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DealRisk®, Mergers and Acquisitions
March 07, 2025 | Flavia Fortes and Curtis Eichelberger
North America
DealRisk®, Mergers and Acquisitions
March 07, 2025 | Jon Menon and Nicholas Hirst
Europe
Trade
March 07, 2025 | MLex Staff
Asia
Antitrust View More
March 08, 2025 | Khushita Vasant and Alex Wilts
North America
Google can hold on to its investment in artificial intelligence company Anthropic, with the US Department of Justice today backtracking from an earlier remedy proposal in its monopolization suit where it previ... (more story)
March 08, 2025
North America
MLex Summary: Google submitted its final remedy proposal in the government's Internet search monopolization lawsuit and said it won't enter any agreement requiring Apple to set Google Search as the default sea... (more story)
March 08, 2025
North America
MLex Summary: Epic Games filed its post-hearing brief for its dispute accusing Apple of violating a US injunction that required the smartphone manufacturer to change its anti-steering rules. "Apple struck the ... (more story)
Artificial Intelligence View More
March 08, 2025 | Amy Miller
North America
Three bills in Utah aimed at improving transparency around artificial intelligence are heading to the governor's desk, including a proposal that adds new protections for users of mental health chatbots. If app... (more story)
March 08, 2025
North America
MLex Summary: Meta Platforms will have to face a claim from US authors that removal of content management information violated the Digital Millennium Copyright Act (DMCA), US District Judge Vince Chhabria in S... (more story)
March 07, 2025
North America
MLex Summary: The US Department of Justice has opened an investigation into the egg industry after advocacy group Farm Action published a 2025 public letter to antitrust enforcers "exposing excessive corporate... (more story)
Mergers and Acquisitions View More
March 07, 2025 | Ilana Kowarski
North America
CBS owner Paramount Global - a media conglomerate whose pending acquisition by rival Skydance Media faces obstacles at the Republican-led Federal Communications Commission due to allegations that a CBS newscas... (more story)
March 07, 2025 | Flavia Fortes, Ilana Kowarski and Wesley Brown
North America
With two merger challenges filed in less than two months since taking office, President Donald Trump’s second administration is sending the message that it has no plans to loosen up antitrust enforcement. The ... (more story)
March 07, 2025
North America
MLex Summary: A redacted version of the US Federal Trade Commission's complaint against GTCR's proposed acquisition of Surmodics was posted today, detailing the agency's reasons for seeking an injunction. The ... (more story)
Data Privacy and Security View More
March 08, 2025 | Maria Dinzeo
North America
As a US judge weighed whether to allow a host of consumer protection claims against Apple, Google and Meta to proceed in a case involving their role in hosting virtual casino apps, lawyers for the tech giants... (more story)
March 07, 2025 | Mike Swift
North America
The US Federal Trade Commission has moved to block Kochava's request for a jury trial in Idaho, as the regulator seeks to stop the data broker from trading in geolocation data that the regulator says could rev... (more story)
March 07, 2025
North America
MLex Summary: The California Privacy Protection Agency published draft regulations for data brokers and a public-facing platform that allows consumers to submit requests to delete personal information which is... (more story)
Intellectual Property View More
March 07, 2025 | Nick Robertson
North America
Two Chinese artists' motion for reconsideration of a November order dismissing their copyright infringement claims against US video game company Valve was denied yesterday. Fang Cong and Lin Jiang had argued t... (more story)
March 07, 2025
Europe
MLex Summary: CJ Medical's “Seplou Sheath” infringes one valid claim of a Well Lead Medical patented medical device for suctioning kidney stones and gall stones from the urinary tract, according to UK High Cou... (more story)
March 07, 2025 | Nick Robertson
North America
As Congress renews an attempt to better regulate how litigation is funded by third-parties, funders told MLex the “misguided” attempt would only serve to harm the patent litigation space, where relying on inve... (more story)
Financial Crime View More
March 07, 2025 | Samuel Rubenfeld
North America
Robinhood has been ordered to pay nearly $30 million to resolve “numerous” violations of securities laws and regulations at two of its brokerage units, the self-regulator Finra said. The brokerage units consen... (more story)
