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Trade
December 17, 2025 | Bradley Dress
Asia, North America
DealRisk®, Mergers and Acquisitions
December 17, 2025 | Flavia Fortes
North America
Data Privacy and Security, Technology
December 16, 2025 | Madeline Hughes
North America
Antitrust View More
December 18, 2025
North America
MLex Summary: OpenAI asked a US federal judge to reject X Corp.'s motion to compel in antitrust litigation filed in Texas. "This action is just one in a series of lawsuits that Elon Musk has instigated against... (more story)
December 18, 2025
North America
MLex Summary: The Monopoly Busters Caucus, led by US Democratic Representatives Chris Deluzio, Pramila Jayapal, Pat Ryan and Angie Craig, sent a letter to US Agriculture Secretary Brooke Rollins blasting the T... (more story)
December 18, 2025
North America
MLex Summary: US Senators Elizabeth Warren and Ron Wyden urged the Department of Justice and Federal Trade Commission to closely scrutinize the proposed merger between real estate brokerages Compass, Inc. and ... (more story)
Artificial Intelligence View More
December 18, 2025 | Frank Hersey
Europe
Members of a group to address the growing energy demands of artificial intelligence in the UK, which includes Google, Microsoft, and power companies, want the government to create a “SWOT team” to help navigat... (more story)
December 18, 2025
Europe
MLex Summary: Rules for the use of facial recognition tools by UK police forces should be reviewed, a parliamentary committee has told the Labour government, asking it to set clear legal limits on when childre... (more story)
December 18, 2025
Europe
MLex Summary: Frontier AI models are improving across all areas tested by the UK AI Security Institute, the agency's first trend report showed on Thursday. After testing more than 30 frontier models, the insti... (more story)
Mergers and Acquisitions View More
December 18, 2025 | Andrew Boyce and Jean Comte
Europe
Belgian food maker Vandemoortele has won EU approval for its takeover of Délifrance, after agreeing to divest two Délifrance production sites for frozen laminated dough. The remedy ensure that the merger will ... (more story)
December 18, 2025 | Andrew Boyce
Europe
Anglo American today sought EU foreign subsidy clearance for its Teck Resources merger, according to an update by the European Commission. The regulator has set a Feb. 3 deadline to decide on the deal.
December 18, 2025 | Flavia Fortes
North America
Novartis and Avidity Biosciences have received antitrust clearance for their $12 billion deal from the US competition authorities. On Dec. 17, the agencies granted early termination of the waiting period under... (more story)
Data Privacy and Security View More
December 18, 2025 | Matthew Newman and Luca Bertuzzi
Europe
Telefónica, Orange and Deutsche Telekom, and other telecom operators will see an EU proposal to revamp telecom regulations early next year after the European Commission's internet scrutiny body gave the draft ... (more story)
December 18, 2025
North America
MLex Summary: US Trade Representative Jamieson Greer this week told the Senate Finance Committee and House Ways and Means Committee in a closed session that the Trump administration will keep “options open” in... (more story)
December 18, 2025
Europe
MLex Summary: Meta lost the landmark case against Max Schrems, the founder of the privacy group NOYB, the Austrian Supreme Court said on Thursday. After an 11-year legal battle, Meta must disclose all personal... (more story)
Intellectual Property View More
December 18, 2025 | Douglas Clarke-Williams
Europe
A UK judge granted Acer an interim license in its dispute with Nokia over standard essential patents on Thursday. The judge rejected Nokia’s argument that Acer’s refusal to enter into arbitration would make Ac... (more story)
December 18, 2025 | Inbar Preiss and Charlotte Westphal
Europe
This week, the Unified Patent Court saw an infringement case, the revocation of a patent and a matter about costs. It also gave guidance on the enforcement of security of costs decisions in non-UPC territory.
December 18, 2025 | Inbar Preiss
Europe
Social media posts may qualify for copyright, an adviser to the EU's top court has said, and media can rely on the current-events exception when reporting news. But Romania’s additional restrictions are unlawf... (more story)
Financial Crime View More
December 18, 2025 | Martin Coyle
Europe
David Kennedy, a former investment manager found guilty for his role in a £100 million fraud linked to collapsed legal financing fund Axiom, has been ordered to pay back almost £1 million.
