DealRisk®, Mergers and Acquisitions
October 30, 2026 | Curtis Eichelberger
Middle East, North America
Artificial Intelligence, Energy
October 30, 2026 | Amy Miller
North America
Data Privacy and Security, Technology
October 30, 2026 | Maria Dinzeo
November 02, 2026 | Simon Zekaria
Europe
A proposed collective lawsuit against Rightmove over alleged excessive and unfair fees is strong and should be approved for trial in its current format, the class representative of the action has told a UK jud... (more story)
November 02, 2026
MLex Summary: UK digital regulators said they wanted to be "explicit" that existing legal and regulatory frameworks apply to AI agents. The Competition and Markets Authority, the Information Commission’s Offic... (more story)
Middle East
MLex Summary: Google is facing a Turkish antitrust investigation into possible “exclusionary and exploitative behavior” linked to its AI features, the country’s competition authority said on Monday. Pending a ... (more story)
MLex Summary: Germany's government has set out a plan towards becoming an AI nation by 2030 including independent analysis and evaluation of high-performance AI systems and models through the country's AI Safe... (more story)
November 02, 2026 | Masha Borak
France and Germany will propose strengthening European preference in public procurement under the EU’s proposed Cloud and AI Development Act, French AI Minister Anne Le Hénanff said. Criteria such as European ... (more story)
MLex Summary: The New York Times has filed copyright infringement and Digital Millennium Copyright Act claims against Brave Software, accusing the company of playing a "central role" in copying and distributin... (more story)
November 02, 2026 | Flavia Fortes
Fox has received all required foreign regulatory approvals for its proposed acquisition of Roku and continues to work with the US Department of Justice to obtain US merger clearance, Fox said on an earnings call.
MLex Summary: Santa Clara, California-based Marvell Technology has agreed to acquire San Jose, California-based Lumentum in an all-stock deal with an implied enterprise value of $115 billion. The companies sai... (more story)
MLex Summary: Axcelis and Veeco received Hart-Scott-Rodino Act clearance in November 2025. Now that the clearance is set to expire, the semiconductor companies will refile HSR paperwork with the US antitrust a... (more story)
MLex Summary: ING Bank Śląski has lost its challenge to the fine of 18.4 million złoty (around $5 million) imposed on it in 2025 under the EU’s GDPR for the unjustified scanning of identity documents (see here... (more story)
MLex Summary: Business outsourcing company Teleperformance Greece was fined €100,000 under the EU’s General Data Protection Regulation for deleting an employee’s data despite pending legal claims and mishandli... (more story)
November 02, 2026 | Genta Nakanishi
Asia
Japan's GMO Internet Group acknowledged shortcomings in its cybersecurity measures after a cyberattack potentially affecting up to 26,739 virtual private servers, saying previously identified security weakness... (more story)
November 02, 2026 | Melissa Ritti
For quantitative trading firms, proprietary source code and algorithms are the business. A three-week criminal trial in New York against Cheuk Fung Richard Ho, scheduled to begin Monday, could offer a rare gli... (more story)
November 02, 2026 | Toko Sekiguchi
Google and Anthropic have joined Japan’s voluntary AI intellectual property transparency code, but said they cannot answer individual inquiries about training material, limiting a route intended to help copyri... (more story)
November 02, 2026 | MLex Staff
A Chinese court has upheld a ruling that an advertising company registered a trademark in bad faith, citing filings that exceeded its business needs and insufficient evidence of commercial use.
MLex Summary: The UK's financial regulator said it will look into whether it met its responsibilities under whistleblowing law and followed its own policies and procedures over its interactions with Simon Andr... (more story)
October 30, 2026 | Samuel Rubenfeld
Latin America, North America
Former oil trader Glenn Oztemel didn’t suffer prejudice due to erroneous or confusing jury instructions in his US trial, according to a brief filed by the government in the appeal of his conviction and 15-mont... (more story)
October 30, 2026
MLex Summary: Former oil trader Glenn Oztemel wasn't prejudiced by erroneous or confusing jury instructions in his trial, according to the US government’s brief filed in the appeal of his conviction and senten... (more story)
MLex Summary: EU countries’ agreed text for legislation to better integrate the bloc’s capital markets, the Market Integration and Supervision Package, has been published after being finalized on Oct. 30. The ... (more story)
October 30, 2026 | Neil Roland
Europe, North America
California should exempt its federally chartered banks from a 2023 law requiring disclosure of greenhouse gas emissions, US Comptroller Jonathan Gould said, citing an “undue burden” on the firms and a distract... (more story)
A UK businessman living in Hong Kong was charged in the US with laundering money he believed to be the proceeds of computer hacking, and he offered to provide his services if the funds were derived from drug t... (more story)
MLex Summary: Companies supplying the EU market could face higher compliance costs and barriers to entry under digital product passport requirements, according to an Oxera study commissioned by Amazon. Additio... (more story)
November 02, 2026 | Jon Menon
The UK government’s decisions on Chinese investment has been characterized by reactivity, inconsistency and opacity, a committee of lawmakers has said as it called for more disclosure on screening decisions an... (more story)
China has proposed its first five product-specific standards for determining which goods qualify for a 20 percent price preference in government procurement bid evaluations. The drafts set domestic-component c... (more story)
October 27, 2026
MLex Summary: Japan's government-backed chipmaker Rapidus and Indian technology company HCLTech said on Monday that they have opened two semiconductor development centers in Bengaluru and Hubli, India, to supp... (more story)
October 26, 2026
MLex Summary: The Greek Council of State has released the public version of its decision in August to refer to the EU top court a dispute between the Greek state and the newspaper Dimokratia. The dispute regar... (more story)
October 22, 2026 | Lewis Crofts and Anna Lauwereys
Five Spanish industrial manufacturers saw their challenge of a state aid measure for power prices dismissed at the EU top court on Thursday. PGI Spain, Berry Superfos Pamplona, Promens Packaging, RPC Envases a... (more story)
November 02, 2026 | Louis de Briant
EU plans to ease renewable-hydrogen production rules could lower costs, but uncertainty over future binding targets for demand risks deterring investors. Companies and national officials at European Hydrogen W... (more story)
October 29, 2026 | Louis de Briant
Proposed EU requirements preventing electricity from being taxed more heavily than gas faced government opposition Thursday, with several countries arguing that the measures require unanimous approval under a ... (more story)
October 29, 2026
MLex Summary: EU governments called for greater national discretion over electricity network charges and simpler rules for meeting future energy targets during Thursday's Energy Council. According to a press r... (more story)
MLex Summary: Meta Platforms carried ads directing users to “nudifier” apps on Google and Apple’s app stores, according to European research group AI Forensics. Researchers identified a network of 444 associat... (more story)
Asia, Europe
MLex Summary: The European Telecommunications Standards Institute, or ETSI, is working with South Korean and Japanese standard-setting bodies to develop global AI standards, the organization announced Monday. ... (more story)
November 02, 2026 | Freny Patel
India’s telecom regulator has proposed guidelines holding operators accountable for use of artificial intelligence, including outsourced systems, with risk classification, board oversight, supplier checks and ... (more story)