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DealRisk®, Mergers and Acquisitions
January 02, 2026 | Wesley Brown
North America
Artificial Intelligence, Data Privacy and Security
January 02, 2026 | Madeline Hughes
North America
DealRisk®, Mergers and Acquisitions
December 31, 2025 | Flavia Fortes
Latin America
Antitrust View More
January 02, 2026 | Khushita Vasant
North America
Tennessee Attorney General Jonathan Skrmetti has laid out his vision for US antitrust law enforcement which includes cases that have a more streamlined narrative and are less economically complex, along with s... (more story)
January 02, 2026 | Jon Menon
Europe
The Competition and Markets Authority's workforce declined by 14 percent in the year to November, after the UK antitrust watchdog offered a voluntary exit program for employees. The number of full-time equival... (more story)
January 02, 2026
Europe
MLex Summary: Shipping company Baleària's planned acquisition of rival Armas's business in the Canary Islands, the Alboran Sea, as well as part of the Strait of Gibraltar, will be reviewed in full, the Spanish... (more story)
Artificial Intelligence View More
January 02, 2026 | Nick Robertson
North America
As companies increasingly customize AI models with proprietary software, agents and data-labeling frameworks, Saul Ewing partner Matthew Kohel told MLex that IP practitioners must remain keenly aware of the co... (more story)
January 02, 2026
North America
MLex Summary: Perplexity AI should not face claims for allegedly circumventing anti-scraping measures and stealing copyrighted content from Reddit because the AI answer engine "sits downstream of any alleged c... (more story)
January 02, 2026
North America
MLex summary: Reddit lacks standing to sue web crawler SerpApi under the Digital Millennium Copyright Act, according to search engine crawler SerpApi. In a motion to dismiss, the defendant said no court has "e... (more story)
Mergers and Acquisitions View More
January 03, 2026
North America
US President Donald Trump Friday issued an order blocking HieFo Corp. from acquiring semiconductor-related assets from Emcore Corp. The order requiring divestment of the assets cited national security concern... (more story)
January 02, 2026
Asia
MLex Summary: Singapore’s Competition and Consumer Commission has launched a public consultation on SP Mobility’s proposed acquisition of fellow electric vehicle-charging operator Strides YTL, after accepting ... (more story)
January 02, 2026 | Saloni Sinha
Oceania
Australia’s new mandatory, suspensory merger-notification regime is now in force, following the release of final legislative amendments in late December. From Jan. 1, mergers and acquisitions that meet the new... (more story)
Data Privacy and Security View More
January 02, 2026 | Henrique Santiago
Latin America
Brazil's ECA Digital law will impose obligations on social media, gaming, streaming platforms and apps starting in March, with several regulations to be finalized throughout this year.
December 31, 2025 | Maria Júlia Baumert
Latin America
Brazil ends 2025 without a definitive AI law in force, but the year closes with a clear roadmap for governance. Two major bills and the Redata program for data infrastructure form the backbone of a national st... (more story)
December 31, 2025 | Madeline Hughes
North America
From US courts to the halls of Congress, AI chatbots are seen as the next frontier in online harm to children, and regulators are using the same strategy to address it.
Intellectual Property View More
January 02, 2026 | Freny Patel
Asia
AbbVie Ireland has lost its bid for an Indian patent for the cancer drug Venetoclax after the Controller of Patent ruled the claimed invention obvious.
January 01, 2026 | Melissa Ritti
Asia, Europe, North America
The end of 2025 will mark the end of a post-Brexit rule that allowed trademark use in the UK to count in the EU, and vice versa. Elsewhere in 2026, India’s recent endorsement of an olfactory trademark is expec... (more story)
December 31, 2025 | Nick Robertson
Asia, North America
Nvidia’s blockbuster $20 billion licensing and talent acquisition deal with Groq could give the tech giant an advantage in the competitive AI chatbot market, while Lupin announced its first foray into the GLP-1 space.
