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DealRisk®, Mergers and Acquisitions
February 24, 2026 | Flavia Fortes
Asia, Europe, Latin America, North America
Artificial Intelligence, Energy
February 24, 2026 | Emma Whitford
North America
Financial Crime, Intellectual Property
February 24, 2026 | Samuel Rubenfeld and Nick Robertson
North America
Antitrust View More
February 25, 2026
Asia
MLex Summary: South Korea’s leading food-delivery platform Baedal Minjok and fried chicken restaurant chain Cheogajip Yangnyeom Chicken are facing an antitrust complaint filed with the Korea Fair Trade Commiss... (more story)
February 25, 2026 | Jenny Lee
Asia
Four South Korean builders have been sent to deliberation at the country’s competition watchdog over subcontract clauses that allegedly shifted industrial-safety costs and liabilities onto smaller partners, as... (more story)
February 25, 2026
Asia
MLex Summary: Four South Korean construction companies are facing a review by the country's competition regulator over alleged violations of the subcontracting law tied to industrial-safety clauses that may ha... (more story)
Artificial Intelligence View More
February 25, 2026 | Hoa Dinh
Asia
Vietnam is moving to finalize implementing decrees for its revised intellectual property law, reinforcing strict limits on works generated by artificial intelligence and the use of copyrighted material for AI training.
February 25, 2026 | Amy Miller
North America
Tech companies have struck deals with the White House to produce their own power for data centers and keep consumer costs down, President Donald Trump said in his State of the Union address. “We’re telling the... (more story)
February 25, 2026
Asia
MLex Summary: South Korea’s Presidential Council on National Artificial Intelligence Strategy on Wednesday adopted the final version of a three-year policy roadmap aimed at fostering the development and adopti... (more story)
Mergers and Acquisitions View More
February 25, 2026
Oceania
MLex Summary: The proposal by AVC Operations, a subsidiary of Australian Venue Co. Holdings, to acquire 100 percent of the business and assets of Ash Promotions, trading as An Sibin Irish Pub, under an asset s... (more story)
February 24, 2026 | Henrique Santiago
Latin America
Brazil’s competition watchdog has been analyzing Arco Educação’s planned buyout of edtech firm Edify in a deal that would involve the buyer’s further expansion into private bilingual schooling, with an exclusi... (more story)
February 24, 2026
Europe, North America
MLex Summary: Paramount's latest bid for Warner Bros. "could reasonably be expected to lead to" a superior proposal as defined in WBD's deal with Netflix, according to the Warner Bros. Discovery board of direc... (more story)
Data Privacy and Security View More
February 25, 2026
Asia
MLex Summary: Some 200,000 Taiwan-based Coupang accounts were affected by a data incident disclosed in November, the company said in a statement on Wednesday. The affected information included users’ names, em... (more story)
February 25, 2026 | Maria Dinzeo
North America
YouTube’s recommendation engine is designed to limit endless scrolling, its vice president of engineering told jurors Tuesday in a California state trial over youth social media addiction. Meta’s counsel also ... (more story)
February 25, 2026 | Madeline Hughes
North America
While Meta Platforms reported an overwhelming number of tips to the National Center for Missing & Exploited Children, it was simultaneously allowing groomers to access children on its platform, a jury in New M... (more story)
Intellectual Property View More
February 24, 2026 | Amy Miller
North America
Elon Musk’s xAI failed to plausibly allege in a US lawsuit that rival OpenAI poached employees to steal trade secrets, US District Judge Rita F. Lin said, but she gave xAI permission to try again. “Notably abs... (more story)
February 24, 2026
North America
MLex Summary: OpenAI was granted the dismissal of a US lawsuit filed by Elon Musk's xAI alleging it poached employees to steal trade secrets. “Notably absent are allegations about the conduct of OpenAI itself.... (more story)
February 24, 2026
North America
MLex Summary: The US State Department announced sanctions on an individual and two entities under the Protecting American Intellectual Property Act (PAIPA) in connection with theft of trade secrets from U.S. p... (more story)
Financial Crime View More
February 24, 2026
North America
MLex Summary: Christopher Alexander Delgado, president and chief executive of Goliath Ventures, was arrested on a criminal complaint charging him with wire fraud and money laundering for allegedly running the ... (more story)
