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Antitrust

April 04, 2025 | Simon Zekaria

Europe

Meta-targeted mass claim trial to start in late 2027, UK judge rules
The Federal Supreme Court of Switzerland in Lausanne, Switzerland.

Financial Crime

April 04, 2025 | Martin Coyle

Europe

BSG resources boss sees Swiss bribery appeal rejected by top court
Protesters during a rally demanding the arrest of impeached South Korean President Yoon Suk Yeol in downtown Seoul on Dec. 18, 2024.

Antitrust, Artificial Intelligence, Data Privacy and Security, DealRisk®, Financial Services, Mergers and Acquisitions, Trade

April 04, 2025 | Wooyoung Lee

Asia

South Korean President Yoon removed as court upholds impeachment

Antitrust View More

US DOJ's Slater says MAGA Antitrust enforcement will have role for economists

April 05, 2025 | Khushita Vasant

North America

Gail Slater, chief of the Antitrust Division at the Department of Justice, said she supports bringing in economists and giving them a seat at the table when the leadership makes enforcement and litigation deci... (more story)

US DOJ's Slater sees no antitrust exemption for AI firms on national security grounds

April 05, 2025 | Khushita Vasant

North America

Gail Slater, the antitrust chief of the US Department of Justice, said companies in the artificial intelligence space who seek exemption from antitrust laws by pleading their importance to national security pu... (more story)

US FTC chairman sounds alarm on Big Tech platforms' self-preferencing

April 05, 2025 | Khushita Vasant

North America

Andrew Ferguson, chairman of the US Federal Trade Commission, said Big Tech platforms' practices giving preference to their own products and services on marketplaces they operate is cause for worry and US anti... (more story)

Artificial Intelligence View More

More detailed HSR Form can stave off second requests, FTC official says

April 05, 2025 | Khushita Vasant

North America

A senior US Federal Trade Commission official said the new HSR form can help merging parties avoid second requests for information from the agency because the form seeks granular information that can allow enf... (more story)

Merger remedy proposed at initial filing can shorten review, US DOJ official says

April 05, 2025 | Khushita Vasant

North America

A senior US Department of Justice antitrust official advised merging parties to propose remedies when they file their premerger notification in order to speed the review of a potentially problematic transaction.

Heard in the halls: ABA antitrust conversation buzzes in changing regulatory milieu

April 05, 2025 | MLex Staff

North America

The top competition officials of the US Department of Justice and Federal Trade Commission boycotted the main event — the 2025 ABA Antitrust Spring Meeting — but held forth in separate venues as antitrust figu... (more story)

Mergers and Acquisitions View More

US FTC not ideologically biased against private equity firms as divestiture buyers

April 04, 2025 | Flavia Fortes and Khushita Vasant

North America

The Republican-led US Federal Trade Commission is not ideologically opposed to private equity firms being considered as potentially viable divestiture buyers in a merger, MLex has learned, which is a departure... (more story)

Merging parties should bear burden of proving fix will work, US FTC official says

April 04, 2025 | Wesley Brown

North America

Merging parties who propose a fix to address competition concerns should bear the burden of proving that their proposed remedy is sufficient to restore lost competition, a US Federal Trade Commission official said.

Antitrust agencies must remain independent despite political pressure, CADE president says

April 04, 2025 | Flavia Fortes

Latin America, North America

Antitrust authorities need to maintain their independence despite political pressure, the president of the Brazilian competition authority said.

Data Privacy and Security View More

California privacy regulator to remove behavioral advertising from AI rules

April 04, 2025 | Xu Yuan

North America

Behavioral advertising will be removed from California’s proposed regulations on automated decision-making, risk assessment and other issues, in what the state’s privacy agency considers a significant move in ... (more story)

PCLOB, fired Dems take opposing positions on Humphrey's Executor, US Constitution

April 04, 2025 | Mike Swift

North America

The Trump administration and the Privacy and Civil Liberties Oversight Board have told a federal judge in Washington that Humphrey’s Executor v. US — the 1935 Supreme Court case which governs a president's pow... (more story)

Google argues Pichai can't be forced to testify in US app privacy trial

April 04, 2025 | Mike Swift

North America

Google is trying to prevent CEO Sundar Pichai from testifying in a privacy trial scheduled to begin this summer in California, arguing plaintiffs are trying to leverage his testimony to force a settlement. Goo... (more story)

Intellectual Property View More

OpenAI, Microsoft had reason to investigate copyright infringement, US judge says

April 05, 2025 | Amy Miller

North America

OpenAI and Microsoft had reason to investigate and uncover copyright infringement by users of their artificial intelligence tools, a US judge in New York said, explaining why he allowed lawsuits filed by The N... (more story)

Motorola-Ericsson patent settlement does not mean no antitrust probe in Brazil

April 04, 2025 | Maria Júlia Baumert and Flavia Fortes

Latin America, North America

Motorola and Ericsson settling their patent dispute does not mean that the Brazilian competition authority won’t investigate the case and apply antitrust sanctions to the companies. To avoid a probe and potent... (more story)

News outlets' examples of alleged infringement sustain copyright claims, US judge finds

April 04, 2025

North America

MLex Summary: Numerous examples of OpenAI's ChatGPT and Microsoft's Copilot allegedly regurgitating copies of protected news articles — including "more than 100 pages of examples" provided by the New York Time... (more story)

