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Antitrust
January 10, 2025 | Chris May
North America
DealRisk®, Mergers and Acquisitions
January 10, 2025 | Ilana Kowarski and Wesley Brown
Europe, North America
Antitrust, Trade
January 10, 2025 | Joanna Sopinska and Lewis Crofts
Europe
Antitrust View More
January 13, 2025
Europe
MLex Summary: Pharmaceutical company Boehringer Ingelheim has been fined more than 128 million lei (around $26.4 million) in Romania, for abusing its dominant position on the market for drugs used to treat chr... (more story)
January 13, 2025
Europe
MLex Summary: Empire Brands, a producer of feed for cats and dogs, and two managers, have been fined a total of nearly half a million zloty for having forced retailers to stick to minimum resale prices when se... (more story)
January 13, 2025
Europe
MLex Summary: Agricultural cooperative Conserve Italia's grounds of appeal against a failed challenge to a fine of around 20 million euros levied for its role in a cartel in the market for canned vegetables ha... (more story)
Artificial Intelligence View More
January 13, 2025
Europe
MLex Summary: A new central regulator for AI could be established in the UK if existing ones fail to properly promote innovation, according to the government's AI Opportunities Action Plan. All regulators must... (more story)
January 13, 2025
Asia
MLex Summary: South Korea’s science ministry pledged to focus most of its policy resources on strengthening the country’s artificial intelligence capabilities in 2025, recognizing that fostering AI-driven tran... (more story)
January 13, 2025 | Choonsik Yoo
Asia
South Korea’s science ministry pledged to prioritize its policy resources on strengthening the country’s artificial intelligence capabilities in 2025, recognizing that fostering AI-driven transformation holds ... (more story)
Mergers and Acquisitions View More
January 13, 2025
Europe
MLex Summary: Deli Home Holding and Houtwerf International have obtained EU approval for their plan to acquire joint control over Dutch business Houtwerf and Belgian company Distri-hout, according to a stateme... (more story)
January 13, 2025
Asia
MLex Summary: Mobility company Honda Motor's acquisition of E-Materials Canada Corporation; the joint venture between Japanese general trading company Marubeni Corporation and construction equipment company Hi... (more story)
January 13, 2025
Europe
MLex Summary: Mediterranean Shipping Company's SAS Shipping Agencies Services has seen the European Commission issue the public version of its earlier decision to approve the acquisition of French freight forw... (more story)
Data Privacy and Security View More
January 13, 2025 | MLex Staff
Asia
China's Internet information content service platforms have received draft rules, assigning them roles in ensuring content compliance for Multi-Channel Network organizations. On Friday, the Cyberspace Administ... (more story)
January 13, 2025
Asia
MLex Summary: South Korea's privacy regulator has announced its major policy initiatives for 2025, centered on the vision of creating a "Safe Personal Information, Trusted AI Era." According to the Personal In... (more story)
January 12, 2025
Asia
MLex Summary: South Korea's Personal Information Protection Commission has signed a cooperation agreement with the California Privacy Protection Agency, marking a first step in expanding privacy partnerships t... (more story)
Intellectual Property View More
January 13, 2025
Europe
MLex Summary: Sennheiser's noise-reduction patent has been revoked by the European Patent Office’s Board of Appeal, which found it lacked novelty and inventive step under Articles 54 and 56 of the European Pat... (more story)
January 13, 2025 | MLex Staff
Asia
China's Supreme People's Court has clarified the criteria used to assess whether to grant or deny requests for injunctions. In its latest decision, the country's top court upheld a preliminary injunction issue... (more story)
January 10, 2025
North America
MLex Summary: Planner 5D, which operates a platform for interior design tools, moved for summary judgment in its lawsuit against Meta Platforms and Princeton University alleging that Princeton illegally obtain... (more story)
Financial Crime View More
January 10, 2025
North America
MLex Summary: The US Justice Department has secured a final judgment forfeiting to the government more than $20 million in foreign bribery and money laundering proceeds, including interest. The funds were alle... (more story)
January 10, 2025
Asia, North America
MLex Summary: Do Kwon, the co-founder of cryptocurrency firm Terraform Labs, will go to trial on US fraud charges in January 2026, according to an order from the judge.