December 18, 2025
Europe
MLex Summary: Four of Russia's largest remaining unsanctioned oil companies have been hit with UK sanctions, the government said on Thursday. PJSC Tatneft, PJSC Russneft, LCC NNK-Oil, and LLC Rusneftegaz Group... (more story)
December 18, 2025
Latin America, North America
MLex Summary: Gary Oztemel, the brother of former US oil trader Glenn Oztemel, asked a US judge for early release from his probation over his role in his sibling's bribery scheme, citing health issues, among other things.
Financial Services View More
December 18, 2025
Europe
MLex Summary: A consultation on revamped EU settlement rules was opened on Thursday. The proposed regulation is part of a broader package proposal aimed at better integrating and overseeing the bloc’s capital ... (more story)
December 18, 2025 | Fanny Roux
Europe
The European People's Party, the Socialists & Democrats and the European Conservatives & Reformists will jointly lead the talks on the jumbo package proposal aimed at better integrating the EU capital markets,... (more story)
December 18, 2025
Europe
MLex Summary: Schufa has won its appeal in Germany against a ruling that it had breached the EU's GDPR data protection law by retaining an individual's data after the person's debts had been settled. The Germa... (more story)
Trade View More
December 18, 2025 | Cynthia Kroet
Europe
Cyprus, which is chairing ministers’ meetings in the first half of 2026, has said it wants to reach a first compromise among the 27 EU member states on the upcoming Industrial Accelerator Act, MLex understands... (more story)
December 18, 2025
North America
MLex Summary: Algerian imports of steel concrete reinforcing bar are or are likely to be sold at less than fair value in the US market, the US Commerce Department said in a preliminary determination. The deter... (more story)
December 18, 2025
Africa, Asia, Europe, Latin America, Middle East, North America, Oceania
MLex Summary: The US Commerce Department has issued antisubsidy duty orders on corrosion-resistant (CORE) steel products from Brazil, Canada, Mexico, and Vietnam. It has also imposed antidumping duty orders on... (more story)
State Aid View More
December 18, 2025
Europe
MLex Summary: BdM Banca isn't entitled to receive compensation for the damage it allegedly suffered due to the European Commission's decision for Italy to recoup illegal state aid from Banca Tercas, a legal op... (more story)
December 17, 2025
Europe
MLex Summary: On Wednesday, the European Commission approved a €4.1 billion Hungarian state aid scheme to support investment toward net zero technology manufacturing capacity and its components, under CISAF, t... (more story)
December 17, 2025
Europe
MLex Summary: Germany's plan to give state support to aid the roll out of fast-charging stations for electric heavy-duty vehicles at non-serviced rest sites along motorways has won EU approval. The European Co... (more story)
Energy View More
December 18, 2025
Europe
MLex Summary: Professionals, experts and other interested parties have until March 12, 2026, to provide their views on the planned revision of the EU's 2018 Governance Regulation on the Energy Union and Climat... (more story)
December 18, 2025
Europe
MLex Summary: Germany's competition authority has said that most energy companies had not imposed excessive prices during the country's energy crisis in 2022-23, and that some had already reimbursed around €20... (more story)
December 17, 2025 | Samuel Rubenfeld
North America
The indictment of former Goldman Sachs banker Asante Berko was properly sealed, a US judge ruled Wednesday, denying his motion to dismiss charges stemming from an alleged bribery scheme in Ghana. Prosecutors s... (more story)
Technology View More
December 18, 2025
Europe
MLex Summary: ENISA, the EU's cybersecurity agency, has opened two public consultations on its draft SBOM Landscape Analysis and a new Technical Advisory on the Secure Use of Package Managers. SBOM — a Softwar... (more story)
December 18, 2025 | Patricia Figueiredo
Europe
The UK’s new strategy to tackle violence against women and girls, published Thursday, steers away from calls to encourage device-level nudity-blocking tools, despite ministerial claims that children should be ... (more story)
December 18, 2025
Europe
MLex Summary: The UK government has confirmed it will ban nudification apps and introduce new criminal offenses for AI models adapted to generate child sexual abuse material under a new strategy to tackle viol... (more story)