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Antitrust, Artificial Intelligence
November 26, 2025 | Alex Wilts
North America
DealRisk®, Mergers and Acquisitions
November 26, 2025 | Curtis Eichelberger
North America
Antitrust
November 26, 2025 | Jon Menon
Europe
Antitrust View More
November 27, 2025 | Henrique Santiago
Latin America
Several more soccer teams have been added in to two separate gun-jumping investigations by the competition agency in Brazil into the formations of associations Liga do Futebol Brasileiro and Liga Forte União d... (more story)
November 27, 2025
Europe
MLex Summary: The headquarters of several companies operating in the private healthcare and health consultancy market were inspected by the Spanish antitrust authority between Nov. 18 and Nov. 21 as part of an... (more story)
November 27, 2025
Latin America
MLex Summary: The Brazilian competition authority Superintendence has found that several journalism unions and associations coordinated minimum price tables for news services. In a decision published in the Of... (more story)
Artificial Intelligence View More
November 27, 2025 | Frank Hersey
Europe
The UK government wants a series of low-regulation AI "growth zones" to attract investment and be a key plank in its ambitions to use the technology to drive economic growth, but much of the private investment... (more story)
November 27, 2025 | Nicholas Hirst
Latin America
Meta’s move to block AI chatbots from WhatsApp has drawn formal antitrust complaints and an injunction request in Brazil, according to the country’s competition authority. On Wednesday it shared the complaint ... (more story)
November 27, 2025 | Freny Patel
Asia
Underscoring the World Intellectual Property Organization Advisory Board of Judges’ mission to bridge the gap between highly advanced IP jurisdictions and those that need support, the board is finalizing a two... (more story)
Mergers and Acquisitions View More
November 27, 2025
Europe
MLex summary: Brazil’s competition authority, or CADE, held a videoconference with Mozambique’s Competition Authority, known as ARC, to review the proposed merger between Saipem and Subsea7. The meeting brough... (more story)
November 27, 2025
Europe
MLex Summary: German insurer Münchener Rückversicherungs-Gesellschaft Aktiengesellschaft has offered to transfer all existing Gjensidige road carrier liability insurance contracts to an independent buyer, to a... (more story)
November 27, 2025
Europe
MLex Summary: Fidelity National Information Services’ buyout of Total System Services has been cleared by the UK antitrust regulator following an initial review. The Competition and Markets Authority said it w... (more story)
Data Privacy and Security View More
November 27, 2025
Europe
MLex Summary: Privacy campaign group Noyb said French regulator CNIL’s €750,000 fine against Vanity Fair publisher Condé Nast, published on Thursday, supports its long-standing complaint that Vanity Fair’s web... (more story)
November 27, 2025
Europe
MLex Summary: Condé Nast, the publisher of vanityfair.fr, has been fined €750,000 by the French data protection authority CNIL after inspectors found that cookies requiring consent were placed on users’ device... (more story)
November 27, 2025
Oceania
MLex Summary: Australia’s social media ban for under-16s, set to take effect from Dec. 10, is being challenged in the country’s top court. In a statement, the Digital Freedom Project, a group led by Australia’... (more story)
Intellectual Property View More
November 27, 2025 | Inbar Preiss
Europe
Edwards won its UPC appeal as judges upheld its heart-valve patent, confirmed infringement by Meril and confirmed the court's inventive-step test, leaving only a narrow exception for extra-large valve sizes.
November 27, 2025 | Inbar Preiss
Europe
EU lawmakers disputing the European Commission’s withdrawal of a bill on standard essential patents face a steep legal test at the bloc's highest court as they challenge the limits of the executive branch’s po... (more story)
November 27, 2025 | Toko Sekiguchi
Asia
A Japanese court has ruled that a self-initiated Excel-based accounting system developed by an employee belonged entirely to the employer, noting that Japan’s Copyright Act offers no statutory compensation for... (more story)
Financial Crime View More
November 27, 2025 | Martin Coyle
Europe
PrivatBank said Thursday it would start international enforcement proceedings against two former owners in a bid to recoup $3 billion it is owed in the wake of a UK court ruling earlier this month. The bank ac... (more story)
November 27, 2025 | Martin Coyle
Europe
Morgan Stanley units in London and Amsterdam have been fined a total of €101 million ($117 million) by the Dutch financial crime agency for tax evasion related to dividends from shares.
