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Antitrust, Artificial Intelligence, Technology
April 30, 2025 | Khushita Vasant
North America
Financial Crime
April 29, 2025 | Samuel Rubenfeld
North America
Antitrust, Artificial Intelligence, Data Privacy and Security, DealRisk®, Mergers and Acquisitions, Technology
April 28, 2025 | Khushita Vasant
North America
Antitrust View More
April 30, 2025
North America
MLex Summary: Agri Stats can intervene in the US Department of Justice's litigation asking a Maryland federal judge to enforce a judgment against Wayne-Sanderson Farms and George's, the judge said. "Both motio... (more story)
April 30, 2025
North America
MLex Summary: Agri Stats urged a Maryland federal judge to deny the US Department of Justice's motion to enforce a judgment against George’s Inc. and George's Foods, which would prohibit the companies from exc... (more story)
April 30, 2025
Europe
MLex Summary: Google has published its quarterly report on its commitments to the UK Competition and Markets Authority under its "privacy sandbox." In the update, Google has decided to keep its current approac... (more story)
Artificial Intelligence View More
April 30, 2025
Europe
MLex Summary: The Digital Regulation Cooperation Forum — the UK’s coordination mechanism for its four key digital regulators — will focus on the potential ecosystem for agentic AI, preparing for the implementa... (more story)
April 30, 2025
North America
MLex Summary: The Colorado Senate has passed legislation to protect victims of intimate deepfakes, or sexually explicit artificial intelligence-generated material, especially those that involve children. SB25-... (more story)
April 30, 2025 | Frank Hersey
Europe
Schools hoping for more guidance on deploying artificial intelligence for educational purposes are waiting for the data regulator to complete an audit and for Parliament to pass the data reform bill, said an o... (more story)
Mergers and Acquisitions View More
April 30, 2025 | Jon Menon
Europe
Spirit AeroSystems workers and union officials met with UK lawmakers today to urge the government to intervene in the proposed partial divestment of assets. Airbus this week agreed to take certain money-losing... (more story)
April 30, 2025 | Lewis Crofts
Europe
EU merger enforcers will keep a close eye on governments intervening in mergers on public-interest grounds — such as security or media plurality — to ensure they don’t fragment Europe’s economy at a time when ... (more story)
April 30, 2025
Europe
MLex Summary: The European Commission’s internal market and industry arm, DG Grow, is undergoing a restructuring to align with the EU’s new competitiveness agenda. Changes will be effective from tomorrow, May ... (more story)
Data Privacy and Security View More
April 30, 2025 | Madeline Hughes
North America
There is an outstanding question of whether a warrant served to a private company to aid law enforcement is a personal search under the Fourth Amendment after the US Court of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit dec... (more story)
April 30, 2025 | Eleonora Rinaldi
Europe
EU solar-panel makers and the bloc's power grid need regulatory intervention to reduce its dangerous exposure to Chinese-manufactured photovoltaic inverters, devices needed to connect panels to the electricity... (more story)
April 30, 2025 | Sara Brandstätter and Matthew Newman
Europe, North America
Microsoft is pushing the EU and US to conclude talks on accessing electronic evidence in criminal investigations. The company's President Brad Smith told journalists today that negotiators should conclude talk... (more story)
Intellectual Property View More
April 30, 2025 | Melissa Ritti
North America
InterDigital is firing back at breach-of-contract counterclaims by Disney, ESPN, Hulu and others in the US portion of its global patent enforcement campaign. Earlier this week, it sought dismissal of claims it... (more story)
April 30, 2025
Europe
MLex Summary: The Unified Patent Court's Mannheim Local Division has partially approved Fujifilm's request to replace members of its confidentiality club, in a case concerning EP 3,476,616 against Kodak. Fujif... (more story)
April 30, 2025
North America
MLex Summary: Meta Platforms will not be allowed to keep financial information related to spending and projections on revenue from generative AI development under seal in summary judgment briefing, US District... (more story)
Financial Crime View More
April 30, 2025 | Samuel Rubenfeld
North America
