Energy, Financial Crime, Trade
October 13, 2026 | Samuel Rubenfeld
North America
Data Privacy and Security, Financial Crime, Technology
October 13, 2026 | Madeline Hughes
Africa, Europe, North America
DealRisk®, Mergers and Acquisitions
October 12, 2026 | Jon Menon
Europe
October 14, 2026 | Chris May
Major US meatpackers facing consolidated beef price-fixing claims are asking a Minnesota federal court to delay the case while they pursue a bid to overturn class certification in the case.
October 14, 2026
MLex Summary: Google asked a New York federal judge to stay consolidated antitrust litigation over digital advertising technologies while the company purses an appeal of its loss to a US Department of Justice-... (more story)
MLex Summary: A former Atkinson employee filed an amended US complaint accusing Fluor Federal Services and its Federal Emergency Management Agency-approved subcontractors of engaging in illegal no-poach agreem... (more story)
MLex Summary: Montana Attorney General Austin Knudsen announced a lawsuit accusing OpenAI of knowingly encouraging harmful behavior among children and teenagers and engaging in other deceptive practices throug... (more story)
October 14, 2026 | Emma Whitford
Any court-approved sale of Character Technologies' business or assets must include explicit “terms of protection” for children and other Character.AI users, a coalition of state attorneys general led by Colora... (more story)
MLex Summary: State attorneys general made a filing in bankruptcy court identifying concerns about Character.AI’s safety and privacy practices and calling for consumer protections in any sale of the company's ... (more story)
October 14, 2026 | Ilana Kowarski
Copart and ACV Auctions — two companies that not only provide sales venues for automobiles but also provide data on used cars — announced the expiry of the US antitrust review wait period for their merger via ... (more story)
Latin America
MLex Summary: Brazil’s competition watchdog, the Administrative Council for Economic Defense, will conduct a full-form review of Ânima Educação’s acquisition of Faculdades Metropolitanas Unidas Educacionais (... (more story)
October 14, 2026 | Henrique Santiago
Rivals in the sale of UCI Cinemas' business to a new joint venture known as Cia Brasileira de Cinemas told Brazil's competition authority that the capital of Amazonas offers a limited number of movie theaters ... (more story)
October 14, 2026 | Madeline Hughes
As US Supreme Court justices heard arguments Wednesday about who qualifies as a consumer under the Video Privacy Protection Act, they asked a broad range of questions about how the law should apply to new technologies.
MLex Summary: WestJet has met the commitments it made to Canada’s Privacy Commissioner to strengthen its security safeguards following a cyberattack, according to a statement. In a compliance letter with the c... (more story)
MLex Summary: The Office of the US Trade Representative has invoked the United States-Mexico-Canada Agreement's Rapid Response Labor Mechanism to review potential labor rights violations, including denial of c... (more story)
October 14, 2026 | Steve Scherer
In three separate briefs, two industry coalitions and Unified Patents urged the US Supreme Court to hear Apple's challenge to an Apple Watch import ban arising from its patent dispute with Masimo. They contend... (more story)
MLex Summary: Anthropic moved to dismiss BMG’s US copyright claims over musical composition, arguing that BMG can’t identify any infringing outputs by its Claude models. Anthropic noted that the suit is the th... (more story)
October 14, 2026 | Melissa Ritti
A bipartisan US bill would curb data center developers’ use of nondisclosure agreements with public officials, leaving them more reliant on existing legal protections. The No Secrets for Data Centers Act follo... (more story)
October 14, 2026 | Samuel Rubenfeld
Alvaro Pulido Vargas, a Colombian businessman, made his initial appearance in Miami federal court on charges in two separate indictments involving the alleged laundering of more than $2 billion associated with... (more story)
MLex Summary: A Bosnian national was sentenced to 60 months in US prison after pleading guilty to federal export and sanctions violations by conspiring and attempting to broker the sale of anti-aircraft missil... (more story)
Africa, Asia, Europe, Latin America, Middle East, North America, Oceania
MLex Summary: Generative AI is making cyber-enabled financial fraud easier to scale, says a paper accompanying a framework from the International Monetary Fund and World Bank Group, as the two authorities issu... (more story)
MLex Summary: The US Office of the Comptroller of the Currency has released a report of its findings from its supervisory review of debanking activities at the nine largest national banks it supervises: JPMorg... (more story)
MLex Summary: A set of regulatory measures governing the supervisory review and evaluation of central securities depositories, or CSDs, and settlement discipline was published on Wednesday in the Official Jour... (more story)
October 14, 2026 | Fanny Roux
Significant cryptoasset service providers would come under ESMA's direct supervision, and smaller ones could opt for EU-level oversight, under a compromise proposed as part of lawmakers' scrutiny of the EU cap... (more story)
October 14, 2026 | Zack Budryk
Witnesses told the US International Trade Commission Wednesday that any update to the US-Mexico-Canada Agreement's automotive rules of origin must address both the proliferation of EVs and US worker protections.
October 14, 2026 | Bradley Dress
Europe, North America
The Office of the US Trade Representative held a largely quiet hearing Wednesday on Russia’s commitments to the World Trade Organization, with most comments focused on digital laws in the country that the US h... (more story)
Europe, Latin America
MLex Summary: The US Commerce Department said in a final determination that Brazil and Norway are dumping and Brazil is subsidizing high purity dissolving pulp. Commerce assigned Brazilian producers a 6.50 per... (more story)
October 14, 2026 | Jean Comte
The EU's top court has been asked to specify which criteria member states can use to decide whether two companies should be considered as a single state aid recipient. The dispute is related to a legal challen... (more story)
MLex Summary: Italian defense company Leonardo saw its approved deal with Iveco and Astra published by the European Commission on Wednesday, seven months after its clearance. The regulator found that the trans... (more story)
October 13, 2026 | Lewis Crofts
A foreign-backed company bidding for a tender in Greece's energy sector must notify the European Commission of financial contributions it has received from outside the EU, even though the bid falls below manda... (more story)
October 14, 2026 | Louis de Briant
EU methane monitoring, reporting and verification requirements for fossil-fuel importers would be postponed by 12 months to January 2028 under a European Commission proposal announced Wednesday. The delay woul... (more story)
MLex Summary: The European Commission has proposed delaying by one year methane emissions monitoring, reporting and verification requirements for EU importers of natural gas, oil and coal, as well as methane-i... (more story)
October 13, 2026
MLex Summary: A US judge has denied former Goldman Sachs banker Asante Berko's post-verdict motion for acquittal on corruption charges for paying bribes to Ghanaian officials to open a power plant. The judge a... (more story)
MLex Summary: Online platforms will have to prevent children from accessing violent and sexually explicit content in Mexico under new legislation announced by the government. Set for publication this week, the... (more story)
October 14, 2026 | Imogen Howse
Meta Platforms’ challenge to Ofcom’s online safety expertise is “outlandish,” the lawyer for the UK regulator told a London court on Wednesday, as he described fees and fines as Ofcom’s “bread and butter.” Met... (more story)
October 14, 2026 | Patricia Figueiredo and Imogen Howse
A UK online safety probe into Elon Musk's X will now focus on illegal content after the platform made changes to how users can access pornography, regulator Ofcom said. The probe began in January after reports... (more story)