Artificial Intelligence, Financial Crime, Technology, Trade
November 12, 2026 | Samuel Rubenfeld and Emma Whitford
North America
Antitrust, Artificial Intelligence, DealRisk®, Mergers and Acquisitions
November 12, 2026 | Maria Júlia Baumert
Latin America
DealRisk®, Mergers and Acquisitions
November 12, 2026 | Ilana Kowarski
November 13, 2026 | Genta Nakanishi
Asia
Japanese door-hardware manufacturer Nishimura received a corrective recommendation Friday from Japan's competition watchdog for improperly reducing payments to subcontractors. The company has already repaid the deducted am...(read more)
November 13, 2026 | Yonnex Li
Justice Kevin Zervos of Hong Kong's Court of Appeal warned that implementing proposed criminal penalties for cartel activity will require early decisions on whether to pursue criminal or civil enforcement to avoid evidenti...(read more)
November 13, 2026 | Henrique Santiago
Paulo Henrique de Oliveira, chief of staff to the president of Brazil’s antitrust authority, said the current administration is focused on restoring the participation of organizations in the decision-making process. He mad...(read more)
November 13, 2026 | MLex Staff
Talent in artificial intelligence could be treated as an asset when assessing acquisitions, prominent Chinese competition scholar Huang Yong said, outlining a preliminary approach based on the value personnel could create....(read more)
November 13, 2026
MLex Summary: South Korea’s government said Friday that it will swiftly develop measures to prevent exam cheating using glasses with built-in artificial intelligence and similar devices, describing such cheating as a serio...(read more)
November 13, 2026 | Sean Maguire
Oceania
Australia’s Attorney-General Michelle Rowland has left open the possibility of criminal charges against OpenAI over unauthorized access to government websites, while acknowledging that existing criminal laws have not been ...(read more)
November 12, 2026 | Curtis Eichelberger
Virginia utility customers have largely voiced opposition to NextEra’s acquisition of Dominion during hearings this fall, arguing that it will likely lead to higher utility bills, undermine the state’s alternative energy s...(read more)
November 12, 2026 | Chris May
Companies are using AI-powered software tools for both offensive and defensive antitrust compliance, and how those tools are used is top of mind for US states preparing to get in on the action, a senior enforcer with the C...(read more)
November 12, 2026
MLex Summary: When Union Pacific Railroad CEO Jim Vena ended a speech with a remark about possibly hiking rates for shippers who oppose his firm's buyout of Norfolk Southern Railway, shippers watching those remarks didn't ...(read more)
MLex Summary: Google has implemented security safeguards linked to South Korea’s approval to export detailed map data, the South Korean government said Friday. An interagency panel said it had reviewed compliance with con...(read more)
MLex Summary: Hong Kong jewelry retailer Chow Sang Sang said late Thursday it detected unauthorized access to its systems on Monday with potential extraction of customer and employee personal data from its membership syste...(read more)
MLex Summary: New Zealand’s privacy regulator reported a larger-than-budgeted deficit for 2025–26, partly because of contractor costs associated with its investigation into Manage My Health. In its annual report published ...(read more)
November 13, 2026 | Choonsik Yoo
South Korea can become an artificial intelligence leader while protecting its creative industries by strengthening copyright licensing, backed by transparency requirements, an official at the International Federation of Re...(read more)
November 12, 2026 | Amy Miller
A California state judge tentatively denied Anthropic's bid to obtain internal OpenAI documents for its defense against Reddit's data-scraping lawsuit, raising concerns about service of the subpoena and why Anthropic hadn'...(read more)
November 12, 2026 | Nick Robertson
The company that manages Elvis Presley's likeness rights and rightsholders of hundreds of his songs invoked Tennessee’s ELVIS Act in a copyright infringement complaint against AI company Suno in California federal court la...(read more)
Asia, North America
MLex Summary: US House Ways and Means Committee Ranking Member Richard E. Neal and Senate Finance Committee Ranking Member Ron Wyden demanded the Trump administration retain all records relating to its project to allow — a...(read more)
