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Antitrust
July 09, 2025 | Simon Zekaria
Europe
Antitrust
July 08, 2025 | Maria Júlia Baumert
Latin America, North America
DealRisk®, Mergers and Acquisitions
July 08, 2025 | Flavia Fortes
North America
Antitrust View More
July 09, 2025
Europe
MLex Summary: The German competition authority has seen a "welcome turnaround" in cartel prosecution, antitrust head Andreas Mundt said today, when issuing the authority's latest activity report. "We will cont... (more story)
July 09, 2025
Europe
MLex Summary: Federconsorzio Dolomiti SuperSki — an Italian association of ski-infrastructure operators and 12 local groups of ski-slope transport providers in the Dolomite mountains — are under investigation ... (more story)
July 09, 2025
Europe
MLex Summary: The European Commission today provided antitrust guidance for the creation of a licensing negotiation group in the automotive sector that would negotiate licenses to use technologies covered by S... (more story)
Artificial Intelligence View More
July 09, 2025 | Jenny Lee
Asia
South Korea’s drive to become a global power in artificial intelligence will hinge on whether it can build robust cybersecurity foundations, President Lee Jae Myung said today, pledging reforms to better safeg... (more story)
July 09, 2025 | Choonsik Yoo
Asia,Europe,North America,Oceania
The 10-member International Network of AI Safety Institutes will meet next week in Canada for the first time since recent name changes in the UK and US stirred speculation about the future direction of the sti... (more story)
July 09, 2025 | MLex Staff
Asia
More than 60 entities in Beijing have filed with the local Internet regulator after storing facial-recognition data on at least 100,000 individuals, as authorities launch an enforcement campaign designed to cu... (more story)
Mergers and Acquisitions View More
July 09, 2025 | Saloni Sinha
Oceania
While Australia’s mandatory, suspensory merger regime came into effect on a voluntary basis from July 1, the country’s competition regulator is continuing to update its guidance designed to help businesses man... (more story)
July 09, 2025
Asia
MLex Summary: 360 ONE Group has received approval from the Indian antitrust watchdog to acquire certain businesses of the Indian subsidiary of Switzerland-based UBS Group. According to the Competition Commissi... (more story)
July 09, 2025
Asia
MLex Summar: Private equity firm Triton will assume the four obligations originally imposed on Finnish cargo-handling machinery maker Cargotec by the Chinese market regulator in the conditional clearance of Ca... (more story)
Data Privacy and Security View More
July 09, 2025
Europe
MLex Summary: Europe’s top data protection authorities have endorsed proposed changes to the General Data Protection Regulation that would ease record-keeping requirements for small and mid-sized companies, wh... (more story)
July 09, 2025
Europe
MLex Summary: UK media regulator Ofcom has asked online services to provide their children’s risk assessment reports, after it launched an enforcement program under the Online Safety Act. Ofcom didn't name the... (more story)
July 09, 2025 | Frank Hersey
Europe
The UK government will consider whether it needs additional options for corporate intervention in the case of a company's behavior leading to an emergency, as part of a wider drive to strengthen the country's ... (more story)
Intellectual Property View More
July 09, 2025
Europe
MLex Summary: The Rubik’s Cube shape can't be protected as an EU trademark, the EU General Court ruled today. The EU’s lower-tier court confirmed that the contested marks — specific colors and placements — are... (more story)
July 09, 2025 | Nicholas Hirst and Lewis Crofts
Europe
BMW, Mercedes-Benz, Volkswagen and port operators are among the first companies to benefit from a new EU policy approach to giving guidance when industry players want to cooperate without falling foul of antit... (more story)
July 09, 2025
Europe
MLex Summary: Sprd.net’s appeal of the European Union Intellectual Property Office’s rejection to trademark the “I (red heart)” sign on specific positions on items of clothing has been dismissed by the EU’s Ge... (more story)
Financial Crime View More
July 09, 2025
Europe
MLex Summary: More than half of people who've acted on social media financial advice have lost money, UK bank TSB said today. Four-fifths of respondents to TSB’s survey of just over 1,800 consumers said they'd... (more story)
