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DealRisk®, Mergers and Acquisitions
March 27, 2026 | Wesley Brown
North America
Energy, Financial Services
March 27, 2026 | Helena Freitas
Europe
Artificial Intelligence, Intellectual Property
March 26, 2026 | Melissa Ritti and Emma Whitford
North America
Antitrust View More
March 30, 2026
North America
MLex Summary: Apple failed to convince the US Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit to rehear an appeal regarding an injunction issued in antitrust litigation brought by Epic Games over Apple's App Store. The... (more story)
March 30, 2026 | Henrique Santiago
Latin America
Officials from Brazil's competition regulator held a meeting on March 26 with representatives from the Ministry of Justice, where they requested that CADE investigate potential abusive fuel pricing amid the US... (more story)
March 30, 2026
Europe
MLex Summary: A UK probe of suspected anticompetitive conduct in waste management services will continue to gather evidence until July, the antitrust regulator said. The Competition and Markets Authority start... (more story)
Artificial Intelligence View More
March 30, 2026 | Madeline Hughes
Africa, Asia, Europe, Latin America, North America, Oceania
California’s settlement with Healthline Media shows the specificity needed to avoid misleading consumers with privacy policy statements, said Maureen Mahoney, deputy director of policy and legislation.
March 30, 2026 | Maria Dinzeo
Africa, Asia, Europe, Latin America, North America, Oceania
More capable and personalized AI assistants are pushing companies to be "innovative" with privacy frameworks and adapt to consumers’ expectations for seamless experiences, Google legal chief Kent Walker said M... (more story)
March 30, 2026
North America
MLex Summary: A US federal judge has remanded Reddit’s lawsuit against Anthropic over alleged illegal data scraping from its platform to California state court, where it was originally filed. US District Judge... (more story)
Mergers and Acquisitions View More
March 30, 2026
North America
MLex Summary: Sysco has agreed to acquire Jetro Restaurant Depot, the leading US cash-and-carry wholesaler serving restaurants and grocery retailers, in a deal worth approximately $29.1 billion. The transactio... (more story)
March 30, 2026 | Jon Menon
Europe
PipeHawk, a small publicly traded UK engineering company, said that a business unit might have been saved from financial collapse had it received national security clearance in time to sell a separate division... (more story)
March 30, 2026
Europe
MLex Summary: The European Commission has allowed US private-equity firm GTCR to acquire Czech generic drugmaker Zentiva, with no conditions. The deal was announced last September, and GTCR said it expected to... (more story)
Data Privacy and Security View More
March 30, 2026
North America
MLex Summary: Ancestry.com must face US claims over its collection and publication of biographical data allegedly without consent, a federal judge ruled. District Judge Gloria M. Navarro reopened the case, rel... (more story)
March 30, 2026 | Xu Yuan
North America
Dating app OkCupid has agreed to stop allegedly deceptive data-processing practices in a settlement with the US Federal Trade Commission over its sharing of user data with artificial intelligence company Clarifai.
March 30, 2026
North America
MLex Summary: Plaintiffs accusing Meta Platforms of illegally wiretapping electronic communications on online tax filing websites offered by H&R Block and TaxAct were denied class certification. District Judge... (more story)
Intellectual Property View More
March 30, 2026 | Inbar Preiss
Europe
Abbott secured a win as Unified Patent Court judges upheld an injunction against Sinocare and Menarini, confirming jurisdiction over a Chinese manufacturer. The Court of Appeal rejected validity challenges and... (more story)
March 30, 2026 | Toko Sekiguchi
Asia, North America
An Osaka District Court ruling handed Japanese generics maker Sawai Pharmaceutical a win against Viatris’ Japan unit, holding that a later patent extension for a new dose can’t be used to keep blocking an olde... (more story)
March 30, 2026 | MLex Staff
Asia
The Beijing High People’s Court has ruled in favor of fashion jewelry brand APM Monaco, saying trademark similarity must be assessed based on real-world use, not just how marks appear on paper.