November 12, 2026 | Samuel Rubenfeld
An executive of medical device company Balt who has been referred to as “John Doe” on the court docket in a US corruption case has asked a judge to let him skip a public appearance at an upcoming hearing. “Once disclosed, ...(read more)
MLex Summary: A US judge has granted a request to adjourn the fraud and money laundering trial of a former chief executive of the Subway restaurant supply cooperative and her brother to January 2027, according to a court o...(read more)
November 12, 2026 | Fanny Roux
Europe
The European Parliament on Thursday rejected a deal with EU governments on a legislative proposal to boost retail investment in the bloc. The rejection leaves the future of the legislation uncertain, with opposition from l...(read more)
MLex Summary: Former HealthBeacon employee Alan Dalton has been fined €67,580 by the Irish Central Bank for insider trading after he twice wrongly sold shares in the medical devices company. The regulator said that Dalton ...(read more)
November 12, 2026 | Roffie Kurniawan
Indonesia's financial regulators are strengthening cybersecurity defenses amid heightened cyber threats to banks and other financial institutions. The Financial Services Authority and Bank Indonesia have activated cyber in...(read more)
Asia, Europe
MLex Summary: Chinese Vice Commerce Minister Ling Ji, who also serves as deputy international trade representative, held talks with Ditte Juul Jørgensen, director-general of the European Commission's Directorate-General fo...(read more)
MLex Summary: Singapore does not enforce other countries’ unilateral export controls but will act against fraud or dishonest practices used to circumvent them where domestic laws are breached, its Ministry of Home Affairs ...(read more)
MLex Summary: Chinese Commerce Minister Wang Wentao held a video call with UK Trade Secretary Jonathan Reynolds on Wednesday to discuss electric vehicles and other trade and economic issues of mutual concern, China's Minis...(read more)
MLex Summary: Moves by a private citizen to seek damages from the European Commission for intervening in a Latvian court case about the rescue of Parex banka should fail, according to a legal opinion for the EU's highest c...(read more)
November 11, 2026 | Lewis Crofts
The European Commission should consider bringing together independent advice on competition cases into a single opinion that could better inform subsequent court scrutiny, EU General Court judge Johannes Laitenberger has s...(read more)
November 10, 2026 | Lewis Crofts
Cases before the EU's highest court may proceed more quickly, even when they raise a new legal question, after a change in approach that means no advisory opinion is needed if the answer is clear. Maciej Szpunar, first Adv...(read more)
November 13, 2026 | Mike Swift
Secretive data center deals have fueled public anger at local officials as communities confront water use and landscape changes without clear benefits from AI. At a Stanford conference, speakers cited rapid AI adoption and...(read more)
MLex Summary: UK-based energy company Aquind's challenge to the EU energy regulator's refusal to grant an exemption from the bloc's electricity market rules for its planned UK-France interconnector should be partly rejecte...(read more)
MLex Summary: Poland's legal challenges to seven key pieces of the EU's climate legislation were rejected by the bloc's top court on Thursday, upholding major elements of its Fit for 55 package. The cases concerned carbon ...(read more)
MLex Summary: Former Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang's resignation Thursday does not "absolve him, other executives, or the company as a whole of responsibility for putting our national security at risk or for any potential violat...(read more)
MLex Summary: Jensen Huang has resigned as chief executive of US chip-maker Nvidia, the Board of Directors said. The announcement follows reports that Huang had extramarital affairs, including with a businesswoman who US i...(read more)
November 12, 2026 | Sara Brandstätter
Meta Platforms and ByteDance’s TikTok on Thursday urged the EU’s highest court to uphold judgments annulling decisions setting their Digital Services Act supervisory fees, with Meta’s lawyer warning that the European Commi...(read more)