November 27, 2025
Europe
MLex Summary: Online platforms operating in the UK should deliver more granular data on financial harms, strengthen protections for children and teenagers exposed to fraud, and support evaluations of the law's... (more story)
Financial Services View More
November 27, 2025 | Fanny Roux
Europe
A recent rap on the knuckles for EU countries over enforcing market rules is yet another signal of the European Commission's determination to defend better integrated capital markets. While the EU's executive ... (more story)
November 27, 2025 | Sofia Gerace
Europe
New rules requiring greater disclosure of bond trades take effect in the UK on Dec. 1. But a legal dispute over the rights to operate the country's first consolidated feed of bond trading data threatens to und... (more story)
November 27, 2025
Europe
MLex Summary: The margin requirements for non-centrally cleared derivatives have been amended by the UK Prudential Regulation Authority, including a permanent exemption from bilateral margin for single-stock a... (more story)
Trade View More
November 27, 2025
Europe
MLex Summary: The Ombudswoman Teresa Anjinho found maladministration in the European Commission’s handling of its urgent legislative package to simplify sustainability rules for companies, dubbed Omnibus I. Sh... (more story)
November 27, 2025 | Jean Comte
Europe
Vassilios Skouris is set to be appointed president of the seven-strong committee tasked with evaluating candidates for EU judges positions, according to a document seen by MLex. The consultative body, whose op... (more story)
November 27, 2025 | Lewis Crofts
Europe
State benefits for the Chinese rail company CRRC resulting from €36 billion of public contracts, a €471 million subsidy and a sizeable tax break have triggered suspicions its bid for a Lisbon Metro contract mi... (more story)
State Aid View More
November 27, 2025
Europe
MLex Summary: A European Commission finding that Danish support measures including capital injections and a mix of state loans and guarantees for the Fehmarn Belt tunnel linking Denmark and Germany were state ... (more story)
November 26, 2025
Europe
MLex Summary: The EU state aid system should be less burdensome and complex, the Slovenian government has told other member states as part of a broader discussion about how to simplify the rules. In a paper to... (more story)
November 24, 2025
Europe
MLex Summary: Norway has won approval for its plans to grant up to 10 billion kroner for the development of floating offshore wind projects, the EFTA Surveillance Authority said Monday. This is the first plan ... (more story)
Energy View More
November 27, 2025
Europe
MLex Summary: A targeted amendment to the market stability reserve rules for the EU’s new emissions trading system for road transport and buildings was proposed on Thursday. The European Commission plan implem... (more story)
November 26, 2025
Europe
MLex Summary: The International Energy Agency says governments must overhaul long-term electricity market arrangements to help investors manage price risks and back new generation, storage and electrification ... (more story)
November 26, 2025
Asia
MLex Summary: South Korea’s Ministry of Employment and Labor has launched a forum of experts to assess the impact on the labor market from industrial transition driven by factors such as artificial intelligenc... (more story)
Technology View More
November 27, 2025
Europe
MLex Summary: UK telecom providers were urged on Thursday to rule out mid-contract price increases beyond what customers agreed, as the finance and tech ministers wrote to company chiefs calling for clearer pr... (more story)
November 27, 2025
Europe
MLex Summary: Streaming platforms' age ratings, content warnings and parental controls are broadly adequate but need clearer information and more consistent performance across devices, the UK communications re... (more story)
November 27, 2025
Europe
MLex Summary: Italy violated broadcasters’ free expression rights when it suspended and later annulled a digital television frequency tender, according to a press release Thursday from the European Court of Hu... (more story)