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DealRisk®, Mergers and Acquisitions
March 28, 2025 | Flavia Fortes
North America
Trade
March 28, 2025 | Samuel Rubenfeld and Bradley Dress
North America
Intellectual Property
March 28, 2025 | Inbar Preiss
Europe
Antitrust View More
March 31, 2025
Oceania
MLex Summary: The proposal to adopt a designation-specific code and service model with which to regulate digital platforms was designed to align Australia with other significant jurisdictions, including the Eu... (more story)
March 31, 2025
Oceania
MLex Summary: Auckland Airport’s forecast revenue is “excessive” and its targeted returns are “unreasonably high,” according to a new report into the airport’s operations published by the New Zealand Commerce ... (more story)
March 31, 2025 | Saloni Sinha and James Panichi
Oceania
New Zealand is asking domestic and foreign investors for advice on how it should remove barriers to market entry and inject competition into its duopolistic supermarket sector, with the government saying it’s ... (more story)
Artificial Intelligence View More
March 31, 2025 | MLex Staff
Asia
Chinese authorities plan sweeping enforcement campaigns this year to safeguard personal information, focusing on illegal data collection and its use in widely used service products and everyday scenarios, the ... (more story)
March 29, 2025 | Khushita Vasant
North America
The Antitrust Division of the US Department of Justice faces potential reorganization, including closure of field offices, as senior enforcers examine the division's priorities to minimize any adverse impact, ... (more story)
March 28, 2025
North America
MLex Summary: Utah Gov. Spencer Cox has enacted three laws aimed at improving transparency around artificial intelligence: HB 452, which regulates the use of mental health chatbots in the state; SB 226, which ... (more story)
Mergers and Acquisitions View More
March 31, 2025
Asia
MLex Summary: The deal among China Steel Corporation, Taiwan petroleum industry company CPC corporation, ChungHwa Telecom company, semiconductor company ASE Technology Holding, semiconductor manufacturer Unite... (more story)
March 28, 2025 | Wesley Brown
North America
GTCR, a private equity firm, told a US federal court that it won’t control over 50 percent of the market for outsourced hydrophilic coatings after acquiring Surmodics because the latter does not compete direct... (more story)
March 28, 2025
North America
MLex Summary: GTCR and Surmodics filed their answers to a US Federal Trade Commission complaint seeking to block their proposed merger and requesting a temporary restraining order and preliminary injunction to... (more story)
Data Privacy and Security View More
March 31, 2025 | James Panichi
Oceania
The decision to exclude YouTube from a broad social-media ban for children under the age of 16 was a political decision taken in recognition of the video-streaming platform’s role as an education tool, the Aus... (more story)
March 31, 2025
Asia
MLex Summary: China's Internet regulator has reopened public consultation on the draft amendment to the Cybersecurity Law until April 27. The amendment aims to bolster legal responsibilities for cybersecurity ... (more story)
March 31, 2025
Asia
MLex Summary: The Japanese operator of the messaging app LINE has been recently instructed by the telecom regulator to improve its data-management practices, after many users reported seeing other people's thu... (more story)
Intellectual Property View More
March 30, 2025 | Toko Sekiguchi
Asia
Japan's valuable content industry, which is now seen as a key economic pillar, is set to benefit from recent moves to tackle the growing threat of piracy, with the country's legal system increasingly asserting... (more story)
March 28, 2025 | Amy Miller
North America
Anthropic’s copying of authors’ books to train its large language model, Claude, is “transformative in the extreme,” and a US judge should find the practice is fair without going to trial, the artificial intel... (more story)
March 28, 2025 | Melissa Ritti
Europe
An appellate court in the UK refused today to undo findings that continued use by Merck & Co. and Merck Sharp & Dohme of “Merck” online in the UK ran afoul of not only its promise to Germany’s Merck KGaA but a... (more story)
Financial Crime View More
March 28, 2025
North America
MLex summary: US District Judge Amy Berman Jackson issued a preliminary injunction in a case filed by citizens' groups against the Trump administration's US Consumer Financial Protection Bureau and the agency'... (more story)
March 28, 2025
North America
MLex Summary: Car Zaglin, a Georgia-based businessman, has asked a US judge to reschedule his corruption trial to accommodate expected defense witness testimony. Zaglin, who is charged with paying bribes to Ho... (more story)
March 28, 2025
Europe
MLex Summary: Four individuals have been arrested in the UK on suspicion of fraud and money laundering as part of a police operation involving the Financial Conduct Authority and City of London Police. The reg... (more story)
Financial Services View More
March 28, 2025
North America
MLex Summary: US banks can participate in crypto-related activities without prior approval from the US Federal Deposit Insurance Corp., provided that they adequately manage the associated risks, the agency said in guidance.
