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Antitrust
April 04, 2025 | Simon Zekaria
Europe
Financial Crime
April 04, 2025 | Martin Coyle
Europe
Antitrust, Artificial Intelligence, Data Privacy and Security, DealRisk®, Financial Services, Mergers and Acquisitions, Trade
April 04, 2025 | Wooyoung Lee
Asia
Antitrust View More
April 04, 2025 | Flavia Fortes
Latin America,North America
Digital platforms shouldn’t be targeted in probes without robust evidence, a councilor with the Brazilian competition authority told MLex. Gustavo Augusto Freitas de Lima, a councilor for Administrative Counci... (more story)
April 04, 2025 | Lewis Crofts
Europe,North America
Politicians should avoid heaping too many imperatives on competition authorities by forcing them to pursue a broadening range of goals, Germany's top regulator has said. Andreas Mundt warned against "overloadi... (more story)
April 04, 2025 | Curtis Eichelberger
North America
Lawyers would be wise to proactively reach out to state attorneys general if they think a merger or conduct issue they're working on could impact a particular state investigation, the chair of the National Ass... (more story)
Artificial Intelligence View More
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)
April 04, 2025 | Lewis Crofts
Europe,North America
Ensuring large companies face scrutiny when they acquire startups in so-called killer acquisitions is a high-priority concern for the European Commission, Teresa Ribera said. Germany's top antitrust regulator ... (more story)
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)
Mergers and Acquisitions View More
April 04, 2025 | Nicholas Hirst
Europe
Merger regulators are grappling increasingly with how deals may impact innovation, as exemplified by scrutiny of recent acquisitions by Thermo Fisher and Edwards Lifesciences, according to the head of Germany’... (more story)
April 04, 2025 | Claude Marx
North America
The two former US Federal Trade Commissioners who served the last time the agency had only two members said today that the agency can still function effectively with diminished ranks, but it doesn’t speak with... (more story)
April 04, 2025
Europe
MLex Summary: French aircraft-parts maker Safran has won EU approval for its plan to buy part of Collins Aerospace’s actuation business, with conditions. To secure the clearance, Safran agreed to divest the wh... (more story)
Data Privacy and Security View More
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)
April 04, 2025
North America
MLex Summary: Google asked a federal judge to block a bid by plaintiffs to call CEO Sundar Pichai to testify in a trial this summer on the digital ads giant's tracking of mobile app activity. "Mr. Pichai has n... (more story)
April 04, 2025
North America
MLex Summary: Yolo Technologies moved for a judgment on the pleadings in a federal California case over its moderation practices, arguing that plaintiffs’ claims fail because the terms of service, which are in... (more story)
Intellectual Property View More
April 04, 2025 | Nick Robertson
North America
The Office of Unfair Import Investigations at the US International Trade Commission believes BOE Technology Group misappropriated Samsung Display trade secrets in violation of Section 337 of the Tariff Act, ac... (more story)
April 04, 2025 | Inbar Preiss
Europe
The Unified Patent Court has granted Edwards Lifesciences an injunction against Meril Life Sciences, finding that Meril’s heart valve products infringe Edwards’ European patent. The court confirmed it had juri... (more story)
April 04, 2025 | Melissa Ritti
North America
RAI Strategic Holdings yesterday asked US Patent and Trademark Office Acting Director Coke Morgan Stewart to intervene and quash an inter partes review, or IPR, instituted by the Patent Trial and Appeal Board ... (more story)
Financial Crime View More
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)
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)
April 03, 2025
North America
MLex Summary: US Senators Catherine Cortez Masto, a Democrat from Nevada, and Chuck Grassley, a Republican from Iowa, reintroduced their legislation to help the US Secret Service better detect and deter cyberc... (more story)
Financial Services View More
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)
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)
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
April 04, 2025 | Henrique Santiago
Latin America
Brazilian President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva is expected to sign a bill that implements reciprocity measures in foreign trade with countries and trading blocs. He expressed regret over US President Donald Tru... (more story)
April 04, 2025 | Khushita Vasant
North America
Roger Alford, a senior antitrust enforcer at the US Department of Justice, warned that competition authorities ought to be on the lookout for anticompetitive behavior, along with the risk of dynamic pricing on... (more story)
April 04, 2025
North America
MLex Summary: A new trade report delivered to the White House recommends bolstering the antidumping and antisubsidy mechanism by adding more countries to a non-market economies list and self-initiating cases m... (more story)
State Aid View More
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)
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)
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
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)
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)
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
April 04, 2025 | Khushita Vasant and Flavia Fortes
North America
Marie Martin, an enforcer from Utah Office of the Attorney General, has been appointed vice chair of the Antitrust Task Force of the National Association of Attorneys General, a newly-created position, as the ... (more story)
April 04, 2025
Asia
MLex Summary: China's Ministry of Commerce today added 11 US companies, including drone maker Skydio, to its Unreliable Entity List. Effective immediately, the companies are banned from engaging in import and ... (more story)
April 04, 2025 | Khushita Vasant
North America
Companies under US antitrust investigation or targeted by federal monopolization litigation won't receive special treatment even if they have connections in the Trump administration, the second-highest US Depa... (more story)