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DealRisk®, Mergers and Acquisitions
December 31, 2025 | Flavia Fortes
Latin America
DealRisk®, Mergers and Acquisitions, Trade
December 31, 2025 | Curtis Eichelberger
North America
Intellectual Property
December 31, 2025 | Nick Robertson
North America
Antitrust View More
January 01, 2026
Asia
MLex Summary: South Korea’s antitrust chief Ju Biung-ghi said the Korea Fair Trade Commission will concentrate its 2026 work on four policy tracks, starting with rebalancing bargaining power by tightening rule... (more story)
December 31, 2025
North America
MLex Summary: Flannery Associates notified a US federal judge in the Eastern District of California that settlement terms have been reached with Paul and William Dietrich, the only remaining defendants in liti... (more story)
December 31, 2025
North America
MLex Summary: Tyson Foods reached a settlement with commercial and institutional indirect purchasers to resolve US price-fixing allegations over beef, according to a court filing. The parties intend to file th... (more story)
Artificial Intelligence View More
December 31, 2025
Asia
MLex Summary: South Korean President Lee Jae Myung on Thursday reaffirmed his administration’s pledges to implement policies aimed at eliminating unfair competition between businesses and favoring provincial a... (more story)
December 31, 2025 | Maria Júlia Baumert
Latin America
Brazil ends 2025 without a definitive AI law in force, but the year closes with a clear roadmap for governance. Two major bills and the Redata program for data infrastructure form the backbone of a national st... (more story)
December 31, 2025 | Madeline Hughes
North America
From US courts to the halls of Congress, AI chatbots are seen as the next frontier in online harm to children, and regulators are using the same strategy to address it.
Mergers and Acquisitions View More
December 31, 2025
Asia, Europe, Latin America, North America
MLex Summary: A federal judge has ruled that states will be permitted some discovery about the actions of the US Department of Justice in permitting the acquisition of Juniper Networks by Hewlett Packard Enter... (more story)
December 31, 2025 | Flavia Fortes, Henrique Santiago and Maria Júlia Baumert
Latin America
Brazil’s antitrust authority closed out 2025 without blocking a single transaction, focusing its merger control enforcement actions mostly on domestic deals. While the absence of prohibitions underscored a gen... (more story)
December 31, 2025
Europe
MLex Summary: Vandemoortele and Délifrance have been served with an order preventing integration of the two suppliers of frozen bakery products before the UK merger regulator decides whether to accept measures... (more story)
Data Privacy and Security View More
December 31, 2025 | Jenny Lee
Asia
Coupang’s interim South Korea chief Harold Rogers has been thrust into a political and legal storm after the country’s intelligence agency asked parliament to file a perjury complaint, saying his testimony abo... (more story)
December 31, 2025
Asia
MLex Summary: China’s internet regulator in Chongqing’s Kaizhou District has warned a local company after uncovering multiple cybersecurity-compliance failures following an investigation, according to an offic... (more story)
December 31, 2025
Asia
MLex Summary: Personal information handlers in China can now apply for cross-border certification through three professional certification entities, after the Cyberspace Administration of China, or CAC, and th... (more story)
Intellectual Property View More
December 31, 2025 | Nick Robertson
Asia, North America
Nvidia’s blockbuster $20 billion licensing and talent acquisition deal with Groq could give the tech giant an advantage in the competitive AI chatbot market, while Lupin announced its first foray into the GLP-1 space.
