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December 12, 2025 | Bradley Dress
North America
Artificial Intelligence
December 12, 2025 | Amy Miller
North America
DealRisk®, Mergers and Acquisitions
December 11, 2025 | Flavia Fortes
North America
Antitrust View More
December 12, 2025 | Khushita Vasant
North America
Pepsi worked with Walmart to create a retail “price gap” or “price hedge” between the hypermarket chain and its competitors in the resale of Pepsi soft drinks, according to an unsealed complaint filed by the B... (more story)
December 12, 2025
North America
MLex Summary: Publishers accusing Google of monopolizing the markets for publisher ad servers and ad exchanges and engaged in illegal tying asked a US federal judge to certify two proposed subclasses. If appro... (more story)
December 12, 2025 | Chris May
North America
A California federal judge overseeing multidistrict litigation over an alleged antitrust conspiracy involving cannabis oil vaporizing systems said on Friday that he’s been reconsidering a negative “knee-jerk r... (more story)
Artificial Intelligence View More
December 12, 2025
North America
MLex Summary: Music publishers are renewing a request to question Anthropic founder and CEO Dario Amodei, saying testimony from other witnesses shows that he has unique, first-hand knowledge of the copyright i... (more story)
December 12, 2025 | Emma Whitford and Melissa Ritti
North America
There is no shortage of interest in an ongoing clash between Ross Intelligence and Thomson Reuters in what could yield the first US appellate ruling on whether the use of copyrighted materials to train an arti... (more story)
December 12, 2025
Europe
MLex Summary: More safeguards and clearer legal bases are necessary for processing personal data through AI systems that go beyond the EU’s proposal to reform the EU's data protection rules — also known as the... (more story)
Mergers and Acquisitions View More
December 13, 2025
North America
MLex Summary: Edwards Lifesciences and JenaValve Technology submitted their post-trial brief and redacted proposed findings of fact and conclusions of law today, arguing that the US Federal Trade Commission fa... (more story)
December 12, 2025 | Henrique Santiago
Latin America
Petz and Cobasi are set to become the largest player in the pet care sector, but their dominance will be subject to a prohibition on exclusive contracts and requiring most-favored nation clauses with suppliers.
December 12, 2025 | Wesley Brown
North America
Edwards Lifesciences and JenaValve Technology submitted a post-trial brief Friday, arguing that their transaction is the best way forward for the companies and patients. The companies maintain that the US Fede... (more story)
Data Privacy and Security View More
December 13, 2025 | Xu Yuan
North America
A US state court judge in Los Angeles heard arguments from Meta Platforms, ByteDance, Google and Snap, as well as plaintiffs suing them, related to how to instruct jurors on issues including key immunity doctr... (more story)
December 12, 2025
North America
MLex Summary: The Office of the US Trade Representative invoked the Rapid Response Labor Mechanism of the United States-Mexico-Canada Agreement to review whether labor rights have been violated for Mexican wor... (more story)
December 12, 2025 | Matthew Newman
Europe
Online advertisers, medical device makers, and privacy advocates have discussed how EU regulators should provide guidance on how the bloc’s data protection rules apply when they share pseudonymized data, perso... (more story)
Intellectual Property View More
December 12, 2025 | Inbar Preiss and Frank Hersey
Europe
OpenAI’s decision to appeal a German court ruling in favor of music rights group GEMA may set a new precedent on whether “memorization” inside large language models counts as reproduction. In its early indicat... (more story)
December 12, 2025 | Frank Hersey
Europe
OpenAI looks set to focus its attempt to dismantle a Munich court’s ruling on copyright on the finding that its model memorized training data, according to senior staff members.
December 12, 2025 | Freny Patel
Asia
Novo Nordisk failed to secure interim relief before an Indian court, allowing Dr. Reddy’s Laboratories to continue manufacturing and exporting semaglutide amid a credible challenge to patent validity.
Financial Crime View More
December 12, 2025 | Samuel Rubenfeld
North America
A federal jury in Brooklyn, New York convicted a Florida businessman on Friday on charges stemming from his role as the leader of an organization that laundered more than $300 million on behalf of drug traffickers and others.
