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Antitrust
July 08, 2025 | Maria Júlia Baumert
Latin America, North America

DealRisk®, Mergers and Acquisitions
July 08, 2025 | Flavia Fortes
North America

Data Privacy and Security
July 07, 2025 | Xu Yuan
North America
Antitrust View More
July 09, 2025
Asia
MLex Summary: Japan’s publicly traded truck-body manufacturer, Kyokuto Kaihatsu Kogyo, announced in a stock exchange filing that it has allocated 5.9 billion yen (approximately $40 million) as a special loss i... (more story)
July 08, 2025 | Alex Wilts and Clayton Vickers
North America
Allegations that legacy software companies are weaponizing user data to entrench their market power are central to two cases before a federal court in California. Should both matters continue to advance, they ... (more story)
July 08, 2025
North America
MLex Summary: Edmar Financial Company, Irish Blue & Gold, XTX Markets, and DSquare Trading filed their third amended US complaint accusing Currenex, Goldman Sachs, HC Technologies and State Street of conspirin... (more story)
Artificial Intelligence View More
July 09, 2025
Oceania
MLex Summary: New Zealand has launched its first-ever artificial-intelligence policy, designed to boost productivity and enhance competitiveness within the country’s economy. Releasing the policy papers today,... (more story)
July 09, 2025 | Amy Miller
North America
A California bill that would put guardrails around the use of companion chatbots to prevent suicide continues to move forward in the state legislature despite opposition from the tech industry. After hearing e... (more story)
July 08, 2025 | Emma Whitford
North America
A Republican-backed AI whistleblower bill could be the type of artificial intelligence legislation to gain traction on Capitol Hill now that Congress has rejected a proposal to block US states’ AI laws, showin... (more story)
Mergers and Acquisitions View More
July 08, 2025
Latin America
MLex Summary: The Administrative Council for Economic Defense, or CADE, has released the calendar of sessions for the second half of 2025. A total of nine sessions (see here) are scheduled: Aug. 6 and 20; Sept... (more story)
July 08, 2025 | Andrew Boyce
Europe
Booking told EU judges today that merger enforcers incorrectly vetoed its takeover of Etraveli as they didn’t show enough evidence to prove it would harm competition. As well as arguing at the General Court th... (more story)
July 08, 2025 | Andrew Boyce
Europe
Booking argued in court today that EU regulators wrongly blocked its takeover of flight-booking service Etraveli based on a speculative “counterfactual” that predicted that the online travel giant would sell “... (more story)
Data Privacy and Security View More
July 09, 2025
Oceania
MLex Summary: Reports of online terrorist and violent-extremist content to New Zealand’s digital violence extremism unit increased by 10 percent in 2024, with 974 URLs flagged for suspected extremist content, ... (more story)
July 09, 2025
Oceania
MLex Summary: Australian airline Qantas has confirmed that most customer records compromised in last week's data breach were limited to names, email addresses, and/or Frequent Flyer numbers. In an update on it... (more story)
July 08, 2025
North America
MLex Summary: The US Treasury Department's Office of Foreign Assets Control (OFAC) sanctioned Song Kum Hyok, a malicious cyber actor associated with the North Korean hacking group Andariel, for facilitating an... (more story)
Intellectual Property View More
July 09, 2025 | Freny Patel
Asia
A decades-long international dispute over the iconic South American liquor PISCO recently culminated in an Indian courtroom. On July 7, the Delhi High Court issued a landmark ruling regarding the geographical ... (more story)
July 08, 2025 | Douglas Clarke-Williams
Europe
Tesla has been granted permission to appeal a decision against it by the UK Court of Appeal on FRAND terms for a global license to 5G patents. The Court of Appeal had upheld the ruling in favor of InterDigital... (more story)
July 08, 2025 | Inbar Preiss
Europe
Denmark's government has opened a six-week consultation on a draft bill to enable individuals to block, demand removal, and receive compensation for the unauthorized public use of their likeness, voice, or per... (more story)
Financial Crime View More
July 08, 2025 | Samuel Rubenfeld
North America
The upcoming US trial of a cryptocurrency software developer can include mentions of a North Korean hacking group, a judge ruled today, though she limited the extent to which prosecutors can discuss the organi... (more story)
