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Antitrust, DealRisk®, Mergers and Acquisitions, Technology

May 22, 2025 | Khushita Vasant

North America

Instagram purchase a 'grand slam home run' by Meta, expert tells US trial

DealRisk®, Energy, Mergers and Acquisitions

May 21, 2025 | Ilana Kowarski

North America

Constellation-Calpine deal queries from US DOJ, FERC focus on data, math
General-purpose AI model providers such as Google, Microsoft, OpenAI and Meta Platforms have been quizzed about their best practices to help inform the initial draft of an EU code of practice for them.

Artificial Intelligence

May 21, 2025 | Luca Bertuzzi

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

AI Act still a compelling role model for regulation, EU Commission official says

Antitrust View More

Innsworth might take legal action over Mastercard mass claim settlement

May 22, 2025

Europe

MLex Summary: Innsworth Capital, a litigation funder, has said it might take legal action over the settlement approved by the UK competition court for the UK mass action against Mastercard over card fees. Inns... (more story)

Japan's new competition chief Chatani aims to promote digital competition, SME protection

May 22, 2025 | Sachiko Sakamaki

Asia

Eiji Chatani, the newly appointed Japanese competition chief, said today that he intends to continue his predecessor’s approach and pursue antitrust enforcement and advocacy in digital regulation. He also plan... (more story)

Calls to modify China's AUCL to better implement new private-sector law

May 22, 2025 | MLex Staff

Asia

A Chinese cabinet advisor has called for targeted modifications to the ongoing revision of the Anti-Unfair Competition Law to better implement the country’s new Private Economy Promotion Law. Speaking to a med... (more story)

Artificial Intelligence View More

Timeline for EU Parliament report on AI and copyright takes shape

May 22, 2025 | Luca Bertuzzi

Europe

AI model providers and rights holders have seen the timeline of a European Parliament report on copyright and artificial intelligence take shape. While non-binding, the report intervenes in a hot debate betwee... (more story)

UK regulators must adopt ‘growth mindset,’ share more data, says TechUK

May 22, 2025

Europe

MLex Summary: To achieve the government’s mission for economic growth, there should be a “shared growth mindset” across regulators, a greater role for the Regulatory Innovation Office in supporting innovation ... (more story)

AI software for doctors among focus areas for UK funds to cut regulatory red tape

May 22, 2025

Europe

MLex Summary: UK regulators can now bid for a share of 5.5 million pounds of funding from the Regulatory Innovation Office to develop projects to cut red tape for innovation. The fourth round of the Regulators... (more story)

Mergers and Acquisitions View More

Honeywell’s catalyst deal needs antitrust clearance in UK, US, China

May 22, 2025 | Jon Menon

Europe

Honeywell International’s 1.8 billion-pound acquisition of Johnson Matthey’s catalyst unit will need antitrust approvals in countries including the UK, US and China. The UK-listed chemicals company agreed to s... (more story)

Bosch, Knorr-Bremse raise Alltrucks stake among deals unconditionally cleared in China May 12 - 18

May 22, 2025

Asia

MLex Summary: The transaction in which German car parts suppliers Bosch and Knorr-Bremse Commercial Vehicle Systems increased their shareholding in Alltrucks, a provider of commercial vehicle maintenance and r... (more story)

Mondi sees EU clearance decision in Schumacher deal published

May 22, 2025

Europe

MLex Summary: The European Commission released the public version of its earlier decision to approve British packaging maker Mondi's acquisition of rival Schumacher’s corrugated packaging businesses in Germany... (more story)

Data Privacy and Security View More

Data-altruism rulebook dropped by EU Commission due to low uptake

May 22, 2025

Europe

MLex Summary: The European Commission has abandoned the idea of drawing up a rulebook for registered data-altruism organizations. Under the EU Data Governance Act, organizations supporting data-sharing for the... (more story)

Chinese regulator to escalate oversight of online recommendation algorithms

May 22, 2025 | MLex Staff

Asia

Oversight of information recommendation algorithms in China will strengthen, following last year’s campaign led by the country's Internet regulator, underscoring that algorithm governance is a long-term, syste... (more story)

Japanese parliament approves Satoru Tezuka as new data protection chief

May 22, 2025 | Sachiko Sakamaki

Asia

Keio University Professor Satoru Tezuka received parliamentary approval today to become Japan’s new data protection chief. After securing support from the Upper House yesterday, lawmakers in the Lower House ap... (more story)

Intellectual Property View More

Trade-secret guardrails toughened in EU’s agreement on crisis-licensing bill

May 22, 2025 | Inbar Preiss

Europe

EU lawmakers and member states have reached a political agreement on new compulsory licensing rules for crisis situations, toughening protections for trade secrets after months of negotiations. The final text ... (more story)

TikTok's sister app Douyin safeguards its 'well-known' trademark in China

May 22, 2025 | MLex Staff

Asia

TikTok’s sister app Douyin has received extended protection for its “well-known” trademark, after the Beijing High People’s Court upheld an initial judgment by a lower court that prevented a tourism company fr... (more story)

Japanese copyright reforms rethink treatment of orphan works

May 22, 2025 | Toko Sekiguchi

Asia

Japan’s Agency for Cultural Affairs recently unveiled a draft of a new system designed to streamline the reuse of ambiguously copyrighted materials in the digital era, also known as orphan works. The proposed ... (more story)

