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DealRisk®, Mergers and Acquisitions
April 17, 2026 | Flavia Fortes
North America
DealRisk®, Mergers and Acquisitions
April 16, 2026 | Ilana Kowarski
Europe, North America
Antitrust, Technology
April 16, 2026 | Khushita Vasant
North America
Antitrust View More
April 17, 2026
North America
MLex Summary: Impax Laboratories moved for a judgment against Humana’s US antitrust claims over generic drugs, saying Humana has failed to bring sufficient evidence that it conspired to fix prices and allocate... (more story)
April 17, 2026
North America
MLex Summary: Lannett moved for a judgment against Humana’s US antitrust claims over generic drugs, arguing there is no evidence to corroborate that it agreed with its competitors on price increases for clobet... (more story)
April 17, 2026
North America
MLex Summary: Epic Pharma moved for a judgment against Humana’s US antitrust claims over the price of Ursodiol, saying Humana has no traditional conspiracy evidence and the record contains an obvious, powerful... (more story)
Artificial Intelligence View More
April 17, 2026 | Mike Swift and Amy Miller
North America
Just over a week before Elon Musk's trial against OpenAI over its for-profit conversion, a federal judge expressed skepticism Friday about whether Musk will be able to seek newly expanded remedy claims includi... (more story)
April 17, 2026
Europe
MLex Summary: Four provider groups — Post Telecom with CleverCloud and OVHcloud, StackIT, Scaleway, and Proximus with S3NS, Clarence and Mistral — have been awarded a €180 million European Commission tender to... (more story)
April 17, 2026 | MLex Staff
Asia
China’s top data regulator has released a draft action plan to build industry-grade, high-quality datasets to support artificial intelligence development, marking Beijing’s latest effort to address a key bottl... (more story)
Mergers and Acquisitions View More
April 17, 2026 | Khushita Vasant
North America
The US Department of Justice is making personnel changes to the Antitrust Division's senior leadership team, filling in some vacant positions following recent high-profile departures. The DOJ has appointed Ste... (more story)
April 17, 2026 | Andrew Boyce and Anna Ferrari
Europe
New draft EU merger guidelines won’t see the EU depart from its focus on keeping prices low, according to a senior official, who said this would remain its “bread and butter.” But the document, set to be relea... (more story)
April 17, 2026 | Flavia Fortes
North America
Sumitomo Forestry, a Japanese homebuilder and timber company, and California-based homebuilder Tri Pointe Homes have received clearance for their $4.5 billion deal from the US competition authorities.
Data Privacy and Security View More
April 17, 2026 | Madeline Hughes
North America
The US Supreme Court will hear arguments on Tuesday from two telecom companies on whether the Federal Communications Commission can administer fines for privacy violations through its administrative process. I... (more story)
April 17, 2026
North America
MLex Summary: Counsel for Okello T. Chatrie told the US Supreme Court that a warrant directing Google to search tens of millions of accounts to discern devices that might have been within a geofence goes again... (more story)
April 17, 2026
North America
MLex Summary: Plaintiffs bringing US product liability claims against Yolo Technologies filed a renewed motion for judgment against the company. They argued that the court has already determined, after full ad... (more story)
Intellectual Property View More
April 17, 2026 | Toko Sekiguchi
Asia
Japan’s IP High Court overturned a Japan Patent Office decision rejecting Riken Technos’ patent application for a transparent projection-screen coating, saying the office had not shown why a skilled person wou... (more story)
April 17, 2026 | Amy Miller
North America
Nvidia’s bid to dismiss direct and contributory copyright infringement claims over using US authors’ works to train its AI models was met with skepticism by US District Judge Jon S. Tigar in Oakland, Californi... (more story)
April 16, 2026 | Melissa Ritti
North America
Onesta IP must defend the validity of two US patents — and allegations both were misused when they were asserted against BMW in Germany. That potentially high-risk outcome “does not kill” future tests of last ... (more story)
Financial Crime View More
April 17, 2026
North America
MLex Summary: Connecticut Attorney General William Tong announced that he's joined a coalition of 23 attorneys general urging the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau to scale back its plans to severely reduce... (more story)
April 17, 2026 | Neil Roland
North America
Senator Elizabeth Warren, the top Democrat on the Senate Banking Committee, expressed concern that US Securities and Exchange Commission Chair Paul Atkins deliberately misled lawmakers about declining enforcem... (more story)
April 17, 2026
Asia, North America
MLex Summary: Smartmatic asked a US judge to allow the company to take depositions abroad of three witnesses who are unavailable to testify at a January 2027 corruption trial. The witnesses are a former execut... (more story)
Financial Services View More
April 17, 2026
Europe
MLex Summary: Deepening the EU's single market and the bloc's banking supervision framework known as the Banking Union are key to the financial services sector's competitiveness, the European Banking Authority... (more story)
April 17, 2026
North America
MLex Summary: US Senator Elizabeth Warren has questioned Securities and Exchange Commission Chair Paul Atkins on the 20 percent drop in enforcement activity following the agency's publication of its FY 2025 enforcement data.
