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Antitrust, Technology
December 29, 2025 | Alex Wilts
North America
Antitrust, DealRisk®, Mergers and Acquisitions, Technology
December 26, 2025 | Chris May
North America
Technology
December 24, 2025 | Matthew Newman
Europe
Antitrust View More
December 30, 2025
North America
MLex Summary: Industry group Anesthesia Associates asked a Texas federal judge to dismiss antitrust claims from nurses challenging noncompete restrictions. Declaratory and injunctive relief sought by the plain... (more story)
December 30, 2025 | Nick Robertson
North America
The US Patent and Trademark Office on Monday announced the formation of a standard-essential patent (SEP) working group. The move follows recent statements of interest from office leadership favoring stronger ... (more story)
December 30, 2025
North America
MLex Summary: US antitrust claims against Takeda Pharmaceutical and TWi Pharmaceuticals alleging an illegal reverse payment agreement to restrain competition for Dexilant and its generic equivalents should mov... (more story)
Artificial Intelligence View More
December 30, 2025 | Luca Bertuzzi
Europe
The drafters of the EU’s first code of practice for generative AI transparency face a series of key trade-offs between ambition and feasibility, prescriptiveness and flexibility, open solutions and closed syst... (more story)
December 30, 2025
Asia
MLex Summary: South Korea’s Cabinet Council approved a plan Tuesday to restructure the Ministry of National Defense, centralizing and strengthening oversight of the adoption of artificial intelligence across n... (more story)
December 30, 2025
Asia
MLex Summary: The South Korean parliament’s research unit has called for additional measures to better address social issues arising from the increasing use of conversational services provided by artificial in... (more story)
Mergers and Acquisitions View More
December 30, 2025 | Flavia Fortes and Curtis Eichelberger
Asia, Europe, Latin America, North America
US merger enforcement in 2025 is showing clear signs of a return to long-standing legal and economic principles after a period of change in enforcement policy — but that reset remains fragile. As antitrust age... (more story)
December 30, 2025
Europe
MLex Summary: Schwarz Group, which plans to take over Romanian supermarket chain La Cocoș, has offered to continue its current business model to secure national antitrust approval for the acquisition. Schwarz ... (more story)
December 30, 2025
Asia
MLex Summary: The acquisition by Saudi Arabia’s Public Investment Fund of US video-game company Electronic Arts; a joint venture between Oman-based OQ Alternative Energy and French oil major TotalEnergies SE; ... (more story)
Data Privacy and Security View More
December 30, 2025 | Xu Yuan
North America
In California, the leading state in privacy regulation, companies in the coming year will continue to see a high level of scrutiny of their data-processing practices by the state’s privacy regulator as it inte... (more story)
December 30, 2025
Europe
MLex Summary: Pornographic content featuring adults digitally altered to resemble children is illegal, Switzerland’s Federal Supreme Court has said in a statement referring to an appeal judgment from Nov. 20 t... (more story)
December 30, 2025 | Wooyoung Lee
Asia
South Korea’s antitrust regulator has flagged gaps in the enforcement decree of the country’s competition law. In a new Data and Competition policy report, the Korea Fair Trade Commission said the decree lacks... (more story)
Intellectual Property View More
December 30, 2025 | Douglas Clarke-Williams
Europe
Another record year for trademark filings at the UK Intellectual Property Office was driven by applications from China, which contributed more than all other non-UK filings put together. The trend continues to... (more story)
December 29, 2025 | Nick Robertson
North America
Masimo’s attempt to reinstate a limited-exclusion order to bar the import of Apple watches over patent infringement claims was dismissed in District of Columbia district court last week after the US Internatio... (more story)
December 29, 2025 | Toko Sekiguchi
Asia
Japan’s Cabinet Office is seeking public comment on a draft principles code that would press generative AI businesses to disclose model training and web crawling practices and respond to limited training-data ... (more story)
Financial Crime View More
December 29, 2025 | Neil Roland
North America
US Securities and Exchange Commission Chair Paul Atkins should appear at a House Financial Services Committee oversight hearing for the first time since he assumed office in April, said Representative Maxine W... (more story)
