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DealRisk®, Mergers and Acquisitions
January 02, 2026 | Wesley Brown
North America
Artificial Intelligence, Data Privacy and Security
January 02, 2026 | Madeline Hughes
North America
DealRisk®, Mergers and Acquisitions
December 31, 2025 | Flavia Fortes
Latin America
Antitrust View More
January 05, 2026
Oceania
MLex Summary: Australian company WiseTech Global and its subsidiary BluJay Solutions have committed to divesting Expedient, a logistics software business, following a probe into a merger law breach. In a state... (more story)
January 05, 2026 | MLex Staff
Asia
China’s top economic planner has flagged tougher accountability as it presses ahead with efforts to unify the national market, pledging to publicly disclose representative cases of improper market interference... (more story)
January 05, 2026
Asia
MLex Summary: The Philippine Competition Commission said Monday it has opened its case reporting system to the public, allowing individuals to file complaints about suspected anti-competitive conduct directly ... (more story)
Artificial Intelligence View More
January 05, 2026 | MLex Staff
Asia, North America
Chinese President Xi Jinping cast innovation as the engine of the country's economic growth in his New Year’s Eve speech, pointing to breakthroughs in artificial intelligence large models and the domestic chip... (more story)
January 02, 2026 | Khushita Vasant
North America
Tennessee Attorney General Jonathan Skrmetti has laid out his vision for US antitrust law enforcement which includes cases that have a more streamlined narrative and are less economically complex, along with s... (more story)
January 02, 2026 | Nick Robertson
North America
As companies increasingly customize AI models with proprietary software, agents and data-labeling frameworks, Saul Ewing partner Matthew Kohel told MLex that IP practitioners must remain keenly aware of the co... (more story)
Mergers and Acquisitions View More
January 05, 2026 | Andrew Boyce
Europe
Boeing’s $4.7 billion takeover of Spirit AeroSystems offers some of the clearest clues yet to how the UK's competition watchdog is departing from the approach of its counterpart in the EU as it looks to take o... (more story)
January 05, 2026 | Jon Menon
Europe
The UK Competition and Markets Authority’s role encouraging the growth of “superstar firms” to support the government’s industrial strategy is expected to progress in the year ahead. But when it comes to decid... (more story)
January 05, 2026
Asia
MLex Summary: 2025 revolutionized the M&A landscape in India following the expansion of its fast-track merger and acquisition process to include new categories of unlisted companies and their subsidiaries. The... (more story)
Data Privacy and Security View More
January 05, 2026
Europe
MLex Summary: The European Commission's pleas have now been published, in its appeal against the EU General Court's decision that broadened complainants’ rights to access files in a case involving Meta Platfor... (more story)
January 02, 2026
North America
MLex Summary: Perplexity AI should not face claims for allegedly circumventing anti-scraping measures and stealing copyrighted content from Reddit because the AI answer engine "sits downstream of any alleged c... (more story)
January 02, 2026 | Henrique Santiago
Latin America
Brazil's ECA Digital law will impose obligations on social media, gaming, streaming platforms and apps starting in March, with several regulations to be finalized throughout this year.
Intellectual Property View More
January 05, 2026 | MLex Staff
Asia
China has unveiled a broad policy package to curb destructive price competition in the photovoltaic sector, tying stronger patent protection and innovation incentives to efforts to stabilize a market battered ... (more story)
January 05, 2026 | Freny Patel
Asia
Zydus Healthcare’s petition challenging a Helsinn Healthcare patent for an anti-nausea drug was dismissed by an Indian court, citing lack of territorial jurisdiction and no jurisdictional error by the Patent Office.
January 05, 2026 | Freny Patel
Asia
Employment contracts that explicitly cover the creation of intellectual property during a worker's tenure are sufficient legal instruments to prove the transfer of rights from an inventor to their employer, an... (more story)
Financial Crime View More
January 02, 2026
North America
MLex Summary: US Securities and Exchange Commissioner Caroline Crenshaw plans to depart the agency, according to a statement.