July 08, 2025 | Samuel Rubenfeld
North America
The upcoming US trial of a cryptocurrency software developer can include mentions of a North Korean hacking group, a judge ruled today, though she limited the extent to which prosecutors can discuss the organi... (more story)
July 08, 2025
North America
MLex Summary: The US Treasury Department's Office of Foreign Assets Control (OFAC) sanctioned Song Kum Hyok, a malicious cyber actor associated with the North Korean hacking group Andariel, for facilitating an... (more story)
Financial Services View More
July 09, 2025 | Sofia Gerace
Europe
The Bank of England will publish more market-based finance data to mitigate the risks from higher leverage in non-bank financial institutions, companies which offer financial services but are not regulated as ... (more story)
July 09, 2025
Europe
MLex Summary: UK banks are well capitalized and would continue to support the wider economy even if economic conditions were to get worse, the Financial Policy Committee has found in its latest Financial Stabi... (more story)
July 08, 2025 | Fanny Roux
Europe
Stephanie Lose, Denmark’s Finance Minister, today elaborated on the way to reaching an agreement on a revamped securitization framework “as soon as possible this year.” Speaking at Ecofin — a meeting of EU fin... (more story)
Trade View More
July 09, 2025
Europe
MLex Summary: E-commerce platforms should group goods shipped into the EU and process them at warehouses, rather than sending parcels individually, in order to improve product safety checks, according to a rep... (more story)
July 09, 2025 | Joanna Sopinska
Europe
EU-US trade negotiations are appearing to progress, European Commission President Ursula Von der Leyen told EU lawmakers today, reporting a "good exchange" with US President Donald Trump yesterday. The two sid... (more story)
July 09, 2025 | Dalila Abu Bakar
Asia, North America
Malaysia’s Minister of Investment, Trade and Industry Tengku Zafrul Aziz said he is optimistic about a positive conclusion to bilateral trade talks with the US between now and Aug. 1, which will include a vide... (more story)
State Aid View More
July 07, 2025
Europe
MLex Summary: PGI Spain, along with other companies including Berry Superfos and RPC Envases, have appealed a previous court defeat over a Spanish and Portuguese measure to back the input costs of fossil-fuel ... (more story)
July 02, 2025 | Andrew Boyce
Europe
Abu Dhabi National Oil Company has seen the European Commission resume its foreign subsidy probe into the state-owned company's takeover of German chemicals group Covestro, following a five-week suspension. Th... (more story)
July 02, 2025
Europe
MLex Summary: Spain and Cellnex Telecom have lost their legal challenge to a European Commission decision that ordered Spain to recoup illegal state funding from digital terrestrial TV operators. Spain backed ... (more story)
Energy View More
July 09, 2025 | Eleonora Rinaldi
Europe
The EU’s 2040 climate target proposal will proceed through the ordinary legislative process, after European lawmakers voted against using an urgency procedure during today’s full assembly in Strasbourg. The re... (more story)
July 09, 2025
Europe
MLex Summary: The EU's national regulatory authorities, or NRAs, should remain the primary independent bodies responsible for designing and approving the regulatory framework for grid tariffs, the Council of E... (more story)
July 08, 2025
Europe
MLex Summary: Low-carbon hydrogen and fuel producers today received clear rules for calculating emission savings compared to unabated fossil fuels, the European Commission announced in a new delegated act. Hyd... (more story)
Technology View More
July 09, 2025
Europe
MLex Summary: Google Cloud will form a partnership with the UK government to help public services use advanced tech and shake off legacy contracts that leave essential services vulnerable to cyber attacks, the... (more story)
July 09, 2025
Europe
MLex Summary: The inclusion of a so-called fair share settlement regime in the EU's Digital Networks Act which would require content and application providers to pay telecom companies fees for delivering traff... (more story)
July 09, 2025
Europe
MLex Summary: Online platforms will need to allow greater researcher access to data for online safety purposes under proposals published by UK regulator Ofcom. The watchdog suggested three models: one where se... (more story)