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DealRisk®, Mergers and Acquisitions
June 04, 2025 | Flavia Fortes, Curtis Eichelberger and Ilana Kowarski
North America
Energy, Technology, Trade
June 04, 2025 | Oscar Pandiello
Europe
Artificial Intelligence
June 03, 2025 | Emma Whitford
North America
Antitrust View More
June 05, 2025
Latin America
MLex Summary: The Administrative Council for Economic Defense, or CADE, is scheduled to vote on seven cases during its next ruling session, on June 11. With the previous session called off, the watchdog has on... (more story)
June 05, 2025 | Luca Bertuzzi
Europe
The European Commission’s digital department is to undergo a major restructuring as of July 1, aimed at strengthening its teams working on platform regulation, artificial intelligence, and cybersecurity. Plans... (more story)
June 05, 2025
Europe
MLex Summary: Air Canada and SAS Cargo Group are at the bloc's first-tier court today in a bid to seek compensation for unpaid interest from the European Commission on annulled cargo-cartel fines. For the purp... (more story)
Artificial Intelligence View More
June 05, 2025 | Frank Hersey
Europe
UK legislative proposals on artificial intelligence are being refined, and more clarity on how the government can meet targets in its AI Opportunities Action Plan should be available after a spending review st... (more story)
June 05, 2025 | Frank Hersey
Europe
The UK’s data reform bill faces increasing risk of collapse after lawmakers last night again pushed forward an amendment to include in it protections for rights holders over their works being scraped for AI tr... (more story)
June 05, 2025
Asia
MLex Summary: The South Korean government is receiving applications for a 19.32 billion won ($14.21 million) project to select four consortia that will collect and process broadcast video data into massive dat... (more story)
Mergers and Acquisitions View More
June 05, 2025 | Maria Júlia Baumert
Latin America
The Brazilian competition authority has approved, without restrictions, the acquisition of WPL by Navemazônia. The decision was published yesterday in the federal Official Journal, marking the start of the 15-... (more story)
June 05, 2025 | Jon Menon
Europe
Spreadex may have to unwind its acquisition of the consumer-facing business of Sporting Index after the UK antitrust regulator provisionally found competition concerns, in a fresh review. The Competition and M... (more story)
June 05, 2025
Europe, North America
MLex Summary: Viagogo’s request to reacquire the right to use certain non-UK web domain names and trademarks from StubHub International has been accepted by the Competition and Markets Authority. In 2021, Viag... (more story)
Data Privacy and Security View More
June 05, 2025
Europe
MLex Summary: The Spanish Data Protection Authority has fined Naturgy Iberia 100,000 euros for violating the GDPR by processing a customer’s personal data without valid consent. The data had been used to activ... (more story)
June 05, 2025 | Patricia Figueiredo
Europe
Online platforms have expressed concern over new age assurance duties under the UK Online Safety Act, regulator Ofcom says, describing the requirement as a “big step” that some services are “wary” about. At a ... (more story)
June 05, 2025 | MLex Staff
Asia
China’s Ministry of Industry and Information Technology has unveiled plans to advance the development of the artificial intelligence industry and drive new industrialization through AI — an effort that echoes ... (more story)
Intellectual Property View More
June 05, 2025
Europe
MLex Summary: Since its opening in June 2023, the Unified Patent Court has received 883 cases, including 320 infringement actions, 304 counterclaims for revocation and 65 stand-alone revocation actions. Additi... (more story)
June 05, 2025
Europe
MLex Summary: A failure by a collective management society to consider the actual occupancy rate of hotels — when setting the amount of the royalties collected for the provision of a license to make copyright-... (more story)
June 05, 2025
Asia
MLex Summary: The Japan Newspaper Publishers & Editors Association has urged web crawlers to adhere to news providers’ refusal to allow the use of their content for training generative artificial intelligence.... (more story)
Financial Crime View More
June 05, 2025 | Phoebe Seers
Europe
Banks and payments firms could see a UK move to further toughen defenses against Authorized Push Payment fraud, a senior regulator said, possibly including expanded "confirmation of payee" functionality to inc... (more story)
June 04, 2025
Asia, North America
MLex Summary: Indiana-based pharmaceutical company Inotiv said in a securities filing that the US Securities and Exchange Commission has closed an investigation into whether the firm had violated the Foreign C... (more story)
June 04, 2025
North America
MLex Summary: The US Securities and Exchange Commission published a concept release soliciting public comment on whether the definition of foreign private issuer should be amended in light of significant chang... (more story)
Financial Services View More
June 05, 2025
North America
MLex Summary: US Federal Reserve Governor Michelle Bowman, President Donald Trump's appointee to be vice chair for supervision, was confirmed by the Republican-controlled Senate to the post. “The Federal Reser... (more story)
June 05, 2025
Europe
MLex Summary: Certain rules on insurance companies not complying with legal provisions can apply to a host country supervisor's authority over insurance companies in other EU member states, a legal opinion for... (more story)
June 05, 2025
Europe
MLex Summary: The UK government has introduced a Pension Schemes Bill in Parliament which aims to improve returns for savers, combine smaller pension pots, and create bigger pension funds. The planned legislat... (more story)
Trade View More
June 05, 2025
Asia, North America
MLex Summary: The US Commerce Department determined that vanillin imports from China are subsidized and dumped in the US market.
June 05, 2025
Europe
MLex Summary: The European Commission has released a surveillance tool to protect the EU against any sudden surges in imports. Based on customs data, the system will combat harmful trade diversions by swiftly ... (more story)
June 05, 2025
Europe
MLex Summary: The EU is extending its suspension of safeguard measures on iron and steel imports from Ukraine for an additional three years from Friday to support the country’s producers and war-hit economy. H... (more story)
State Aid View More
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)
June 05, 2025
Europe
MLex Summary: Ryanair is at the EU's first-tier court today to challenge the European Commission's approval of 2.55 billion euros (around $2.9 billion) in Portuguese restructuring aid for state-owned flag carr... (more story)
Energy View More
June 05, 2025
Asia, Europe, North America
MLex Summary: President Donald Trump’s tariffs, the risk of escalating trade wars and an evolving policy landscape will impact electric vehicle sales and production in both the US and Europe, think tank Bruege... (more story)
June 05, 2025
Europe
MLex Summary: The European Commission has opened a public consultation on its draft detailed rules regarding the EU certification framework for permanent carbon removals, carbon farming and carbon storage in p... (more story)
June 05, 2025
Asia, Europe, North America
MLex Summary: Global energy investments are expected to reach a record $3.3 trillion in 2025, according to the International Energy Agency’s 2025 investment report. Of that, $2.2 trillion will be directed towa... (more story)
Technology View More
June 05, 2025
Europe
MLex Summary: The strategy defines digital policy as a key component of the EU’s external action, and sets out three objectives in this regard: to expand international partnerships, combine EU private and publ... (more story)
June 05, 2025
Europe
MLex Summary: Online clothes retailer Shein is facing a complaint over the use of dark patterns — deceptive techniques that allegedly fuel over-consumption — by consumer groups in 21 countries. The action is c... (more story)
June 04, 2025 | Neil Roland
Europe, North America
US Securities and Exchange Commission Chair Paul Atkins told lawmakers he will “push back” on a 2024 EU directive on human rights and climate change. “I will definitely take steps with our counterparts abroad ... (more story)