February 24, 2026
North America
MLex Summary: Jay Clayton, the US Attorney for the Southern District of New York, announced the office's new Corporate Enforcement and Voluntary Self-Disclosure Program for illegal activity involving fraud and... (more story)
February 24, 2026
North America
MLex Summary: US Senator Richard Blumenthal, ranking member of the Senate Permanent Subcommittee on Investigations, wrote to Binance chief executive Richard Teng, raising concerns about recent reporting that t... (more story)
Financial Services View More
February 24, 2026 | Neil Roland
North America
The US Federal Reserve proposed codifying its 2025 policy that bars reputational risk from being part of bank examinations — a proposal that dovetails with President Trump’s allegations that he was discriminat... (more story)
February 24, 2026
North America
MLex Summary: The US Securities and Exchange Commission announced the entry of final consent judgments as to Joseph C. Lewis, Carolyn W. Carter, Patrick J. O’Connor and Bryan L. Waugh in the agency's civil enf... (more story)
February 24, 2026 | Helena Freitas
Europe
The digital euro would be established in an offline form only, with an online version considered later, according to a draft compromise text prepared for European Parliament lawmakers to consider. It also sepa... (more story)
Trade View More
February 25, 2026
Asia, North America
MLex Summary: China said it is monitoring and will assess recent US tariff changes and will in due course decide whether to revise countermeasures targeting Washington’s original fentanyl-related and “reciproc... (more story)
February 24, 2026 | Zack Budryk
North America
US quartz surface product manufacturers argued in favor of increased domestic safeguards Tuesday at a Section 201 hearing by the US International Trade Commission, saying they were materially injured by the qu... (more story)
February 24, 2026 | Bradley Dress
North America
The US Court of International Trade on Monday upheld the Commerce Department’s determination that denied certain Section 232 exclusions, delivering a major victory for the federal government that could keep ot... (more story)
State Aid View More
February 24, 2026
Europe
MLex Summary: The European Parliament could call for an "independent European Competition Authority" separate from the European Commission — the EU's executive branch — to ensure that there is "no political in... (more story)
February 24, 2026
Europe
MLex Summary: Companies in Greece will be eligible for direct grants and tax advantages under a €400 million plan that has won European Commission state aid approval. The measure will back strategic investment... (more story)
February 24, 2026 | Anna Ferrari and Jean Comte
Europe
The EU Commission is set to publish "soon" a revised draft of the General Block Exemption Regulation, the EU law for state aid exemption, a spokesperson for the regulator told MLex. The text will be put to pub... (more story)
Energy View More
February 24, 2026
Europe
MLex Summary: A package of measures to simplify sustainability reporting and due diligence requirements for companies by raising the thresholds for which they apply has been approved by EU ministers and will b... (more story)
February 24, 2026
Europe
MLex Summary: The Alliance of Energy Intensive Industries has warned that persistently high electricity costs are stalling electrification, investment and decarbonization. The AEII is urging the European Commi... (more story)
February 24, 2026
Europe
MLex Summary: A report detailing the background to a legal challenge against the EU’s green investment rules has been issued by the EU’s General Court. Environmental groups are seeking the annulment of the com... (more story)
Technology View More
February 25, 2026 | Mike Swift
North America
Cosmetic filters that alter a person's appearance have been prominent in an addictive-design trial against Meta Platforms in Los Angeles, but a new decision by a federal judge in Illinois that the state's biom... (more story)
February 25, 2026 | Khushita Vasant
North America
Agri Stats must face claims from the US Department of Justice that it engaged in anticompetitive sharing of information which led to inflated prices of chicken, pork and turkey products, a US federal judge rul... (more story)
February 24, 2026
North America
MLex Summary: Agri Stats' motion for summary judgment in a US Department of Justice antitrust lawsuit over illegal information sharing was denied by a US federal judge who ruled the case ought to head to trial... (more story)