January 10, 2025
North America
MLex Summary: The US and Nigeria announced, in a joint statement, that the US government will repatriate nearly $53 million in forfeited corruption proceeds to Nigeria. The assets, which include a superyacht a... (more story)
Financial Services View More
January 13, 2025
Europe
MLex Summary: Former HSBC chair of public sector banking Michael Ellam has been appointed to manage the EU Relations Secretariat in the Cabinet Office, which was set up by Prime Minister Keir Starmer in July t... (more story)
January 11, 2025
Asia, Europe
MLex Summary: Following a visit to China from UK financial regulators over the weekend, the Financial Conduct Authority and China’s National Financial Regulatory Administration have agreed to explore a Memoran... (more story)
January 10, 2025
North America
MLex Summary: Vince McMahon, the former chief executive of World Wrestling Entertainment, agreed to pay $1.7 million to settle US Securities and Exchange Commission charges he failed to properly disclose agree... (more story)
Trade View More
January 10, 2025
North America
MLex Summary: The Office of the US Trade Representative has announced the successful resolution of the allegations of workers' rights violations at the Vidrio Decorativo Occidental glass insert manufacturing f... (more story)
January 10, 2025 | Laina S. Miller
Asia, North America
The US Court of International Trade has sustained the 277.95 percent antidumping rate that the Commerce Department assigned to Chinese pentafluoroethane (R-125) produced or imported by Zhejiang Sanmei Chemical... (more story)
January 10, 2025
Asia, North America
MLex Summary: The US Court of International Trade has sustained the Department of Commerce's final antidumping duty determination for Chinese pentafluoroethane, or R-125, according to an opinion released to th... (more story)
State Aid View More
January 13, 2025
Europe
MLex Summary: The EU General Court today released summaries of appeals by Ryanair against an earlier decision to readopt Italian support to airlines to compensate them for damages triggered by the Covid pandem... (more story)
January 10, 2025 | Andrew Boyce
Europe
Italian gas distributor Italgas has sought EU foreign subsidy clearance to buy its smaller rival 2i Rete Gas. The European Commission has set a Feb. 13 deadline to decide on the deal.
January 09, 2025
Asia, Europe
MLex Summary: China’s Chamber of Commerce to the EU has called on the bloc to “promptly rectify its improper measures under the Foreign Subsidies Regulation.” The statement followed an announcement in which Mo... (more story)
Energy View More
January 13, 2025 | Stefano Porciello
Europe
Increased passenger air traffic in the EU is projected to neutralize the climate benefits of the mandated switch to cleaner fuels, green NGO Transport and Environment has said in a study. The sector lobby Airl... (more story)
January 13, 2025
Europe
MLex Summary: The EU air travel increase projected by the aviation industry will undermine the decarbonization efforts of the sector and hinder the EU's climate goals, the new report by the green group Transpo... (more story)
January 10, 2025
North America
MLex Summary: Constellation Energy has agreed to buy Calpine for $26.6 billion in a cash and stock deal. The agreement creates the nation’s largest clean energy provider, opening opportunities to serve more cu... (more story)
Technology View More
January 10, 2025 | Emma Whitford
North America
US District Judge Laura M. Provinzino today declined to quickly block a Minnesota law criminalizing the sharing of AI-generated election deepfakes, but found that Republican state Representative Mary Franson h... (more story)
January 10, 2025
North America
MLex Summary: Disney, Fox and Warner Bros. Discovery will discontinue their proposed sports streaming partnership, Venu Sports, the companies said in a joint statement. "In an ever-changing marketplace, we det... (more story)
January 10, 2025 | Júlia Tar
Europe
In 2026, the Digital Fairness Act — an initiative designed to strengthen consumer protections in the digital landscape — is set to be proposed by the European Commission. Building on the findings of the lates... (more story)