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DealRisk®, Mergers and Acquisitions
July 15, 2025 | Curtis Eichelberger
North America
Financial Services
July 15, 2025 | Sofia Gerace
Europe
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Antitrust, Technology
July 14, 2025 | Mike Swift
North America
Antitrust View More
July 16, 2025 | MLex Staff
Asia
China’s newly revised Anti-Unfair Competition Law, introduced at a time when artificial intelligence is becoming central to technological progress and market competition, reconfigures the competitive order in ... (more story)
July 16, 2025 | MLex Staff
Asia
A top Chinese franchise and retail association has urged food delivery and instant retail platforms to curb destructive price subsidies, warning the tactics distort market order, harm small merchants and threa... (more story)
July 16, 2025 | Jenny Lee
Asia
CJ Group has been tentatively fined 6.5 billion won (about $4.7 million) by South Korea’s competition watchdog for unfairly supporting two financially distressed subsidiaries through what it described as disgu... (more story)
Artificial Intelligence View More
July 16, 2025 | Yonnex Li
Asia
Hong Kong's privacy regulator has opened a criminal investigation under anti-doxxing rules into a case where artificial intelligence was allegedly used to create fake explicit images of university students, hi... (more story)
July 16, 2025 | Saloni Sinha
Oceania
Australian hardware giant Bunnings Group says the trial of facial recognition technology by New Zealand’s Foodstuffs North Island highlights that, with the right privacy safeguards, the tools can be deployed l... (more story)
July 16, 2025
Asia
MLex Summary: South Korea’s Ministry of Trade, Industry and Energy said today that it aims to adopt a special law and formulate detailed plans within this year to support the development of industrial complexe... (more story)
Mergers and Acquisitions View More
July 16, 2025
Europe
MLex Summary: Norcros Industry’s planned acquisition of waterproof wall-coverings company Fibo is to be reviewed by the UK antitrust regulator. The Competition and Markets Authority is seeking comments from in... (more story)
July 16, 2025 | Khushita Vasant
North America
ByteDance is accused of colluding with Oracle to block legitimate acquisition offers for TikTok's US operations and effectively allocating the short video social media market between itself and Oracle, accordi... (more story)
July 15, 2025 | Ilana Kowarski
North America
A partial settlement between Constellation Energy and Monitoring Analytics — the independent market monitor that oversees electricity flow within the Mid-Atlantic and Midwest — hasn’t completely fixed every an... (more story)
Data Privacy and Security View More
July 16, 2025
Asia
MLex Summary: To improve the effectiveness of oversight in cloud-based personal data processing, South Korea’s privacy regulator proposed that major cloud providers, such as Amazon Web Services, Microsoft Azur... (more story)
July 16, 2025 | Mike Swift
North America
Clearview AI and a group of California law enforcement agencies that allegedly used the controversial facial-recognition company's services face a March 2027 trial date to defend claims they violated the priva... (more story)
July 16, 2025
North America
MLex Summary: The states of Arkansas and Idaho filed a reply in support of their motion asking a US judge to reconsider his ruling that they don't seek civil penalties in their sovereign capacity in US antitru... (more story)
Intellectual Property View More
July 15, 2025 | Nick Robertson
North America
The first version of the 2026 fiscal year budget for the Department of Commerce includes a 10 percent increase in funds for the US Patent and Trademark Office — over $400 million — and highlights new initiativ... (more story)
July 15, 2025
Europe
MLex Summary: The Unified Patent Court has granted Aesculap AG a preliminary injunction against Shanghai International Holding Corp. over alleged infringement of its surgical drill bit patent, EP 2,892,442. Th... (more story)
July 15, 2025
North America
MLex summary: OpenAI has filed a motion to dismiss a direct copyright infringement claim in book authors' consolidated proposed class action in New York federal court, saying the plaintiffs have failed to adeq... (more story)
Financial Crime View More
July 16, 2025
Europe
MLex Summary: The UK Financial Conduct Authority has fined Barclays Bank a total of 42 million pounds (around $56 million) for separate instances of failings in its money laundering processes. In the first, Ba... (more story)
July 15, 2025 | Samuel Rubenfeld
North America
Tornado Cash co-founder Roman Storm knew his cryptocurrency mixer was being used by criminals to launder their dirty money, prosecutors said today at the start of his US trial, while the defense said he had no... (more story)
July 15, 2025
North America
MLex Summary: US Representative Sean Casten of Illinois introduced the Compliant Operations of Decentralized Entities (CODE) Act of 2025, legislation aimed at combating illicit activity and address cybersecuri... (more story)
Financial Services View More
July 15, 2025 | Neil Roland
North America
The Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation today approved a proposal to handle appeals of material supervisory determinations through an "an independent, standalone office."
