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Antitrust
December 10, 2025 | Mike Swift
North America
Trade
December 10, 2025 | Zack Budryk
North America
Antitrust
December 10, 2025 | Lewis Crofts
Europe
Antitrust View More
December 11, 2025
North America
MLex Summary: Plaintiff Brand Little and a putative class of approximately 1,400 independent commercial crabbers filed a fourth amended class-action complaint alleging a pricing cartel. The plaintiffs allege t... (more story)
December 10, 2025
North America
MLex Summary: Amazon and the US Federal Trade Commission proposed pushing back the start date of the bench trial for their antitrust dispute from Feb. 9, 2027 to March 29, 2027. "The parties propose this sched... (more story)
December 10, 2025
Latin America
MLex Summary: The Brazilian competition authority released a new working paper this Wednesday reviewing the 15-year trajectory of its Department of Economic Studies (DEE), which reached the milestone in Septem... (more story)
Artificial Intelligence View More
December 10, 2025
North America
MLex Summary: New York Attorney General Letitia James announced that she and a bipartisan coalition of 41 other attorneys general wrote to Big Tech companies urging them to implement safeguards on artificial i... (more story)
December 10, 2025
North America
MLex Summary: US Senator Ed Markey, a Massachusetts Democrat, shared Amazon's responses to his inquiry about its Ring doorbell facial recognition system, saying it was a "privacy nightmare." The Ring doorbell ... (more story)
December 10, 2025
North America
MLex Summary: US District Judge Vince Chhabria has partially granted the US government’s motion to exclude testimony from James Pooley, an intellectual property attorney and litigation consultant, in the upcom... (more story)
Mergers and Acquisitions View More
December 11, 2025
Oceania
MLex Summary: Insurance Australia Group's plans to enter into a strategic alliance with the Royal Automobile Club of Western Australia to provide general insurance products for local members has been rejected ... (more story)
December 10, 2025
Europe, North America
MLex Summary: Paramount Skydance urged Warner Bros. Discovery's shareholders to overrule the company's board and choose its bid for the company instead of Netflix's offer. "Paramount's offer not only delivers ... (more story)
December 10, 2025 | Melissa Ritti
North America
News that Netflix won the bidding war for Warner Bros. Discovery has drawn the ire of Hollywood elite, piqued the interest of US President Donald Trump and prompted a sizable counteroffer from Paramount Skydan... (more story)
Data Privacy and Security View More
December 10, 2025
North America
MLex Summary: Boris Said Jr., an online gambling site owner, must face a US lawsuit over illegal online gambling by children in Roblox. District Judge Vince Chhabria, of the Northern District of California, co... (more story)
December 10, 2025 | Patricia Figueiredo
Europe
Findings of demographic bias in the facial-recognition system used by UK police forces triggered questions by lawmakers on Tuesday, after a government-commissioned testing published last week showed higher fal... (more story)
December 10, 2025 | Mike Swift
Europe, North America, Oceania
Government social media age restrictions, such as the one coming into force this week in Australia, or broad content-moderation laws such as those in the EU and the UK, are impossible in the US because they ar... (more story)
Intellectual Property View More
December 10, 2025 | Nick Robertson
North America
The review of the US-Mexico-Canada trade deal again has pharmaceutical companies at odds with organizations aiming to increase access to medications. IP protection requirements are at the center of a debate ov... (more story)
December 10, 2025
North America
MLex Summary: Warner Music International Services and its subsidiary Atlantic Records have agreed to drop their claims accusing AI music generator Suno of large-scale theft of independent recording artists' mu... (more story)
December 10, 2025 | Douglas Clarke-Williams
Europe
Oatly argued before the UK Supreme Court on Wednesday that its application to trademark the phrase “post milk generation” does not violate EU rules on protected names for certain foodstuffs. The drinks maker a... (more story)
Financial Crime View More
December 10, 2025 | Samuel Rubenfeld
North America
The cryptocurrency trading platform Paxful has settled with US authorities over anti-money laundering compliance failures that enabled illicit actors like commercial sex-trade websites, darknet marketplaces an... (more story)
