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Antitrust, DealRisk®, Mergers and Acquisitions
April 22, 2026 | Ilana Kowarski and Flavia Fortes
Europe, North America
Trade
April 22, 2026 | Eliana Hubacker
Europe, North America
Data Privacy and Security
April 22, 2026 | Madeline Hughes
North America
Antitrust View More
April 23, 2026 | Nicholas Hirst
Europe
Bulgarian Energy Holding’s rights of defense were breached by EU antitrust investigators when disclosing evidence to it via a sealed room reserved for the company’s external advisers, according to a court opin... (more story)
April 23, 2026
Asia
MLex Summary: Daesang, Sajo CPK and CJ CheilJedang, along with 21 current and former executives and the head of the starch sugar industry association, were indicted in South Korea on Thursday over an alleged l... (more story)
April 23, 2026
Europe
MLex Summary: Bulgarian Energy Holding's appeal against a €77 million fine should be re-heard, according to an advisor to the EU's top court who faulted a lower-court ruling that annulled the sanction. Advocat... (more story)
Artificial Intelligence View More
April 23, 2026 | Luca Bertuzzi
Europe
EU member states have outlined positions on key AI Act amendments ahead of April 28 negotiations, with sectoral interplay remaining the main sticking point. Countries largely oppose integrating AI rules into s... (more story)
April 23, 2026 | Toko Sekiguchi
Asia
Japan’s draft code on generative AI transparency and intellectual property has exposed a clear divide between rights holders seeking enforceable safeguards and AI developers warning of impractical disclosure o... (more story)
April 23, 2026
Asia
MLex Summary: China’s National Computer Virus Emergency Response Center, a technical support unit for multiple authorities including the country’s internet regulator, warned Wednesday that malicious “skill pac... (more story)
Mergers and Acquisitions View More
April 23, 2026
Europe
MLex Summary: Kis-Szölgyémi Ferenc has been fined 672,000 forint ($2,148) by the Hungarian competition authority for its illegal acquisition of sole control of Bükk Optimum, the watchdog said Thursday. The off... (more story)
April 23, 2026 | Jon Menon
Europe
CVC Capital Partners and Jersey’s JT Group have gained conditional clearance to buy Isle of Man-based mobile network operator Manx Telecom following a UK national security review. Manx Telecom will need to est... (more story)
April 23, 2026
Europe
MLex Summary: Karo Healthcare has been granted Norwegian Competition Authority approval for a buyer of its Locobase brand that it agreed to divest to win clearance to buy Aco Hud Nordic. The authority said it ... (more story)
Data Privacy and Security View More
April 23, 2026 | Júlia Tar
Europe
The EU’s cybersecurity rules overhaul would require more senior technical expertise, clarify the role of the European Union Agency for Cybersecurity, or ENISA, in EU certification schemes and support moves tow... (more story)
April 23, 2026
Europe
MLex Summary: Proton, a privacy-focused tech company, warned Thursday that sweeping age verification measures risk “killing anonymity online,” arguing that current proposals would expand data collection and ha... (more story)
April 23, 2026
Asia, Europe
MLex Summary: China’s Ministry of Commerce said Thursday at a press conference it may take countermeasures if the EU amends its Cybersecurity Act in a way that discriminates against Chinese companies, citing C... (more story)
Intellectual Property View More
April 23, 2026 | MLex Staff
Asia
China is sharpening one of its most potent tools in intellectual property enforcement, moving to make punitive damages more predictable and more punishing for bad-faith infringers.
