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Data Privacy and Security
February 25, 2026 | Madeline Hughes
North America
Artificial Intelligence
February 25, 2026 | Amy Miller
North America
DealRisk®, Mergers and Acquisitions
February 24, 2026 | Flavia Fortes
Asia, Europe, Latin America, North America
Antitrust View More
February 26, 2026 | Khushita Vasant and Chris May
North America
Live Nation Entertainment and subsidiary Ticketmaster will face a jury trial next week in a monopolization lawsuit brought by the Department of Justice and several US states that seek to break up the companies... (more story)
February 25, 2026 | Clayton Vickers
North America
A US judge grilled counsel for home buyers suing Homeservices of America on Wednesday, saying they have been premature in seeking to require Homeservices to satisfy conditions before turning over depositions f... (more story)
February 25, 2026
North America
MLex summary: Lensar, a medical technology company working on robotic laser treatments for the treatment of cataracts, told the US Securities and Exchange Commission that it's continuing to cooperate with the ... (more story)
Artificial Intelligence View More
February 25, 2026 | Mike Swift
North America
Seeking to shape the boundaries of a trial this spring against OpenAI and its CEO Sam Altman over the company's conversion to for-profit status, Elon Musk filed a series of motions to exclude evidence and test... (more story)
February 25, 2026
North America
MLex Summary: Elon Musk filed a series of motions in limine seeking to limit evidence OpenAI can use in a forthcoming trial over the AI giant's conversion into a for-profit entity. Included in those motions is... (more story)
February 25, 2026
Europe
MLex Summary: The UK Information Commissioner’s Office, Financial Conduct Authority and Competition and Markets Authority are among 19 regulators to receive letters from the technology and business ministers, ... (more story)
Mergers and Acquisitions View More
February 25, 2026 | Ilana Kowarski
North America
The US Federal Trade Commission announced Wednesday that the agency had closed three premerger antitrust investigations early, before the conclusion of the 30-day minimum mandatory wait period for those transa... (more story)
February 25, 2026 | Maria Júlia Baumert
Latin America
A sudden and complex restructuring of Alliança Saúde’s ownership has derailed the company’s merger‑control process in Brazil for buying Grupo Meddi. While the authority signaled that the acquisition must be no... (more story)
February 25, 2026
Europe, North America
MLex Summary: Eleven Republican state attorneys general warned that streaming platform Netflix's proposed buyout of Hollywood studio Warner Bros. Discovery "may lead to, among other things, a monopoly that wil... (more story)
Data Privacy and Security View More
February 26, 2026 | Maria Dinzeo
North America
A therapist who briefly treated the plaintiff suing Meta and YouTube in California over alleged addictive design testified Wednesday that she didn't conclude that Instagram caused the girl’s social anxiety or ... (more story)
February 26, 2026 | Xu Yuan
North America
Meta Platforms has failed persistently to take effective actions to prevent bad actors such as pedophiles and sexual groomers from taking advantage of children and teenagers on its platforms, despite its knowl... (more story)
February 26, 2026
Oceania
MLex Summary: The impact of Australia’s social-media ban for under 16s on children and young people will be evaluated, the country’s online safety regulator said. In a statement on Thursday, the Australian eSa... (more story)
Intellectual Property View More
February 25, 2026 | Inbar Preiss
Europe
The Unified Patent Court upheld Austrian packaging manufacturer Messerle’s cardboard tray patent, but dismissed its infringement claim against Sabert’s Tray2Go products. Judges in the Vienna division rejected ... (more story)
February 25, 2026 | MLex Staff
Asia
A Chinese court has raised damages in a case involving the unauthorized adaptation of a horror novel into an escape-room venue, signaling a willingness to push statutory awards higher when actual losses and in... (more story)
February 25, 2026 | Freny Patel
Asia
Macleods Pharmaceuticals has secured an Indian court order allowing it to continue pursuing the revocation of Boehringer Ingelheim Pharma’s expired Linagliptin patent.
