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Antitrust, DealRisk®, Mergers and Acquisitions
July 24, 2025 | MLex Staff
Asia
Trade
July 23, 2025 | Sachiko Sakamaki
Asia, North America
Antitrust, Data Privacy and Security, Technology
July 22, 2025 | Khushita Vasant
Europe, North America
Antitrust View More
July 24, 2025
Europe
MLex Summary: Two collective lawsuits centering on Amazon's "Buy Box" online marketplace behaviors have been jointly cleared for trial by the UK competition court. One claim, by class representative Andreas St... (more story)
July 24, 2025
Latin America
MLex Summary: The Brazilian antitrust regulator has extended the deadline for public consultation on a draft resolution that establishes governance rules for negotiating settlements in legal proceedings, as we... (more story)
July 24, 2025
North America
MLex Summary: The Federal Communications Commission voted to update its competitive bidding rules to enable the upcoming auction of AWS-3 spectrum licenses. The US Department of Justice recently expressed anti... (more story)
Artificial Intelligence View More
July 24, 2025 | Luca Bertuzzi
Europe
The European Commission has published a new template that AI developers covered under the EU’s AI Act must fill to disclose the content they have used to train their models in an effort to increase transparenc... (more story)
July 24, 2025 | Douglas Clarke-Williams
Europe
An inventor behind an AI-created patent rejected by the UK's Intellectual Property Office is arguing before the UK's top court that his application should be reconsidered under his name, the latest step in the... (more story)
July 24, 2025
Europe
MLex Summary: General-purpose AI providers on the EU market will be required to publish detailed summaries of the content used to train their models in a new European Commission template published today. The t... (more story)
Mergers and Acquisitions View More
July 24, 2025
Asia, Europe, Latin America, North America
MLex Summary: The American Economic Liberties Project called on Congress to open an investigation into the US Department of Justice's handling of HPE's $14 billion acquisition of Juniper, following a media rep... (more story)
July 24, 2025
Europe
MLex Summary: US private equity firm KKR has drawn a probe from the European Commission over information it supplied during an EU review of its takeover of Telecom Italia's fixed-line business. The commission ... (more story)
July 24, 2025 | Andrew Boyce
Europe
Private equity firm Kohlberg Kravis Roberts is under investigation by the EU’s competition regulator over suspicions it provided “incorrect or misleading” information when seeking approval to buy Telecom Itali... (more story)
Data Privacy and Security View More
July 24, 2025
Europe
MLex Summary: Platforms including Facebook, Instagram, Roblox, Snap, TikTok and YouTube will be the focus of a new monitoring and impact program on children’s online safety, UK regulator Ofcom has announced to... (more story)
July 24, 2025
Europe
MLex Summary: Instagram and Facebook users can share their views on Meta’s use of personal data to train AI, in a survey published today by the consumer office of the German state of North Rhine-Westphalia. Th... (more story)
July 24, 2025 | MLex Staff
Asia
Chinese regulators are moving to tighten controls on connected and intelligent vehicles. The public security ministry has outlined a plan to strengthen legal frameworks, while the science and technology minist... (more story)
Intellectual Property View More
July 24, 2025 | Nick Robertson and Zack Budryk
Latin America, North America
As the Trump administration initiates a Section 301 trade investigation into Brazil over its treatment of US social media sites and disgraced former President Jair Bolsonaro, the Brazilian government threatens... (more story)
July 24, 2025 | Melissa Ritti
North America
The US moved closer yesterday to achieving harmony with the European Union — and the US Patent and Trademark Office — on whether intellectual property protection exists for nonfungible tokens. With Congress si... (more story)
July 24, 2025 | Inbar Preiss
Europe
Edwards Lifesciences has won another injunction against Meril at the Unified Patent Court. The Nordic-Baltic Regional Division found that Meril had infringed a patent covering a flex mechanism used in valve de... (more story)
Financial Crime View More
July 24, 2025 | Phoebe Seers
Europe
