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Trade
June 02, 2025 | Zack Budryk
North America
Artificial Intelligence
June 02, 2025 | Frank Hersey
Europe
Financial Crime
May 29, 2025 | Samuel Rubenfeld
North America
Antitrust View More
June 03, 2025
North America
MLex Summary: Consumers of Energizer battery products filed an amended US class action complaint accusing the company and Walmart of conspiring to slow price decline and ensure that both could charge higher-th... (more story)
June 03, 2025
Europe
MLex Summary: The presence of municipally-owned energy companies in some cases risks distorting competition and hindering private installation businesses from entering the market for home charging of passenger... (more story)
June 03, 2025
Europe
MLex Summary: Austrian company Bategu Gummitechnologie is at the bloc's General Court in a move to challenge the European Commission's rejection of its antitrust complaint against several trainmakers including... (more story)
Artificial Intelligence View More
June 03, 2025
North America
MLex Summary: In a letter to US Congress, 260 state lawmakers representing all 50 states called on their federal counterparts to reject a provision in a recently-passed House budget bill that would strip state... (more story)
June 03, 2025
Europe
MLex Summary: The European Parliament's industry committee approved an own-initiative report on European technological sovereignty. EU lawmakers called for "substantial investments and regulatory reforms to fo... (more story)
June 03, 2025 | Frank Hersey
Europe
Technology companies and the creative industries are caught in yet another confrontation between UK lawmakers and the government over copyright protections for works used in AI model training. The House of Lor... (more story)
Mergers and Acquisitions View More
June 03, 2025 | Nicholas Hirst
Europe
Abu Dhabi National Oil Company has seen EU foreign subsidy regulators pause their review of its takeover of German chemicals group Covestro, according to a new update on the European Commission’s website. The ... (more story)
June 03, 2025
North America
MLex Summary: Midland, Texas-based Viper Energy agreed to acquire Denver-based Sitio Royalties in an all-equity transaction valued at approximately $4.1 billion, including net debt of about $1.1 billion. The t... (more story)
June 03, 2025
North America
MLex Summary: Surmodics asked the US District Court for the District of Illinois to compel Philips Healthcare to comply with a subpoena to produce information about devices it manufactured or sold with lubrici... (more story)
Data Privacy and Security View More
June 03, 2025
North America
MLex Summary: The US Court of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit reversed recertification of class action claims against Marriott and Accenture of a 2018 data breach. A three-judge panel found that Marriott has no... (more story)
June 03, 2025 | Júlia Tar
Europe
France has suggested that the European Commission put forward a new text to replace its controversial proposal for preventing and combating online child sexual abuse material, or CSAM, MLex has learned. The su... (more story)
June 03, 2025 | Sara Brandstätter
Europe
Vodafone GmbH was fined a total of 45 million euros after breaching the EU GDPR, the German federal data protection authority said today. The fine is the highest so far imposed by the federal DPA. Vodafone has... (more story)
Intellectual Property View More
June 03, 2025 | Melissa Ritti
North America
Prolific patent litigant Intellectual Ventures flexed its portfolio might yesterday, accusing China’s Lenovo Group Limited of infringing six patents that trace their origins to fabless semiconductor company Tr... (more story)
June 03, 2025 | Inbar Preiss
Europe
Two years into the Unified Patent Court’s operations, fundamental legal doctrines — including preliminary injunction standards, jurisdictional reach and infringement by equivalence — remain unsettled, with lit... (more story)
June 03, 2025
Europe
MLex Summary: The Milan Local Division of the Unified Patent Court granted a partial stay in proceedings between claimant Dainese and defendants Alpinestars and Motocard Bike. The stay concerns European patent... (more story)
Financial Crime View More
June 03, 2025
North America
MLex Summary: Erica Williams, head of the Public Company Accounting Oversight Board, said she is "deeply troubled" by Senate legislation eliminating the agency and folding its duties into the US Securities and... (more story)
