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Antitrust, DealRisk®, Mergers and Acquisitions
January 09, 2026 | Nicholas Hirst
Europe
Artificial Intelligence, Technology
January 09, 2026 | Amy Miller
North America
Artificial Intelligence
January 08, 2026 | Xu Yuan
North America
Antitrust View More
January 09, 2026
Europe
MLex Summary: Electrical-appliance wholesaler Elberry has been fined 767,000 Koruna (around $36,850) by the Czech competition authority for imposing minimum prices for the sale of its goods on its dealers for ... (more story)
January 09, 2026
Middle East
MLex Summary: Dassault is now being probed by the Turkish competition enforcer over whether the company engaged in illegal conduct in relation to resale prices. In a statement published Friday, the watchdog sa... (more story)
January 09, 2026
Europe
MLex Summary: Buying alliances between leading French supermarkets including Carrefour and Intermarché have drawn probes from the French competition authority. It said it would conduct a "competitive assessmen... (more story)
Artificial Intelligence View More
January 09, 2026
Europe
MLex Summary: France's competition authority said on Friday it would open a sector inquiry and run a consultation on AI chatbots. The Autorité de la Concurrence said it would pay particular attention to the de... (more story)
January 09, 2026 | Jeyup S Kwaak
Asia
Tokyo’s data privacy watchdog said Friday that it has finalized the triennial amendment to the Personal Information Protection Act, a landmark draft bill that will loosen several restrictions to allow artifici... (more story)
January 09, 2026 | Patricia Figueiredo
Europe
X has limited image generation and editing on its Grok AI chatbot to paying subscribers, according to posts from the tool’s official account on the platform, which means only users who provide full account and... (more story)
Mergers and Acquisitions View More
January 09, 2026 | Andrew Boyce
Europe
Mediterranean Shipping Company and BlackRock’s Terminal Investment Limited have seen the EU’s competition regulator suspend an in-depth probe into their plan to buy half of a Hutchison Ports terminal in Spain.... (more story)
January 09, 2026
Asia, Europe
MLex Summary: The European Commission has clarified how it will analyze market distortions stemming from subsidies outside of the EU, and how it will balance those against any potential positive effects. In ne... (more story)
January 09, 2026 | Lewis Crofts
Asia, Europe
Companies backed by subsidies from countries such as China, Saudi Arabia and Russia have received greater clarity on how the European Commission will apply rules that police their M&A activity and procurement ... (more story)
Data Privacy and Security View More
January 09, 2026 | Matthew Newman, Maria Dinzeo and Mike Swift
Europe, North America
The stability of a crucial trans-Atlantic data transfer agreement could be challenged if a forthcoming US Supreme Court decision erodes the independence of some US regulatory bodies in the view of the EU’s top... (more story)
January 09, 2026
Asia
MLex Summary: Indonesia's Financial Services Authority, or OJK, which oversees the country’s banking and financial service sector, said Thursday it has issued new rules to accelerate the digitalization of rura... (more story)
January 09, 2026
Asia
MLex Summary: Japan's data privacy authority said Friday it has finalized a draft amendment to the Personal Information Protection Act. The bill proposes to lift several constraints, including consent requirem... (more story)
Intellectual Property View More
January 09, 2026 | MLex Staff
Asia
China’s Supreme People’s Court has rejected a jurisdictional challenge in a standard-essential patent antitrust dispute, warning that licensing contracts can be used as “means or tools” for monopoly conduct. T... (more story)
January 09, 2026 | Chris May
North America
MediaTek and Realtek attorneys faced extensive questioning from a California federal judge Thursday as he considers whether to throw out antitrust litigation related to a $1 million bounty for patent infringem... (more story)
January 09, 2026 | Freny Patel
Asia
Finding errors in an earlier ruling, an Indian court has stayed an injunction against Automat Irrigation’s hydromat valve. The Delhi High Court also observed inapplicable UK precedents and differences, ruling ... (more story)
Financial Crime View More
January 09, 2026
Asia
MLex Summary: Thailand’s Department of Special Investigation has carried out coordinated searches at five locations in Bangkok as part of an investigation into a business offering cryptocurrency in exchange fo... (more story)
