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Antitrust, Artificial Intelligence, Data Privacy and Security, DealRisk®, Mergers and Acquisitions, Technology
May 20, 2025 | Claude Marx
North America
Trade
May 20, 2025 | Zack Budryk
Asia, Europe, North America
Intellectual Property
May 20, 2025 | Nick Robertson
North America
Antitrust View More
May 21, 2025 | MLex Staff
Asia
In a landmark decision, China's top court has set a decisive precedent in a follow-on case involving horizontal-monopoly agreements in the ready-mixed concrete sector. The ruling introduces a framework that bo... (more story)
May 21, 2025 | Alex Wilts
North America
Apple and Epic Games told a California federal judge today they’ve resolved all issues raised in Epic’s recent motion accusing Apple of blocking Fortnite’s return to the App Store.
May 21, 2025 | Chris May and Khushita Vasant
North America
Facebook offered a “good fit” for WhatsApp, and the mobile messaging app had no plans to pivot toward being a direct competitor prior to its 2014 acquisition, WhatsApp co-founder Brian Acton testified today. W... (more story)
Artificial Intelligence View More
May 21, 2025 | Mike Swift
North America
Even though OpenAI pivoted this month to propose that the AI company will continue to be overseen and controlled by the nonprofit it was founded as a decade ago, the change doesn't appear to have reduced the h... (more story)
May 20, 2025
North America
MLex Summary: More than 30 Democratic and Republican members of the California state legislature have sent a letter to US House Speaker Mike Johnson, Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries and the California congress... (more story)
May 20, 2025 | Amy Miller
North America
A California bill that would clarify liability for artificial intelligence tools and prevent companies from deflecting responsibility if they cause harm passed the state Assembly almost unanimously, despite op... (more story)
Mergers and Acquisitions View More
May 21, 2025 | James Panichi
Oceania
Tech giants including Amazon, Apple, Google and Meta Platforms have slammed as “problematic” merger-law guidance issued by the Australian government, which the companies said was unclear about when the laws ap... (more story)
May 20, 2025 | Flavia Fortes
North America
An evidentiary hearing in the Microsoft-Activision administrative case before the US Federal Trade Commission has been postponed to July 21, following a joint motion from the parties. The commission approved t... (more story)
May 20, 2025
North America
MLex Summary: Project Rise Partners met with Commissioner Nathan Simington of the US Federal Communications Commission last Friday to highlight concerns with Paramount Global's $8 billion merger with Skydance ... (more story)
Data Privacy and Security View More
May 21, 2025 | Saloni Sinha
Oceania
A member of New Zealand’s coalition government has called for an inquiry into the feasibility of banning social media for children under 16 — a proposal put forward by the ruling National Party and endorsed by... (more story)
May 21, 2025 | Maria Dinzeo
North America
A bill quickly moving through the California Senate promises to protect small businesses from a wave of privacy lawsuits being brought under a decades-old anti-wiretapping law. But is it giving a free pass to Big Tech?