Two lawsuits arguing that a US rule requiring real estate professionals to file reports about certain property deals is unconstitutional appear to follow a legal strategy recently employed against an anti-mone... (more story)
April 30, 2025 | Martin Coyle
Europe
A British businessman wanted in South Africa on fraud, corruption and money laundering charges has fended off his extradition there. High Court judges said today that South African authorities had inadvertentl... (more story)
April 30, 2025 | Phoebe Seers
Europe
Social media platforms must do more to take down illegal content online, a UK financial watchdog official said today. Lucy Castledine singled out Meta as particularly slow to respond to requests to remove acco... (more story)
Financial Services View More
April 30, 2025 | Sofia Gerace
Europe
UK banks and insurers received updated climate-risk guidance from the Bank of England's supervisory arm today, just as the UK government itself was being dressed down for being unprepared to face climate chang... (more story)
April 30, 2025 | Fanny Roux
Europe
EU member states decided today that they would not amend a recent proposal from the European Commission to maintain the current rules on liquidity requirements for short-term securities financing transactions.... (more story)
April 30, 2025 | Simon Zekaria
Europe
Visa and Mastercard face a UK lawsuit from a large number of companies, including Essendi, formerly known as AccorInvest. The action — the latest in a series of suits targeting the payment-card giants — was fi... (more story)
Trade View More
April 30, 2025 | Eliana Hubacker
Asia, North America
The US International Trade Commission voted unanimously to terminate the antidumping and antisubsidy duty investigations into epoxy resins imported from China and India.
April 30, 2025 | Bradley Dress
Asia, Europe, Latin America, North America
The US International Trade Commission today unanimously found that a domestic industry is harmed by dumped and subsidized imports of ferrosilicon, an alloy of iron and silicon typically used to strengthen and ... (more story)
April 30, 2025
Asia, North America
MLex Summary: The US International Trade Commission determined that epoxy resin imports from South Korea, Thailand, and Taiwan materially injure US industry. The commission also said that dumped and subsidized... (more story)
State Aid View More
April 30, 2025 | Jean Comte
Asia, Europe
The European Commission team scrutinizing foreign subsidies in public procurement will get a dedicated unit from tomorrow, as part of a reshuffle of the Directorate-General for single market. The new structure... (more story)
April 30, 2025
Europe
MLex Summary: German flag carrier Deutsche Lufthansa today lost a legal challenge against EU clearance in 2017 for German state aid worth up to 25.3 million euros in favor of loss-making regional airport Frank... (more story)
April 30, 2025 | Lewis Crofts
Asia, Europe
EU powers to review the distortive impact of subsidies from countries such as China, Russia and the Middle East are becoming more predictable and less burdensome as the European Commission gains more experienc... (more story)
Energy View More
April 30, 2025
Europe
MLex Summary: EU member states are set to ask the European Commission to assess "which parts of the existing energy acquis may be subject to simplification under the Omnibus program," an EU initiative aimed at... (more story)
April 30, 2025
Europe
MLex Summary: Negotiations to link the EU and UK emission trading systems should start as soon as possible, according to a letter signed by more than fifty European industrial organizations. Matching the two s... (more story)
April 30, 2025
Europe
MLex Summary: The European Commission has said it has earmarked 52 million euros to support nine renewable energy projects, namely seven solar photovoltaic projects in Finland, and two onshore wind projects in... (more story)
Technology View More
April 30, 2025 | Luca Bertuzzi
Europe
OpenAI's landmark chatbot, ChatGPT, is being considered by the European Commission for designation as a systemic platform under the EU Digital Services Act due to its web searching functionality, MLex has lear... (more story)
April 30, 2025
Europe
MLex Summary: The European Commission today opened two funding calls, totaling nearly 5 million euros, to combat online disinformation and enhance the societal impact of fact-checked content across the EU, wit... (more story)
April 30, 2025 | Phoebe Seers
Europe
The UK cryptoasset industry breathed a collective sigh of relief yesterday afternoon with sight of long-promised legislation laying the path toward a regulated sector. It broadly met industry expectations and ... (more story)