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Trade
February 17, 2025 | Joanna Sopinska
Europe
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DealRisk®, Mergers and Acquisitions
February 17, 2025 | Jon Menon
Europe
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Artificial Intelligence, Data Privacy and Security
February 14, 2025 | Amy Miller
North America
Antitrust View More
February 17, 2025
Middle East
MLex Summary: Frito-Lay, PepsiCo’s Turkish subsidiary, must pay a fine of 1.3 billion liras (approx. $36 million) after Turkey's antitrust authority imposed a fine for limiting consumer choice in retail outlet... (more story)
February 17, 2025 | Simon Zekaria
Europe
A fresh legal action against the company behind England's top-flight football league by its current champions over knotty sponsorship rules has shone a fresh spotlight on the risks of enforcement of competitio... (more story)
February 17, 2025
Europe
MLex Summary: The European Automobile Manufacturers’ Association urges the European Commission to "reverse its decision to withdraw" the proposed regulation on standard-essential patent licensing. In a letter ... (more story)
Artificial Intelligence View More
February 17, 2025 | Frank Hersey
Europe
UK regulators will be supported by a new “artificial intelligence based digital platform” being developed by Ideaonomy via funding from the country’s innovation agency as part of efforts to develop regulatory science.
February 17, 2025 | Choonsik Yoo
Asia
South Korea's privacy regulator said today the Chinese developer of the DeepSeek generative artificial intelligence app has removed it from download services within South Korea temporarily for improvement wor... (more story)
February 17, 2025
Asia
MLex Summary: South Korea’s privacy regulator said today that China’s DeepSeek has removed its generative AI app from the mobile application download market in South Korea, pending improvements to resolve data... (more story)
Mergers and Acquisitions View More
February 17, 2025 | Andrew Boyce
Europe
French aircraft parts maker Safran has sought EU approval for its plan to buy actuation and flight-control assets from rival Collins Aerospace. The European Commission has set a March 21 deadline to decide on ... (more story)
February 17, 2025
Europe
MLex Summary: JC Switzerland Holding, a company part of the Peek & Cloppenburg department store group, may take over insolvent competitor Sinn, the German competition authority said today. The watchdog conclud... (more story)
February 17, 2025
Europe
MLex Summary: Nidec has seen the European Commission issue the public version of a decision from October to readopt a 2020 decision that lifted certain conditions on its acquisition of Embraco, a rival maker o... (more story)
Data Privacy and Security View More
February 17, 2025 | Matthew Newman
Europe
France’s telecom incumbent Orange has appealed a 50 million-euro fine for violating French data privacy rules by inserting display ads in users' e-mails and illegally reading cookies after consent had been wit... (more story)
February 17, 2025
Europe
MLex Summary: Orange España has been fined 1.2 million euros by the Spanish data protection regulator for violating the EU's General Data Protection Regulation. Orange failed to verify the identity of a person... (more story)
February 17, 2025
Europe
MLex Summary: The Latvian Constitutional Court has referred a case to the EU Court of Justice questioning whether shareholder information in public limited companies must be disclosed and made publicly availab... (more story)
Intellectual Property View More
February 17, 2025
Europe
MLex Summary: BASF has appealed the European Patent Office's decision to revoke its patent for a mineral oil production process due to insufficient disclosure. The Board of Appeal ruled that the patent met dis... (more story)
February 17, 2025
Europe
MLex Summary: The European Patent Office’s Board of Appeal has revoked Moog Inc.’s patent for a high-speed data link and set aside a prior decision that allowed it in an amended form. The board found that the ... (more story)
February 17, 2025
Europe
MLex Summary: The European Patent Office’s Board of Appeal has dismissed InterDigital Patent Holdings’ appeal, upholding the rejection of its European patent application for a wireless transmission. The board ... (more story)
Financial Crime View More
February 17, 2025
Europe
MLex Summary: The G20 should monitor the implementation of its roadmaps on crypto-assets and cross-border payments, push its members to "effectively implement" anti-money laundering standards, and support the ... (more story)