June 03, 2025 | Phoebe Seers and Martin Coyle
Europe
Rockfire Investment Finance is under investigation by the UK’s Serious Fraud Office over allegedly fraudulent solar farm bonds it sold to a UK council. The SFO said it had issued a series of notices compelling... (more story)
June 03, 2025 | Martin Coyle
Europe
Forensic accountants investigating a massive fraud at NMC Health found internal “cheat sheets” in the company’s systems setting out its true financial position and detailing how “significant payments” were mad... (more story)
Financial Services View More
June 03, 2025
North America
MLex Summary: Paul Hayeck, acting chief of the US Commodity Futures Trading Commission's Complex Fraud Task Force, has been named to also serve as acting enforcement director. The enforcement director position... (more story)
June 03, 2025 | Phoebe Seers
Europe
The UK’s financial markets watchdog has announced it will start disclosing its investigations into unregulated firms, or suspected unauthorized activity, as part of three key revisions to the information it pr... (more story)
June 03, 2025
Europe
MLex Summary: The UK financial markets watchdog today published its revised enforcement guide. In it, the Financial Conduct Authority has introduced three new circumstances where it will announce investigation... (more story)
Trade View More
June 03, 2025 | Oscar Pandiello
Europe
Pressure to prioritize EU-made goods in public tenders and industrial policy is mounting, as some EU capitals and key industries see a “Buy European” strategy as essential to support decarbonization efforts. W... (more story)
June 03, 2025
North America
MLex Summary: The State of California filed notice that it is appealing a California federal judge’s order dismissing its lawsuit challenging the Trump administration’s tariffs. The notice followed a dismissal... (more story)
June 03, 2025 | Eleonora Rinaldi
Europe
The legal pathway for the UK to re-join the European Union’s internal electricity market may be straight forward if the two sides can agree on a dedicated arbitration mechanism, but political support for the m... (more story)
State Aid View More
June 03, 2025
Europe
MLex Summary: The EU needs to improve the "agility, transparency and inclusiveness" of its program for cross-border strategic funding — also called Important Projects of Common European Interest — when it c... (more story)
May 29, 2025 | Jon Menon
Europe
A UK local authority accused of subsidizing a real estate developer defended itself in the country's specialized competition court today, arguing that loans it made were independently scrutinized and weren't a... (more story)
May 27, 2025 | Jon Menon
Europe
Greater Manchester Combined Authority subsidized a real estate developer without going through the proper process to determine the pricing of loans, a rival told a UK specialized competition court. The challen... (more story)
Energy View More
June 03, 2025
Europe
MLex Summary: Members of the European Parliament have today called for the European Commission to resolve permit-granting bottlenecks for industrial energy access and decarbonization, enhance cross-border ener... (more story)
June 03, 2025
Europe
MLex Summary: The European Commission is gathering input to feed its innovation strategy for nuclear fusion energy with the aim to accelerate commercialization of fusion as an innovative, decarbonized energy s... (more story)
June 02, 2025 | Eleonora Rinaldi
Europe
European industries could become more competitive by electrifying their process heating, according to a new study by consultancy Accenture and electricity lobby group Eurelectric. The likes of heat pumps and a... (more story)
Technology View More
June 02, 2025
North America
MLex Summary: Plaintiffs bringing US claims against Google and TikTok over the adequacy of reporting processes on their social media platforms opposed a motion to dismiss, arguing that while Section 230 of the... (more story)
June 02, 2025 | Freny Patel
Asia
Star India has been granted a "superlative injunction" by a domestic court, significantly enhancing the broadcaster's ability to combat real-time copyright infringement. This landmark ruling by the Delhi High ... (more story)
June 02, 2025 | Maria Dinzeo
North America
General Motors is fighting back against Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton’s effort to grill a corporate representative of the company in a privacy lawsuit, characterizing the AG’s deposition demand as a legal ... (more story)