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Financial Crime, Financial Services
January 21, 2026 | Samuel Rubenfeld
Europe, North America
DealRisk®, Mergers and Acquisitions
January 21, 2026 | Curtis Eichelberger
Europe, North America
Financial Services
January 20, 2026 | Neil Roland
North America
Antitrust View More
January 21, 2026 | Chris May
North America
CVS Health’s “pretextual fraud allegations” for business practice changes that have stifled innovation and competition for digital pharmacy services are unlikely to withstand scrutiny from a court, according t... (more story)
January 21, 2026 | Clayton Vickers
North America
A US judge allowed plaintiffs suing Multiplan over an alleged price-fixing conspiracy to seek new discovery concerning its Medical Audit and Review Solutions service, pursuant to a motion-to-compel which claim... (more story)
January 21, 2026 | Maria Júlia Baumert
Latin America
Meta has filed a "voluntary appeal" against the preventive measure imposed by Brazil's competition authority in the administrative inquiry examining WhatsApp’s updated Business Solution Terms and their effects... (more story)
Artificial Intelligence View More
January 21, 2026 | Madeline Hughes
North America
Children’s online privacy is going to remain a top priority for the US Federal Trade Commission as it prepares to enforce new Children's Online Privacy Protection Act rules and the Take It Down Act in the comi... (more story)
January 21, 2026
North America
MLex Summary: Tammy Savage, Gerry Campbell and John Abowd will serve as the three members of a technical committee overseeing court-ordered remedies as part of monopolization litigation brought against Google ... (more story)
January 21, 2026 | Luca Bertuzzi
Europe
The European Commission will miss the Feb. 2 legal deadline to finalize AI Act guidelines on classifying high-risk AI systems, opting instead to publish a draft for public consultation later in the month. Fina... (more story)
Mergers and Acquisitions View More
January 21, 2026
Asia, Europe, North America
MLex Summary: Amicus and BioMarin agreed to make their Hart-Scott-Rodino premerger filings by today, the companies said in a US Securities and Exchange Commission filing. The merger also requires clearance fro... (more story)
January 21, 2026 | Wesley Brown
North America
While US Federal Communications Commission Chairman Brendan Carr says the agency is “looking at” its authority to change the national television ownership cap of 39 percent, textualism could play a key role. T... (more story)
January 21, 2026 | Maria Júlia Baumert
Latin America
The Brazilian competition authority has approved, without restrictions, YDUQS Educacional’s acquisition of Unifametro and CEMAPE, concluding that the deal will not harm competition in higher‑education markets ... (more story)
Data Privacy and Security View More
January 21, 2026
North America
MLex Summary: A federal judge cut back a privacy lawsuit against Shopify, ruling that consumers failed to plausibly show the e-commerce company secretly intercepted their shopping data or acted with the intent... (more story)
January 21, 2026 | Xu Yuan
North America
A US federal judge expressed skepticism toward multiple motions from both Google and the plaintiffs in a privacy class action concerning issues including injunctive relief and disgorgement after the plaintiffs... (more story)
January 21, 2026 | Henrique Santiago
Latin America
Brazil's new ECA Digital law establishes two types of fines, enabling the Brazilian privacy watchdog to impose stricter financial penalties on companies and to move beyond an educational approach to regulation.
