Financial Crime, Trade
October 19, 2026 | Bradley Dress, Samuel Rubenfeld
North America
Intellectual Property
October 19, 2026 | Melissa Ritti
Europe
DealRisk®, Mergers and Acquisitions
October 16, 2026 | Henrique Santiago
Latin America
October 19, 2026
MLex Summary: PlayPower said it was "disappointed" by the US Federal Trade Commission's decision to challenge its proposed merger with rival playground equipment maker BCI Burke. "We continue to believe that o... (more story)
October 19, 2026 | Chris May and Clayton Vickers
College sports eligibility rule changes before a Rhode Island federal court are having "real life consequences" while two college basketball players pursue a temporary restraining order against the National Co... (more story)
MLex Summary: Plaintiffs bringing US antitrust claims against REV Group, Oshkosh, Rosenbauer America and others manufacturers of fire trucks told a federal judge that Covid-related disruptions can't explain th... (more story)
October 19, 2026 | Samuel Rubenfeld
The US State Department sanctioned the business network of a former Google software engineer who is appealing his conviction for stealing the tech giant’s artificial intelligence technology trade secrets.
MLex Summary: Meta Platforms has "clarified" the terms and conditions for crawling publishers websites, in response to concerns voiced over the training of AI services. Meta said content owners can signal thei... (more story)
October 19, 2026 | Patricia Figueiredo
AI providers face no immediate move to widen the UK financial regulator’s remit, despite growing use of chatbots for financial advice. The Financial Conduct Authority is focusing on clarifying how existing rul... (more story)
October 19, 2026 | Anna Lauwereys
Italian steel giant Arvedi has filed its intended purchase of manufacturer AMCLN for approval with the European Commission. The notification was made under the regulator's standard procedure, meaning the merge... (more story)
MLex Summary: A report on BT Group’s acquisition of TalkTalk Telecommunications and PlatformX Communications has been delivered to culture minister Lisa Nandy, the UK antitrust regulator said. The Competition ... (more story)
MLex Summary: The US Federal Trade Commission has filed a court challenge to the acquisition of Burke, a manufacturer of commercial outdoor playground equipment, by Platinum Equity and its portfolio company Pl... (more story)
MLex Summary: Chrome Holding, formerly known as 23andMe, agreed to pay $6 million for failing to protect its customers' personal information and genetic data resulting in a 2023 data breach, California Attorne... (more story)
MLex Summary: Meta Platforms, Snap, TikTok, and YouTube, and the Charleston County School District stipulated that the defendant social media companies agreed to not offer evidence during an approaching trial ... (more story)
October 19, 2026 | Imogen Howse
Clearview AI’s facial-recognition technology does not itself monitor people’s behavior, a lawyer for the company told appeal judges in London on Monday, as she challenged the UK privacy regulator’s power to im... (more story)
October 19, 2026 | Nick Robertson
Four US Supreme Court justices recused themselves from review of a copyright decision on the global nature of termination notices, leaving the court without a quorum and resulting in the affirmance of the US C... (more story)
In its Monday orders list, the US Supreme Court passed on a petition for writ of certiorari by Google which sought to test whether the US Patent and Trademark Office can rely on patent owners’ “settled expecta... (more story)
October 19, 2026 | Inbar Preiss, Matthew Newman and Lewis Crofts
European manufacturers could gain clearer patent-licensing rules under a German initiative seeking support for a new EU proposal, MLex has learned. A new proposal could benefit automakers and other manufacture... (more story)
October 16, 2026 | Xu Yuan
A California federal judge denied motions by Aliaksandr Klimenka to exclude evidence for an upcoming trial involving the government’s allegations over his involvement with BTC-e cryptocurrency exchange but gav... (more story)
October 16, 2026
MLex Summary: Legal groups and scholars argued that excessive financial penalties are unconstitutional in amicus briefs supporting FTX founder Samuel Bankman-Fried's petition for certiorari before the US Supreme Court .
October 16, 2026 | Samuel Rubenfeld
When Bank of America designed and implemented a transaction monitoring system in 2010, the bank had described the program as the first of its kind in the industry, according to documents released Tuesday by th... (more story)
MLex Summary: More stringent transparency and supervisory rules would apply to banks that execute trades internally — known as systematic internalizers — under a compromise proposed by key EU lawmaker Markus F... (more story)
MLex Summary: The UK needs to be at the forefront of the safe adoption of AI in financial services, the chief data officer at the Financial Conduct Authority said on Monday. Jessica Rusu said that AI providers... (more story)
October 19, 2026 | Wooyoung Lee
Asia
Coupang Financial faces potential sanctions over allegedly excessive interest rates charged to online sellers, as South Korea’s financial regulator said it expects to conclude its ongoing investigation and dec... (more story)
October 19, 2026 | Bradley Dress
Domestic producers of certain pressure pipes have petitioned the US government for antidumping and antisubsidy duties on subject imports from Georgia and India.
MLex Summary: The US and Mexico have resolved allegations of abridgment of freedom of association and collective bargaining rights at Alimentos Grole’s Ciudad Obregón, Sonora, Mexico, facility, the US Trade Re... (more story)
MLex Summary: The US Federal Maritime Commission accused the Spanish government of creating conditions unfavorable to US-flagged vessels by denying them access to ports. The commission recommended a $200,000 p... (more story)
MLex Summary: Italy's energy decree — aimed at shielding households and businesses from high electricity prices — will undergo EU state aid scrutiny, after the national government and the European Commission r... (more story)
October 15, 2026 | Jean Comte
Italian defense company Leonardo tried to convince the European Commission that the relevant geographical market to assess its acquisition of Iveco's defense division was European-wide, and not national, accor... (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: About €239 million in EU grants will support circular-economy, climate and clean-energy projects, the European Commission announced on Monday. Funding includes nearly €91 million for circular eco... (more story)
MLex Summary: A small modular nuclear reactor and a direct air carbon capture and storage project were selected Monday for EU Innovation Fund support for the first time, among 77 projects earmarked for €3.4 bi... (more story)
October 19, 2026 | Cynthia Kroet
EU governments could seek exemptions from conditions on certain foreign investments, such as ownership limits, under a new Irish proposal to bridge differences among EU governments on the proposed Industrial A... (more story)
October 19, 2026 | Matthew Newman
Netflix, YouTube and other streaming providers could face EU telecom rules for communications networks within their content delivery infrastructure, even though their streaming services would remain outside th... (more story)
MLex Summary: Indonesia's Ministry of Communication and Digital Affairs is considering a ministerial regulation requiring artificial-intelligence developers to label AI-generated content and provide mechanisms... (more story)
MLex Summary: The two school systems suing Meta Platforms, Snap, YouTube and TikTok on addictive design claims have asked a federal judge to block the social media defendants from mentioning racial problems an... (more story)