Financial Crime View More

Mercedes Benz Financial Services Australia targeted by regulator over AML concerns

May 22, 2025

Oceania

MLex Summary: Mercedes Benz Financial Services Australia will have to open its books to an external auditor appointed by Australia’s financial-crime watchdog over concerns about the financier’s compliance with... (more story)

Former Safemoon chief executive found guilty in US fraud trial

May 21, 2025 | Samuel Rubenfeld

North America

Former Safemoon chief executive Braden John Karony was convicted today of defrauding investors by lying about his use of the decentralized financial firm’s liquidity pool tokens to buy luxury cars and homes fo... (more story)

Former Safemoon chief stole from investors, US says; defense calls case a mess

May 21, 2025 | Samuel Rubenfeld

North America

Former Safemoon chief Braden John Karony lied to investors about his use of the decentralized finance firm’s liquidity pool tokens, prosecutors said in their closing arguments at his fraud trial, while the def... (more story)

Financial Services View More

UK financial services firms see plan to revise reporting of complaints data

May 22, 2025

Europe

MLex Summary: UK financial services firms have been asked for feedback on a revision to complaints data reporting requirements, which seeks to consolidate five existing returns into one. Currently, 41 percent ... (more story)

Securities-financing liquidity rules maintained by EU lawmakers

May 22, 2025 | Fanny Roux

North America

The European Parliament today adopted a proposal to maintain EU rules on liquidity requirements for short-term securities financing transactions. The text extends a transitional measure under the current EU ba... (more story)

Small mid-caps companies supported in EU market rules review

May 21, 2025 | Fanny Roux

Europe

The European Commission has proposed amendments to the Markets in Financial Instruments Directive and to the Prospectus Regulation, in a new package proposal aimed at extending supportive measures to small mid... (more story)

Trade View More

EU backs tariffs on Russian, Belarusian fertilizers, agri imports

May 22, 2025

Europe

MLex Summary: The European Parliament today endorsed a proposal to impose new import tariffs on Russian and Belarusian fertilizers and agricultural products — including sugar, flour, vinegar and animal feed — ... (more story)

Pause CBAM for aluminum, address rules' design flaws, industry urges

May 22, 2025

Europe

MLex Summary: The current design of the EU's Carbon Border Adjustment Mechanism could accelerate carbon leakage in the aluminum sector, a study published by the European Aluminium Association said. "We strongl... (more story)

EU’s carbon border tax simplification package endorsed by EU Parliament

May 22, 2025

Europe

MLex Summary: The EU’s proposal to simplify its Carbon Border Adjustment Mechanism won broad support from the European Parliament this morning, with 564 votes in favor, 20 against and 12 abstentions. The plan ... (more story)

State Aid View More

Lithuania can grant extra money for sports complex, EU watchdog says

May 22, 2025

Europe

MLex Summary: Additional Lithuanian aid, needed for the construction of a sports complex in Vilnius, has received European Commission backing. The Covid pandemic and the Ukraine war have significantly increase... (more story)

Higher budget for Dutch aid to back sustainable farming wins EU approval

May 22, 2025

Europe

MLex Summary: Livestock farmers in the Netherlands have seen the European Commission back a budget increase for a program already in place, under which the state can compensate them for the voluntary closure o... (more story)

Czech president raises EU foreign subsidies probe with Von der Leyen

May 21, 2025 | Nicholas Hirst

Europe

Czechia’s president used a trip to Brussels to air concerns to the head of the European Commission about a looming EU subsidies probe into the award of a 16 billion-euro contract to Korea Hydro & Nuclear Power... (more story)

Energy View More

EU’s spot LNG reliance likely to remain if decarbonization efforts lag, ACER says

May 22, 2025

Europe

MLex Summary: Liquefied natural gas has become an increasingly important source of gas supply in the EU, with its share rising from 23 percent in 2020 to around 40 percent in 2024, according to a report by the... (more story)

Swedish miner LKAB loses ETS permits court dispute against EU Commission

May 22, 2025

Europe

MLex Summary: Luossavaara-Kiirunavaara Aktiebolag, a Swedish state-owned mining company, today lost its legal dispute at the EU Court of Justice against the European Commission over free CO2 emission permits f... (more story)

Novartis, Teva, others receive warning letters from US FTC over Orange Book patents

May 21, 2025

North America

MLex Summary: The US Federal Trade Commission sent warning letters to Novartis, Amphastar Pharmaceuticals, Mylan Specialty, Covis Pharma and three Teva entities, stating that it disputes the appropriateness of... (more story)

Technology View More

China cracks down on online defamation, privacy infringements against businesses

May 22, 2025

Asia

MLex Summary: China's Internet regulator has launched a two-month campaign, cracking down on malicious online defamation and privacy infringements that harm the rights of businesses and entrepreneurs, the Cybe... (more story)

US DOJ exploring quality of privacy protection as aspect of competition, official says

May 22, 2025 | Mike Swift

North America

As the US Department of Justice scrutinizes digital markets for antitrust problems, the agency is considering the quality of consumers’ privacy protections as one element of competition, a senior DOJ official ... (more story)

Google says US DOJ trying to regulate, restructure marketplace

May 21, 2025

North America

MLex Summary: Google told a US federal judge that the Department of Justice’s proposed remedies in a lawsuit over Google’s illegal monopoly in Internet search markets amount to legislation overtly regulating a... (more story)