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Data Privacy and Security, Technology
April 23, 2026 | Sara Brandstätter
Europe
Technology
April 23, 2026 | Sara Brandstätter
Europe
Antitrust, DealRisk®, Mergers and Acquisitions
April 22, 2026 | Ilana Kowarski and Flavia Fortes
Europe, North America
Antitrust View More
April 23, 2026
North America
MLex Summary: The US Department of Justice, after consulting with the Federal Trade Commission, published approvals for an updated voluntary agreement and related plans of action from the Department of Energy’... (more story)
April 23, 2026 | Inbar Preiss
Europe
Tech companies asked the EU to exclude standard-essential patents from customs enforcement, warning that border measures are ill-suited to complex licensing disputes and could bypass EU rules on good-faith neg... (more story)
April 23, 2026 | Henrique Santiago
Europe
The Tribunal of Brazil’s competition regulator maintained a violation notice issued against Meta Platforms as part of an investigation into an alleged breach of a preventive measure relating to the WhatsApp Bu... (more story)
Artificial Intelligence View More
April 23, 2026
North America
MLex Summary: The US White House issued a statement saying that the government has evidence that foreign entities, primarily in China, are running industrial-scale distillation campaigns to steal American arti... (more story)
April 23, 2026 | Patricia Figueiredo
Europe
UK telecom providers have been urged by Ofcom to follow guidance from the National Cyber Security Centre and the UK AI Safety Institute on risks linked to Anthropic’s Claude Mythos Preview. Speaking at a confe... (more story)
April 23, 2026
Europe
MLex Summary: UK telecom providers have been warned by regulator Ofcom about the cyber risks posed by Anthropic’s latest AI model, Claude Mythos Preview. Businesses should “assess security risks arising from f... (more story)
Mergers and Acquisitions View More
April 23, 2026
North America
MLex Summary: A consortium including Free Press, Public Knowledge and the Broadband Communications Association of Pennsylvania filed a preliminary statement of issues with the US Court of Appeals for the DC Ci... (more story)
April 23, 2026
North America
MLex Summary: The US Federal Trade Commission announced it has reached an undisclosed agreement in principle with US Anesthesia Partners to settle an antitrust case. The preliminary settlement resolves claims ... (more story)
April 23, 2026 | Andrew Boyce, Lewis Crofts and Nicholas Hirst
Europe
RTL's acquisition of Sky Deutschland this week has seen the EU turn up the volume on key ideas crucial to its forthcoming guidelines: a dynamic market analysis that allows the emergence of a strong European co... (more story)
Data Privacy and Security View More
April 23, 2026
North America
MLex Summary: TikTok asked a judge in Travis County, Texas, to delay the company's trial against the Texas attorney general until October of this year, citing the aggressive deposition and document requests fr... (more story)
April 23, 2026 | Madeline Hughes
North America
A New Jersey federal judge remanded the state’s lawsuit against Discord, which alleged state consumer protection violations, back to state court on Wednesday.
