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August 13, 2025 | Flavia Fortes
Europe, North America
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Energy
August 13, 2025 | Eleonora Rinaldi
North America
Antitrust
August 13, 2025 | Saloni Sinha
Oceania
Antitrust View More
August 14, 2025 | Ilana Kowarski and Flavia Fortes
North America
The compromise permitting UnitedHealth Group to acquire rival home healthcare and hospice service provider Amedisys shows both US federal and state enforcers are willing to give flexibility to dealmakers looki... (more story)
August 14, 2025 | Henrique Santiago
Latin America
The Brazilian competition authority is expected soon to announce two decisions against the Soy Moratorium, a global agreement designed to protect the Amazon rainforest biome while developing sustainable soybea... (more story)
August 14, 2025
North America
MLex Summary: Direct purchasers of Seroquel XR asked a US federal judge to grant final approval to settlements totaling $51.4 million with AstraZeneca and Handa Pharmaceuticals to resolve US antitrust claims a... (more story)
Artificial Intelligence View More
August 14, 2025
North America
MLex Summary: US Senator Josh Hawley of Missouri is calling for a congressional investigation into Meta Platforms after it was reported that a document from the tech giant suggested its artificial intelligence... (more story)
August 14, 2025
North America
MLex Summary: The US General Services Administration announced the launch of USAi, a secure generative artificial intelligence evaluation suite aimed at enabling federal agencies to experiment with and adopt a... (more story)
August 14, 2025
Europe
MLex Summary: Financial services companies are enjoying benefits from integrating AI into cyber defenses such as security automation and compliance checking, but implementation without fully understanding all ... (more story)
Mergers and Acquisitions View More
August 14, 2025
North America
MLex Summary: The US Chamber of Commerce applauded the revocation of the Biden era competition executive order by President Donald Trump, and said that the last administration sought to orchestrate the power o... (more story)
August 14, 2025
North America
MLex Summary: US Federal Trade Commission Chairman Andrew Ferguson said President Donald Trump's revocation of a Biden executive order on competition marks another break between the last administration’s "fail... (more story)
August 14, 2025
Latin America
MLex Summary: Brazil's Administrative Council for Economic Defense, or CADE, will rule on eight cases during its next session, set for Aug. 20. Key votes include the Marfrig-BRF and Ultragaz-Supergasbras merge... (more story)
Data Privacy and Security View More
August 14, 2025
North America
MLex Summary: The US Supreme Court has denied NetChoice's emergency petition to reinstate a preliminary injunction against Mississippi's age-gating law after an appeals court stayed the injunction pending the ... (more story)
August 14, 2025
North America
MLex Summary: Tech trade association NetChoice has sued the state of Colorado to halt part of House Bill 24-1136, also known as the "Concerning Measures to Encourage Healthier Social Media Use by Youth" law pa... (more story)
August 14, 2025
North America
MLex Summary: Healthplex has reached a $2 million settlement with the New York Department of Financial Services to resolve claims over cybersecurity failures that enabled an email phishing attack to expose cus... (more story)
Intellectual Property View More
August 14, 2025 | Nick Robertson
Asia, North America
Pharmaceutical deals led the way in patent business in the last two weeks. BioNTech and GSK grabbed headlines with a $500 million mRNA vaccine patent deal and settlement of infringement litigation, while Acces... (more story)
August 14, 2025 | Inbar Preiss and Charlotte Westphal
Europe
Boehringer secured a cross-border injunction against Zentiva, while The Hague court narrowed Winnow’s patent and found no infringement by Orbisk — among other Unified Patent Court decisions this week.
August 14, 2025 | Toko Sekiguchi
Asia, North America
Japan’s largest newspaper, Yomiuri Shimbun, is testing the limits of AI copyright law, suing Perplexity AI for unlicensed use of news content in a case closely watched by IP and media experts.
