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Trade
January 29, 2026 | Zack Budryk
North America
Financial Crime
January 28, 2026 | Samuel Rubenfeld and Martin Coyle
Europe, North America
Data Privacy and Security
January 28, 2026 | Mike Swift
North America
Antitrust View More
January 31, 2026 | Alex Wilts
North America
The US Federal Trade Commission and a coalition of states late Friday asked a Washington federal judge to sanction Amazon, accusing the company of failing to preserve documents relevant to their antitrust case.
January 31, 2026 | Alex Wilts
North America
The California Law Revision Commission approved a final legislative proposal aimed at regulating anticompetitive conduct by an individual company under state law.
January 31, 2026
North America
MLex Summary: The US Federal Trade Commission and a coalition of states suing Amazon for alleged antitrust violations have asked a Washington federal judge to impose spoliation sanctions for the company's alle... (more story)
Artificial Intelligence View More
January 30, 2026 | Amy Miller
North America
The conviction of a former Google engineer for stealing trade secrets for artificial intelligence supercomputers to help China illustrates the strength of trade secret protections in the US. It also signals th... (more story)
January 30, 2026 | Neil Roland
North America
President Trump said he will nominate Kevin Warsh, a former US Federal Reserve governor who has recently sided with the president’s views on cutting interest rates faster, to succeed Jerome Powell as Fed chair... (more story)
January 30, 2026 | Emma Whitford
Africa, Asia, Europe, Latin America, Middle East, North America, Oceania
The US broadly supports India’s light touch approach to artificial intelligence regulation and hopes the upcoming India Impact Summit will inspire other countries to follow suit, a senior State Department offi... (more story)
Mergers and Acquisitions View More
January 31, 2026 | Khushita Vasant
North America
Some US states could initiate antitrust lawsuits without collaboration from federal enforcement agencies as certain attorneys general distance themselves from the Trump White House in the backdrop of competiti... (more story)
January 30, 2026
North America
MLex SUmmary: UWM Holdings Corp. and Two Harbors Investment Corp. each filed their respective Hart-Scott-Rodino Act premerger notification forms with the US Federal Trade Commission and US Department of Justic... (more story)
January 30, 2026 | Ilana Kowarski
North America
Private-equity-backed healthcare firm Sevita and its publicly traded acquisition target, BrightSpring Health Services, ratified a merger antitrust consent decree Friday with the US Federal Trade Commission to ... (more story)
Data Privacy and Security View More
January 30, 2026 | Mike Swift
North America
California’s privacy watchdog is co-sponsoring legislation to expand the rights of residents of the largest US state to delete the personal data that companies hold about them. With the proposed Expanding Priv... (more story)
January 30, 2026 | Maria Dinzeo
North America
A US federal judge on Friday left intact a $425.6 million jury verdict against Google in a closely watched privacy class action, denying plaintiffs’ bids for a permanent injunction and $2.36 billion in disgorg... (more story)
January 30, 2026
North America
MLex Summary: US District Judge Richard Seeborg denied post-verdict bids by both Google and a privacy class in a case where Google was found by a jury to have tracked users' app activity even after they switch... (more story)
Intellectual Property View More
January 30, 2026 | Nick Robertson
North America
In a ruling with implications for patent drafting and litigation strategy, the US Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit on Thursday affirmed a summary judgment victory for Hulu, holding that Sound View Inno... (more story)
January 30, 2026 | MLex Staff
Asia
Tech giant Alibaba Group and its e-commerce platform Tmall have won a trademark appeal after a Chinese court ruled that Tmall’s cat-head logo qualifies as a well-known trademark entitled to cross-class protection.