Financial Crime View More
January 02, 2026
North America
MLex Summary: US Securities and Exchange Commissioner Caroline Crenshaw plans to depart the agency, according to a statement.
January 02, 2026 | Sofia Gerace
Europe
The UK's Financial Conduct Authority has opened an enforcement investigation into The Claims Protection Agency Limited, a claims-management company, in response to concerns over its advertising and sales tacti... (more story)
December 31, 2025
North America
MLex Summary: The US Department of the Treasury’s Financial Crimes Enforcement Network announced it has issued a final rule to extend the effective date of the rule establishing Anti-Money Laundering/Counterin... (more story)
Financial Services View More
January 02, 2026
Europe
MLex Summary: UK insurers have received further guidelines from the prudential watchdog on the Berne Financial Services Agreement, BFSA, between Switzerland and the UK. The guidelines include further informati... (more story)
December 31, 2025 | Sofia Gerace
Europe
The UK's regime for overseeing technology suppliers deemed critical to the financial system is set to reach its first anniversary without a single company being formally designated, despite warnings from lawma... (more story)
December 31, 2025 | Neil Roland
North America
A federal judge ruled that the Trump administration must continue to seek funding for the US Consumer Financial Protection Bureau from the Federal Reserve even though the Fed has been operating at a loss. US D... (more story)
Trade View More
January 02, 2026 | Bradley Dress
North America
A coalition of US winter strawberry producers petitioned the Commerce Department and International Trade Commission to find that subject imports have been dumped and have harmed the domestic industry.
January 02, 2026
Asia, North America
MLex Summary: The US Commerce Department preliminarily determined that certain monomers and oligomers imported from Korea are being dumped in the US.
January 02, 2026
North America
MLex Summary: The US Commerce Department initiated antidumping duty investigations into chromium trioxide from India and Turkey, and initiated an antisubsidy duty investigation into Indian imports.
State Aid View More
December 23, 2025
Europe
MLex Summary: Corsair is set to benefit from €167.8 million in support after the EU approved the state aid from France following an in-depth probe. In a statement, the European Commission said the aid for the ... (more story)
December 23, 2025 | Lewis Crofts
Europe
More European industries will benefit from compensation under the bloc’s state aid rules as technical guidelines get an update to ensure companies don’t shift activities outside of the EU to countries with wea... (more story)
December 22, 2025
Europe
MLex Summary: The Czech government's planned €18 million support for three digital terrestrial television infrastructure operators, České Radiokomunikace, Digital Broadcasting and Česká televize, was incompati... (more story)
Energy View More
January 02, 2026
Europe
MLex Summary: About 2,000 kilometers of electricity lines were approved by Germany's energy regulator last year, about 45 percent more than in 2024, it said Friday. The first approval procedures for major high... (more story)
January 02, 2026 | Oscar Pandiello
Europe
The EU’s carbon border levy — the first of its kind in the world — went live on Jan. 1 after a series of additional clarifications in December. But those late rules on default values and certificates are only ... (more story)
December 31, 2025 | Freny Patel
Asia
India has opened its nuclear power sector to private investment as it seeks to reach 100 GW of capacity by 2047. While companies can now build and operate reactors under the 2025 Sustainable Harnessing and Adv... (more story)
Technology View More
January 02, 2026 | Matthew Newman
Europe
Elon Musk’s X faces an investigation by Paris prosecutors after its AI chatbot Grok generated sexually explicit deepfakes of minors, as pressure builds on the social media platform to comply with EU content-mo... (more story)
January 02, 2026 | Frank Hersey
Europe
Fines by the UK online safety regulator have made headlines in the UK amid rising expectations for enforcement of the Online Safety Act, passed more than two years ago. Campaigners and lawmakers are criticizin... (more story)
January 02, 2026 | Lewis Crofts
Europe
A fight between the reselling platform Ticombo and the Belgian state over the terms for online ticket sales will come before the EU's highest court, clarifying whether national law should protect the exclusive... (more story)