Artificial Intelligence, Financial Crime, Technology, Trade
November 12, 2026 | Samuel Rubenfeld and Emma Whitford
North America
Antitrust, Artificial Intelligence, DealRisk®, Mergers and Acquisitions
November 12, 2026 | Maria Júlia Baumert
Latin America
DealRisk®, Mergers and Acquisitions
November 12, 2026 | Ilana Kowarski
November 12, 2026 | Khushita Vasant
DaVita and Fresenius Medical Care Holdings have vowed to defend themselves vigorously against an antitrust lawsuit brought by Washington state alleging the two companies illegally imposed noncompete agreements on medical d...(read more)
Significant divergences between the Brazilian competition authority's investigative unit and its Tribunal in cases involving alleged unilateral conduct were found in a study, reinforcing calls for clearer guidance on how s...(read more)
The Brazilian competition authority faces the challenge of accelerating investigations into unilateral conduct in digital markets while maintaining resources for cases involving traditional sectors, an authority official s...(read more)
November 13, 2026
Asia
MLex Summary: Japan's government-backed telecommunications giant NTT and major insurer Sompo Holdings said Thursday that they have agreed to explore the development and deployment of physical artificial intelligence, inclu...(read more)
November 12, 2026 | Amy Miller
A California state judge tentatively denied Anthropic's bid to obtain internal OpenAI documents for its defense against Reddit's data-scraping lawsuit, raising concerns about service of the subpoena and why Anthropic hadn'...(read more)
November 12, 2026 | Emma Whitford
Leading artificial intelligence companies Anthropic, OpenAI, SpaceX, Google and Meta are facing California Unfair Competition Law claims from a group of nonprofits who say the companies’ pursuits of existentially-risky AI ...(read more)
November 12, 2026 | Curtis Eichelberger
Virginia utility customers have largely voiced opposition to NextEra’s acquisition of Dominion during hearings this fall, arguing that it will likely lead to higher utility bills, undermine the state’s alternative energy s...(read more)
November 12, 2026 | Chris May
Companies are using AI-powered software tools for both offensive and defensive antitrust compliance, and how those tools are used is top of mind for US states preparing to get in on the action, a senior enforcer with the C...(read more)
November 12, 2026
MLex Summary: When Union Pacific Railroad CEO Jim Vena ended a speech with a remark about possibly hiking rates for shippers who oppose his firm's buyout of Norfolk Southern Railway, shippers watching those remarks didn't ...(read more)
November 12, 2026 | Madeline Hughes
A federal judge appeared skeptical Thursday that he has the broad authority Meta Platforms is seeking to block the US Federal Trade Commission from reopening its 2020 privacy settlement, questioning whether the company cou...(read more)
November 12, 2026 | Mike Swift
CalPrivacy chief Tom Kemp in an interview Thursday described his vision for how the regulator wants to "democratize privacy" for California's residents, using technology such as browser opt-out signals to stop data brokers...(read more)
November 12, 2026 | Júlia Tar
Europe
A new negotiating draft of the proposed EU law to compel digital platforms to assess and mitigate risks related to child sexual-abuse material would burden online service providers with more detailed requirements for selec...(read more)
November 12, 2026 | Nick Robertson
The company that manages Elvis Presley's likeness rights and rightsholders of hundreds of his songs invoked Tennessee’s ELVIS Act in a copyright infringement complaint against AI company Suno in California federal court la...(read more)
November 12, 2026 | Melissa Ritti
Getty Images faced pointed questioning from the UK Court of Appeal on Thursday over its theory that an AI model can qualify as an "infringing copy" without reproducing the photographs it was trained on. If the stock image ...(read more)
November 12, 2026 | Steve Scherer
Europe, North America
GSK and Moderna’s cross-license offers vaccine rivals a possible route through overlapping pipelines and uncertain patent litigation, lawyers told MLex. A pending US appeal could limit recovery against Moderna for governme...(read more)
Asia, North America