January 30, 2026 | Toko Sekiguchi
Asia
Chinese police have shut down the BATO.TO network of unauthorized manga websites, seen as the world’s largest manga piracy operation, in a case that showcases rare cooperation between Japanese and Chinese auth... (more story)
Financial Crime View More
January 30, 2026 | Samuel Rubenfeld
Oceania
A former chief operating officer of Leighton Holdings pleaded guilty in an Australian court and was fined A$1,000 ($700) over his role in a foreign bribery case, police said. Australian Federal Police launched... (more story)
January 30, 2026
Oceania
MLex Summary: An Australian man was convicted and fined $1,000 in a local Australian court for providing false or misleading information to the directors of a multinational publicly listed company. At the time... (more story)
January 30, 2026
North America
MLex Summary: The US Securities and Exchange Commission announced the appointment of Demetrios Logothetis as chairman of the Public Company Accounting Oversight Board, and said Mark Calabria, Kyle Hauptman and... (more story)
Financial Services View More
January 31, 2026 | Chris May
North America
US Federal Trade Commission antitrust enforcers across the Biden and Trump administrations agree that employers’ pervasive use of unlawful restrictions on labor mobility are causing harm to workers, competitio... (more story)
January 30, 2026
North America
MLex Summary: A Florida man pleaded guilty Wednesday to accepting bribes and facilitating the laundering of more than $5.5 million to Colombia while employed by TD Bank.
January 30, 2026 | Sofia Gerace
Europe
UK-listed companies will be required to issue climate-related disclosures to investors from 2027, according to a proposal from the financial watchdog released on Friday. The Financial Conduct Authority is repl... (more story)
Trade View More
January 30, 2026 | Bradley Dress
North America
The US Court of International Trade on Friday partly remanded the Commerce Department’s remand for the eighth review of an antidumping order on xanthan gum from China, faulting the agency for selecting potenti... (more story)
January 30, 2026 | Zack Budryk
North America
The administration of US President Donald Trump has frequently employed framework or handshake deals for bilateral trade agreements to be formally ratified later, but a dispute over the pace of formalizing a U... (more story)
January 30, 2026 | Eliana Hubacker
North America
President Trump threatened to impose a 50 percent tariff on all Canadian aircraft imports on Thursday following Canada’s refusal to certify several Gulfstream jets, though the legal authority and practical mec... (more story)
State Aid View More
January 30, 2026
Europe
MLex Summary: Denmark faces an in-depth investigation into its degressive tariff model for the discharge and treatment of companies' wastewater. Under the system, businesses that discharge large volumes pay a ... (more story)
January 30, 2026
Europe
MLex Summary: The town of Tychy, southern Poland, may receive a direct grant worth €25.8 million to support a project for the construction of a green economy hub. The measure will allow an underdeveloped build... (more story)
January 29, 2026 | Lewis Crofts
Europe
The EU can evolve its tools of antitrust, merger review and state aid to deliver on the bloc's objectives of growth, innovation and sustainability, while still remaining "faithful" to their core purpose, Enric... (more story)
Energy View More
January 30, 2026
North America
MLex Summary: A US judge granted in part a motion from LaFarge to dismiss a lawsuit filed by victims of terror attacks financed by the cement producer's payments to Islamic State and Al Nusra Front in Syria. I... (more story)
January 30, 2026
North America
MLex Summary: US Federal Trade Commission Chairman Andrew Ferguson issued a letter to 42 law firms regarding potentially unfair and anticompetitive employment practices. The FTC said that all of these firms re... (more story)
January 30, 2026
Europe
MLex Summary: UK listed companies have received a proposal for new sustainability disclosures requirements from the Financial Conduct Authority. The consultation, which closes on March 20, attempts to align th... (more story)
Technology View More
January 30, 2026 | Frank Hersey
Europe
Pornhub operator Aylo this week made perhaps the loudest cry yet for a shift in the UK to age checks for adult content to be handled at the device level, not by online platforms themselves. It won't have falle... (more story)
January 30, 2026 | Patricia Figueiredo
Europe
UK online safety regulator Ofcom has formalized how the Internet Watch Foundation will support enforcement of the Online Safety Act, setting out how the charity can assist in the identification of child sexual... (more story)
January 30, 2026 | Júlia Tar
Europe
An outsourced study on out-of-court dispute settlement bodies under the EU's Digital Services Act involves the European Commission examining issues including admissibility of complaints, platforms’ data-sharin... (more story)