Four traders convicted of rate-rigging in the UK have said they intend to appeal their convictions after the Supreme Court yesterday quashed the convictions of Tom Hayes and Carlo Palombo. Between 2016 and 201... (more story)
July 24, 2025
North America
MLex Summary: A US judge denied Samourai Wallet co-founder William Lonergan Hill's request for a separate trial that would enable his co-defendant to testify on his behalf. "Hill has not shown that any of the ... (more story)
July 24, 2025
Asia, North America
MLex Summary: A US judge should deny a motion to suppress the results of a search of former Smartmatic executive Jorge Vasquez's devices, according to a magistrate judge's report following evidentiary hearings... (more story)
Financial Services View More
July 24, 2025
North America
MLex Summary: Transparency International US condemned the delay in implementation of a US anti-money laundering rule covering investment advisors that was scheduled to take effect at the end of this year. "Th... (more story)
July 24, 2025
Asia, Europe
MLex Summary: A Chinese man has agreed to forfeit 16.7 million pounds worth of London properties and cash in a settlement with the UK’s National Crime Agency. The NCA said it suspects the assets are the procee... (more story)
July 24, 2025 | Jean Comte
Europe
UniCredit’s withdrawal of its bid for rival Banco BPM due to the Italian “golden power” rules is raising important questions for the EU about how much sway European governments should have over dealmaking in s... (more story)
Trade View More
July 24, 2025
Asia, Europe, Latin America, Middle East, North America
MLex summary: The US Department of Justice announced a settlement with Pennsylvania-based patio furniture maker Grosfillex Inc., which agreed to pay $4.9 million to settle allegations that it violated the Fals... (more story)
July 24, 2025 | Bradley Dress
North America
The Senate Finance Committee this week voted along party lines to advance the nomination of Joseph Barloon for deputy US Trade Representative to serve as an ambassador at the World Trade Organization.
July 24, 2025
North America, Oceania
MLex Summary: Australia has expanded its market access to US beef imports, a decision that Australian Agriculture Minister Julie Collins said is the culmination of a 10-year process.
State Aid View More
July 24, 2025
Europe
MLex Summary: An allegation that Greater Manchester Combined Authority breached subsidy rules through a loan to a property developer has been dismissed by the Competition Appeal Tribunal. The case was brought ... (more story)
July 22, 2025
Europe
MLex Summary: A decision of the Welsh Government to grant a subsidy package to Cardiff International Airport has been appealed by Bristol Airport, following a filing at the Competition Appeal Tribunal. Bristol... (more story)
July 22, 2025
Europe
MLex Summary: Czechia’s plan to spend around 84 million euros to increase the reliance and sustainability of its agricultural sector has secured EU approval. The European Commission said the investment was in ... (more story)
Energy View More
July 24, 2025 | Eleonora Rinaldi and Patrick Hatzis
Europe
Europe is set to experience a decline in solar installations for the first time since 2015, the European lobby group SolarPower Europe said in a new analysis released today. Although the EU remains on track to... (more story)
July 24, 2025
Europe
MLex Summary: Diversification of energy imports is key to the EU’s energy security, affordability, and decarbonization, Hydrogen Europe has said. In a paper published today, the group warns of the risks of ove... (more story)
July 24, 2025
Europe
MLex Summary: Europe’s energy regulator ACER opened today a public consultation on how to calculate cross-border electricity capacity across regions. Earlier this month, power transmission operators sent their... (more story)
Technology View More
July 24, 2025
Europe
MLex Summary: Online platforms will face a new UK enforcement program that seeks to use age-assurance tools to tackle children's exposure to content that promotes suicide, self-harm and eating disorders. The p... (more story)
July 24, 2025
Asia
MLex Summary: Chinese President Xi Jinping today called on the EU to maintain open trade and investment markets while advocating deeper China-EU partnerships in the green and digital sectors. Xi made the remar... (more story)
July 24, 2025
Europe
MLex Summary: The chief executives of 20 European telecom companies, including BT Group and Orange, have urged the European Commission to change the EU's approach to mergers and allow more market consolidation... (more story)