Antitrust, Artificial Intelligence
October 26, 2026 | Emma Whitford and Chris May
North America
Financial Crime, Financial Services, Trade
October 26, 2026 | Samuel Rubenfeld
DealRisk®, Mergers and Acquisitions
October 26, 2026 | Khushita Vasant
October 27, 2026 | Clayton Vickers and Alex Wilts
A three-judge panel of the US Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit is weighing whether to remand a lower court's ruling in a Robinson-Patman Act case in which wholesalers were found to have failed to show an... (more story)
October 27, 2026
MLex Summary: Oregon business owner Ilya Zagaryuk pleaded guilty to one count of engaging in an kickback scheme that inflated maintenance contracts with the US Postal Service, according to a DOJ statement and ... (more story)
MLex Summary: The Cangrejeros de Santurce baseball team and former owner Thomas Axon moved for judgment in a US case accusing Liga de Béisbol Profesional de Puerto Rico and its member clubs of conspiring to bo... (more story)
MLex Summary: The Copyright Alliance is criticizing Meta Platforms' proposed terms-of-service update, saying it will allow the company to scrape commercial account holders' content for business purposes, inclu... (more story)
October 27, 2026 | Masha Borak
Europe
Europe should pursue both industrial AI and frontier models, including from companies such as Mistral, a senior European Commission official said during an event on Tuesday. The EU's plan to develop the techno... (more story)
October 27, 2026 | Imogen Howse and Patricia Figueiredo
More UK businesses could be brought into the Cyber Security and Resilience Bill's scope after lawmakers approved an amendment requiring an annual review of its coverage, despite government opposition. Under th... (more story)
October 27, 2026 | Ilana Kowarski
US Federal Trade Commission staffers have reportedly told uniform rental service providers Cintas and UniFirst that the combined market share that would result from their merger troubles the agency sufficientl... (more story)
October 27, 2026 | Curtis Eichelberger
The US Federal Communications Commission's Space Bureau approved Amazon Leo's application to acquire about 25 megahertz of Globalstar's mobile-satellite service spectrum, ending its review of Amazon's $11.5 bi... (more story)
October 27, 2026 | Jon Menon
RHI Magnesita said it has agreed a “revenue threshold” for potential asset sales that may be needed to gain antitrust approval for its acquisition of British rival Vesuvius. The Austrian company is in talks to... (more story)
October 27, 2026 | Xu Yuan
Meta Platforms and Snap will defend themselves against allegations that their social media platforms contributed to a mental health crisis among young people in the US as the second bellwether trial in the nat... (more story)
October 27, 2026 | Mike Swift
A federal judge in San Francisco said Tuesday that she has no choice but to delay the trial of man accused of helping to run BTC-e, a criminal money-laundering operation that helped bankroll the first wave of ... (more story)
MLex Summary: Navigate360 is being investigated by Canada’s Privacy Commissioner over a cybersecurity incident involving tips shared with Crime Stoppers programs across Canada, according to a press release. Na... (more story)
October 27, 2026 | Melissa Ritti
The Unified Patent Court on Tuesday granted Versuni a preliminary injunction against sales of Dreame’s electric “Mira Mop” in Germany, France and the Netherlands, with the Hague local division finding a risk o... (more story)
October 27, 2026 | Nick Robertson
Europe, Latin America, North America
Patent office leaders from the US, Spain and Denmark were in Buenos Aires on Tuesday to celebrate the removal of Argentine patent regulations that limited the patent eligibility and patentability of follow-on ... (more story)
October 27, 2026 | Inbar Preiss
Middle East
Israel’s election puts political stability, legal certainty and sanctions risk in focus for tech investors. Businesses seek predictable rules and international partnerships, while experts warn cryptocurrency a... (more story)
October 27, 2026 | Samuel Rubenfeld
The Trump administration ignored congressional intent and violated the law when issuing a rule that eliminated a requirement for Americans to report corporate beneficial ownership information to the government... (more story)
MLex Summary: Oregon Attorney General Dan Rayfield is leading a coalition of 21 attorneys general in a lawsuit that aims to overturn a Trump administration rule that exempted 99.9 percent of businesses from re... (more story)
MLex Summary: The US Treasury Department's Office of Foreign Assets Control announced a $1.5 million settlement with Extreme Networks, a North Carolina -based cloud networking solutions provider, for making sa... (more story)
October 27, 2026 | Neil Roland
The US Securities and Exchange Commission is looking at two rules in its consideration of how to deregulate startups and small businesses in an attempt to help them prosper in public markets, according to Chai... (more story)
October 27, 2026 | Helena Freitas
EU countries would face new obligations to assess climate risks by 2029 and adopt national resilience plans by 2030 under a proposed law. The European Commission also plans to establish a Climate Insurance All... (more story)
MLex Summary: EU countries would have to assess climate risks by June 2029 and adopt resilience plans by December 2030, under a proposed Climate Resilience Law unveiled on Tuesday. The accompanying European Co... (more story)
MLex Summary: The US Justice Department entered into a non-prosecution agreement with Extreme Networks, which agreed to pay criminal penalties totaling about $975,000 to resolve an investigation into sanctions... (more story)
Extreme Networks settled US investigations into sales of its equipment and services to a blacklisted Russian weapons manufacturer in what prosecutors said was the first agreement in a “near-miss” case under th... (more story)
MLex Summary: The US Commerce Department is issuing antidumping and antisubsidy duties on van-type trailers from China. Commerce said all Chinese producers have a 130.86 percent dumping rate and a 134.75 percent subsidy rate.
Asia
MLex Summary: Japan's government-backed chipmaker Rapidus and Indian technology company HCLTech said on Monday that they have opened two semiconductor development centers in Bengaluru and Hubli, India, to supp... (more story)
October 26, 2026
MLex Summary: The Greek Council of State has released the public version of its decision in August to refer to the EU top court a dispute between the Greek state and the newspaper Dimokratia. The dispute regar... (more story)
October 22, 2026 | Lewis Crofts and Anna Lauwereys
Five Spanish industrial manufacturers saw their challenge of a state aid measure for power prices dismissed at the EU top court on Thursday. PGI Spain, Berry Superfos Pamplona, Promens Packaging, RPC Envases a... (more story)
October 27, 2026 | Cynthia Kroet
Europe, North America
The EU and Canada will work over the next year on developing an “Alliance for the Future” to further integrate supply chains, strengthen regulatory cooperation and support investment in critical raw materials,... (more story)
MLex Summary: The EU may need to import more liquefied natural gas this winter depending on the severity of the winter weather and gas demand, while stocks remain below historical levels after a slow summer re... (more story)
October 27, 2026 | Roffie Kurniawan
Indonesia’s cuts to pipeline gas exports to Singapore remain within contractual supply limits, Energy and Mineral Resources Minister Bahlil Lahadalia said Monday, after Singapore said its gas importer would as... (more story)
MLex Summary: Social media platforms would receive notices from Frontex about illegal content linked to border security risks under a European Commission proposal presented Tuesday, with the agency potentially... (more story)
October 27, 2026 | Sara Brandstätter
Meta Platforms’ obligations over user-generated content were at the heart of questions sent by senior German judges to the EU Court of Justice on Tuesday, setting up a closely watched test of social networks’ ... (more story)
MLex Summary: Meta Platforms’ obligations over falsely attributed quotes on Facebook are at issue in questions referred to the EU Court of Justice by Germany’s Federal Court of Justice on Tuesday. The question... (more story)