Specialist news and analysis on legal risk and regulation

MLex Summary: Greek banks face calls for greater competition after the competition authority published Tuesday a sector inquiry report. The watchdog found that high market concentration and excess liquidity limited the pas...(read more)

MLex Summary: Meta’s new commercial terms have prompted Denmark’s competition regulator to refer a complaint to the European Commission on Tuesday, citing possible breaches of competition rules and the Digital Markets Act....(read more)

Deutsche Bahn's pursuit of damages from members of a steel cartel in the Netherlands will give EU judges the chance to clarify key rules over when parent companies can be liable for payouts. The Dutch Supreme Court said on...(read more)

Seventeen intellectual property lawsuits involving Germany's Beiersdorf, China's SAIC Motor and Amazon’s Indian operator have been returned by an Indian court. The Delhi High Court ruled that website access and arranged de...(read more)

A UK High Court judge has restricted the expansion of Aviator LLC’s gambling game in Colombia, Romania and Serbia while preserving its availability on existing platforms. Friday’s ruling seeks to balance the risk of what h...(read more)

Broadcast Music, Inc. and Sirius XM must push a January 2027 antitrust trial date to June due to the collapse of law firm Weil, Gotshal & Manges, a New York federal judge said Monday.

China has extended for two months the suspension of a range of tariff and non-tariff trade measures affecting the US, including export controls on rare earths and other strategic materials, restrictions on designated US co...(read more)

MLex Summary: Indonesia's proposed competition law overhaul remains a key priority in its bid to join the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development, the country's competition regulator said Monday. The Indonesi...(read more)

MLex Summary: UK ministers are in Brussels on Tuesday to push for progress on agrifood trade, emissions trading and the EU’s “Made in Europe” agenda ahead of the Nov. 20 UK-EU summit. Business and Trade Secretary Jonathan ...(read more)

MLex Summary: Demand-based price increases should be banned under the EU’s planned Digital Fairness Act, particularly for concerts, cultural events and sporting fixtures, four EU lawmakers have urged in a letter to the Eur...(read more)

India will cap annual port charges for IP-based telecom interconnection from January 2027, limiting operators’ pricing discretion while allowing lower negotiated rates and introducing financial penalties for specified regu...(read more)

Australia’s proposed digital duty-of-care law could include clearer obligations and definitions of harm to make enforcement easier for the online safety regulator, a top official said. Appearing at a Senate inquiry into th...(read more)