Data Privacy and Security
November 05, 2026 | Mike Swift
North America
Antitrust, Data Privacy and Security, DealRisk®, Mergers and Acquisitions, Technology
November 04, 2026 | Khushita Vasant
Trade
November 04, 2026 | Bradley Dress, Zack Budryk
November 05, 2026 | Sachiko Sakamaki
Asia
Google, Meta Platforms and other major technology companies face calls to improve complaint handling, explain account suspensions and provide greater transparency over their dealings with Japanese businesses as Japan prepa...(read more)
November 05, 2026 | Sean Maguire
Oceania
Free TV Australia has asked the Australian Competition & Consumer Commission to "urgently: review Meta Platforms’ proposed content-scraping terms, arguing they could breach misuse of market power laws and provisions on unf...(read more)
November 05, 2026 | Wooyoung Lee
Kakao Mobility’s appeal against the South Korean competition regulator’s sanctions over alleged abuse of market dominance is nearing a conclusion, with the Seoul High Court seeking to hear final oral arguments in January. ...(read more)
November 05, 2026 | MLex staff
Huawei, Tencent and Alibaba are among 20 Chinese companies and institutions backing a voluntary pact to strengthen AI agent safeguards and preserve users' control over key decisions, as the industry seeks to make the syste...(read more)
November 05, 2026 | Choonsik Yoo
South Korea plans to overhaul its financial-sector cybersecurity framework to strengthen defenses against growing AI-related threats, after 37 financial companies reported hacking incidents involving 473,000 cases of data ...(read more)
November 05, 2026
Europe
MLex Summary: The European Commission’s AI Office has selected a Capgemini-led consortium to assess cybersecurity risks posed by advanced general-purpose AI models, and to support enforcement of the AI Act. The consortium,...(read more)
MLex Summary: Co-operative Group’s offer to divest 15 convenience stores and two funeral homes — to ease UK antitrust concerns over its acquisition of Southern Co-operative — has been accepted by the watchdog following a r...(read more)
November 05, 2026 | Jean Comte
Air France-KLM's chief executive officer said on Thursday that the company's intended takeover of Scandinavian airlines should close in the first quarter of next year, "assuming the remedy package that we put in front of t...(read more)
November 05, 2026 | Anna Lauwereys and Nicholas Hirst
Papermakers UPM and Sappi have made a series of concessions, including green investment promises, in a bid to ease EU competition concerns over their planned joint venture. In response, the European Commission pushed back ...(read more)
November 05, 2026 | Sara Brandstätter
People who lodge complaints with EU privacy watchdogs must, in principle, be granted access under the GDPR to the personal data that those authorities process about them and information about that processing, the EU Court ...(read more)
November 05, 2026 | Júlia Tar
Electricity grid operators aren’t required under EU law to offer conventional meters to customers who refuse smart meters, the EU Court of Justice ruled on Thursday in a case involving Netz Niederösterreich. Consent requir...(read more)
MLex Summary: Website operators should not owe damages for non-material harm where individuals knowingly, automatically and repeatedly provoke EU data protection law violations to get compensation, an EU court legal opinio...(read more)
November 05, 2026 | MLex Staff
A Shanghai court ruling involving German engineering company Bosch shows how companies can recover costs from abusive intellectual property litigation through counterclaims, outlining criteria for identifying malicious law...(read more)
November 05, 2026 | Inbar Preiss
BMW has defeated a battery-monitor maker’s bid to register “BMV” as an EU trademark. Judges found the name could benefit unfairly from the carmaker’s reputation, showing how famous brands can secure protection beyond their...(read more)
November 05, 2026 | Freny Patel
US biopharma major Incyte secured an Indian injunction against Melody Healthcare just 11 weeks before its ruxolitinib patent’s expiration. The Delhi High Court ruling highlights the availability of interim protection again...(read more)
November 04, 2026
MLex Summary: Canada's government introduced the Combatting Financial Crimes and Drug Trafficking Act, which would create new ministerial powers to address abuses of money services businesses and restrict large cash transa...(read more)
