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DealRisk®, Mergers and Acquisitions
July 10, 2025 | Wesley Brown
North America
Artificial Intelligence
July 10, 2025 | Emma Whitford
North America
Antitrust, Technology
July 10, 2025 | Khushita Vasant and Clayton Vickers
North America
Antitrust View More
July 11, 2025 | Sachiko Sakamaki
Asia
Japan's industry ministry is intensifying its supervision of the relationship of large platform operators with smaller Japanese businesses to ensure fairness and transparency. The move comes four years after t... (more story)
July 11, 2025 | Khushita Vasant
North America
US Federal Trade Commission Chairman Andrew Ferguson isn't in favor of pursuing a court battle over the commission's noncompete rule even as the agency today asked an appeals court to extend a stay on litigati... (more story)
July 10, 2025
North America
MLex Summary: The US Federal Trade Commission filed a motion to extend a stay in a lawsuit in a case involving a challenge to its noncompete rulemaking. In a filing to the US Court of Appeals for the Fifth Cir... (more story)
Artificial Intelligence View More
July 11, 2025 | Choonsik Yoo
Asia
South Korea plans to develop a national power-grid innovation plan, that includes building an energy superhighway using advanced technologies such as HVDC and distributed power grids, to support the growth of ... (more story)
July 11, 2025 | Amy Miller
North America
OpenAI and Elon Musk will have to produce financial and corporate documents they’ve been reluctant to hand over in their closely watched legal dispute over the artificial intelligence company’s for-profit stat... (more story)
July 11, 2025
Europe
MLex Summary: The Internet Watch Foundation — a UK-based hotline for detecting and removing online child sexual abuse material — is calling on EU lawmakers to urgently amend the draft of the Child Sexual Abuse... (more story)
Mergers and Acquisitions View More
July 10, 2025 | Ilana Kowarski
North America
Though electricity provider Constellation Energy reached a partial settlement with a regional market monitor regarding its planned acquisition of Calpine last week, the monitor contacted the US Federal Energy ... (more story)
July 10, 2025
North America
MLex Summary: Though power companies Constellation Energy and Calpine Corporation have reached a partial settlement with Monitoring Analytics — the independent market monitor for PJM Interconnection — regardin... (more story)
July 10, 2025
North America
MLex Summary: The US Department of Justice closed its antitrust investigation of T-Mobile’s acquisition of UScellular. In choosing to allow the merger, Assistant Attorney General Gail Slater said “UScellular s... (more story)
Data Privacy and Security View More
July 11, 2025
Oceania
MLex Summary: Seven out of 10 Australian children aged between 10 and 15 have encountered social-media content associated with online harm, according to new research released today by the online-safety watchdo... (more story)
July 10, 2025 | Xu Yuan
North America
Google and Meta urged a US federal court to throw out privacy allegations against them over the use of their website tracking technologies by a telehealth company focusing on erectile dysfunction medication be... (more story)
July 10, 2025
North America
MLex Summary: Google told a Texas federal judge that he should deny the state of South Dakota's request for reconsideration of an order granting a motion to strike a jury trial right on the state's deceptive-t... (more story)
Intellectual Property View More
July 11, 2025 | Freny Patel
Asia
In a ruling that further shapes India's standard essential patent jurisprudence, domestic smartphone maker Lava has been directed to pay a security deposit of $2.3 million for past sales. The Delhi High Court ... (more story)
July 10, 2025 | Nick Robertson
North America
A panel of judges at the US Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit today limited substantive discussion of the merits of the doctrine of prosecution laches during oral arguments in Google v. Sonos, a patent ... (more story)
July 10, 2025
Europe
MLex Summary: The Court of Appeal of the Unified Patent Court issued two orders in the dispute between Chinese companies Chint New Energy Technology and JingAo Solar. In the case concerning European Patent 2,7... (more story)
Financial Crime View More
July 10, 2025 | Samuel Rubenfeld
North America
A former Russian banker reached a deferred-prosecution agreement with US authorities to resolve charges that he helped a blacklisted oligarch violate sanctions. In recent months, the government’s case against him unraveled.