Financial Crime View More
February 25, 2026 | Martin Coyle
Europe
Convicted fraudster David Ames has been ordered to pay back just £283,000 from a £336 million fraud that saw him jailed for 12 years after thousands of investors were left out of pocket. In a ruling at a Londo... (more story)
February 24, 2026
North America
MLex Summary: Christopher Alexander Delgado, president and chief executive of Goliath Ventures, was arrested on a criminal complaint charging him with wire fraud and money laundering for allegedly running the ... (more story)
February 24, 2026
North America
MLex Summary: Jay Clayton, the US Attorney for the Southern District of New York, announced the office's new Corporate Enforcement and Voluntary Self-Disclosure Program for illegal activity involving fraud and... (more story)
Financial Services View More
February 25, 2026 | Neil Roland
North America
The US Commodity Futures Trading Commission issued an advisory after release of two 2025 enforcement cases involving misuse of confidential information and fraud related to some prediction markets traded on Ka... (more story)
February 25, 2026
North America
MLex Summary: The US Commodity Futures Trading Commission issued an advisory saying that it has full authority to police illegal trading practices occurring on any designated contract markets, including predic... (more story)
February 25, 2026 | Andrew Boyce
Europe
The EU and UK’s competition watchdogs have formalized a cooperation agreement that would ensure “smooth interactions” on antitrust and merger cases. The deal was unique in that it would allow the Competition a... (more story)
Trade View More
February 25, 2026 | Bradley Dress
North America
Two US producers have petitioned for trade relief from alleged dumped and subsidized Chinese and Indian imports of large diameter graphite electrodes.
February 25, 2026 | Henrique Santiago
Latin America
Brazilian lawmakers are advancing plans to ratify the Mercosur-European Union agreement within the first half of this year, while the European Commission has the option to apply the treaty provisionally.
February 25, 2026 | Bradley Dress
North America
A coalition of US domestic producers Tuesday asked the Commerce Department to impose antidumping and antisubsidy duties on truck bed covers from China.
State Aid View More
February 25, 2026
Europe
MLex Summary: Enforcers at the UK's Competition and Markets Authority will be able to cooperate more closely with colleagues at the European Commission and national enforcers within the EU, after a new agreeme... (more story)
February 25, 2026
Europe
MLex Summary: The granting of operating aid for renewable energy on a larger scale will become possible, and rules on aid for airports will become more flexible, under proposed changes to the EU's State Aid Ge... (more story)
February 24, 2026
Europe
MLex Summary: The European Parliament could call for an "independent European Competition Authority" separate from the European Commission — the EU's executive branch — to ensure that there is "no political in... (more story)
Energy View More
February 25, 2026
Europe
MLex Summary: Presentation of the EU's energy package, which includes measures to strengthen energy security, an electrification plan, and a heating and cooling strategy, has been postponed to May 19, the Euro... (more story)
February 25, 2026
Asia
MLex Summary: South Korea’s Presidential Council on National Artificial Intelligence Strategy on Wednesday adopted the final version of a three-year policy roadmap aimed at fostering the development and adopti... (more story)
February 24, 2026
Europe
MLex Summary: A package of measures to simplify sustainability reporting and due diligence requirements for companies by raising the thresholds for which they apply has been approved by EU ministers and will b... (more story)
Technology View More
February 25, 2026
North America
MLex Summary: The US Trade Representative is seeking public input on a critical minerals strategy to increase production and supply chain security, including exploring a plurilateral agreement with partners.
February 25, 2026 | Matthew Newman
Europe
European regulators should focus on building their capacities to enforce existing digital rules rather than crafting new ones, a key enforcer for the EU's Digital Services Act said on Wednesday. The comment by... (more story)
February 25, 2026 | Maria Dinzeo
North America
YouTube’s recommendation engine is designed to limit endless scrolling, its vice president of engineering told jurors Tuesday in a California state trial over youth social media addiction. Meta’s counsel also ... (more story)