percent regional market share cap on prospective divestiture buyers... (more story)
Data Privacy and Security View More
July 22, 2025 | Maria Dinzeo
North America
A US judge cast doubt on attempts to hold TikTok and Google liable for failing to remove harmful videos under a product-liability and false-misrepresentation theory, suggesting the claims are still barred by S... (more story)
July 22, 2025 | Patricia Figueiredo
Europe
The UK Online Safety Act’s categorization thresholds are “over-inclusive” and could wrongly place Wikipedia under the regime’s strictest rules, a London court heard today. The encyclopedia's host organization,... (more story)
July 22, 2025 | Patricia Figueiredo and Sara Brandstätter
Europe
The UK’s data protection regime remains adequate for the continued flow of personal data from the EU, according to two draft decisions published today. The European Commission’s findings, which follow an asses... (more story)
Intellectual Property View More
July 22, 2025 | Douglas Clarke-Williams
Europe
The UK Intellectual Property Office defended the UK’s current system of examining prospective patents before the Supreme Court today. Judges queried whether the UK can move closer to the European Patent Office... (more story)
July 22, 2025 | Inbar Preiss and Melissa Ritti
Asia, Europe
WTO arbitrators have partially overturned an earlier ruling, siding with the EU in its challenge to China’s use of anti-suit injunctions. They found the policy breaches global IP rules by undermining patent en... (more story)
July 22, 2025 | Melissa Ritti
North America
A US judge has swatted down for the second time an effort to undo exemptions to a statutory bar on circumventing technological protection measures on defibrillators, ultrasound systems and other medical equipm... (more story)
Financial Crime View More
July 22, 2025
North America
MLex Summary: Centurion ZD CPA & Co. and Chan Kam Fuk agreed to a settlement with the US Public Company Accounting Oversight Board for failing to properly perform risk assessments and obtain sufficient appropr... (more story)
July 22, 2025
North America
MLex Summary: Federal prosecutors filed a notice of appeal of US District Judge Arun Subramanian's decision granting cryptocurrency entrepreneur Avraham Eisenberg's motion to vacate his trial conviction on cha... (more story)
July 22, 2025
North America
MLex Summary: The US Treasury Department's Office of Foreign Assets Control, or OFAC, sanctioned two individuals and five entities that profit through money laundering and importing petroleum products into ter... (more story)
Financial Services View More
July 22, 2025
North America
MLex Summary: US Senators Tim Scott, Cynthia Lummis, Bill Hagerty and Bernie Moreno released an initial discussion draft of digital asset market structure legislation covering issues under the Banking Committe... (more story)
July 22, 2025 | Sofia Gerace
Europe
UK insurers have been urged by the Financial Conduct Authority to clarify the policies sold to customers, after most of the claims for storm-related damages in Britain in 2024 were rejected. In a review of 15 ... (more story)
July 22, 2025
Europe
MLex Summary: The European Commission has opened a seven-week consultation on the treatment of equity exposures incurred under legislative programmes in the Capital Requirements Regulation. It said feedback wa... (more story)
Trade View More
July 22, 2025 | Zack Budryk
North America
US Trade Representative Jamieson Greer today announced a framework for a reciprocal trade agreement between the US and Indonesia, one week after President Trump announced an agreement had been reached.
July 22, 2025 | Zack Budryk
North America
The US Court of International Trade yesterday sided with the Department of Commerce in a challenge by Hanon Systems to the antidumping orders on Chinese aluminum foil imports.
July 22, 2025 | Oscar Pandiello
Europe
Indonesian exporters won’t get an exemption from the EU’s deforestation rules under a new trade deal, the European Commission has told MLex. The agreement in principle, announced on July 13, hasn't yet been pu... (more story)
State Aid View More
July 22, 2025
Europe
MLex Summary: A decision of the Welsh Government to grant a subsidy package to Cardiff International Airport has been appealed by Bristol Airport, following a filing at the Competition Appeal Tribunal. Bristol... (more story)
July 22, 2025
Europe
MLex Summary: Czechia’s plan to spend around 84 million euros to increase the reliance and sustainability of its agricultural sector has secured EU approval. The European Commission said the investment was in ... (more story)
July 22, 2025
Europe
MLex Summary: France, Hungary, Italy, Slovakia and Slovenia have won EU approval to publicly fund an Important Project of Common European Interest — known as an IPCEI — in the healthcare sector. They will prov... (more story)
Energy View More
July 22, 2025
North America
MLex Summary: Electricity companies Constellation Energy and Calpine Corporation asked the US Federal Energy Regulatory Commission to authorize their proposed merger "by no later than July 23, 2025." The compa... (more story)
July 22, 2025
Europe
MLex Summary: National and European power network plans should be better aligned to support grid development, energy regulator ACER said today in a press release. Several inconsistencies remain between nationa... (more story)
July 22, 2025
Europe
MLex Summary: The legal action against Italian energy giant ENI by Greenpeace and ReCommon in the Court of Rome can continue after Italy's top court ruled that Italian judges can hear climate change lawsuits, ... (more story)
Technology View More
July 22, 2025
North America
MLex Summary: The Trump administration and codefendants at the US Federal Trade Commission do not make a “a strong showing” that they are “likely to succeed on the merits” in overturning the reinstatement of f... (more story)
July 22, 2025 | Patricia Figueiredo and Sara Brandstätter
Europe
YouTube has raised the minimum age for livestreaming from 13 to 16 and introduced new restrictions on streams featuring younger teens, with changes taking effect globally from today. The move comes shortly aft... (more story)
July 22, 2025
North America
MLex Summary: Rebecca Kelly Slaughter, whose reinstatement to the Federal Trade Commission was stayed by a US appeals court, has pledged to continue to fight her "illegal firing and see this case through." In ... (more story)