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April 17, 2026 | Bradley Dress
North America
DealRisk®, Mergers and Acquisitions
April 17, 2026 | Flavia Fortes
North America
DealRisk®, Mergers and Acquisitions, Technology
April 17, 2026 | Anna Ferrari
Europe
Antitrust View More
April 20, 2026
Europe
MLex Summary: Apple retains broad discretion over interoperability, forcing developers into costly, slow and uncertain access processes, according to a report by Free Software Foundation Europe. Drawing on dev... (more story)
April 20, 2026 | Jenny Lee
Asia
Olive Young and Daiso are facing on-site inspections by South Korea’s antitrust regulator, with officials examining whether the two fast-growing retailers engaged in conduct that runs afoul of the country’s la... (more story)
April 20, 2026 | Saloni Sinha
Oceania
Australia’s domestic card network Eftpos offered a higher level of support for Coles if the retailer agreed to route both Mastercard and Visa debit transactions through its network, a lawyer told an Australian... (more story)
Artificial Intelligence View More
April 20, 2026 | MLex Staff
Asia
A senior Chinese legislative official has offered a fresh glimpse into Beijing’s evolving approach to legislation on artificial intelligence, signaling new priorities while maintaining continuity with earlier ... (more story)
April 20, 2026 | Toko Sekiguchi
Asia
Japan’s justice ministry is moving to clarify when generative artificial intelligence users may face civil liability for copying a person’s voice or likeness without consent, setting up an expert panel that co... (more story)
April 20, 2026 | Sean Maguire and Saloni Sinha
Oceania
The Federal Court of Australia will allow generative artificial intelligence to be used in court, but Chief Justice Debra Mortimer warned that inaccurate or misleading statements could result in financial or l... (more story)
Mergers and Acquisitions View More
April 20, 2026
Oceania
MLex Summary: Dublin-based Accenture's bid for Ziff Davis' connectivity business in Australia will be reviewed by the competition watchdog. In a Friday statement, the Australian Competition and Consumer Commis... (more story)
April 18, 2026
North America
MLex Summary: A California federal judge issued a preliminary injunction prohibiting Nexstar Media Group and Tegna from integration "pending adjudication on the merits." In an order, US District Judge Troy Nu... (more story)
April 17, 2026 | Khushita Vasant
North America
The US Department of Justice is making personnel changes to the Antitrust Division's senior leadership team, filling in some vacant positions following recent high-profile departures. The DOJ has appointed Ste... (more story)
Data Privacy and Security View More
April 20, 2026 | Patricia Figueiredo
Latin America
X is expected to face a preliminary decision by the end of June in Brazil’s probe into Grok AI over sexualized deepfakes, as the country’s data protection authority reviews the company’s compliance with local ... (more story)
April 20, 2026
Asia
MLex Summary: The Malaysian city of Johor Bahru is piloting 5G-enabled AI use cases under Malaysia’s Digital Ministry grant, focusing on real-world urban applications rather than policy concepts. Demonstration... (more story)
April 20, 2026 | James Konstantin Galvez
Asia
Singapore is pushing for faster global AI governance by promoting earlier standard-setting and stronger testing frameworks, as officials warn standards must keep pace with rapid technological change. At an int... (more story)
Intellectual Property View More
April 20, 2026 | Inbar Preiss
Europe
Abbott Diabetes Care has secured a UPC injunction against Sinocare’s GlucoMen iCan, with appeal judges overturning a refusal and finding indirect infringement and likely validity. Judges cited urgency, warning... (more story)
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 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)
Financial Crime View More
April 17, 2026
North America
MLex Summary: Connecticut Attorney General William Tong announced that he's joined a coalition of 23 attorneys general urging the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau to scale back its plans to severely reduce... (more story)
April 17, 2026 | Neil Roland
North America
Senator Elizabeth Warren, the top Democrat on the Senate Banking Committee, expressed concern that US Securities and Exchange Commission Chair Paul Atkins deliberately misled lawmakers about declining enforcem... (more story)
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)
Financial Services View More
April 20, 2026
Asia
MLex Summary: Singapore has proposed a new international standard, ISO/IEC 42119-8, to establish consistent testing methodologies for generative AI systems, focusing on benchmarking and red teaming. The initia... (more story)
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.
Trade View More
April 17, 2026
North America
MLex Summary: The US State Department has settled allegations that General Electric violated the Arms Export Control Act and federal regulations on arms trafficking for $36 million, the department announced. T... (more story)
April 17, 2026
North America
MLex Summary: US producer Titan Tire Corporation filed a lawsuit at the Court of International Trade to challenge the Commerce Department's March review of an antisubsidy order on pneumatic off-the-road tires from India.
April 17, 2026
North America
MLex Summary: The US International Trade Commission is seeking public input on a report published this month to establish the 2028 version of the US Harmonized Tariff Schedule. The report includes new subheadi... (more story)
State Aid View More
April 20, 2026
Europe
MLex Summary: Hrvatska Banka za Obnovu i Razvitak, a Croatian development bank, may receive a capital injection worth €411 million, the European Commission said on Monday, clearing the support under EU state a... (more story)
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)
Energy View More
April 20, 2026 | Sean Maguire
Oceania
Australia's incoming Solicitor General Ruth Higgins has warned of a rise in climate-related legal actions against corporations stemming from an advisory opinion issued by the International Court of Justice las... (more story)
April 20, 2026
Oceania
MLex Summary: A legal opinion authored by Australia’s incoming Solicitor General Ruth Higgins and published Monday says an International Court of Justice advisory opinion on climate change is likely to influen... (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)
Technology View More
April 20, 2026
Asia
MLex Summary: The Philippines’ Department of Information and Communications Technology will meet with Meta Platforms to demand concrete, time-bound actions against online disinformation, warning stronger regul... (more story)
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
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)