Intellectual Property View More
January 21, 2026 | Nick Robertson
North America
The CLEAR Act, introduced in the US House, would grant automatic stays of patent infringement litigation against end user businesses when a manufacturer joins the suit as a defendant. But the measure could cre... (more story)
January 21, 2026 | Inbar Preiss
Europe
The Unified Patent Court has confirmed its approach to long-arm jurisdiction in a lock patent dispute, clarifying that once validity risks become concrete, the court's reach must stop at the border. All claims... (more story)
January 21, 2026 | Douglas Clarke-Williams
Europe
Puma will not be able to block the registration of a trademark for sportswear by Chinese company Ningbo Gongfang after the EU General Court upheld an earlier decision finding that the two marks were not suffic... (more story)
Financial Crime View More
January 21, 2026 | Samuel Rubenfeld
North America
The US Securities and Exchange Commission on Wednesday asked a federal judge to authorize an alternate method of serving Indian billionaire Gautam Adani and his nephew in a civil bribery case. The pair know ab... (more story)
January 21, 2026
North America
MLex Summary: A former New Jersey-based employee of TD Bank, Oscar Marcel Nunez-Flores, pleaded guilty to accepting bribes in return for facilitating a money laundering network’s movement of over $26 million t... (more story)
January 21, 2026
North America
MLex Summary: The US Securities and Exchange Commission asked a federal judge to authorize an alternate method of serving Indian billionaire Gautam Adani and his nephew in a civil bribery case. The pair know a... (more story)
Financial Services View More
January 22, 2026 | Sofia Gerace
Europe
London has retained its position as the world’s leading financial center for a sixth consecutive year, even as UK financial services growth slowed amid mounting pressure on the sector to drive economic growth.... (more story)
January 21, 2026 | Neil Roland
North America
A majority of US Supreme Court justices appear inclined to block Federal Reserve Governor Lisa Cook’s dismissal by President Trump and send the case for further adjudication. At least several Republican-appoin... (more story)
January 21, 2026
Europe
MLex Summary: The European Commission on Wednesday published the list of members for the third mandate of the Platform on Sustainable Finance — its advisory body on the EU taxonomy and the broader sustainable ... (more story)
Trade View More
January 21, 2026 | Eliana Hubacker
Asia, North America
Imports of citric acid and certain citrate salts (CACCS) from Canada and India will continue to materially injure US industry unless the US government implements antidumping and antisubsidy duty orders, three ... (more story)
January 21, 2026
North America
MLex Summary: Sergey Nechaev, a dual US-Russian citizen, was sentenced in federal court to 41 months in prison with three years of supervised release for his role in attempting to illegally export aircraft to ... (more story)
January 21, 2026
Asia, North America
MLex Summary: US manufacturers Archer-Daniels-Midland, Cargill and Primary Products Ingredients Americas have petitioned the US Commerce Department and the US International Trade Commission to impose antidumpi... (more story)
State Aid View More
January 21, 2026
Europe
MLex Summary: Centro Latte Bressanone, an Italian dairy farmers' cooperative, may receive a direct grant worth 18.2 million euros from the national government, the European Commission said on Wednesday, cleari... (more story)
January 21, 2026 | Karoline Del Vecchio
Europe
Japanese company Marubeni has requested EU merger approval to acquire Spanish electricity supplier Factor Energia, according to the European Commission. Marubeni will make the purchase through its wholly-owned... (more story)
January 21, 2026
Asia, Europe
MLex Summary: Nuctech said it plans to engage with an EU subsidy investigation in an "open and cooperative manner" but called on the European Commission to "adhere to World Trade Organization rules ... and avo... (more story)
Energy View More
January 21, 2026 | Cynthia Kroet and Louis de Briant
Europe
Cyprus, the country chairing the meetings of EU ministers in the first half of this year, is keen to move quickly to secure agreement among member states on changes to the Critical Raw Materials Act to reduce ... (more story)
January 21, 2026
Asia
MLex Summary: South Korea’s Ministry of Science and ICT said Wednesday that the nuclear fusion research and development plan will start in earnest this year, with the aim of advancing the timeline for commerci... (more story)
January 21, 2026
Oceania
MLex Summary: The New Zealand government has agreed to amend the Electricity Industry Act 2010 to equip the country’s electricity regulator with the tools needed to maintain a fair and competitive market, a se... (more story)
Technology View More
January 21, 2026
Europe
MLex Summary: Input on future spectrum needs is sought from companies in program making and special events, Ofcom — the UK’s telecoms regulator — said on Wednesday. Growing use of wireless equipment used by th... (more story)
January 21, 2026
Europe
MLex Summary: UK media regulator Ofcom said its drive to support economic growth will sit alongside — not dilute — tougher intervention in areas such as online safety and cyber resilience, even as those regime... (more story)
January 21, 2026
Europe
MLex Summary: Social-media platform X has been granted permission to appeal an Irish High Court ruling that dismissed its legal challenge to Ireland’s Online Safety Code, after a judge found the case raises po... (more story)