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Artificial Intelligence
June 23, 2025 | Emma Whitford
North America
Antitrust, Data Privacy and Security
June 23, 2025 | James Panichi
Oceania
DealRisk®, Mergers and Acquisitions, State Aid
June 20, 2025 | Andrew Boyce
Europe
Antitrust View More
June 24, 2025
Europe
MLex Summary: Big tech companies' cross-market presence poses various antitrust risks, the German competition authority said today, as it could create dependencies for smaller rivals regarding access to cloud ... (more story)
June 24, 2025
Europe
MLex Summary: Personal care and retail companies in Belgium have seen raids at their headquarters as part of an investigation into possible anticompetitive behavior. The Belgian competition authority said it h... (more story)
June 24, 2025
Europe
MLex Summary: Austria's energy sector still suffered from a lack of functioning competition across the country, the Austrian antitrust authority said today as it published the final report of a joint investiga... (more story)
Artificial Intelligence View More
June 24, 2025
North America
MLex Summary: A federal judge in California has ruled that Anthropic's use of copyrighted books to train its large language model Claude was "exceedingly transformative" and was therefore a legal use under the... (more story)
June 24, 2025
Europe
MLex Summary: The European Commission has introduced new tools on its AI-on-Demand platform to support researchers, companies and public organizations. The updated platform features a low-code AI development t... (more story)
June 24, 2025
Asia
MLex Summary: Personal information handlers are barred from making mandatory use of facial recognition technology or making it the sole method of authentication, according to a new compliance initiative for th... (more story)
Mergers and Acquisitions View More
June 24, 2025
Europe
MLex Summary: The Spanish government authorized the takeover bid by Banco Bilbao Vizcaya Argentaria for domestic rival Sabadell, on the condition that both banks maintain legal personality, separate assets, an... (more story)
June 24, 2025
North America
MLex Summary: Philips Healthcare, a non-party in the US Federal Trade Commission's suit to prevent GTCR from acquiring Surmodics, is asking the court to deny Surmodics' motion to comply with a subpoena for con... (more story)
June 24, 2025
Oceania
MLex Summary: The move by multinational industrial-gas company Nippon Sanso’s Australian subsidiary, NSC (Australia), to acquire Coregas, Coregas NZ and Blacksmith Jacks, currently owned by Australian conglome... (more story)
Data Privacy and Security View More
June 24, 2025 | Patricia Figueiredo
Europe
UK businesses will face a six- to nine-month implementation window for the Data (Use and Access) Act, with the first changes expected by mid-December and most major guidance set for release in winter 2025/2026... (more story)
June 24, 2025
Europe
MLex Summary: Free flow of data between the EU and the UK is guaranteed until December as the EU Commission today confirmed the extension of two data adequacy decisions. The six-month extension, initially prop... (more story)
June 24, 2025 | Choltanutkun Tun-atiruj
Asia
E-commerce platforms now face formal liability in the Philippines as the country's trade regulator has begun full enforcement of the Internet Transactions Act, or ITA, which grants authorities powers to take d... (more story)
Intellectual Property View More
June 24, 2025 | Douglas Clarke-Williams
Europe
Dream Pairs has won its challenge at the UK's top court against an appeal court ruling in favor of Iconix, owner of the Umbro brand, in a trademark dispute over footwear branding. The Supreme Court found that ... (more story)
June 23, 2025 | Chris May
North America
Commercial real estate platform CoStar is back on the hook for US antitrust claims after a California federal appeals court ruled today that a rival platform has plausibly alleged CoStar is an industry-leading... (more story)
June 23, 2025 | Melissa Ritti
North America
The viability of an AT&T breach of contract counterclaim lodged in response to a complaint by Pegasus Wireless Innovation over 4G and 5G standard essential patents could hinge on the meaning assigned by a Texa... (more story)
Financial Crime View More
June 24, 2025 | Samuel Rubenfeld
North America
In a US trial of a cryptocurrency entrepreneur that centers on the alleged laundering of funds stolen by a blacklisted North Korean hacking group, the businessman is asking a federal judge to prevent the gover... (more story)