December 12, 2025
North America
MLex Summary: Alain Bibliowicz Mitrani, a resident of Miami, Florida and a citizen of France and Colombia, was convicted on five counts of a superseding indictment charging him with money laundering conspiracy... (more story)
December 12, 2025
North America
MLex Summary: In November 2025, Comunicaciones Celulares, doing business as TIGO Guatemala, paid more than $118 million to resolve an investigation by the US Justice Department into a long-running scheme to br... (more story)
Financial Services View More
December 12, 2025 | Fanny Roux
Europe
EU finance ministers on Friday highlighted expected differences between those favoring more centralized markets supervision and those opposed. They had their first discussion on revamped EU market infrastructu... (more story)
December 12, 2025
Europe
MLex Summary: The UK Financial Conduct Authority's plan to compensate car-finance customers who received unfair treatment from lenders is failing to deliver fairness, the Finance & Leasing Association has said... (more story)
December 12, 2025 | Sofia Gerace
Europe
UK non-financial misconduct rules still have gray areas, legal experts have warned, despite the release of the Financial Conduct Authority’s latest guidance to clarify its expectations. The FCA will extend its... (more story)
Trade View More
December 12, 2025 | Eliana Hubacker
Asia, North America
The US Commerce Department was correct to use price quotes from Maersk, a Danish shipping and logistics company, as a surrogate value for ocean freight costs to determine whether Chinese mobile access equipmen... (more story)
December 12, 2025
Asia, Europe
MLex Summary: The EU and Taiwan have met under the TID — their Trade and Investment Dialogue — to discuss bilateral trade and investment matters, including critical value chains, as well as economic security a... (more story)
December 12, 2025 | Oscar Pandiello
Europe
A fixed €3 customs duty on e-commerce parcels valued below €150 will apply across the EU from July 1, 2026, under a plan endorsed by national governments. The temporary measure will cover about 93 percent of l... (more story)
State Aid View More
December 12, 2025
Europe
MLex Summary: Companies in Austria investing in additional manufacturing capacity for net-zero technologies as well as their components will be eligible for direct grants under a €100 million plan that has won... (more story)
December 12, 2025
Europe
MLex Summary: Denmark can spend €3.8 billion to promote the capture and storage of biogenic, fossil and atmospheric carbon emissions, the European Commission said on Friday. The plan is expected to result in t... (more story)
December 12, 2025
Europe
MLex Summary: The European Commission has widened its in-depth investigation to assess whether Lithuanian support worth €361 million to energy company AB Ignitis Gamyba for a strategic reserve for electricity ... (more story)
Energy View More
December 11, 2025
Europe
MLex Summary: The European Commission has opened an infringement procedure against Belgium, accusing it of circumventing state aid rule procedures. The country had recognized arbitration awards that would obli... (more story)
December 11, 2025
Europe
MLex Summary: The European Commission has opened a case against Hungary, for its failure to stop breaches of the ban on investor-state arbitration within the EU. The commission says that the state-owned energy... (more story)
December 11, 2025
Europe
MLex Summary: The European Commission has issued a warning to Finland for its failure to name an authority to oversee and enforce the Methane Regulation, which requires countries to report methane emissions fr... (more story)
Technology View More
December 13, 2025
North America
MLex Summary: Lead plaintiffs are seeking class certification in the Meta securities case, arguing the company misled investors in 2021 about the safety of its platforms for young users and the scope of its “X... (more story)
December 12, 2025
Europe
MLex Summary: Age assurance providers should face further regulation and be made to comply with compulsory privacy and security standards in the UK, civil society organization Open Rights Group told the UK gov... (more story)
December 12, 2025 | Mike Swift, Sara Brandstätter, Patricia Figueiredo and Maria Dinzeo
Europe, North America, Oceania
Regulators worldwide have woken up to a need to police online safety for minors. Australia has arguably gone the furthest, banning social media for under-16s from this week. In Europe, America, Asia and beyond... (more story)