January 08, 2026
North America
MLex Summary: After a US judge backed a jury's verdict finding BNP Paribas liable for a genocide in Sudan, the bank said the ruling "clears the path" for its appeal. "The Bank will demonstrate on appeal that t... (more story)
January 08, 2026
North America
MLex Summary: A New Jersey man pleaded guilty in federal court in Boston to his involvement in a scheme to generate revenue for the North Korean weapons of mass destruction (WMD) programs by compromising the i... (more story)
Financial Services View More
January 09, 2026
Europe
MLex Summary: UK lawmakers have warned that insufficient data prevents a determination of whether the growth of private markets poses a risk to the UK’s financial stability. The Financial Services Regulation C... (more story)
January 09, 2026 | Sofia Gerace
Europe
UK lawmakers have accused the finance ministry of complacency over the rapid expansion of private markets, warning in a report that the ministry has failed to fully appreciate the risks to financial stability ... (more story)
January 08, 2026
North America
MLex Summary: The US Office of the Comptroller of the Currency proposed rules to clarify its authorization to charter national banks limited to the operations of a trust company and activities to engage in non... (more story)
Trade View More
January 09, 2026 | Oscar Pandiello
Europe
A majority of EU countries have backed the EU-Mercosur trade deal in a key vote by EU ambassadors, overcoming opposition from France, Poland, Hungary, Ireland and Austria. The approval clears the way for the s... (more story)
January 09, 2026
Asia
MLex Summary: The Indonesian Ministry of Trade said the government has imposed a safeguard import duty on imports of cotton-woven fabric products under regulations that were promulgated on Dec. 31, 2025. The ... (more story)
January 08, 2026 | Eliana Hubacker
North America
US Customs and Border Protection was correct to use the transaction value as opposed to the deductive value to appraise the value of Christmas ornaments exported from Canada to the US by manufacturer Midwest, ... (more story)
State Aid View More
January 09, 2026
Asia
MLex Summary: Thailand has set out a long-term national strategy to expand its semiconductor and advanced electronics industry, with a focus on power semiconductors, sensors, photonics, discrete devices and an... (more story)
January 05, 2026
Europe
MLex Summary: Portuguese airline TAP now has until June 30 to divest its shareholding in ground-handling provider SPdH and Cateringpor to fulfil the conditions imposed by the European Commission in 2021, when ... (more story)
January 05, 2026
Europe
MLex Summary: Amended guidelines on state aid measures under which more industrial sectors in the bloc will benefit from compensation to cover rising carbon costs have been released on Monday. The rules, which... (more story)
Energy View More
January 08, 2026
Europe
MLex Summary: Details on an exemption from the EU’s carbon border tax for fertilizer imports were published Thursday by the European Commission. The regulator says the exemption could be triggered under an eme... (more story)
January 08, 2026
Europe
MLex Summary: The US decision to withdraw from the UN Framework Convention on Climate Change is “regrettable and unfortunate,” EU climate chief Wopke Hoekstra said on Thursday. He said support for internationa... (more story)
January 08, 2026 | MLex Staff
Asia
China has convened a second meeting with power and energy-storage battery makers in just over six weeks to steer the sector toward more orderly competition, widening its effort into a four-agency joint session... (more story)
Technology View More
January 09, 2026 | Sara Brandstätter
Europe
Meta Platforms WhatsApp is set to be classified as a very large online platform by the European Commission in January, MLex has learned, bringing it under the EU’s Digital Services Act’s strictest regulatory o... (more story)
January 09, 2026 | MLex Staff
Asia
Chinese authorities will tighten content management on e-commerce platforms and regulate the use of emerging technologies such as artificial intelligence. following the rollout of new measures governing livest... (more story)
January 09, 2026
Asia
MLex Summary: Indonesia's Ministry of Communication and Digital Affairs is seeking public input on a draft ministerial regulation to implement a government regulation issued last year on the governance of elec... (more story)