June 23, 2025
Africa, Asia, Europe, Latin America, Middle East, North America, Oceania
MLex Summary: The Financial Action Task Force has updated its guidance on financial inclusion and anti-money laundering and terrorist financing measures to support countries and the private sector in bringing ... (more story)
June 23, 2025
North America
MLex Summary: The US Office of the Comptroller of the Currency has issued guidance describing its plan to address criminally liable regulatory offenses in accordance with an executive order issued by President... (more story)
Financial Services View More
June 24, 2025 | Sofia Gerace
Europe
The UK payments industry needs its regulator to give it more freedom to innovate, the lead lobbyist for the country's financial services sector told a conference today, arguing that a lack of a clear commercia... (more story)
June 24, 2025
Europe
MLex Summary: The European Parliament's Legal Affairs Committee has approved new rules which aim to make insolvency proceedings more efficient across the EU. With 19 votes for and 4 against, the committee of l... (more story)
June 24, 2025
Europe
MLex Summary: UK credit unions have received a consultation from the Prudential Regulation Authority to amend rules on investing in Credit Union Service Organizations, which are entities owned by credit unions... (more story)
Trade View More
June 24, 2025
Europe
MLex Summary: Punitive measures in place to counter unfair subsidization of imports of continuous filament glass fiber products from Egypt into the bloc will now be subject to a review, the European Commission... (more story)
June 24, 2025
Asia, Europe
MLex Summary: China's Ministry of Commerce has urged the EU to revoke restrictions announced on June 20 targeting Chinese medical-device makers in EU public-procurement contracts, according to a ministry spoke... (more story)
June 23, 2025
Asia, Europe, Latin America, North America
MLex Summary: The US Customs and Border Protection said there is a reasonable suspicion that several US importers are evading an antidumping and antisubsidy order on seamless carbon and alloy steel standard, l... (more story)
State Aid View More
June 20, 2025
Europe
MLex Summary: Romania's 250 million-euro recapitalization of the majority state-owned Exim Banca Românească doesn't amount to state aid, the European Commission today said. The state aid regulator reviewed Ro... (more story)
June 20, 2025
Europe
MLex Summary: Poland has won European Commission approval to move forward with plans for a new technology hub in Katowice, focused on the gaming industry. The project will be backed by a direct grant worth 192... (more story)
June 17, 2025 | Jean Comte
Europe
European companies in the defense sector won't be held back from building scale by EU merger-control and antitrust rules, the European Commission pledged today while unveiling initiatives to boost EU security.... (more story)
Energy View More
June 24, 2025
Europe
MLex Summary: EU ministers today reached a common position on simplifying the EU’s corporate sustainability reporting and due diligence rules in a bid to reduce red tape and enhance competitiveness. The agreem... (more story)
June 24, 2025
Europe
MLex Summary: The April 28 Iberian blackout was caused by voltage levels exceeding the Spanish grid’s operational limits, said the European Network of Transmission System Operators for Electricity, or ENTSO-E,... (more story)
June 24, 2025
Europe
MLex Summary: Europe accounts for 19 of the 20 best-performing countries in achieving the 2030 Sustainable Development Goals, according to the UN SDG Index published late yesterday. However, members of the Org... (more story)
Technology View More
June 24, 2025 | James Panichi
Oceania
YouTube’s promised exemption from Australia’s groundbreaking under-16 social-media ban shouldn’t be allowed to stand and could spark challenges from other platforms offering similar services, the country’s top... (more story)
June 24, 2025
Oceania
MLex Summary: Australian children say that 75 percent of the damaging content they encounter online comes from social media, with YouTube the most frequently cited platform, the country’s top online-safety off... (more story)
June 23, 2025
North America
MLex Summary: The US Federal Trade Commission was granted sanctions against Amazon for wrongfully claiming privilege to keep inculpatory documents from the agency in its lawsuit over Amazon’s use of “dark patt... (more story)