July 08, 2025
North America
MLex Summary: An indictment was unsealed in the District of Puerto Rico charging two men for their alleged roles in operating and promoting OmegaPro, an international investment scheme that defrauded victim in... (more story)
July 08, 2025 | Phoebe Seers and Martin Coyle
Europe
Meta Platforms has described its delayed response to a request by the UK Financial Conduct Authority to take down potentially illegal content from its platform as an “isolated incident.” In April, Lucy Castled... (more story)
Financial Services View More
July 08, 2025 | Fanny Roux
Europe
Stephanie Lose, Denmark’s Finance Minister, today elaborated on the way to reaching an agreement on a revamped securitization framework “as soon as possible this year.” Speaking at Ecofin — a meeting of EU fin... (more story)
July 08, 2025 | Sofia Gerace
Europe
The UK government does not need to require pension funds to invest in Britain, according to the chief executive of UK general insurance at Aviva, one of the country’s largest insurance companies. Speaking to l... (more story)
July 08, 2025
Europe
MLex Summary: Lawmakers on the UK's Public Bill Committee — which is tasked with examining the details of any proposed legislation — today opened a call for evidence to gather views on the Pension Schemes Bill... (more story)
Trade View More
July 09, 2025
Asia
MLex Summary: Aerospace Industrial Development, Lungteh Shipbuilding, and JC Technology are among eight Taiwanese entities added to China's export-control list, according to a statement released by the Ministr... (more story)
July 08, 2025 | Bradley Dress
Asia, North America
The Trump administration announced an effort to restrict foreign purchases of farmland in the US, citing a national security threat from the sales of land to Chinese nationals near military bases and other sensitive sites.
July 08, 2025 | Oscar Pandiello
Europe
Final talks on the EU's biggest customs overhaul in half a century began today, with a tight six-month window for lawmakers and governments to agree on new rules and institutions. Dutch lawmaker Dirk Gotink, t... (more story)
State Aid View More
July 07, 2025
Europe
MLex Summary: PGI Spain, along with other companies including Berry Superfos and RPC Envases, have appealed a previous court defeat over a Spanish and Portuguese measure to back the input costs of fossil-fuel ... (more story)
July 02, 2025 | Andrew Boyce
Europe
Abu Dhabi National Oil Company has seen the European Commission resume its foreign subsidy probe into the state-owned company's takeover of German chemicals group Covestro, following a five-week suspension. Th... (more story)
July 02, 2025
Europe
MLex Summary: Spain and Cellnex Telecom have lost their legal challenge to a European Commission decision that ordered Spain to recoup illegal state funding from digital terrestrial TV operators. Spain backed ... (more story)
Energy View More
July 08, 2025
Europe
MLex Summary: The European chemical industry is set to benefit from new public support under the European Commission’s Chemical Action Plan, published today. Among the proposed measures are fiscal incentives t... (more story)
July 08, 2025 | Eleonora Rinaldi
Europe
The centre-left, liberals, and green groups in the European Parliament are pushing to fast-track an agreement on the EU's new 2040 climate target after the far-right Patriots for Europe group opposed to the bl... (more story)
July 08, 2025
Asia, Europe
MLex Summary: Cooperation between the EU and China to address climate change is needed despite their trade tensions and diverging views over Russia, European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen said in a... (more story)
Technology View More
July 08, 2025
Europe
MLex Summary: UK businesses face growing systemic risks in both the short and long term, according to a government assessment published today. Identified threats include AI-enabled cybercrime, tech concentrati... (more story)
July 08, 2025
Europe
MLex Summary: Companies that fall under a broadened UK scope of critical national infrastructure and supply chains could be subject to additional legislation that empowers government and regulators to interven... (more story)
July 08, 2025
Europe
MLex Summary: UK telecom companies will be subject to stricter timelines for resolving customer complaints under new Ofcom rules published today. The regulator has announced changes to the Alternative Dispute ... (more story)