March 28, 2025
North America
MLex Summary: US federal bank regulatory agencies announced, in light of pending litigation, their intent to issue a proposal to both rescind the Community Reinvestment Act final rule issued in October 2023 an... (more story)
March 28, 2025
Europe
MLex Summary: Capital requirements on financial firms considered systemically important for the UK's domestic economy but not necessarily for the global economy are under consultation by the Bank of England's ... (more story)
Trade View More
March 28, 2025
North America
MLex Summary: Secretary of Agriculture Brooke Rollins will travel this year to India, Brazil, the U.K., Japan, Vietnam and Peru in a bid to boost US agricultural exports, according to a Department of Agricultu... (more story)
March 28, 2025 | Zack Budryk
Asia, North America
The US International Trade Commission voted unanimously today to continue an investigation into imports from China of a chemical intermediate used primarily in the manufacture of polyurethanes.
March 28, 2025 | Bradley Dress
North America
US Customs and Border Protection has found that a US importer is circumventing an antidumping order on quartz surface product by misrepresenting the country of origin as Thailand, though it said three other Am... (more story)
State Aid View More
March 28, 2025
Europe
MLex Summary: Nuctech has failed to convince judges at the EU's highest court to put an interim block on evidence gathered during raids carried out under the rules governing foreign subsidies. The company was ... (more story)
March 27, 2025 | Andrew Boyce
Europe
Chinese companies shouldn’t feel “targeted” by EU rules designed to combat distortive state subsidies from foreign countries, a senior EU official said today. Eddy de Smijter was responding to comments by a re... (more story)
March 27, 2025 | Nicholas Hirst and Lewis Crofts
Europe
Nuctech’s attempt to put a temporary block on EU subsidy investigators using evidence collected during a dawn raid has been rejected by the EU's Court of Justice, a lawyer with the European Commission said tod... (more story)
Energy View More
March 28, 2025
Europe
MLex Summary: The EU's environment chief Jessika Roswall and the UN Environment Program executive director Inger Andersen today agreed on further cooperation on environment and climate issues, at a meeting in ... (more story)
March 28, 2025
Europe
MLex Summary: Energy-intensive industries need immediate and structural measures to reinvigorate the sector in the EU, industry representatives have said. “Without urgent and decisive action, the EU risks acce... (more story)
March 27, 2025
Europe, North America
MLex Summary: The US Securities and Exchange Commission voted to end its defense of the rules requiring disclosure of climate-related risks and greenhouse gas emissions.
Technology View More
March 28, 2025 | Khushita Vasant
North America
US District Judge Loren L. AliKhan has been assigned to preside over a lawsuit brought against President Donald Trump in opposition to his firing this month of Federal Trade Commissioners Rebecca Kelly Slaught... (more story)
March 28, 2025
Europe
MLex Summary: UK tech and media companies got sight today of communications regulator Ofcom's workplan for 2025 and 2026, which is built around supporting long-term economic growth. Online safety, media trust,... (more story)
March 28, 2025
Europe
MLex Summary: The European Commission has said it will invest 1.3 billion euros (around $1.4 billion) in artificial intelligence, cybersecurity and digital skills. These investments, through the Digital Europe... (more story)