April 23, 2026 | MLex Staff
Asia
China’s highest court is drafting new guidance on adjudicating artificial-intelligence disputes, highlighting Beijing’s efforts to build a firmer legal framework around the technology, a senior judicial offici... (more story)
April 23, 2026
North America
MLex Summary: Anthropic argued in a motion for summary judgment that using the lyrics to music publishers’ songs, along with billions of other copyrighted works, to train its artificial intelligence model Clau... (more story)
Financial Crime View More
April 22, 2026
Europe
MLex Summary: Stuart Holloway, a former relationship manager with the Royal Bank of Scotland’s specialist Global Restructuring Group, was sentenced to 21 months in prison at Edinburgh Sheriff Court after admit... (more story)
April 22, 2026
North America
MLex Summary: Swedish pension fund Sjunde AP-Fonden and Goldman Sachs jointly told a US judge they've reached an agreement in principle to resolve a shareholder lawsuit alleging that investors lost money becau... (more story)
April 22, 2026
North America
MLex Summary: In a securities filing, Chilean mining company Sociedad Quimica y Mineras de Chile (SQM) said a US foreign bribery investigation has resumed after a pause ordered by the US government. The compan... (more story)
Financial Services View More
April 23, 2026
Europe
MLex Summary: Law firms and claims management companies considering challenging the UK financial watchdog's car finance redress plan have been warned first to consider the interests of their clients. The Finan... (more story)
April 22, 2026 | Sofia Gerace
Europe
The UK government has further diluted its proposed powers over pension fund asset allocation, following pushback from lawmakers in Britain’s upper chamber. Pensions minister Torsten Bell said the latest propos... (more story)
April 22, 2026 | Sofia Gerace
Europe
A UK consumer group is set to bring the Financial Conduct Authority to court over its £9.1 billion car-finance redress plan, after claiming that drivers will be left undercompensated. The FCA set out in March ... (more story)
Trade View More
April 23, 2026 | MLex Staff
Asia
China’s Ministry of State Security warned Thursday of growing supply-chain espionage risks, reinforcing new regulations that tighten oversight of data, technology and rare earths, and raising compliance pressu... (more story)
April 23, 2026
Asia
MLex Summary: Asian private equity fund MBK Partners has received a Japanese government recommendation to halt its planned tender offer for Japanese machine tool maker Makino Milling Machine, according to a fi... (more story)
April 23, 2026
Asia
MLex Summary: A group of US Republican lawmakers has urged South Korea not to discriminate against US companies such as Apple, Google, Meta and Coupang, which they said play an important economic role in bilat... (more story)
State Aid View More
April 23, 2026
Europe
MLex Summary: Companies in Estonia relying heavily on electricity and exposed to international trade will be eligible for a levy rate reduction of between 75 and 85 percent under a €36 million plan that has wo... (more story)
April 23, 2026
Europe
MLex Summary: Lufthansa has lost its legal challenge to a lower court verdict that ruled a German €6 billion recapitalization plan for the air carrier was illegal. In a judgment delivered Thursday, the EU's Co... (more story)
April 22, 2026 | Louis de Briant
Europe
The European Commission outlined coordinated measures to contain rising energy prices, including possible oil stock releases and joint gas storage efforts to avoid price spikes. In an announcement Wednesday, t... (more story)
Energy View More
April 23, 2026
Europe
MLex Summary: European liquified natural gas markets face sustained price volatility and higher storage costs as Middle East disruption tightens global supply, the European Agency for the Cooperation of Energy... (more story)
April 22, 2026
North America
MLex Summary: President Donald Trump signed five directives to invoke the Defense Production Act to shore up domestic supply chains for grid, large-scale energy, liquefied natural gas, coal and petroleum infrastructure.
April 22, 2026
Europe
MLex Summary: EU countries should remove barriers to power purchase agreements — long-term contracts that let companies buy electricity directly from producers at stable prices — to help industry manage energy... (more story)
Technology View More
April 23, 2026
Europe
MLex Summary: Access disputes over telecom infrastructure in the EU may be simultaneously handled both in a dispute settlement process at the national telecom authority and by court proceedings, according to a... (more story)
April 23, 2026 | Sara Brandstätter and Luca Bertuzzi
Europe
Poland has called on the European Commission to prioritize enforcement and simplification of existing digital rules rather than introducing additional obligations in its planned digital fairness law later this... (more story)
April 23, 2026
Europe
MLex Summary: Telegram should be investigated by the European Commission for facilitating large-scale networks sharing non-consensual sexual material, more than 80 NGOs and experts said in a statement publishe... (more story)