April 23, 2026 | Samuel Rubenfeld
Africa, Asia, Europe, Latin America, Middle East, North America, Oceania
A US judge delayed to September the racketeering, sanctions violations and trade-secret theft trial of Chinese networking equipment giant Huawei Technologies, days after prosecutors unsealed a new superseding ... (more story)
Intellectual Property View More
April 23, 2026 | Steve Scherer
North America
What was once a niche product is moving into the mainstream as companies that depend heavily on their patent portfolios drive demand for defensive patent insurance, a trend that insurers attribute in part to r... (more story)
April 23, 2026 | Nick Robertson
North America
The US Supreme Court is set to hear oral arguments in Hikma Pharmaceuticals v. Amarin Pharma next week over what constitutes induced patent infringement for generic medications sold with a so-called “skinny la... (more story)
April 23, 2026 | Simon Zekaria
Europe
Microsoft’s appeal of matters in a claim brought against it by ValueLicensing over alleged unlawful practices concerning the bulk resale of the tech giant’s software licenses will be heard by the Court of Appe... (more story)
Financial Crime View More
April 23, 2026 | Louis de Briant
Europe
The EU has approved a new sanctions package targeting Russia’s energy shipping, financial services, and trade sectors, expanding its crackdown on the shadow fleet and oil revenues. The measures add 46 vessels,... (more story)
April 23, 2026
Asia
MLex Summary: PwC has been fined a total of HK$1.3 billion, around $166 million, by two Hong Kong regulators over its accounting work on collapsed property company Evergrande. The Securities and Futures Commis... (more story)
April 23, 2026 | Martin Coyle and Samuel Rubenfeld
Asia
A UK tech entrepreneur who founded the collapsed Builder.ai business is facing allegations of fraud in India that he received millions of dollars in laundered funds. The AI company led by Sachin Duggal, previo... (more story)
Financial Services View More
April 23, 2026
Europe
MLex Summary: The European Banking Authority warned that proposed changes by the European Commission to new rules on operational risk could increase complexity and weaken supervisory effectiveness. In an opini... (more story)
April 23, 2026
Europe
MLex Summary: Companies that provide environmental, social and governance ratings have been given new EU rules designed to prevent conflicts of interest and requiring clearer disclosures about methods and data... (more story)
April 23, 2026 | Sofia Gerace
Europe
MLex Summary: A group of leading financial services firms in the UK has begun a campaign to persuade consumers to invest in the stock market. The campaign, named “Invest for the Future,” is backed by governmen... (more story)
Trade View More
April 23, 2026 | Cynthia Kroet and Luca Bertuzzi
Europe
The EU and US aim to work together to support the supply of critical minerals crucial to their commercial and defense industries — through possible coordinated trade policies and mechanisms including market an... (more story)
April 23, 2026 | Bradley Dress
North America
The US International Trade Commission opened an antidumping and antisubsidy investigation into precursor chemicals from China used to create vaccines and diagnostic test kits for the virus that causes Covid-19.
April 23, 2026
Europe
MLex Summary: The EU has adopted a new sanctions package focusing on Russia’s energy revenues, including 46 additional vessels deemed to be part of a shadow fleet, new listings across the oil sector, and restr... (more story)
State Aid View More
April 23, 2026
Europe
MLex Summary: Companies in Estonia relying heavily on electricity and exposed to international trade will be eligible for a levy rate reduction of between 75 and 85 percent under a €36 million plan that has wo... (more story)
April 23, 2026
Europe
MLex Summary: A Croatian measure worth €37 million, for the construction of two business facilities offering workspaces for the gaming sector in the town of Novska, has won state aid approval, the European Com... (more story)
April 23, 2026
Europe
MLex Summary: Lufthansa has lost its legal challenge to a lower court verdict that ruled a German €6 billion recapitalization plan for the air carrier was illegal. In a judgment delivered Thursday, the EU's Co... (more story)
Energy View More
April 23, 2026 | Oscar Pandiello
Europe
The EU's carbon border levy faces an early test as one of the bloc's main tools to keep carbon-intensive industries competitive. The Iran war's pressure on fertilizer prices and imports has seen the commodity ... (more story)
April 23, 2026
Europe
MLex Summary: European liquified natural gas markets face sustained price volatility and higher storage costs as Middle East disruption tightens global supply, the European Agency for the Cooperation of Energy... (more story)
April 22, 2026
North America
MLex Summary: President Donald Trump signed five directives to invoke the Defense Production Act to shore up domestic supply chains for grid, large-scale energy, liquefied natural gas, coal and petroleum infrastructure.
Technology View More
April 23, 2026 | Sara Brandstätter
Europe
The European Commission is considering making a key EU consumer law, the Unfair Commercial Practices Directive, directly applicable across the whole bloc so it has direct enforcement powers in the biggest cros... (more story)
April 23, 2026 | Sara Brandstätter
Europe
TikTok says it has appealed a German court ruling requiring changes to parts of its web-based recommender system and reporting tools. The ruling was among the first to clarify how obligations under the EU's Di... (more story)
April 23, 2026 | Patricia Figueiredo
Europe
The UK online safety regulator Ofcom has refused to disclose details of meetings with US tech companies, arguing that releasing the information could harm UK-US relations and undermine its ability to engage wi... (more story)