December 31, 2025 | Charlotte Westphal
Europe
It has been a slow week for the Unified Patent Court, whose Court of First Instance was open between the Christmas holidays and New Year's Day. Apart from developments in the InterDigital-Amazon dispute, the c... (more story)
December 31, 2025 | Freny Patel
Asia
India has opened its nuclear power sector to private investment as it seeks to reach 100 GW of capacity by 2047. While companies can now build and operate reactors under the 2025 Sustainable Harnessing and Adv... (more story)
Financial Crime View More
December 31, 2025
North America
MLex Summary: The US Department of the Treasury’s Financial Crimes Enforcement Network announced it has issued a final rule to extend the effective date of the rule establishing Anti-Money Laundering/Counterin... (more story)
December 31, 2025 | Neil Roland
North America
A federal judge ruled that the Trump administration must continue to seek funding for the US Consumer Financial Protection Bureau from the Federal Reserve even though the Fed has been operating at a loss. US D... (more story)
December 31, 2025
North America
MLex Summary: Former Honduran procurement official Juan Ramon Molina Rodriguez was sentenced in the US to 30 months in prison after pleading guilty and cooperating with authorities over his role in a police-un... (more story)
Financial Services View More
December 31, 2025 | Sofia Gerace
Europe
The UK's regime for overseeing technology suppliers deemed critical to the financial system is set to reach its first anniversary without a single company being formally designated, despite warnings from lawma... (more story)
December 30, 2025
Europe
MLex summary: The European Commission has clarified that the EU's sustainable framework—the Sustainable Finance Disclosure Regulation, the EU taxonomy, and the Benchmark Regulation—is compatible with investing... (more story)
December 30, 2025
Europe
MLex Summary: EU financial benchmark administrators have seen “controversial weapons” redefined as “prohibited weapons” in a regulation published today in the bloc's Official Journal. The former definition lef... (more story)
Trade View More
December 31, 2025
North America
MLex Summary: There is a reasonable indication that US industry is materially injured by Indian and Turkish imports of chromium trioxide, the US International Trade Commission voted. Commissioners David S. Joh... (more story)
December 31, 2025 | Eliana Hubacker and Cynthia Kroet
Europe, North America
The EU and US signed the outline of a Trade Framework Agreement in August in a bid to ensure stability in transatlantic trade relations. But the Trump administration’s protests against European tech laws and t... (more story)
December 31, 2025
Asia
MLex Summary: China’s Ministry of Commerce said Wednesday it has finalized a safeguard ruling on imported bovine meat, finding that a sharp rise in volumes caused serious injury to the domestic industry and or... (more story)
State Aid View More
December 23, 2025
Europe
MLex Summary: Corsair is set to benefit from €167.8 million in support after the EU approved the state aid from France following an in-depth probe. In a statement, the European Commission said the aid for the ... (more story)
December 23, 2025 | Lewis Crofts
Europe
More European industries will benefit from compensation under the bloc’s state aid rules as technical guidelines get an update to ensure companies don’t shift activities outside of the EU to countries with wea... (more story)
December 22, 2025
Europe
MLex Summary: The Czech government's planned €18 million support for three digital terrestrial television infrastructure operators, České Radiokomunikace, Digital Broadcasting and Česká televize, was incompati... (more story)
Energy View More
December 26, 2025 | Choonsik Yoo
Asia
The administration of South Korean President Lee Jae Myung’s early AI overhaul has succeeded in reviving momentum after some delay due to domestic politics, but his AI policy agenda now faces tougher regulator... (more story)
December 24, 2025
Europe
MLex Summary: The European Commission moved to tighten oversight of plastic imports by introducing separate customs codes for virgin and recycled plastics and stepping up monitoring of EU and global markets, l... (more story)
December 23, 2025 | Cynthia Kroet
Europe
The British Chamber of Commerce has listed 25 recommendations to the UK government in order to improve ties between the EU and UK, five years after the trade agreement between the two regions was concluded. Th... (more story)
Technology View More
December 31, 2025 | Alex Wilts
North America
Epic Games’ US antitrust battles could wind down in 2026 after a key appellate ruling against Apple and a proposed settlement with Google. Still, issues remain to be worked out at the district court level in b... (more story)
December 31, 2025
Asia
MLex Summary: China’s National Radio and Television Administration said it will launch a monthlong enforcement campaign starting Jan. 1, 2026 to curb the spread of “artificial intelligence–manipulated” videos.... (more story)
December 30, 2025
Europe
MLex Summary: Pornographic content featuring adults digitally altered to resemble children is illegal, Switzerland’s Federal Supreme Court has said in a statement referring to an appeal judgment from Nov. 20 t... (more story)