July 15, 2025 | Phoebe Seers
Europe
Andrew Bailey, the Bank of England’s governor has issued arguably his strongest warning yet against stablecoins, in a key speech before the financial services industry. Bailey said this evening: “there may wel... (more story)
July 15, 2025
Europe
MLex Summary: Andrew Bailey, the governor of the Bank of England, is set to outline proposals to strengthen the role of the International Monetary Fund and the World Trade Organization to tackle global trade i... (more story)
Trade View More
July 15, 2025
Asia, North America
MLex Summary: President Trump announced that the US and Indonesia have finalized a trade deal which opens up Indonesia's entire market to US producers and exporters. Indonesia committed to buying $15 billion i... (more story)
July 15, 2025 | Joanna Sopinska and Jean Comte
Europe
The EU is striving to avert the 30 percent universal tariff on its exports threatened by US President Trump, aiming instead to base further negotiations on a limited, unwritten tariff arrangement discussed pri... (more story)
July 15, 2025
North America
MLex Summary: The US Commerce department today confirmed it has initiated an investigation of polysilicon imports’ effect on US national security under Section 232 of the Trade Expansion Act of 1962. The depar... (more story)
State Aid View More
July 15, 2025
Europe
MLex Summary: Companies owning forests in the Provence-Alpes-Côte d'Azur region of southeastern France — as well as the access roads to such forests — will be eligible for direct grants, under a 40 million-eur... (more story)
July 15, 2025
Europe
MLex Summary: France has secured European Commission approval for its plan to grant up to 531 million euros (around $620 million) to La Poste, to compensate the postal operator for the costs incurred in carryi... (more story)
July 14, 2025
Europe
MLex Summary: The European Commission is seeking feedback as part of its efforts to further update the General Block Exemption Regulation for state aid. The GBER allows EU countries to implement certain measur... (more story)
Energy View More
July 15, 2025 | Eleonora Rinaldi
Europe
Lawmakers coordinating the European Parliament’s environmental committee agreed today on a tight internal timeline for adopting a position on 2040 climate targets ahead of COP30. Aug. 9 is the new deadline to ... (more story)
July 15, 2025 | Helena Freitas
Europe
EU countries failed to reach an agreement today on the 18th sanctions package against Russia, the bloc's foreign policy chief Kaja Kallas said. Slovakia blocked the agreement today requesting to be allowed to ... (more story)
July 15, 2025 | Eleonora Rinaldi
Europe
The EU should ban long-term contracts for oil and gas from Russia by January 2027, one year earlier than proposed by the European Commission, leading EU lawmakers said in a report published today. To streamlin... (more story)
Technology View More
July 15, 2025 | Matthew Newman
Europe
The European Commission needs to show that there is a need to deregulate the telecom market as it considers a new telecom package that will be presented by the end of the year, a Danish official said. A group ... (more story)
July 15, 2025
Europe
MLex Summary: Media, telecoms and online platforms regulated by UK watchdog Ofcom can expect a stronger focus on how its rules and guidelines will support innovation and growth in the next financial year. In i... (more story)
July 15, 2025 | Patricia Figueiredo
Europe
Online platforms have been told to expect more UK regulation to protect children online, with a focus on addictive design and healthier online habits. But it remains to be seen whether the British government i... (more story)