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Data Privacy and Security
June 12, 2025 | Mike Swift
North America
Trade
June 12, 2025 | Bradley Dress
North America
Artificial Intelligence
June 12, 2025 | Bradley Dress
North America
Antitrust View More
June 16, 2025
Europe
MLex Summary: UK High Court Judge Kelyn Bacon ruled today that toymaker MGA Entertainment abused its dominant position and made unjustified patent threats against Cabo Concepts Ltd., maker of the discontinued ... (more story)
June 16, 2025
North America
MLex summary: The National Association for Stock Car Auto Racing is challenging “improper claims of privilege” asserted by the Race Team Alliance in US antitrust litigation where NASCAR is accused of being a m... (more story)
June 16, 2025
North America
MLex Summary: PepsiCo and Frito-Lay told a California federal judge that litigation brought by independent US convenience stores alleging violations of the Robinson-Patman Act is not suited for class treatment... (more story)
Artificial Intelligence View More
June 16, 2025
North America
MLex Summary: The Authors Guild and a group of fiction and non-fiction authors filed a consolidated US class action complaint against OpenAI and Microsoft over OpenAI’s alleged infringement of their works, cop... (more story)
June 16, 2025
Europe
MLex Summary: The European Commission said today it's looking for independent experts in fields such as general-purpose AI models and systems, AI impacts and cybersecurity, to join a scientific panel that woul... (more story)
June 16, 2025 | Luca Bertuzzi
Europe
The European Commission will clarify in upcoming guidelines whether manufacturers of products with embedded AI, governed by EU sectoral safety laws, must comply with the AI Act’s high-risk regime. This follows... (more story)
Mergers and Acquisitions View More
June 16, 2025
North America
MLex Summary: The US waiting period for Merck's acquisition of SpringWorks Therapeutics for $3.9 billion has expired, SpringWorks said in a filing with the US Securities and Exchange Commission.
June 16, 2025 | Flavia Fortes
North America
Pharmaceutical giant Merck’s proposed $3.9 billion acquisition of cancer and rare disease drugmaker SpringWorks Therapeutics has received clearance from the US antitrust authorities. The waiting period under t... (more story)
June 16, 2025
Asia
MLex Summary: China’s top merger-control regulator announced today that it has conditionally approved the proposed acquisition of Glencore-backed Viterra by global agricultural business giant Bunge. The State ... (more story)
Data Privacy and Security View More
June 16, 2025 | Sara Brandstätter and Lewis Crofts
Europe
WhatsApp will introduce advertisements in the “Updates” tab on accounts that lists a user's status and channels, Meta Platforms announced today. The choice of ads will use “limited information” such as a user’... (more story)
June 16, 2025
Europe
MLex Summary: UK manufacturing companies today saw new guidance on how data protection law applies to smart home products published by the national privacy watchdog. The Information Commissioner’s Office outli... (more story)
June 16, 2025
Europe
MLex Summary: The European rollout of digital connectivity infrastructure, such as fibre and 5G stand-alone networks, is still lagging, the European Commission said in its 2025 State of the Digital Decade rep... (more story)
Intellectual Property View More
June 16, 2025 | Melissa Ritti
North America
A new report from Lex Machina shows patent litigation remains highly lucrative and concentrated in a handful of US district courts. While the three judges overseeing the bulk of the nation’s patent cases remai... (more story)
June 16, 2025
North America
MLex Summary: A compilation of data and corresponding analysis by Lex Machina of 40,156 patent cases filed in US federal courts between 2015 and 2024 shows damages on the rise. Elsewhere in the report, Lex Mac... (more story)
June 16, 2025 | Simon Zekaria
Europe
A UK music copyright collective targeted by a collective claim over alleged unfair distribution of royalty payments saw the claim leader ask judges today for an adjournment in an ongoing hearing over its suita... (more story)
Financial Crime View More
June 13, 2025 | Samuel Rubenfeld
North America
A San Francisco venture capital firm turned to lawyers in 2018 for an opinion on whether US sanctions imposed on a Russian billionaire would apply to its investments. The advice GVA Capital received was incorr... (more story)