May 20, 2025 | Xu Yuan
Middle East, North America
On the heels of a $168 million award by a US jury to Meta Platforms for its hacking into Meta’s instant-messaging app WhatsApp, the owner of spyware Pegasus faces a potentially even bigger battle that it argue... (more story)
Intellectual Property View More
May 21, 2025 | MLex Staff
Asia
Substantial litigation expenses arising from foreign patent disputes with US semiconductor company Skyworks Solutions led to a significant downturn in the financial performance of Grand Kangxi Communication Te... (more story)
May 20, 2025 | Melissa Ritti
North America
The widely held belief that patenting confers protection superior to trade secrets still holds true in many situations, especially when an idea can be reverse engineered with ease. But nine years after Congre... (more story)
May 20, 2025 | Nick Robertson
North America
Hip hop group Salt-N-Pepa sued Universal Music Group yesterday, accusing the publishing giant of refusing to acknowledge a notice of termination of a copyright grant under Section 203 of the Copyright Act. Sal... (more story)
Financial Crime View More
May 21, 2025 | Samuel Rubenfeld
North America
Former Safemoon chief Braden John Karony lied to investors about his use of the decentralized finance firm’s liquidity pool tokens, prosecutors said in their closing arguments at his fraud trial, while the def... (more story)
May 21, 2025
North America
MLex Summary: The US Securities and Exchange Commission sued Unicoin Inc. and three of its top executives — Chief Executive and Board Chairman Alex Konanykhin; Silvina Moschini, former president, former board ... (more story)
May 20, 2025 | Martin Coyle
Europe
A British businessman wanted in South Africa on fraud, corruption and money laundering charges faces a new threat of extradition from the UK, despite judges today blocking a South African government bid to app... (more story)
Financial Services View More
May 20, 2025 | Fanny Roux
Europe
EU lawmakers adopted their stance on the one-day trade settlement cycle, or T+1, today, with an amendment exempting securities financing from this shorter settlement cycle — a position aligned with the member ... (more story)
May 20, 2025
Europe
MLex Summary: Monte dei Paschi di Siena said today it has received clearance from the Italian insurance regulator to proceed with its intended acquisition of Mediobanca. The regulator's approval was needed bec... (more story)
May 20, 2025
Europe
MLex Summary: UK branches of international banks should keep no more than 300 million pounds (around $400 million) in retail and small company deposits in instant-access accounts, the Bank of England’s regulat... (more story)
Trade View More
May 21, 2025
Europe
MLex Summary: EU imports from China of new tires used on cars, buses and light trucks are now under investigation to see if the products are being dumped to the detriment of EU industry. The investigation foll... (more story)
May 21, 2025 | Nicholas Hirst
Europe
Czechia’s president used a trip to Brussels to air concerns to the head of the European Commission about a looming EU subsidies probe into the award of a 16 billion-euro contract to Korea Hydro & Nuclear Power... (more story)
May 20, 2025 | Zack Budryk
Europe, North America
The US International Trade Commission will probe the export competitiveness of the domestic nonfat milk solids industry, as well as suppliers from markets including Australia, Canada and New Zealand, as well a... (more story)
State Aid View More
May 20, 2025
Europe
MLex Summary: The EU has moved forward on a new cooperation agreement for competition-law matters between the UK's Competition and Markets Authority and antitrust enforcers within the EU. Both sides still need... (more story)
May 20, 2025
Europe
MLex Summary: Companies active in manufacturing, waste management and remediation services in the Netherlands, will be eligible for Dutch aid, under a program worth 1.2 billion euros, meant to support industri... (more story)
May 20, 2025
Europe
MLex Summary: Finnish packaging maker Huhtamäki is at the EU's first-tier court, in an attempt to win access to European Commission documents on the watchdog's state aid probe into allegedly illegal tax treatm... (more story)
Energy View More
May 20, 2025 | Eleonora Rinaldi
Europe
Russian oil and gas companies will see new EU sanctions targeting the gas pipelines Nord Stream 1 and 2, as well as nearly 200 oil vessels from Russia’s shadow fleet, European Commission President Ursula von d... (more story)
May 20, 2025
Europe
MLex Summary: EU governments today adopted the 17th package of sanctions against Russia, since its invasion against Ukraine in 2022. In its "largest ever package targeting Putin’s shadow fleet," 189 oil tanker... (more story)
May 20, 2025 | Oscar Pandiello
Europe
French President Emmanuel Macron has called for the EU’s due-diligence rules to be scrapped, aligning with Germany’s Friedrich Merz. Macron says the Corporate Sustainability Due-Diligence Directive — known as ... (more story)
Technology View More
May 21, 2025
Europe
MLex Summary: A group of 58 companies and associations in the Wi-Fi industry have asked the European Commission to make the upper 6 GHz band (6.425–7.125 GHz) available for "unrestrained" Wi-Fi operations. The... (more story)
May 20, 2025 | Sara Brandstätter
Europe
The e-commerce sector, tech platforms and other major companies could see faster investigations of possible violations of EU consumer law, based on remarks made today by EU justice commissioner Michael McGrath... (more story)
May 20, 2025 | Matthew Newman
Europe
The largest online platforms will see a change to the rule underpinning fees they pay to fund enforcement of the EU's Digital Services Act proposed by the end of June, the European Commission has said. Google,... (more story)