Financial Crime View More
March 30, 2026
North America
MLex Summary: The US Treasury Department's Financial Crimes Enforcement Network submitted a proposed rule to fully implement a whistleblower program for tips on fraud-related violations of the Bank Secrecy Act... (more story)
March 30, 2026
North America
MLex Summary: Jonathan Spalletta, a Maryland man, was charged in the US with computer fraud and money laundering in connection with his hacks of the decentralized cryptocurrency exchange Uranium Finance. Spall... (more story)
March 30, 2026 | Martin Coyle
Europe
Apple Distribution International Limited — known as ADI; a unit of the US tech giant — has been fined £390,000 by the UK’s sanctions enforcer, for making hundreds of thousands of pounds in payments to Russian ... (more story)
Financial Services View More
March 30, 2026
Europe
MLex Summary: Preparatory notes on a reform including more centralized supervision of capital markets, obtained by MLex, show the issues that officials from Cyprus aim to tackle with EU countries’ financial ex... (more story)
March 30, 2026 | Sofia Gerace
Europe
UK lenders are expected to pay a £9.1 billion for mis-sold car finance, after the Financial Conduct Authority on Monday set out its final redress plan. The plan is less costly than the regulator’s earlier prop... (more story)
March 30, 2026 | Fanny Roux
Europe
EU countries' finance experts started two days of key talks on Monday on the EU market watchdog's new powers and distribution of roles with national authorities in a contentious package proposal for better int... (more story)
Trade View More
March 30, 2026 | Bradley Dress
North America
The World Trade Organization’s 14th ministerial conference ended without any significant new agreements, adoptions or renewals on major issues that the US had pushed on, including a now-expired e-commerce mora... (more story)
March 30, 2026
North America
MLex Summary: US Court of International Trade Judge Richard Eaton said in an order that all finalized entries paid under the 1977 International Emergency Economic Powers Act are eligible for refunds. Eaton's o... (more story)
March 30, 2026
Europe
MLex Summary: The lack of agreement to extend the moratorium on digital tariffs at the World Trade Organization could mean that companies might soon see a period of "great uncertainty," Bernd Lange, the chair ... (more story)
State Aid View More
March 30, 2026
Europe
MLex Summary: A study conducted by E.Ca Economics for the European Commission has evaluated the state aid rules for banks after the 2008 financial crisis. Using data from 2007–2021 and comparative analysis of ... (more story)
March 30, 2026 | Anna Ferrari
Europe
Italy’s new energy decree challenging EU emissions trading system costs will be an early test for the European Commission, as it weighs whether or not to soften state aid rules in response to a national measur... (more story)
March 30, 2026
Europe
MLex Summary: A Portuguese €250 million state aid program to support investments for the restoration of forests following natural disasters, severe weather or catastrophic events has been cleared by the Europe... (more story)
Energy View More
March 30, 2026
Europe
MLex Summary: The G7’s energy and finance ministers, joined by central bank governors, said they stand ready to take coordinated measures to stabilize energy markets amid Middle East tensions. In a press relea... (more story)
March 30, 2026
Europe
MLex Summary: Delays in implementing EU electricity market rules require stronger monitoring and enforcement, the EU Agency for the Cooperation of Energy Regulators said on Monday. In its latest report, the ag... (more story)
March 30, 2026
Europe
MLex Summary: EU countries have authorized the European Commission to open negotiations with the UK on its participation in the EU’s internal electricity market, based on alignment with EU rules. The goal is t... (more story)
Technology View More
March 30, 2026
Europe
MLex Summary: The Body of European Regulators for Electronic Communications — BEREC — said in an assessment of the European Commission’s proposed Digital Networks Act that a proposal to introduce more regulato... (more story)
March 30, 2026 | Roffie Kuniawan
Asia
Major global social media platforms operating in Indonesia have started to make adjustments to their platforms, with some still in the process of modifying platforms in consultation with the government after n... (more story)
March 30, 2026
Europe
MLex Summary: Meta, Google, Amazon, TikTok and Stripchat have filed EU court actions challenging the European Commission's supervisory fees under the Digital Services Act, documents published in the EU's Offic... (more story)