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Antitrust

March 13, 2025 | Alex Wilts

North America

Live Nation’s move to dismiss DOJ suit will be rejected, US judge says

DealRisk®, Mergers and Acquisitions, Trade

March 13, 2025 | Curtis Eichelberger

Asia, Europe, North America

US tariffs can complicate merger defenses by reducing competition from imports
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Financial Services, Technology

March 13, 2025 | Phoebe Seers

Europe

UK crypto markets conduct plan is at odds with growth push, industry claims

Antitrust View More

Apple, Amazon seek to reactivate request for sanctions against US private plaintiff

March 15, 2025

North America

MLex Summary: Apple and Amazon filed a notice to reactivate their motion for discovery sanctions in a US antitrust case accusing the companies of illegally agreeing to place a quantitative limit on the number ... (more story)

Walmart fires US antitrust broadside at generic drug industry’s ‘fair-share scheme’

March 14, 2025 | Chris May and Clayton Vickers

North America

Walmart filed a massive antitrust complaint in Pennsylvania federal court today accusing dozens of generic drug manufacturers of a nationwide, anticompetitive conspiracy centered around a “fair-share” agreemen... (more story)

Google seeks dismissal, says monopoly power not detailed in Yelp’s US suit

March 14, 2025

North America

MLex Summary: Google asked a California federal judge to dismiss antitrust claims from Yelp alleging the tech giant has monopolized the markets for local search services and local search advertising. Yelp can'... (more story)

Artificial Intelligence View More

Telecom association urges US government to expand broadband to support AI

March 14, 2025

North America

MLex Summary: Telecom industry trade association US Telecom urged the federal government to cut red tape and speed up broadband deployment to promote artificial intelligence in its response to the Trump admini... (more story)

Mozilla calls for strong federal AI rules, open-source investment

March 14, 2025

North America

MLex Summary: Mozilla is calling for strong federal legislation to regulate artificial intelligence and for government investment in open-source models in its response to the Trump administration's request for... (more story)

How can AI rules be simplified, EU countries asked ahead of policy discussion

March 14, 2025 | Luca Bertuzzi

Europe

Simplifying the AI Act and national governance approaches will be at the center of discussions between EU countries and the European Commission later this month at a meeting of the European AI Board. As part o... (more story)

Mergers and Acquisitions View More

CADE approves MSC Group's acquisition of Wilson Sons

March 14, 2025 | Maria Júlia Baumert

Latin America

The Brazilian competition authority has approved, without restrictions, the acquisition of Wilson Sons by SAS Shipping Agencies Services Sàrl, a subsidiary of the MSC Group. The transaction, which involves the... (more story)

US files unopposed motion to push back brief due dates, oral arguments

March 14, 2025

North America

MLex Summary: The US government filed an unopposed motion today to push back the due dates for response-and-reply briefs and to reschedule oral arguments in the US Steel case against the Committee on Foreign I... (more story)

Spreadex, Sporting Index can expect decision by July in rerun of UK deal review

March 14, 2025

Europe

MLex Summary: The UK merger regulator says its reassessment of Spreadex’s acquisition of online sports betting rival Sporting Index’s consumer-facing business is scheduled to be completed around June/July. The... (more story)

Data Privacy and Security View More

Amazon required to turn over documents to US FTC on executives' talks on Prime

March 14, 2025

North America

MLex Summary: Amazon must provide the US Federal Trade Commission some documents related to internal meetings of Amazon executives who the regulator says illegally created a system to obstruct Prime subscriber... (more story)

Policy advisor Kemp appointed to lead California privacy agency

March 14, 2025 | Xu Yuan

North America

Tom Kemp, a privacy policy advisor who has written a book criticizing Big Tech’s collection of data and use of artificial intelligence, has been appointed the executive director of California’s privacy regulator.

WeChat indispensable to California arbitration privacy claims, plaintiffs say

March 14, 2025 | Mike Swift

North America

In a dispute that echoes the US Supreme Court’s recent scrutiny of TikTok’s privacy threats, a long-running suit against Tencent’s WeChat is approaching a crucial juncture in a California court, with a group o... (more story)

Intellectual Property View More

Qiagen fails to get Zymo's US antitrust counterclaims dismissed in patent suit

March 14, 2025

North America

MLex Summary: Qiagen must face US claims from Zymo Research accusing it of misusing its patents over technology that allows researchers to extract nucleic acids to stifle competition, a federal judge ruled. US... (more story)

US senators reintroduce legislation aimed at biosimilar ‘patent thickets’

March 14, 2025 | Nick Robertson

North America

A bipartisan group of four US senators reintroduced the Affordable Prescriptions for Patients Act yesterday, which aims to regulate patent thickets in the so-called “patent dance” of biosimilars litigation.