April 17, 2026
Europe
MLex Summary: Financial services in the UK which are regulated by the prudential regulator are set to pay £346.6 million in fees in the 2026-2027 financial year, a 1 percent decrease from 2025-2026, the Pruden... (more story)
Trade View More
April 17, 2026
North America
MLex Summary: The US State Department has settled allegations that General Electric violated the Arms Export Control Act and federal regulations on arms trafficking for $36 million, the department announced. T... (more story)
April 17, 2026
North America
MLex Summary: US producer Titan Tire Corporation filed a lawsuit at the Court of International Trade to challenge the Commerce Department's March review of an antisubsidy order on pneumatic off-the-road tires from India.
April 17, 2026
North America
MLex Summary: The US International Trade Commission is seeking public input on a report published this month to establish the 2028 version of the US Harmonized Tariff Schedule. The report includes new subheadi... (more story)
State Aid View More
April 16, 2026
Europe
MLex Summary: Romania's plan to grant €600 million and other benefits to state-owned Nuclearelectrica National Company, to refurbish the Cernavoda 1 nuclear reactor, has drawn an in-depth EU state aid probe.
April 16, 2026
Europe
MLex Summary: Compensation by the Dutch government to coal plant operators RWE Eemshaven Holding and Uniper Benelux for profit losses caused by a cap on CO2 emissions doesn't amount to state aid, the European ... (more story)
April 16, 2026
Europe
MLex Summary: Sweden has secured European Commission clearance to extend its program to increase the use of sustainable biofuels in the transport sector until the end of December 2032. The €1.3 billion measure... (more story)
Energy View More
April 17, 2026 | Louis de Briant
Europe
No breakthrough on the EU's 20th Russia sanctions plan is likely at a meeting of the EU Foreign Affairs Council next week despite the political transition in Hungary, an EU diplomat said on Friday. The package... (more story)
April 17, 2026 | Cynthia Kroet
Europe
The 27 EU member states are expected to give their formal go-ahead to an EU-US critical minerals strategy, aimed at reducing dependence on China and setting price floors, next Monday, MLex has learned. The con... (more story)
April 17, 2026
North America
MLex Summary: The US and the Philippines announced a 4,000-acre industrial hub in the Pacific nation’s Luzon Economic Corridor, intended to be a novel site in an economic security zone that will invest in cruc... (more story)
Technology View More
April 17, 2026
North America
MLex Summary: Jonathan Spalletta received a US trial date in September 2026 on computer fraud and money laundering charges over alleged hacks of decentralized cryptocurrency exchange Uranium Finance.
April 17, 2026 | Anna Ferrari
Europe
A Belgian newspaper merger and LVMH’s takeover of a magazine in France are exposing enforcement gaps under the EU's new media law, as national authorities struggle to apply its plurality test. The situation is... (more story)
April 17, 2026
North America
MLex Summary: The US State Department announced Finland that became the 14th country to join the new Pax Silica Initiative, an effort to bolster supply chains for critical and emerging technologies.