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Antitrust
March 26, 2025 | Jenny Lee
Asia
DealRisk®, Mergers and Acquisitions
March 25, 2025 | Wesley Brown
North America
Artificial Intelligence
March 25, 2025 | Amy Miller
North America
Antitrust View More
March 26, 2025 | Freny Patel
Asia
India proposes to remove the “Google tax,” an equalization levy that primarily targets American tech giants, including Google, Meta, and Amazon. The Indian government's decision signals a strategic effort to s... (more story)
March 26, 2025
Europe
MLex Summary: UBS, UniCredit and Nomura have largely lost their legal challenges to a European Commission decision finding that they colluded with other lenders on the market for European government bonds, the... (more story)
March 26, 2025
Europe
MLex Summary: Morellato, an Italian manufacturer and seller of jewelry and watches, is now under investigation by the national antitrust authority, to see if it is prohibiting its own authorized distributors f... (more story)
Artificial Intelligence View More
March 26, 2025 | Choonsik Yoo
Asia
South Korea's recently announced attempt to secure fresh funding to expedite and expand the planned establishment of a national artificial intelligence computing center risks being delayed due to a political d... (more story)
March 26, 2025
North America
MLex Summary: A group of music publishers have lost their motion for a preliminary injunction blocking Anthropic from using song lyrics to train its large language models, with a federal judge in San Francisco... (more story)
March 25, 2025 | Mike Swift
North America
Elon Musk's legal battle against OpenAI and Microsoft over the founding of the company behind ChatGPT could move toward a trial as soon as December on some non-antitrust claims. Musk claims OpenAI's "disturbin... (more story)
Mergers and Acquisitions View More
March 26, 2025 | Yonnex Li
Asia
In a pivotal ruling, a Chinese court has clarified that previous antitrust penalties do not prejudice the competition authority's assessment of new mergers. This judgment marks China's first judicial review of... (more story)
March 26, 2025
Oceania
MLex Summary: Omnicom Group’s $13.25 billion all-stock acquisition of Interpublic Group of Companies is moving ahead in New Zealand, with the country’s antitrust watchdog issuing a statement of preliminary iss... (more story)
March 25, 2025 | Maria Júlia Baumert
Latin America
Third parties have asked Brazil’s competition authority to block or heavily condition Grupo Atem’s proposed acquisition of WPL. Ipiranga, Vibra Energia and Petróleo Sabbá — the latter of which is part of the ... (more story)
Data Privacy and Security View More
March 26, 2025
Asia
MLex Summary: The commissioners of Japan's Personal Information Protection Commission, or PPC, today agreed to start roundtable discussions with stakeholders — including legal experts, business groups and cons... (more story)
March 26, 2025
Europe
MLex Summary: Cyber threats to commercial satellites are increasing, with vulnerabilities in supply chains, weak encryption, and outdated systems putting critical infrastructure at risk, according to a new rep... (more story)
March 26, 2025 | MLex Staff
Asia
A doxxing scandal involving the teenage daughter of a Baidu executive has fueled concerns and criticism about the tech giant's data security management. Critics are also raising alarms about the risks of insid... (more story)
Intellectual Property View More
March 26, 2025 | MLex Staff
Asia
The use of a trademark should not be considered in the determination of a trademark registration that was obtained through fraudulent information, according to an appeal decision published by the Beijing High ... (more story)
March 26, 2025
Asia
MLex Summary: Japan's Cabinet Office has published a set of guidelines for handling intellectual property for university and institutional researchers. Released by the Intellectual Property Strategy Promotion ... (more story)
March 26, 2025 | James Panichi
Oceania
“No-poach” agreements among employers would be banned under proposed changes to Australia’s competition law, while all employees earning under $110,000 would be freed from the “handcuffs” of noncompete contrac... (more story)
Financial Crime View More
March 26, 2025
Europe
MLex Summary: The new expanded Fraud Strategy will be published by the UK government later this year, fraud minister David Hanson will announce later today. “The Fraud Strategy will include new proposals which... (more story)