MLex Summary: The US Treasury Department said it has sanctioned the criminal network of India-based Suniel Kumar Sharma and his spouse, Jaspreet Preeti Shahid, who have supported Iran’s shadow fleet through a web of mariti...(read more)
November 04, 2026 | Samuel Rubenfeld
Asia, North America
A US judge will review documents related to how the government decided to charge Smartmatic with corruption, after ruling late Tuesday that there's “some evidence” supporting the voting machine producer’s claim that it's t...(read more)
November 05, 2026 | Fanny Roux
A European Commission legislative proposal to boost the bloc's venture and growth capital markets is expected by summer 2027. It would include an initiative initially scheduled for 2026 as part of the broader Savings and I...(read more)
MLex Summary: Latvian bank PNB Banka has lost its legal dispute at the EU Court of Justice against the Single Resolution Board over its collapse in 2019. The lender had sought to overturn a lower court ruling upholding the...(read more)
November 04, 2026 | Neil Roland
US bank examiners looking at AI risk should inspect an institution’s existing risk categories, such as operational, compliance and credit threats, rather than a "separate and distinct" risk category, according to the Offic...(read more)
November 05, 2026 | Cynthia Kroet
Businesses face a longer wait for an EU database identifying forced-labor risks in products and regions, as the European Commission is in the process of checking the underlying evidence for the entries. The commission said...(read more)
November 05, 2026 | Karoline Del Vecchio
Chinese solar-panel maker Zhejiang Sunflower Great Health and EU importer Sunowe Solar should lose their legal challenge to retroactive duties imposed on Chinese solar-panel imports, according to a non-binding opinion for ...(read more)
MLex Summary: The EU’s planned supply-chain diversification tool — DiversifyEU — is scheduled to be unveiled on Dec. 9, according to the European Commission’s latest draft agenda. The EU executive also plans to present it...(read more)
November 05, 2026 | Nicholas Hirst
Dutch airline KLM was the sole beneficiary of a loan and bank guarantees worth a total of €3.4 billion from its national government during the Covid-19 pandemic, according to the EU’s top judges, who upheld arguments made ...(read more)
MLex Summary: Danish company Overgaard Gods should repay unlawful state aid based on permitted groundwater extraction volumes rather than actual use, according to a non-binding legal opinion published for the bloc's top co...(read more)
MLex Summary: German airline Condor has won its appeal against the annulment of €321 million in German restructuring aid due to the Covid-19 pandemic, with the EU's top court overturning a lower court ruling on Thursday. J...(read more)
MLex Summary: EU gas-market rules covering pipelines from outside the bloc remain in force, after Nord Stream 2 lost its appeal at the EU’s highest court on Thursday. The Court of Justice upheld the dismissal of the operat...(read more)
November 04, 2026 | Louis de Briant
European Parliament lawmakers backed weaker CO2 emissions targets for new cars and vans Wednesday, partly aligning with demands from France and Germany to ease EU automotive rules. The proposals would allow certain renewab...(read more)
A European Commission plan to reform energy taxation remains under discussion by EU member states, despite being listed for withdrawal in an earlier draft of the EU executive's 2027 work program, the commission has said. T...(read more)
November 04, 2026 | Imogen Howse
Regulator Ofcom has been accused of taking a "minimalist" approach to implementing the UK's Online Safety Act. During a parliamentary session examining the impact of the law, witnesses said Ofcom was not using the full sco...(read more)
MLex Summary: California Representative Zoe Lofgren, the US House Science Committee ranking member, who will be seeking the chairmanship next year when Democrats control the House, said Congress needs to stop politicizing ...(read more)
MLex Summary: US House Energy and Commerce Committee Ranking Member Frank Pallone, Jr., who is set to take charge of the committee once the Democratic majority is sworn in this January, said the committee's priority is to ...(read more)