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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 | MLex Staff
Asia
China's competition regulator has pledged to maintain its sharp focus on public welfare, the platform economy and natural monopoly sectors, continuing the enforcement momentum from the previous year. At a pres... (more story)
January 12, 2025
Asia
MLex Summary: Chinese state-owned company CRRC Sifang's Indonesia unit and Anugerah Logistik Prestasindo have rejected the bid-rigging accusations filed against them by the Indonesian Competition Commission, o... (more story)
January 11, 2025 | Lewis Crofts
Europe
Donald Trump’s administration should come to the defense of Meta Platforms and other tech companies as they face investigations and sanctions by the likes of the European Union, Mark Zuckerberg has urged. The ... (more story)
Artificial Intelligence View More
January 13, 2025 | Jenny Lee
Asia
South Korea's privacy watchdog has unveiled its 2025 policy roadmap, introducing comprehensive measures to tackle privacy challenges in the AI era while advancing the country's digital transformation. Building... (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: 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)
January 11, 2025
North America
MLex Summary: Nippon Steel and US Steel said that they are "pleased" at having been granted an extension to June 18 of the order by US President Joe Biden to abandon their merger. “We look forward to completin... (more story)
January 10, 2025
North America
MLex Summary: US Steel and Nippon Steel asked the US Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia to grant expedited consideration and to set a briefing and argument schedule in their lawsuit against the Comm... (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 | 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)
January 10, 2025 | Inbar Preiss
Europe
While the EU remains a leader in green technology, its share of global patents in cloud technologies and digital fields like AI, robotics, and quantum computing has declined amid strong gains by the US and Chi... (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 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)
January 10, 2025
North America
MLex Summary: The US Consumer Financial Protection Bureau has launched a public consultation to seek input on strengthening privacy protections and preventing harmful surveillance in digital payments, particul... (more story)
January 10, 2025
Europe
MLex Summary: UK credit reference agencies and credit information service providers have received letters from the Financial Conduct Authority setting out its priority areas for the next two years to "give som... (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 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)
January 09, 2025
Asia, Europe
MLex Summary: China has concluded that practices adopted by the EU during its investigations of Chinese companies under the Foreign Subsidies Regulation have created "trade and investment barriers," the Minist... (more story)
Energy View More
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)
January 10, 2025
Europe
MLex Summary: Inefficient implementation of permitting rules, difficult access to grids and slow electrification are undermining the EU's wind energy expansion that's necessary to meet its energy and climate t... (more story)
January 09, 2025 | Stefano Porciello
Africa, Asia, Europe, Latin America, Middle East, North America, Oceania
The year 2024 is confirmed as the hottest on record and the first to break the 1.5 degrees Celsius global warming red line — considered as a limit to avoid the worst consequences of climate change — EU scienti... (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)