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DealRisk®, Mergers and Acquisitions
April 16, 2026 | Ilana Kowarski
Europe, North America
Antitrust, Technology
April 16, 2026 | Khushita Vasant
North America
Artificial Intelligence, Technology, Trade
April 16, 2026 | Emma Whitford
Asia, North America
Antitrust View More
April 17, 2026
Europe
MLex Summary: The board of the UK antitrust regulator has had four non-executive directors added: Katie Kapernaros, David Halpern, Michael Mire and Suma Chakrabarti. The Competition and Markets Authority said ... (more story)
April 17, 2026
Europe
MLex Summary: The European Commission has published its draft instructions to Alphabet on how the tech giant should share Google search data with rivals under the EU's Digital Markets Act. The instructions out... (more story)
April 17, 2026 | Saloni Sinha
Oceania
Australia’s domestic card network Eftpos offered merchants discounts conditional on routing debit transactions through its network, a court heard, as testimony in an antitrust trial against Mastercard indicate... (more story)
Artificial Intelligence View More
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)
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)
Mergers and Acquisitions View More
April 17, 2026 | Flavia Fortes
North America
US Federal Communications Commission Chairman Brendan Carr defended the agency’s use of delegated authority in reviewing the proposed acquisition of Tegna by Nexstar Media Group, pushing back on congressional ... (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.
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)
Data Privacy and Security View More
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)
April 17, 2026
Europe
MLex Summary: The European Data Protection Board, the umbrella group of the EU's privacy watchdogs, has asked for input on guidelines concerning the processing of personal data for scientific research purposes... (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 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)
April 16, 2026 | Jean Comte
Europe
The European Commission has decided not to offer an automatic exemption from antitrust rules to licensing negotiation groups, or LNGs, in the final version of its updated guidelines on tech transfer rules publ... (more story)
Financial Crime View More
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)
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
North America
MLex Summary: Georgia businessman Carl Zaglin filed a motion to withdraw his request for a new trial and a hearing over allegations that a key cooperator in his corruption case may have lied on the witness sta... (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 | Bradley Dress
North America
A tariff refund system under development from US Customs and Border Protection is raising new questions as CBP prepares to roll it out next week, with growing skepticism over how the administrative effort will... (more story)
April 17, 2026 | Zack Budryk
North America
US Trade Representative Jamieson Greer told a US House Appropriations subcommittee Thursday that his office required a $7 million budget increase to enforce trade agreements reached in 2025.
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)
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
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)
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.
April 17, 2026
Africa, Europe
MLex Summary: A new energy initiative to speed up clean power development across the Mediterranean will be put forward by the European Commission in the second quarter of this year, the commission announced on... (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 | Patricia Figueiredo
Europe
Online platform operators can now expect to come under UK rules that expose senior executives to criminal liability for failing to remove non-consensual intimate images, after lawmakers backed the measure on T... (more story)
April 17, 2026
Europe
MLex Summary: A new European Commission roadmap for completing the EU single market emphasizes regulatory simplification, internal market legislation, trade, and energy-related initiatives. The document, dated... (more story)