Financial Crime View More
August 14, 2025 | Neil Roland
North America
An unlikely coalition asked the US Congress to fix a "flaw" in the new stablecoin law that lets any state-chartered, uninsured bank with a stablecoin unit perform traditional activities nationwide through that... (more story)
August 14, 2025
North America
MLex Summary: The US Treasury Department's Office of Foreign Assets Control (OFAC) is redesignating the cryptocurrency exchange Garantex Europe OU — along with its successor, Grinex — and taking action against... (more story)
August 13, 2025 | Neil Roland
North America
A US Federal Reserve Bank of Kansas City paper raised a red flag for the first time about the possibly harmful impact of the GENIUS Act on US credit markets, as other questions about the stablecoin regulatory ... (more story)
Financial Services View More
August 14, 2025
North America
MLex Summary: Ryan Wear and his entities, Water Station Management and Creative Technologies, were accused by the US Securities and Exchange Commission of operating two related Ponzi-like schemes between Septe... (more story)
August 14, 2025
Europe
MLex Summary: The UK Sustainability-Linked Loans market is more mature and shows better practice when compared to 2023, the Financial Conduct Authority said today, while pointing out that there are still barri... (more story)
August 14, 2025
Europe
MLex Summary: Sasha Wiggins, chief executive of Private Bank and Wealth Management at Barclays, was today named chair of the UK’s new retail investment campaign. The nationwide campaign — announced in July as ... (more story)
Trade View More
August 14, 2025 | Bradley Dress
North America
The US faces a looming deadline to renew a major trade agreement, the African Growth and Opportunity Act, which is set to expire in just over a month as key questions about its future remain unresolved and con... (more story)
August 14, 2025
North America
MLex Summary: The US International Trade Commission announced an antidumping and countervailing duty investigation into Brazilian and Norwegian imports of high-purity dissolving pulp. The initiation of the pro... (more story)
August 14, 2025
Asia, Europe, Latin America, Oceania
MLex summary: The Office of the US Trade Representative announced new tariff rate quotas for imported raw cane sugar, certain sugars, syrups and molasses, and other sugar products, for the fiscal year 2026, ru... (more story)
State Aid View More
August 14, 2025 | Jean Comte
Europe
Top EU judges have been asked to rule whether airline group SAS must pay interest on a state aid that had been authorized by the European Commission, but subsequently cancelled by the EU's lower-tier court. Th... (more story)
August 14, 2025
Europe
MLex Summary: Hungary has secured European Commission approval for its plans to grant 264 million euros in public funding to Sunwoda Automotive Energy Technology to set up an electric vehicle battery factory i... (more story)
August 13, 2025 | Jean Comte
Europe
Olivier Guersent, then director general of the European Commission's competition department, unsuccessfully lobbied in February to increase by 2 million euros the institution's annual budget for competition po... (more story)
Energy View More
August 14, 2025
Europe
MLex Summary: The EU economy’s greenhouse gas emissions increased by 3.4 percent in the first quarter of 2025 compared to the same period in 2024, reaching 900 million metric tons of CO₂, the EU statistical of... (more story)
August 14, 2025
Europe
MLex Summary: EU energy regulator ACER today approved the 2024 security of supply risk assessment produced by the European Network of Transmission System Operators for Electricity, or ENTSO-E. The 10-year outl... (more story)
August 14, 2025
Europe
MLex Summary: The Polish government this week published its updated National Energy and Climate Plan until 2030, setting out the country’s pathway to meeting the EU’s energy and climate targets. Poland had sub... (more story)
Technology View More
August 14, 2025
Europe
MLex Summary: View and Prove, a UK government online tool for people to check their immigration status without physical documents, still involves high residual privacy risks, a report by the interior ministry ... (more story)
August 14, 2025 | Alex Wilts
North America
Google said it is willing to take its antitrust dispute with Epic Games all the way to the Supreme Court after a three-judge panel two weeks ago unanimously affirmed a permanent injunction requiring significan... (more story)
August 13, 2025
North America
MLex Summary: US Senator Amy Klobuchar of Minnesota, the ranking member of the Senate Judiciary Subcommittee on Privacy, Technology, and the Law, said President Donald Trump's decision to revoke former Preside... (more story)