This is the new MLex platform. Existing customers should continue to use the existing MLex platform until migrated.
For any queries, please contact Customer Services or your Account Manager.
Dismiss

Specialist news and analysis on legal risk and regulation

Top News

A man with gray hair wearing a suit and tie gestures while speaking with a red, white and blue background

Data Privacy and Security

June 12, 2025 | Mike Swift

North America

Legal questions on 23andMe data sale raised by US states, privacy ombudsman

Trade

June 12, 2025 | Bradley Dress

North America

US startup launches latest challenge to Trump tariffs
A balding man with gray hair and beard wearing a suit a tie smiles while sitting and speaking at a microphone at a desk

Artificial Intelligence

June 12, 2025 | Bradley Dress

North America

US to impose stricter licensing requirements on AI chips, Commerce industry chief says

Antitrust View More

API probe in China's Tianjin fines four companies, five individuals for price fixing

June 16, 2025

Asia

MLex Summary: China's Tianjin antitrust regulator fined and confiscated illegal gains from four companies and five individuals for price fixing, with penalties totaling 362 million yuan ($51 million), accordin... (more story)

Google loses bid to halt Testbook lawsuit as Indian court clarifies jurisdiction

June 16, 2025 | Freny Patel

Asia

Google has lost its bid to halt a contract lawsuit against its new Play Store billing policy. An Indian court has clarified that civil courts can hear cases concerning specific contractual agreements, even whe... (more story)

Google fails to dismiss Testbook's billing-policy lawsuit in India

June 16, 2025

Asia

MLex Summary: In a major setback for the US tech giant, an Indian court has dismissed Google's attempt to throw out a lawsuit filed by Testbook Edu Solutions, which challenges the new Play Store billing policy... (more story)

Artificial Intelligence View More

China unveils typical cases of cross-agency efforts to combat AI-generated rumors

June 16, 2025

Asia

MLex Summary: China's Internet regulator-affiliated center for reporting illegal and harmful information and the China Association for Science and Technology have unveiled typical cases that highlight cross-ag... (more story)

New York lawmakers send frontier AI safety bill to governor for approval

June 13, 2025 | Amy Miller

North America

A New York state bill modeled after a controversial California safety proposal that was vetoed last year is heading to Gov. Kathy Hochul's desk for approval. The New York Assembly and Senate have approved the ... (more story)

US state legislation on pricing algorithms has far-reaching implications for businesses

June 13, 2025 | Amy Miller and Alex Wilts

North America

US state lawmakers are taking aim at the use of pricing algorithms, whether they’re used for “surveillance pricing” to charge people different prices for goods like groceries or airline tickets, or to orchestr... (more story)

Mergers and Acquisitions View More

DC Circuit Court grants US DOJ motion to hold Nippon Steel, US Steel suit in abeyance

June 13, 2025

North America

MLex Summary: The US Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit granted a US Justice Department motion to hold the case brought by Nippon Steel and US Steel in abeyance. The parties' lawsuit claims ... (more story)

US FTC court suspends prehearing deadlines in GTCR-Surmodics' scheduling order

June 13, 2025

North America

MLex Summary: The US Federal Trade Commission Administrative Court ordered that all prehearing deadlines in GTCR-Surmodics' March 31, 2025, scheduling order be suspended until further notice. This comes follow... (more story)

BPCE to acquire Portuguese bank Novobanco

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)

Data Privacy and Security View More

Google, Meta face threat of billions in damages in Flo Health US trial

June 13, 2025 | Mike Swift

North America

With a jury trial in San Francisco just over a month away over women's fertility app Flo Health's alleged illegal sharing of millions of US women's menstrual and pregnancy data with Google and Meta Platforms, ... (more story)

Apple moves to dismiss amended US complaint over spread of child sex abuse material

June 13, 2025

North America

MLex Summary: Apple moved to dismiss an amended US complaint in a lawsuit brought by child sex abuse survivors who claim the tech giant allowed child sex abuse material to be stored on and disseminated on its ... (more story)

US federal judge will likely require OPM to audit DOGE access to data

June 13, 2025 | Madeline Hughes

North America

The US Office of Personnel Management will likely have to provide audits detailing records access by Department of Government Efficiency personnel, a federal judge in New York said today.