MLex Summary: US House Ways and Means Committee Ranking Member Richard E. Neal and Senate Finance Committee Ranking Member Ron Wyden demanded the Trump administration retain all records relating to its project to allow — a...(read more)
November 12, 2026 | Samuel Rubenfeld
An executive of medical device company Balt who has been referred to as “John Doe” on the court docket in a US corruption case has asked a judge to let him skip a public appearance at an upcoming hearing. “Once disclosed, ...(read more)
MLex Summary: A US judge has granted a request to adjourn the fraud and money laundering trial of a former chief executive of the Subway restaurant supply cooperative and her brother to January 2027, according to a court o...(read more)
November 12, 2026 | Fanny Roux
The European Parliament on Thursday rejected a deal with EU governments on a legislative proposal to boost retail investment in the bloc. The rejection leaves the future of the legislation uncertain, with opposition from l...(read more)
MLex Summary: Former HealthBeacon employee Alan Dalton has been fined €67,580 by the Irish Central Bank for insider trading after he twice wrongly sold shares in the medical devices company. The regulator said that Dalton ...(read more)
November 12, 2026 | Roffie Kurniawan
Indonesia's financial regulators are strengthening cybersecurity defenses amid heightened cyber threats to banks and other financial institutions. The Financial Services Authority and Bank Indonesia have activated cyber in...(read more)
MLex Summary: A binational panel under the United States-Mexico-Canada Agreement upheld the Commerce Department's second remand of an antidumping order on softwood lumber from Canada, which was first challenged in 2017.
MLex Summary: The US Department of Commerce has initiated antidumping and countervailing duty investigations of Mexican railway tank cars and subassemblies, alleging a subsidy rate of above de minimis. The US International...(read more)
MLex Summary: Former Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang's resignation Thursday does not "absolve him, other executives, or the company as a whole of responsibility for putting our national security at risk or for any potential violat...(read more)
MLex Summary: Moves by a private citizen to seek damages from the European Commission for intervening in a Latvian court case about the rescue of Parex banka should fail, according to a legal opinion for the EU's highest c...(read more)
November 11, 2026 | Lewis Crofts
The European Commission should consider bringing together independent advice on competition cases into a single opinion that could better inform subsequent court scrutiny, EU General Court judge Johannes Laitenberger has s...(read more)
November 10, 2026 | Lewis Crofts
Cases before the EU's highest court may proceed more quickly, even when they raise a new legal question, after a change in approach that means no advisory opinion is needed if the answer is clear. Maciej Szpunar, first Adv...(read more)
MLex Summary: UK-based energy company Aquind's challenge to the EU energy regulator's refusal to grant an exemption from the bloc's electricity market rules for its planned UK-France interconnector should be partly rejecte...(read more)
MLex Summary: Poland's legal challenges to seven key pieces of the EU's climate legislation were rejected by the bloc's top court on Thursday, upholding major elements of its Fit for 55 package. The cases concerned carbon ...(read more)
November 11, 2026
MLex Summary: The EU supports a global pledge to increase electricity's share of final energy consumption to 35 percent by 2035, the so-called 35-by-35 Global Electrification Pledge, European Commission President Ursula vo...(read more)
MLex Summary: Jensen Huang has resigned as chief executive of US chip-maker Nvidia, the Board of Directors said. The announcement follows reports that Huang had extramarital affairs, including with a businesswoman who US i...(read more)
November 12, 2026 | Sara Brandstätter
Meta Platforms and ByteDance’s TikTok on Thursday urged the EU’s highest court to uphold judgments annulling decisions setting their Digital Services Act supervisory fees, with Meta’s lawyer warning that the European Commi...(read more)
November 12, 2026 | Inbar Preiss
A single copyright license can cover both sharing users’ uploads and storing the necessary copies on platforms’ servers, EU judges have ruled. The decision clarifies the rules for online platforms and music collecting soci...(read more)