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Antitrust, DealRisk®, Intellectual Property, Mergers and Acquisitions
June 09, 2025 | Dwight A. Weingarten
North America
Artificial Intelligence, Data Privacy and Security
June 09, 2025 | Patricia Figueiredo
Europe, Oceania
Antitrust, Artificial Intelligence, Data Privacy and Security, DealRisk®, Mergers and Acquisitions, Technology
June 05, 2025 | Ilana Kowarski
Asia, Europe, North America
Antitrust View More
June 10, 2025
Europe
MLex Summary: EU heads of state and governments will return to the issue of competitiveness at the European Council meeting of June 26 and 27, according to an outline for the final statement. The leaders are e... (more story)
June 10, 2025
Europe
MLex Summary: The Czech antitrust office has launched an inquiry into competition in the publicly accessible electric vehicle charging station market to examine conditions for operating the stations and wholes... (more story)
June 10, 2025 | Jenny Lee
Asia
Google is facing a new class-action lawsuit in the US filed by South Korean publishing groups, who allege the tech giant has unlawfully monopolized Android app distribution and in-app payment markets. The suit... (more story)
Artificial Intelligence View More
June 10, 2025 | MLex Staff
Asia,North America
Huawei CEO Ren Zhengfei has downplayed the impact of US sanctions, revealing the company’s technical strategy for innovating around trade restrictions while positioning China for long-term leadership in artifi... (more story)
June 10, 2025
Asia
MLex Summary: A South Korean agency has published a report that summarizes cyberthreats associated with the use of agentic artificial-intelligence tools in the financial sector. The Financial Security Institut... (more story)
June 09, 2025 | Inbar Preiss
Europe
During the first day of a widely watched trial, Getty Images accused Stability AI of violating copyright and trademark laws through the training and output of its image-generating model, Stable Diffusion. The ... (more story)
Mergers and Acquisitions View More
June 10, 2025 | Jon Menon
Europe
Getty Images’ planned acquisition of rival Shutterstock has got the nod from the UK’s biggest journalists’ union after the company’s chief eased its concerns over the $3.7 billion deal, including over the use ... (more story)
June 10, 2025
Europe
MLex Summary: Rema 1000, a discount grocery chain active in Denmark, has agreed to pay a fine of 40,000 kroner (around $6,100) for incorrect and incomplete information provided when notifying its takeover of ... (more story)
June 10, 2025
Asia
MLex Summary: Japanese truck manufacturers Hino Motors and Mitsubishi Fuso Truck & Bus have reached an agreement with their respective parent companies, Toyota Motor and Daimler Truck, to merge into a jointly ... (more story)
Data Privacy and Security View More
June 10, 2025 | Wooyoung Lee
Asia
Google’s recent request for access to South Korea’s high-precision base map has prompted the South Korean government to commission a study that will consider strategies for responding to Google as well as futu... (more story)
June 10, 2025
Asia
MLex Summary: More than 21,000 data breaches were reported in Japan in the year to March, a 58 percent increase compared with the previous year, the annual report by the Personal Information Protection Commiss... (more story)
June 10, 2025
Europe
MLex Summary: Online discussion board 4chan and seven other file-sharing services are under investigation for allegedly failing to put appropriate safety measures in place to protect UK users from illegal cont... (more story)
Intellectual Property View More
June 10, 2025
Asia
MLex Summary: The Indian government has proposed to amend the copyright rules and has released a draft for public feedback. The draft Copyright (Amendment) Rules, 2025 would dictate that owners and licensors o... (more story)
June 10, 2025 | James Panichi
Oceania
American singer Katy Perry’s reputation as a performer in Australia does not necessarily extend to her clothing-merchandise trademark, argued a submission made to the country’s highest court of appeal. In docu... (more story)
June 09, 2025 | Melissa Ritti
North America
A recent rejection by the full US Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit of the methodology employed by an expert for EcoFactor has no bearing on that same expert’s proposal of reasonable royalty damages owe... (more story)
Financial Crime View More
June 09, 2025 | Samuel Rubenfeld
North America
