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Antitrust, Artificial Intelligence
November 26, 2025 | Alex Wilts
North America
DealRisk®, Mergers and Acquisitions
November 26, 2025 | Curtis Eichelberger
North America
Antitrust
November 26, 2025 | Jon Menon
Europe
Antitrust View More
November 27, 2025 | Inbar Preiss
Europe
EU lawmakers disputing the European Commission’s withdrawal of a bill on standard essential patents face a steep legal test at the bloc's highest court as they challenge the limits of the executive branch’s po... (more story)
November 27, 2025 | Nicholas Hirst
Latin America
Meta’s move to block AI chatbots from WhatsApp has drawn formal antitrust complaints and an injunction request in Brazil, according to the country’s competition authority. On Wednesday it shared the complaint ... (more story)
November 27, 2025
Europe
MLex Summary: French search engine Qwant said it will turn to court to contest the decision from the national competition authority to dismiss its complaints against Microsoft. The complainant claimed the tech... (more story)
Artificial Intelligence View More
November 27, 2025 | Freny Patel
Asia
Underscoring the World Intellectual Property Organization Advisory Board of Judges’ mission to bridge the gap between highly advanced IP jurisdictions and those that need support, the board is finalizing a two... (more story)
November 27, 2025
Europe
MLex Summary: There is interest in developing guidance for automating contracts in the EU, but “regulatory fatigue” among member states could make legislation unlikely in the short term, a report by a forum lo... (more story)
November 27, 2025
Asia
MLex Summary: China’s top economic planner will speed up the creation of industry standards and evaluation systems for embodied intelligence and build entry and exit mechanisms to foster a fairer competitive l... (more story)
Mergers and Acquisitions View More
November 27, 2025
Europe
MLex Summary: German insurer Münchener Rückversicherungs-Gesellschaft Aktiengesellschaft has offered to transfer all existing Gjensidige road carrier liability insurance contracts to an independent buyer, to a... (more story)
November 27, 2025
Europe
MLex Summary: Fidelity National Information Services’ buyout of Total System Services has been cleared by the UK antitrust regulator following an initial review. The Competition and Markets Authority said it w... (more story)
November 27, 2025 | Jean Comte
Europe
Vassilios Skouris is set to be appointed president of the seven-strong committee tasked with evaluating candidates for EU judges positions, according to a document seen by MLex. The consultative body, whose op... (more story)
Data Privacy and Security View More
November 27, 2025
Europe
MLex Summary: Condé Nast, the publisher of vanityfair.fr, has been fined €750,000 by the French data protection authority CNIL after inspectors found that cookies requiring consent were placed on users’ device... (more story)
November 27, 2025
Oceania
MLex Summary: Australia’s social media ban for under-16s, set to take effect from Dec. 10, is being challenged in the country’s top court. In a statement, the Digital Freedom Project, a group led by Australia’... (more story)
November 27, 2025 | Jenny Lee
Asia
Netmarble has disclosed a data breach affecting its PC gaming platform that exposed customer names, birth dates and encrypted passwords, but faces criticism from lawmakers for waiting three days to report the ... (more story)
Intellectual Property View More
November 27, 2025 | Toko Sekiguchi
Asia
A Japanese court has ruled that a self-initiated Excel-based accounting system developed by an employee belonged entirely to the employer, noting that Japan’s Copyright Act offers no statutory compensation for... (more story)
November 26, 2025 | Nick Robertson
North America
US Register of Copyrights Shira Perlmutter will stay in her role amidst a legal battle to remove her, after the US Supreme Court on Wednesday deferred a motion to stay a preliminary injunction which prevented ... (more story)
November 26, 2025 | Nick Robertson
North America
The US Patent and Trademark Office will no longer apply the Pannu factors of inventorship to inventions conceived by a single person with the assistance of AI, according to new guidance announced Wednesday. Th... (more story)
Financial Crime View More
November 27, 2025 | Martin Coyle
Europe
Morgan Stanley units in London and Amsterdam have been fined a total of €101 million ($117 million) by the Dutch financial crime agency for tax evasion related to dividends from shares.