March 25, 2025
North America
MLex Summary: In an executive order targeting the law firm Jenner & Block, President Donald Trump singed out its hiring of the attorney Andrew Weissmann, who had once served as chief of the US Justice Departme... (more story)
March 25, 2025
North America
MLex Summary: US Representative Angie Craig, the top Democrat on the House Agriculture Committee, called on Democrats and Republicans to work out a "durable plan" to increase funding for the Commodity Futures ... (more story)
Financial Services View More
March 25, 2025 | Fanny Roux
Europe
EU lawmakers and governments negotiating an overhaul of the bloc's bank crisis management and deposit insurance framework failed to make a breakthrough in a fifth session of talks today and will hold another m... (more story)
March 25, 2025 | Phoebe Seers
Europe
Social media platforms like Meta have been warned they are in the “last chance saloon” when it comes to their inaction on fraud. Luke Charters, a Labour lawmaker and former regulator, said now is the time for ... (more story)
March 25, 2025 | Phoebe Seers
Europe
Kate Fitzgerald, head of policy at the UK Payment Systems Regulator and architect of its fraud-reimbursement regime, is leaving the regulator at the end of April, MLex has learned. News of her departure comes ... (more story)
Trade View More
March 26, 2025 | MLex Staff
Asia
In a strategic move to counter escalating trade pressures from the US and other countries, China has fortified its legal framework against foreign sanctions. On Sunday, Chinese Premier Li Qiang signed a State ... (more story)
March 25, 2025 | Zack Budryk
North America, Oceania
The US Court of International Trade today granted a request for a joint dismissal by the Commerce Department and National Marine Fisheries Service and a coalition of environmental groups after the parties reac... (more story)
March 25, 2025
North America
The US Court of International Trade today granted a joint request by the Commerce Department and National Marine Fisheries Service settling litigation over the delay of a federal marine mammal protection rule.... (more story)
State Aid View More
March 26, 2025
Europe
MLex Summary: Parties interested in Finnish support to Helsinki bus operator, Koiviston Auto, formerly Helsingin Bussiliikenne, have until April 28, 2025 to file comments to the European Commission. In 2019, t... (more story)
March 25, 2025
Europe
MLex Summary: Greek power company Dimosia Epicheirisi Ilektrisimou is at the bloc's first-tier court today to challenge a European Commission decision which found that a preferential tariff, set by an arbitrat... (more story)
March 24, 2025
Europe
MLex Summary: Compensation granted by the German states of Berlin and Brandenburg to Deutsche Bahn's unit DB Regio — for the provision of regional passenger train services between 2002 and 2012 — is in line wi... (more story)
Energy View More
March 26, 2025
Europe
MLex Summary: Ensuring that network tariffs send the right price signals optimizes grid use and keeps network costs down, the EU energy watchdog ACER says in its report on electricity network tariff methodolog... (more story)
March 26, 2025
Europe
MLex Summary: The European Commission opened a public consultation on its draft updated rules for the implementation of the revised directive on the emissions trading system. Rules on verification and accredit... (more story)
March 25, 2025 | Helena Freitas and Oscar Pandiello
Europe
The EU’s 2035 de facto ban on cars with internal combustion engines must be revised, the center-right European People’s Party has said, while the center-left party Socialists and Democrats want the target reta... (more story)
Technology View More
March 25, 2025 | Emma Whitford
North America
News outlets are demanding that OpenAI identify the ‘nature and extent’ of allegedly destroyed user chats that could be relevant to their discovery dispute in federal litigation accusing the company and Micros... (more story)
March 25, 2025 | Madeline Hughes
North America
Laws regulating deepfake images online and children’s use of social media are priorities when it comes to tech regulation for US Senator Ted Cruz, chair of the Senate Commerce Committee, he said today.
March 25, 2025 | Khushita Vasant
North America
US Federal Trade Commissioner Melissa Holyoak today called on antitrust and consumer protection enforcers to watch out for potential competition as well as fraud concerns when it comes to artificial intelligen... (more story)