A financial technology entrepreneur who founded the cryptocurrency payments firm Evita has pleaded not guilty to US charges that he laundered more than $500 million on behalf of sanctioned Russian banks and ot... (more story)
June 09, 2025
North America
MLex Summary: Iurii Gugnin, a resident of New York and citizen of Russia, was charged in a 22-count indictment with various offenses related to using his cryptocurrency company Evita to funnel more than $500 m... (more story)
June 09, 2025
North America
MLex Summary: A Chinese man pleaded guilty to US criminal charges for illegally exporting firearms, ammunition and other military items to North Korea by concealing them inside shipping containers that departe... (more story)
Financial Services View More
June 10, 2025 | Sofia Gerace
Europe
The UK Financial Conduct Authority has again asked the government and parliament to define “tolerable failure metrics,” as regulators have been asked to shift away from a risk-averse approach and allow a great... (more story)
June 10, 2025
Europe
MLex Summary: The UK's Financial Conduct Authority has appointed Sarah Pritchard as deputy chief executive, a new role created as the watchdog's remit is growing with the integration of the Payment Systems Reg... (more story)
June 10, 2025
Europe
MLex Summary: EU countries appear to be closing in on adopting final negotiating positions on the revised Payment Services Directive and new Payment Services Regulation. The text of draft compromise proposals ... (more story)
Trade View More
June 10, 2025 | Joanna Sopinska
Asia
French brandy producers are awaiting final details from China's commerce ministry after making a preliminary agreement for a minimum import price that would allow them to avoid hefty dumping duties at Chinese ... (more story)
June 10, 2025
Asia, Europe
MLex Summary: China has extended the period of its antidumping investigation into EU imported pork and pig by-products to Dec. 16, the Ministry of Commerce said in a statement today. The probe, which began in ... (more story)
June 10, 2025
Asia
MLex Summary: Free-trade talks between the EU and Asean as well as between the EU and Malaysia have been on a fast track under Poland's EU presidency, Malaysia’s Prime Minister Anwar Ibrahim said during a join... (more story)
State Aid View More
June 05, 2025 | Lewis Crofts, Joanna Sopinska and Nicholas Hirst
Europe
Korea Hydro & Nuclear Power and the Czech government have signed a deal to provide nuclear reactors at the Dukovany power plant less than a month after the European Commission warned such a move would breach a... (more story)
June 05, 2025
Europe
MLex Summary: Unscripted audiovisual programs with Irish and European cultural content can get national support, the European Commission said today, clearing a government program worth 211 million euros. The p... (more story)
June 05, 2025
Europe
MLex Summary: Companies, authorities and other interested parties now have the chance to provide input to the European Commission to help it assess how the service of general economic interest state aid rules ... (more story)
Energy View More
June 06, 2025
Europe
MLex Summary: EU companies are at risk of “a disproportionate and unworkable obligation” if the EU Green Claims Directive were adopted in its current text, the European Automobile Manufacturers’ Association AC... (more story)
June 06, 2025 | Eleonora Rinaldi
Europe
Electricity system operators are restricting access to data about the recent blackout in Spain and Portugal, the secretary-general of a European lobby group has said. Eurelectric and other associations represe... (more story)
June 05, 2025 | Eleonora Rinaldi
Europe
Europe’s sustainable jet fuel industry has a clear mandate to reduce emissions but lacks the technologies needed to supply fuel at scale beyond 2030, according to a new study from SAF supplier SkyNRG. Most sus... (more story)
Technology View More
June 09, 2025
Europe
MLex Summary: Online platforms in the UK will soon be subject to a new super-complaints regime, as the government today laid out regulations to implement the process under the Online Safety Act. The rules will... (more story)
June 09, 2025
North America
MLex Summary: The US Department of Justice and states told a federal judge that Google's request for an order limiting the agency's deposition of Arnaud Créput — "the chief executive officer of one of the few ... (more story)
June 09, 2025 | Patricia Figueiredo
Europe
Meta has denied using artificial intelligence to make decisions about risk after a group of UK charities and experts urged the country’s communications watchdog to investigate following a report the US technol... (more story)