June 13, 2025
Africa, Asia, Europe, Latin America, Middle East, North America, Oceania
MLex Summary: At a plenary this week, the global Financial Action Task Force approved changes to its anti-money laundering and counter-terrorist finance standards that it said will improve the safety and secur... (more story)
June 13, 2025
North America
MLex Summary: Miami real estate broker Roman Sinyavsky was sentenced to a year and a day in prison for violating US sanctions and money laundering laws after conducting transactions involving blocked property ... (more story)
Financial Services View More
June 16, 2025
Europe
MLex Summary: The UK government is set to exempt companies designated as “domestic premises suppliers” from seeking credit-broking permissions to offer Buy Now, Pay Later products. The finance ministry had ini... (more story)
June 16, 2025 | Sofia Gerace
Europe
The UK government is set to open a consultation in the coming weeks to gather views on how to encourage people to invest more of their tax-free savings into the stock market, rather than cash. The review of In... (more story)
June 13, 2025
Europe
MLex Summary: French bank BPCE said today that it will acquire 75 percent of Portuguese lender Novobanco from private equity firm Lone Star Funds, for approximately 6.4 billion euros. It is also in talk with t... (more story)
Trade View More
June 16, 2025 | Oscar Pandiello
Europe
Poland has used its leadership role as chair of the Council of the EU, the body that represents national governments in Brussels, to push defense and reduce Europe’s reliance on foreign powers to the forefront... (more story)
June 16, 2025
Asia, North America
MLex Summary: The US Commerce Department has determined high chrome cast-iron grinding media imports from India were sold at less-than-fair value and subsidized by the government of India. The International Tr... (more story)
June 16, 2025
Asia, North America
MLex Summary: The US Commerce Department has preliminarily determined that slag pots imported from China were dumped in the US.
State Aid View More
June 13, 2025
Europe
MLex Summary: There is a risk that public funds from the special infrastructure fund to modernize Germany's rail network may indirectly benefit other areas of railway group DB through cross-subsidization, the ... (more story)
June 13, 2025
Europe
MLex Summary: The European Commission's procedure for dealing with state aid complaints could get a boost, under a Code of Best Practices issued today. The guidance lays out how state aid procedures work in pr... (more story)
June 11, 2025
Europe
MLex Summary: The transfer of public land free of charge to Norwegian property developer Masserud Utvikling — due to the municipality’s failure to enforce its claim under the sale agreement — amounts to unlawf... (more story)
Energy View More
June 16, 2025 | Eleonora Rinaldi and Helena Freitas
Europe
Italy is becoming a full member of the EU's pro-nuclear alliance, the country's environment and energy security minister said today, as part of the government's wider National Integrated Energy and Climate Pla... (more story)
June 16, 2025
Europe
MLex Summary: An Energy Union Task Force has been established by the EU today to promote cooperation and coordination on key energy policy issues, with the first meeting planned for early September. The body f... (more story)
June 16, 2025
Europe
MLex Summary: Spanish and French power system operators secured today 1.6 billion euros in loans from the European Investment Bank to complete the Bay of Biscay power interconnector. The project represents the... (more story)
Technology View More
June 16, 2025
Asia
MLex Summary: Vietnam’s National Assembly on Saturday passed the Law on the Digital Technology Industry, with over 92 percent of lawmakers ((441 out of 445) voting in favor. The law provides a legal framework... (more story)
June 16, 2025 | Saloni Sinha
Oceania
A proposed social-media ban for children under 16 could be “challenging” in practice, because it would be likely to trigger the collection of large volumes of personal data to verify the age of users, New Zeal... (more story)
June 13, 2025
North America
MLex Summary: Google is paying “lip service” to its discovery obligations by “slow-rolling” the production of remedy feasibility submissions to the European Commission and “continuing to withhold relevant, non... (more story)