March 07, 2025 | Samuel Rubenfeld
North America
As the White House hosts its first cryptocurrency summit, the US participated in an international takedown of a Russia-based exchange and unsealed an indictment charging the administrators with money launderin... (more story)
March 07, 2025
North America
MLex Summary: The United States Secret Service has seized website domains linked to Russian cryptocurrency exchange Garantex and frozen multiple crypto currency assets owned by the exchange. The seizure order ... (more story)
Financial Services View More
March 07, 2025
North America
MLex Summary: The Financial Industry Regulatory Authority ordered Robinhood, a financial services company, to pay more than $29 million for violating anti-money laundering, supervisory and disclosure violation... (more story)
March 07, 2025
North America
MLex Summary: The Office of the Comptroller of the Currency published an Interpretive Letter to confirm that crypto-asset custody, certain stablecoin activities and participation in independent node verificati... (more story)
March 07, 2025 | Martin Coyle
Europe
Four men were jailed today for their roles in the largest money-laundering plot to come to court in the UK, which involved NatWest bank being used to launder millions of pounds in cash. The four were each sent... (more story)
Trade View More
March 08, 2025 | Bradley Dress
Asia, Europe, Middle East, North America
The Court of International Trade today partially remanded a Commerce scope determination on an antidumping order on Indonesian mattresses, ruling both for the federal agency and for US-based company Brooklyn Bedding.
March 07, 2025
Asia, Europe, Middle East, North America
MLex Summary: The Court of International Trade partially remanded a Commerce antidumping order on Indonesian mattresses. CIT Judge Jennifer Choe-Groves ruled that Commerce provided evidence that excludes tri-f... (more story)
March 07, 2025 | Bradley Dress
Asia, Europe, North America
The US Court of International Trade today affirmed Commerce's remand of a dumping rate determination for Indian chemical producer Gujarat Fluorochemicals Ltd., rejecting arguments from two companies related to... (more story)
State Aid View More
March 07, 2025
Europe
MLex Summary: Micro, small and medium-sized companies in Italy will be eligible for direct grants and subsidized services, under a 90 million-euro government plan that secured state aid approval. The program w... (more story)
March 07, 2025
Europe
MLex Summary: Storage technologies in Czechia, linked to the transmission or distribution network, will be eligible for direct grants, under a program worth 279 million euros that won European Commission state... (more story)
March 07, 2025
Europe
MLex Summary: An appeal court in London has ruled that the sales process for defunct energy company Bulb Energy was open, non-discriminatory, transparent and competitive. British Gas and E.On had challenged th... (more story)
Energy View More
March 07, 2025
Europe
MLex Summary: The European Commission is seeking feedback on its draft amended rules that include separate vehicle sub-groups for extra-heavy combination trucks to the EU law on emissions standards for heavy-d... (more story)
March 06, 2025 | Helena Freitas and Oscar Pandiello
Europe
The steel industry needs secure and affordable energy supply, a business case for steel made in Europe, as well as a market-oriented framework for carbon capture usage and storage, according to a draft interna... (more story)
March 06, 2025
Europe
MLex Summary: EU law doesn't preclude countries legislating to cut power-distribution prices even if this interferes with national regulators' methodologies, judges from the EU's highest court clarified. This ... (more story)
Technology View More
March 07, 2025
North America
MLex Summary: The US Department of Justice and a Colorado-led coalition of states filed their final remedy proposal in the Internet search monopolization lawsuit against Google, in which they are still seeking... (more story)
March 07, 2025 | Frank Hersey
Europe
A bill that originally sought a ban on smartphones in schools and of addictive algorithms being used on children has been drastically watered down in Parliament to curry favor with the government. It now asks ... (more story)
March 07, 2025
North America
MLex Summary: Anthropic filed a reply in support of its request that a US judge allow it to intervene in the remedy phase of the Department of Justice’s antitrust case against Google. “Plaintiffs seek a remedy... (more story)