December 29, 2025 | Martin Coyle
Europe
With more than two years under his belt, UK fraud agency boss Nick Ephgrave could be forgiven for being quietly satisfied with his time so far at the helm of the Serious Fraud Office. But 2026 will see that ea... (more story)
December 24, 2025 | Martin Coyle
Europe
A new UK roadmap for tackling corruption promises to tackle financial crime and dirty money flows, crack down on professional enablers, and speed up Serious Fraud Office investigations with AI. But only signs ... (more story)
Financial Services View More
December 30, 2025 | Sofia Gerace
Europe
Law firms and their advisers are wondering whether the UK financial regulator's slimmer work plan will translate into the growth-boosting cut in red tape that ministers have been demanding. While it suggests a... (more story)
December 30, 2025
Europe
MLex summary: The European Commission has clarified that the EU's sustainable framework—the Sustainable Finance Disclosure Regulation, the EU taxonomy, and the Benchmark Regulation—is compatible with investing... (more story)
December 30, 2025
Europe
MLex Summary: EU financial benchmark administrators have seen “controversial weapons” redefined as “prohibited weapons” in a regulation published today in the bloc's Official Journal. The former definition lef... (more story)
Trade View More
December 30, 2025
North America
MLex Summary: The US Commerce Department has determined certain Indian exporters of carbazole violet pigment 23 received countervailable subsidies in 2022. The determination follows preliminary results publish... (more story)
December 30, 2025 | MLex Staff
Asia, Europe
Europe's determination to press on with more policy initiatives to boost economic competitiveness and cut its dependency on products from China, coupled with Beijing's shift to strengthen domestic demand, coul... (more story)
December 30, 2025 | Henrique Santiago
Latin America, North America
Brazil’s president used his political skills to eliminate a 50 percent tariff from the US this year, bringing both presidents closer and also resulting in the withdrawal of a major 40 percent levy on several g... (more story)
State Aid View More
December 23, 2025
Europe
MLex Summary: Corsair is set to benefit from €167.8 million in support after the EU approved the state aid from France following an in-depth probe. In a statement, the European Commission said the aid for the ... (more story)
December 23, 2025 | Lewis Crofts
Europe
More European industries will benefit from compensation under the bloc’s state aid rules as technical guidelines get an update to ensure companies don’t shift activities outside of the EU to countries with wea... (more story)
December 22, 2025
Europe
MLex Summary: The Czech government's planned €18 million support for three digital terrestrial television infrastructure operators, České Radiokomunikace, Digital Broadcasting and Česká televize, was incompati... (more story)
Energy View More
December 26, 2025 | Choonsik Yoo
Asia
The administration of South Korean President Lee Jae Myung’s early AI overhaul has succeeded in reviving momentum after some delay due to domestic politics, but his AI policy agenda now faces tougher regulator... (more story)
December 24, 2025
Europe
MLex Summary: The European Commission moved to tighten oversight of plastic imports by introducing separate customs codes for virgin and recycled plastics and stepping up monitoring of EU and global markets, l... (more story)
December 23, 2025 | Cynthia Kroet
Europe
The British Chamber of Commerce has listed 25 recommendations to the UK government in order to improve ties between the EU and UK, five years after the trade agreement between the two regions was concluded. Th... (more story)
Technology View More
December 30, 2025 | Jenny Lee
Asia
South Korea's government on Tuesday approved legislation designed to combat the online spread of fabricated and manipulated content, combining tougher civil liability with a new push for large platforms to pol... (more story)
December 30, 2025 | Khushita Vasant
North America
Live Nation and subsidiary Ticketmaster asked a US federal court to dismiss a "baseless" monopolization lawsuit brought against it by the Department of Justice and a coalition of states and territories, saying... (more story)
December 30, 2025
North America
MLex Summary: Live Nation and subsidiary Ticketmaster asked a US federal judge to dismiss the "baseless" monopolization lawsuit brought against it by the Department of Justice and 40 states and territories. In... (more story)