November 27, 2025
Europe
MLex Summary: Online platforms operating in the UK should deliver more granular data on financial harms, strengthen protections for children and teenagers exposed to fraud, and support evaluations of the law's... (more story)
November 26, 2025 | Martin Coyle
Europe
Whistleblowers who report tax fraud to the UK authorities now have a formal reward program, the government has said. The tax authority has been able to use its discretion to reward informants, but the governme... (more story)
Financial Services View More
November 27, 2025 | Sofia Gerace
Europe
New rules requiring greater disclosure of bond trades take effect in the UK on Dec. 1. But a legal dispute over the rights to operate the country's first consolidated feed of bond trading data threatens to und... (more story)
November 27, 2025
Europe
MLex Summary: The margin requirements for non-centrally cleared derivatives have been amended by the UK Prudential Regulation Authority, including a permanent exemption from bilateral margin for single-stock a... (more story)
November 27, 2025
Europe
MLex Summary: The Ombudswoman Teresa Anjinho found maladministration in the European Commission’s handling of its urgent legislative package to simplify sustainability rules for companies, dubbed Omnibus I. Sh... (more story)
Trade View More
November 27, 2025 | Lewis Crofts
Europe
State benefits for the Chinese rail company CRRC resulting from €36 billion of public contracts, a €471 million subsidy and a sizeable tax break have triggered suspicions its bid for a Lisbon Metro contract mi... (more story)
November 26, 2025
Asia, North America
MLex Summary: US Customs and Border Protection gas determined that WEC Manufacturing, a US importer, evaded the antidumping and antisubsidy duty orders on Chinese metal lockers.
November 26, 2025
North America
MLex Summary: The Office of the US Trade Representative is reviewing whether the Corporacion de Occidente facility in Jalisco, Mexico, is in compliance with collective bargaining and freedom of association reg... (more story)
State Aid View More
November 27, 2025
Europe
MLex Summary: A European Commission finding that Danish support measures including capital injections and a mix of state loans and guarantees for the Fehmarn Belt tunnel linking Denmark and Germany were state ... (more story)
November 26, 2025
Europe
MLex Summary: The EU state aid system should be less burdensome and complex, the Slovenian government has told other member states as part of a broader discussion about how to simplify the rules. In a paper to... (more story)
November 24, 2025
Europe
MLex Summary: Norway has won approval for its plans to grant up to 10 billion kroner for the development of floating offshore wind projects, the EFTA Surveillance Authority said Monday. This is the first plan ... (more story)
Energy View More
November 27, 2025
Europe
MLex Summary: A targeted amendment to the market stability reserve rules for the EU’s new emissions trading system for road transport and buildings was proposed on Thursday. The European Commission plan implem... (more story)
November 26, 2025
Europe
MLex Summary: The International Energy Agency says governments must overhaul long-term electricity market arrangements to help investors manage price risks and back new generation, storage and electrification ... (more story)
November 26, 2025
Asia
MLex Summary: South Korea’s Ministry of Employment and Labor has launched a forum of experts to assess the impact on the labor market from industrial transition driven by factors such as artificial intelligenc... (more story)
Technology View More
November 27, 2025
Europe
MLex Summary: Italy violated broadcasters’ free expression rights when it suspended and later annulled a digital television frequency tender, according to a press release Thursday from the European Court of Hu... (more story)
November 27, 2025
Asia
MLex Summary: China’s top internet regulator convened officials on Wednesday to push for tighter oversight of online content affecting companies, urging local authorities to step up enforcement against corpora... (more story)
November 27, 2025 | Saloni Sinha
Oceania
An Australian parliamentary committee has recommended delaying the rollout of the under-16 social-media ban, set to kick in on Dec. 10, to mid-2026, warning that the government and industry need more time to a... (more story)