Financial Crime View More

Manhattan condo in Trump building part of US criminal probe, government says

April 04, 2025 | Samuel Rubenfeld

North America

A luxury condominium in a Trump Organization building in New York is part of a US criminal investigation, the government said in a motion to stay its effort to seize the apartment over corruption allegations. ... (more story)

OKX subsidiary fined for Maltese money laundering violations

April 04, 2025

Europe

MLex Summary: OKX, one of the largest cryptocurrency exchanges in the world, has seen its European subsidiary OKCoin Europe fined 1.05 million euros by Maltese regulators for anti-money laundering failures. Th... (more story)

Jurors in first UK-led Russian sanctions evasion case sent out to reach verdicts

April 04, 2025 | Martin Coyle

Europe

Jurors hearing the sanctions prosecution of a former Russian government minister were sent out to reach their verdicts today as the case against him and his family concluded. The case is the first criminal pro... (more story)

Financial Services View More

South Korea's Constitutional Court rules to remove President Yoon Suk Yeol

April 04, 2025

Asia

MLex Summary: South Korea’s Constitutional Court has unanimously ruled to remove President Yoon Suk Yeol from office by upholding the impeachment motion against him. The court said Yoon’s declaration of martia... (more story)

Customers at three credit unions would lose most if US CFPB rule is overturned, center says

April 03, 2025

North America

MLex Summary:  Families who bank at JP Morgan Chase, Wells Fargo and Navy Federal Credit Union have the most to lose if Congress overturns a US Consumer Financial Protection Bureau rule capping overdraft fees ... (more story)

US SEC needs to tighten oversight, monitoring of CAT usage, IG says

April 03, 2025

North America

MLex Summary:  The US Securities and Exchange Commission needs to tighten its oversight and monitoring of the agency's Consolidated Audit Trail, the SEC Inspector General said. The CAT tracks all activity in n... (more story)

Trade View More

Trump’s US tariff framework raises questions about use of executive power

April 04, 2025 | Eliana Hubacker

Africa, Asia, Europe, Latin America, Middle East, North America, Oceania

US President Donald Trump's use of emergency powers to impose across-the-board and retaliatory tariffs, and the backlash from members of Congress that followed, raises questions about the extent to which Trump... (more story)

Trump’s reciprocal tariffs, de minimis plan increase challenge at US ports

April 04, 2025 | Bradley Dress

North America

President Donald Trump announced this week tariffs on countries from every corner of the globe, magnifying an existing enforcement challenge for US Customs and Border Protection, importers and brokers that are... (more story)

Conservative group sues over US emergency powers used to impose China tariffs

April 04, 2025 | Zack Budryk

Asia, North America

A conservative legal advocacy group sued the Trump administration yesterday on behalf of a Florida-based planner business to block the emergency authority used to implement 20 percent tariffs on Chinese imports.

State Aid View More

E&-PPF foreign subsidies clearance published by EU

April 04, 2025

Europe

MLex Summary: The European Commission has published a public version of its decision to clear, under foreign subsidy rules, United Arab Emirates-backed telecom company e&’s acquisition of telecom assets from C... (more story)

Greek aid for sustainable biofuels wins EU Commission approval

April 04, 2025

Europe

MLex Summary: Investments into the generation of biofuels and renewable fuels of non-biological origin will get a boost in Greece, under a government plan worth 300 million euros that won state aid approval to... (more story)

Poland’s reinsurance spending for Ukraine transport wins EU state aid clearance

April 04, 2025

Europe

MLex Summary: Poland’s plan to grant 1.5 billion euros of state support to reinsure transport in Ukraine has been approved by the European Commission. The EU’s state aid regulator said the program would contri... (more story)

Energy View More

EU, Central Asia announce strategic partnership on climate

April 04, 2025

Asia, Europe

MLex Summary: The EU will strengthen its climate-related relations with Central Asia, elevating those relations to a strategic partnership, the president of the Council of the EU António Costa has said. This p... (more story)

Critical minerals, cleantech investments in Central Asia announced by EU Commission

April 04, 2025

Europe

MLex Summary: The EU Commission announced today a investment of 12 billion euros in Central Asia to support “transport, critical raw materials, clean energy and digital connectivity.” The package, framed under... (more story)

Power to 'modify' decisions could avoid unhelpful 'ping pong,' EU judge says

April 03, 2025 | Lewis Crofts

Europe, North America

Giving EU judges the power to change a regulator’s decision and not just review its legality would avoid the “unsatisfactory ping-pong” of cases, according to Ulf Öberg, a judge at the EU’s lower-tier General Court.

Technology View More

US DOJ's Alford says counsel should provide clean exit strategies for mergers

April 04, 2025 | Khushita Vasant

North America

Roger Alford, a senior US Department of Justice antitrust enforcer, warned against bottlenecks in the merger review pipeline and advised merging parties and counsel to put forth exit strategies.

Trump extends TikTok ban deadline for 75 days

April 04, 2025

North America

MLex Summary: US President Donald Trump posted to Truth Social that the TikTok ban deadline* will be extended for another 75 days under a new executive order as the government works with China on the sale. *... (more story)

EU governments call for 'coordinated initiative' on submarine networks

April 04, 2025 | Matthew Newman and Luca Bertuzzi

Europe

EU governments have called on the European Commission to study the need for a “coordinated initiative” to develop a “backbone terrestrial and submarine network” using the bloc's funds, MLex has learned. The ca... (more story)