January 02, 2026 | Sofia Gerace
Europe
The UK's Financial Conduct Authority has opened an enforcement investigation into The Claims Protection Agency Limited, a claims-management company, in response to concerns over its advertising and sales tacti... (more story)
December 31, 2025
North America
MLex Summary: The US Department of the Treasury’s Financial Crimes Enforcement Network announced it has issued a final rule to extend the effective date of the rule establishing Anti-Money Laundering/Counterin... (more story)
Financial Services View More
January 05, 2026
Europe
MLex Summary: The selection process for an EU consolidated tape provider for over-the-counter derivatives data was opened on Monday. Entities interested to apply are encouraged to register and submit their req... (more story)
January 02, 2026
Europe
MLex Summary: UK insurers have received further guidelines from the prudential watchdog on the Berne Financial Services Agreement, BFSA, between Switzerland and the UK. The guidelines include further informati... (more story)
December 31, 2025 | Sofia Gerace
Europe
The UK's regime for overseeing technology suppliers deemed critical to the financial system is set to reach its first anniversary without a single company being formally designated, despite warnings from lawma... (more story)
Trade View More
January 05, 2026 | Oscar Pandiello and Cynthia Kroet
Europe
EU companies face an unusually full trade-policy agenda in 2026, with the European Commission preparing proposals on European preference rules, follow-up measures on economic security, as well as a final push ... (more story)
January 03, 2026
North America
US President Donald Trump Friday issued an order blocking HieFo Corp. from acquiring semiconductor-related assets from Emcore Corp. The order requiring divestment of the assets cited national security concern... (more story)
January 02, 2026 | Bradley Dress
North America
A coalition of US winter strawberry producers petitioned the Commerce Department and International Trade Commission to find that subject imports have been dumped and have harmed the domestic industry.
State Aid View More
January 05, 2026
Europe
MLex Summary: Portuguese airline TAP now has until June 30 to divest its shareholding in ground-handling provider SPdH and Cateringpor to fulfil the conditions imposed by the European Commission in 2021, when ... (more story)
January 05, 2026
Europe
MLex Summary: Amended guidelines on state aid measures under which more industrial sectors in the bloc will benefit from compensation to cover rising carbon costs have been released on Monday. The rules, which... (more story)
January 05, 2026
Europe
MLex Summary: Broadcaster Telly and the Czech Association of Satellite Operators have asked the EU Court of Justice to overturn a May ruling by the bloc's lower tier court relating to the use of radio-frequenc... (more story)
Energy View More
January 02, 2026
Europe
MLex Summary: About 2,000 kilometers of electricity lines were approved by Germany's energy regulator last year, about 45 percent more than in 2024, it said Friday. The first approval procedures for major high... (more story)
January 02, 2026 | Oscar Pandiello
Europe
The EU’s carbon border levy — the first of its kind in the world — went live on Jan. 1 after a series of additional clarifications in December. But those late rules on default values and certificates are only ... (more story)
January 01, 2026
Asia, Europe
MLex Summary: China said the EU’s recent Carbon Border Adjustment Mechanism rules amount to unfair and discriminatory treatment of Chinese products and vowed to take all necessary measures in response to any u... (more story)
Technology View More
January 05, 2026
Europe
MLex Summary: Moldova and Ukraine on Jan. 1 joined the EU’s “roam like at home” area, allowing European users to make calls, send texts and use mobile data at domestic prices when traveling to those countries,... (more story)
January 05, 2026
Asia
MLex Summary: The Malaysian Communications and Multimedia Commission, or MCMC, is investigating the misuse of artificial intelligence on X, where images of women and minors are digitally altered to create inde... (more story)
January 02, 2026 | Matthew Newman
Europe
Elon Musk’s X faces an investigation by Paris prosecutors after its AI chatbot Grok generated sexually explicit deepfakes of minors, as pressure builds on the social media platform to comply with EU content-mo... (more story)