Intellectual Property View More

News outlets say OpenAI's US data-sampling proposal is too narrow

June 13, 2025

North America

MLex Summary: News outlets including the New York Times, Daily News and Center for Investigative Reporting are criticizing OpenAI's proposal to sample ChatGPT logs in ongoing US copyright litigation. OpenAI's ... (more story)

Trademark secondary meaning, long unrecognized in Brazil, now a relevant factor (update*)

June 13, 2025 | Melissa Ritti

Latin America

Brazil’s Patent and Trademark Office this week unveiled a new path to registration for generic or descriptive trademarks which would ordinarily be vulnerable to rejection. In a notice published in its Official... (more story)

US court says ‘non-aggression’ clause no shield against future copyright claims

June 13, 2025 | Melissa Ritti

North America

In the software industry, where IP rights frequently change hands, language matters. That much was evident yesterday when the US Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit said Cloanto Corporation lacks standing t... (more story)

Financial Crime View More

Venture firm relied on bad legal advice for work with Russian oligarch, US says

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)

Financial Action Task Force approves changes to standards on cross-border payments

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)

Florida real estate broker sentenced in US to prison for aiding Russian oligarchs

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

Feedback on strengthening supplementary pensions sought by EU Commission

June 13, 2025

Europe

MLex Summary: The European Commission today opened a consultation on possible measures to be presented in the fourth quarter of the year to support wider participation in occupational and personal pension sche... (more story)

Gotbit founder sentenced in US to prison for fraud, market manipulation

June 13, 2025

North America

MLex Summary: Gotbit founder Aleksei Andriunin, of Russia and Portugal, was sentenced to eight months in prison after he pleaded guilty to charges of wire fraud and conspiracy to commit market manipulation and... (more story)

UK financial regulators criticized by lawmakers over risk-averse, complex, expensive rules

June 13, 2025 | Sofia Gerace and Phoebe Seers

Europe

UK financial regulators have come under criticism from a group of lawmakers in Britain's upper chamber, the House of Lords, who concluded after an inquiry that the financial regulatory system is too risk-avers... (more story)

Trade View More

US asks Mexico to review alleged workers' rights denial at steel pipe facility

June 13, 2025

North America

MLex Summary: The Office of the US Trade Representative has asked Mexico to review whether workers at the Tubos de Acero de Mexico, S.A. (TAMSA) facility are being denied the right to freedom of association an... (more story)

EU trade surplus with US surged over last year despite trade friction

June 13, 2025 | Zack Budryk

Europe, North America

The European Union’s trade surplus with the US grew over the 12-month period ending in April despite ongoing trade tensions and tariffs imposed by the Trump administration, the Eurostat agency said today.

EU's Mercosur deal could be split to fast-track ratification of trade component

June 13, 2025 | Joanna Sopinska

Europe, Latin America

EU officials are considering splitting the EU-Mercosur partnership agreement's political and trade components to ease and speed up the ratification process for the latter part, MLex has learned. A similar move... (more story)

State Aid View More

German railway group DB's dual role 'problematic', monopolies watchdog says

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)

Best practices for state aid control published in EU

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)

Norway must recover purchase price from property developer, EFTA watchdog says

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

EU nuclear energy plans estimated to need at least EUR241 billion investment

June 13, 2025 | Helena Freitas

Europe

EU member states' plans to expand nuclear energy will require investments of around 241 billion euros, according to the European Commission’s new “Nuclear Illustrative Program” published today. Additional fund... (more story)

EU nuclear supply chain needs stable long-term commitments, EU Commission says

June 13, 2025

Europe

MLex Summary: To thrive, the EU nuclear supply chain needs stable long-term commitments, greater standardization levels and enhanced cooperation, the European Commission has said in a report outlining the role... (more story)

Electricity cybersecurity investment guidance issued by EU energy watchdog

June 13, 2025

Europe

MLex Summary: National regulators should benchmark cybersecurity investments in the EU's electricity sector by using a clear, consistent, and focused approach, energy watchdog ACER said in a guide published to... (more story)

Technology View More

Google 'slow-rolling' disclosure of internal divestiture analyses, US DOJ says

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)

Bellwether trial cases selected in US social media addiction litigation

June 13, 2025 | Xu Yuan

North America

A pool of eleven school district and personal injury lawsuits filed against the biggest social media companies including Meta Platforms, Google and ByteDance have been selected for trial in a large-scale US li... (more story)

Google backs EU age-verification plans, countering Meta’s app-store lobbying

June 13, 2025 | Sara Brandstätter and Patricia Figueiredo

Europe

Google today publicly backed the EU’s “risk-based” approach to online age verification, including development of an EU-wide system and child-protection guidelines for online platforms covered by the Digital Se... (more story)