DW Windsor largely wins UK High Court patent ruling over prior art

March 14, 2025 | Inbar Preiss

Europe

DW Windsor, a UK manufacturer of outdoor lighting, has prevailed in a patent dispute against Urbis Schreder over LED street lighting technology. While the court invalidated some claims due to a lack of inventi... (more story)

Financial Crime View More

Indian defense middleman Bhandari faces challenge to UK extradition win

March 14, 2025 | Martin Coyle

Europe

An Indian defense middleman facing money laundering and tax evasion charges faces a challenge to a UK appeal court ruling that blocked his extradition to India. A UK court official said today that the Indian g... (more story)

Spanish judge orders former UN official held over US corruption charges

March 13, 2025

Europe, North America

MLex Summary: A Spanish judge has ordered provisional imprisonment for a former United Nations official, identified as Vitaly V., who is wanted by the US on charges of bribery, fraud and money laundering, acco... (more story)

Cryptocurrency founder convicted in US of fraud, money laundering

March 13, 2025

North America

MLex Summary: A federal jury convicted Rowland Marcus Andrade of wire fraud and money laundering in connection with the fraudulent marketing and sale of a cryptocurrency called AML Bitcoin, a scheme that raise... (more story)

Financial Services View More

Non-bank financial intermediation risks need collective action, feedback shows

March 14, 2025

Europe

MLex Summary: The European Commission has published a summary report of its consultation on the adequacy of macroprudential policies for non-bank financial intermediation. It found that both national and EU pu... (more story)

Work on proposed new EU-wide company type is under way, EU justice chief says

March 14, 2025 | Sara Brandstätter

Europe

An EU proposal for a new kind of company with the freedom to follow one simple set of uniform rules everywhere in the bloc should be put forward soon, the EU's justice chief has said, adding some practical det... (more story)

EU banks quizzed on central securities depositories services’ threshold

March 14, 2025

Europe

MLex Summary: The European Banking Authority today opened a public consultation on its draft rules defining the threshold for prudential risk management requirements of central securities depositories providin... (more story)

Trade View More

Canada’s pushback to Trump tariffs contrasts with Mexico’s diplomacy

March 14, 2025 | Bradley Dress and Eliana Hubacker

Asia, North America

Canada has fiercely opposed US tariffs, while Mexico has been more conciliatory. The outcomes for each country could illuminate what approach — if any — may be productive in reckoning with President Donald Tru... (more story)

US group requests Commerce crack down on AI chip export controls

March 14, 2025 | Bradley Dress

Asia, North America

An influential advocacy group told the US Commerce Department officials this week that it must work harder to crack down on semiconductor chips that are flowing to China and powering critical technology like a... (more story)

US groups ink new trade deals with Vietnam

March 14, 2025

Asia, North America

MLex summary: Several American companies and groups signed deals with Vietnamese businesses after a visit to Washington from Vietnamese Minister of Industry and Trade Nguyễn Hồng Diên this week. The Vietnamese... (more story)

State Aid View More

Changes to Norway's tax program for employee share options approved by EFTA watchdog

March 12, 2025

Europe

MLex Summary:  An update to a Norwegian employee share-option tax plan for start-up and growth companies is in line with state aid rules, the EFTA Surveillance Authority said today. Under the modifications, th... (more story)

EU decision on ČEZ unit's nuclear plant state aid published

March 12, 2025

Europe

MLex Summary: The ČEZ Group has seen the European Commission issue the text of its earlier decision to clear Czechia's support to the company's subsidiary Elektrárna Dukovany II. Last year, the state aid regul... (more story)

PGI Spain, others lose appeal of Iberian measure to reduce power price at EU court

March 12, 2025

Europe

MLex Summary: PGI Spain, and other companies including Berry Superfos and RPC Envases, today lost an appeal at the EU General Court where they were challenging a measure allowing Spain and Portugal to support ... (more story)

Energy View More

Share your Power Purchase Agreement templates, Acer asks EU energy sector

March 14, 2025

Europe

MLex Summary: The EU energy sector participants are invited to submit their Power Purchase Agreement templates to the Agency for the Cooperation of Energy Regulators. ACER ran a consultation last year on the n... (more story)

Affordable power crucial for rollout of heat pumps in EU, lobby head says

March 14, 2025 | Helena Freitas

Europe

The disparity between prices for gas and electricity is one of the main problems that undermine the uptake of heat pumps in the EU, European Heat Pump Association chair Patrick Crombez told MLex. The heat pump... (more story)

US FTC noncompete rule in jeopardy, but labor restraints remain risky

March 13, 2025 | Chris May and Clayton Vickers

North America

A pause on US Federal Trade Commission litigation defending a controversial nationwide ban of noncompete agreements, alongside a new agency labor antitrust task force, has offered a mixed bag for employers try... (more story)

Technology View More

Anthropic intervention in US DOJ's Google search case still needed, company says

March 14, 2025

North America

MLex Summary: Anthropic told a District of Columbia federal judge presiding over the remedies phase of monopolization litigation between the US Department of Justice and Google that the AI company's interventi... (more story)

UK demand for Apple’s encrypted data faces legal challenge by privacy advocates

March 14, 2025

Europe

MLex Summary: Privacy International says it has filed a legal challenge against a recent UK government request to access encrypted data held by Apple users. The privacy advocacy group went to the Investigatory... (more story)

Focus on kids’ digital mental-health challenges, Poland urges EU Commission

March 14, 2025 | Júlia Tar

Europe

New measures to protect the mental health of children and adolescents are essential in the digital age, according to a document recently issued by the Polish Presidency of the Council of the EU, seen by MLex. ... (more story)