December 10, 2025
North America
MLex Summary: Paxful, an online virtual currency trading platform, agreed to plead guilty to a three-count information filed in California court, and agreed to pay a criminal penalty of $4 million. Paxful tran... (more story)
December 10, 2025 | Samuel Rubenfeld
Europe, North America
US federal prosecutors decided to end their effort to sustain the convictions of a former Fox Sports executive and a sports marketing company in a corruption case linked to broadcasting rights for internationa... (more story)
Financial Services View More
December 11, 2025
Europe
MLex Summary: UK capital markets are losing ground to international competitors, the Association for Financial Markets in Europe said in a report released on Thursday. The group said that the UK initial public... (more story)
December 11, 2025 | Sofia Gerace
Europe
UK consumers will be offered “ready-made” financial recommendations on how to invest or save for pensions, as the Financial Conduct Authority attempts to close the “advice gap” and push people to invest more m... (more story)
December 11, 2025
Europe
MLex Summary: UK investment platforms and firms operating pension products have seen new proposals from the Financial Conduct Authority to modernize pension rules. The FCA is seeking to enable engaging digital... (more story)
Trade View More
December 10, 2025 | Bradley Dress
North America
The US House Ways and Means Committee on Wednesday passed two bills that would restore trade deals with Africa and Haiti after they expired at the end of September.
December 10, 2025
Latin America, North America
MLex Summary: The Office of the US Trade Representative announced that the US will impose a phased-in tariff on all imported goods on Nicaragua beginning Jan. 1, 2026. The tariff will start at zero percent and... (more story)
December 10, 2025
North America
MLex Summary: The US International Trade Commission voted that the importation of German, Indian and Saudi hexamine is injurious to US industry. USITC Chair Amy Karpel and Commissioner Jason E. Kearns voted th... (more story)
State Aid View More
December 10, 2025 | Simon Zekaria
Europe
A lottery company’s case against the UK gambling regulator over an alleged subsidy is a “binary" question to be determined by competition judges, a UK judge was told Wednesday. The New Lottery Company alleges ... (more story)
December 10, 2025 | Lewis Crofts
Asia, Europe
The European Commission has carried out unannounced inspections at Chinese platform Temu, looking into suspicions of a breach under EU rules that combat the distortive effect of subsidies from foreign governme... (more story)
December 10, 2025
Europe
MLex Summary: A state aid probe into Norway's proposal to exempt emissions already covered by the European Emissions Trading System from an excise duty on waste incineration has been closed, the EFTA Surveilla... (more story)
Energy View More
December 10, 2025 | Helena Freitas
Europe
Centralized cross-border energy grid planning and accelerated permitting are among plans unveiled by the European Commission on Wednesday as it warned that aging networks and slow approvals threaten the EU's e... (more story)
December 10, 2025
Europe
MLex Summary: The European Commission on Wednesday presented proposals to simplify existing EU environmental legislation on industrial emissions, permit granting for projects, hazardous substances and extended... (more story)
December 10, 2025
Europe
MLex Summary: The European Commission on Wednesday unveiled its plan to modernize and expand the EU’s grid infrastructure. The proposal introduces an EU-wide approach to infrastructure planning, seeks to accel... (more story)
Technology View More
December 10, 2025 | Frank Hersey
Europe
The UK minister for AI and online safety, Kanishka Narayan, has called on lawmakers to point out any gaps in the country’s Online Safety Act with respect to risks posed by AI chatbots.
December 10, 2025
Europe
MLex Summary: UK children’s exposure to harmful material online remained high before new child-protection rules took effect in July, with 70 percent of children between the ages of 11 and 17 saying they encoun... (more story)
December 10, 2025 | Jeyup S Kwaak
Asia
With just over one week to go before the long-awaited and politically sensitive “Smartphone Law” goes into effect, the chief of Japan’s antitrust regulator on Wednesday praised the law as a boon for competitio... (more story)