July 10, 2025
Europe
MLex Summary: Four people have been arrested in the UK as part of an investigation into cyber attacks targeting M&S, Co-op and Harrods. The National Crime Agency said the people were arrested in the West Midla... (more story)
July 10, 2025
Oceania
MLex Summary: Crypto ATMs will be shut down by the New Zealand government, as part of a range of new anti-money laundering measures announced by the government. In a statement, Associate Justice Minister Nicol... (more story)
Financial Services View More
July 10, 2025 | Neil Roland
Asia, Europe, Latin America, Middle East, North America
Nations should form domestic frameworks to capture nonbank leverage risks to financial stability that have inflamed a number of market crises in recent years, the Financial Stability Board said. Nonbank financ... (more story)
July 10, 2025
North America
MLex Summary: Bank Policy Institute President and CEO Greg Baer said that the US Federal Reserve’s decision to revise its supervisory ratings framework applied to large financial institutions is overdue but we... (more story)
July 10, 2025
North America
MLex Summary: Jonathan Gould was confirmed to be the US Comptroller of the Currency by a vote of 50-45.
Trade View More
July 11, 2025
Oceania
MLex Summary: Australia shouldn’t retaliate against tariffs imposed by the US government on goods and services because to do so would “come at a cost” for the economy, Australia’s independent economic-advisory... (more story)
July 11, 2025 | Dalila Abu Bakar
Asia, North America
Malaysia's prime minister raised concerns about the economic impact of a 25 percent tariff on Malaysian products entering the US during a meeting yesterday with US Secretary of State Marco Rubio. Prime Ministe... (more story)
July 10, 2025 | Zack Budryk
North America
Judge Jane Restani of the US Court of International Trade seemed broadly skeptical of the federal government’s argument that the suspension of the de minimis exemption for Chinese imports was severable from th... (more story)
State Aid View More
July 09, 2025
Europe
MLex Summary: Rail-freight operators in Norway may receive compensation for economic losses suffered after a bridge was closed due to safety concerns, the EFTA Surveillance Authority said today. The watchdog c... (more story)
July 09, 2025
Europe
MLex Summary: Norway's updated innovation and development program for news and current affairs media has received approval from the EFTA Surveillance Authority, the watchdog said today. The revision ensures th... (more story)
July 09, 2025
Europe
MLex Summary: Norway's rail freight incumbent CargoNet has been cleared to receive a government grant of up to 475 million kroner (around $47 million), the EFTA Surveillance Authority said today. The regulator... (more story)
Energy View More
July 10, 2025 | Patrick Hatzis and Eleonora Rinaldi
Europe
National energy regulators should treat climate resilience as a core responsibility given increasing risks to power infrastructure from extreme weather events, European electricity industry lobby Eurelectric s... (more story)
July 10, 2025 | Júlia Tar
Europe
Spain’s data protection authority has fined energy company Repsol 1.38 million euros for breaching the EU's General Data Protection Regulation after the company mistakenly used an individual’s personal data to... (more story)
July 10, 2025 | Eleonora Rinaldi
Europe
The UK electricity market won't be divided into zones to optimize pricing but will instead undergo reforms aimed at improving market efficiency, the UK government said today following the conclusion of its ele... (more story)
Technology View More
July 10, 2025
North America
MLex Summary: The Electronic Frontier Foundation and others told a US appeals court that Texas’s Securing Children Online Through Parental Empowerment Act violates the First Amendment rights of Texas minors an... (more story)
July 10, 2025
North America
MLex Summary: The American Civil Liberties Union, TechFreedom and others told the US Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit that Texas’ law to impose restrictions on social media platforms aimed at protecting ... (more story)
July 10, 2025
North America
MLex Summary: Leadership from the US House Committee on Energy and Commerce, Committee on Education and Workforce, and Committee on the Judiciary introduced the SCORE Act which aims to empower student-athletes... (more story)