February 15, 2025 | Mike Swift and Samuel Rubenfeld
North America
Alexander Vinnik, who pleaded guilty to running the BTC-e money laundering platform that federal prosecutors said processed billions of dollars from global cyberattacks, was returned to Russia this week in a p... (more story)
February 14, 2025
North America
MLex Summary: Austin Michael Taylor, the founder of CluCoin, a cryptocurrency token project in Miami, was sentenced to 27 months in US prison, followed by three years of supervised release and ordered to pay r... (more story)
Financial Services View More
February 17, 2025 | Sofia Gerace
Europe
The UK's Financial Conduct Authority has been granted permission by the Supreme Court to intervene in the landmark car-finance hearing that will define the future of the industry, after lenders came under incr... (more story)
February 17, 2025 | Sofia Gerace
Europe
The chair of the UK Treasury committee, which is tasked with overseeing the work of Britain's finance ministry, said in an opinion piece published by the Financial Times that the government's "one-sided" narra... (more story)
February 17, 2025 | Sofia Gerace
Europe
Amending the EU-inherited transaction-reporting regime would contribute to regulators' secondary objective of growth and competitiveness, a trade organization has told the UK financial watchdog. The Managed Fu... (more story)
Trade View More
February 17, 2025 | Joanna Sopinska
Europe
Imports of continuous filament glass-fiber products from Bahrain, Egypt and Thailand will face an EU dumping investigation, the European Commission said today. The probe is the latest EU attempt to address dum... (more story)
February 17, 2025
Europe
MLex Summary: Russian fertilizer makers Nevinnomysskiy Azot and Novomoskovskaya Aktsionernaya Kompania Azot are challenging the European Commission's start of an expiry review into dumping measures in place on... (more story)
February 17, 2025
Europe
MLex Summary: EU imports of continuous filament glass fiber products from Bahrain, Egypt and Thailand are now being investigated over whether they've been unfairly dumped to the detriment of the EU industry, t... (more story)
State Aid View More
February 17, 2025
Europe
MLex Summary: Three companies active in the Portuguese territory of Madeira have filed an appeal at the Court of Justice of the EU to contest an earlier ruling by the lower court, which said that tax reduction... (more story)
February 17, 2025
Europe
MLex Summary: Small and medium-sized companies active in primary production in France will be eligible for public support under a national program worth 500 million that won European Commission state aid appro... (more story)
February 17, 2025
Asia
MLex Summary: Chinese President Xi Jinping has attended a symposium on private enterprises today, according to state-run news agency Xinhua. Xi delivered a speech after listening to representatives of private ... (more story)
Energy View More
February 17, 2025
Europe
MLex Summary: Finland's decision to include water-borne navigation, combustion for agriculture/forestry/fishing, off-road vehicles and other machinery mobile combustion into the new EU’s emission trading syste... (more story)
February 17, 2025
Europe
MLex Summary: The International Maritime Organization should exclude unsustainable biofuels from its climate-friendly alternatives to fossil fuels for shipping, industry leaders and NGOs have said. Without saf... (more story)
February 14, 2025 | Claude Marx
North America
US Federal Trade Commission Chairman Andrew Ferguson said he plans to ask the FTC to endorse the US Department of Justice’s position that the president should be allowed to remove members of regulatory commiss... (more story)
Technology View More
February 17, 2025 | Sara Brandstätter and Matthew Newman
Europe
The role of the EU’s Digital Services Act, as well as US Vice President JD Vance’s comments on disinformation in the EU were discussed by lawmakers in the European Parliament today. In its first meeting, the n... (more story)
February 17, 2025
Europe
The Competition and Consumer Protection Commission, Ireland’s consumer and competition watchdog, has launched a public consultation on its proposed Digital Services Act Levy, a charge on online marketplaces to... (more story)
February 15, 2025 | Khushita Vasant
North America
Anthropic told a US federal court that a Department of Justice proposal for Google to divest its stake in any company that controls an artificial intelligence product would injure it and harm competition more broadly.