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DealRisk®, Mergers and Acquisitions
January 26, 2026 | Jenny Lee
Asia
Antitrust
January 23, 2026 | Chris May
North America
Trade
January 23, 2026 | Zack Budryk
North America
Antitrust View More
January 26, 2026
Europe
MLex Summary: Hungary’s sunflower oil market has come under an expedited inquiry by the national competition authority over suspicions that sectoral market characteristics may have led to higher prices in Hung... (more story)
January 26, 2026 | MLex Staff
Asia
China must urgently develop antitrust guidelines for artificial intelligence to counter emerging monopoly threats from data control, algorithm lock-in and closed-source ecosystems, a former Chinese antitrust c... (more story)
January 23, 2026
North America
MLex Summary: World Aquatics said it welcomes the jury's decision in its antitrust dispute with the International Swimming League. The jury found that the damages that ISL proved it suffered as a result of Wor... (more story)
Artificial Intelligence View More
January 26, 2026 | MLex Staff
Asia
Internet content producers and platform operators in China are getting clearer rules on how to classify harmful online content for minors while being required to take more proactive steps to curb information ... (more story)
January 26, 2026
Asia
MLex Summary: Malaysia’s communications regulator has lifted a temporary restriction on access to Grok on Elon Musk’s X platform after the company confirmed it had implemented additional security and preventiv... (more story)
January 26, 2026 | Jenny Lee
Asia
Grok, the generative AI chatbot of Elon Musk-owned xAI, has come under a preliminary review by South Korea’s privacy watchdog after controversy over the tool’s alleged use to generate and spread sexually explo... (more story)
Mergers and Acquisitions View More
January 26, 2026
Europe
MLex Summary: Parties interested in plans by Japanese trading and investment company Marubeni to buy Spanish electricity supplier Factor Energia now have 10 days to provide their input on the deal to the Europ... (more story)
January 26, 2026 | Sachiko Sakamaki
Asia
Japan is considering expanding foreign investment screening to cover indirect acquisitions of Japanese companies, aligning its rules more closely with other industrialized economies amid rising economic securi... (more story)
January 26, 2026 | Yonnex Li
Asia
Taiwan's Fair Trade Commission has raised merger-notification thresholds for the first time in more than a decade, easing regulatory requirements for dealmakers as the island's economy continues to grow. The r... (more story)
Data Privacy and Security View More
January 26, 2026 | Sara Brandstätter
Europe
The French social media ban for children under 15 is set to advance rapidly, the country's president said on Saturday. Emmanuel Macron said he'd asked the government to launch an accelerated legislative proced... (more story)
January 26, 2026
Europe
MLex Summary: TikTok’s age-verification methods for people aged 13-15, based only on a self-declared birth date, were inadequate and made it easy for minors to bypass safeguards, Berlin's Regional Court said o... (more story)
January 26, 2026
Asia
MLex Summary: China’s internet regulator has released draft guidelines to steer financial information service providers operating in the country on how to classify and grade data, with a particular focus on id... (more story)
Intellectual Property View More
January 26, 2026 | MLex Staff
Asia, North America
China’s Grand Kangxi Communication Technologies (Shanghai) has secured an early win at the US International Trade Commission, with a finding of no infringement of rival Skyworks Solutions’ patents after a cost... (more story)
January 26, 2026 | Freny Patel
Asia
Merck and Sun Pharma have secured a legal victory after an Indian court penalized patent infringement of Sitagliptin, reinforcing legal protections for pharmaceutical innovation against unauthorized generic manufacturing.
January 23, 2026 | Nick Robertson
North America
False advertising claims over products sold as “new” on Amazon passed an early test Thursday, surviving a motion to dismiss in litigation worth watching for the platform’s 2 million third-party sellers.
Financial Crime View More
January 26, 2026 | Martin Coyle
Europe
Hemla, a unit of Norwegian oil and gas company PetroNor, has been indicted and faces a trial over the alleged payment of bribes to the president of the Republic of Congo in return for oil licenses. “The compan... (more story)
January 23, 2026
Africa, Asia, Europe, Latin America, Middle East, North America, Oceania
MLex Summary: The US Securities and Exchange Commission filed a joint stipulation with Gemini Trust Company to dismiss, with prejudice, the the agency's civil enforcement action against the company.
January 23, 2026
North America
MLex Summary: The US Securities and Exchange Commission filed charges against Lottery.com, Inc., its former CEO, Lawrence Anthony DiMatteo, two of its former executives, Matthew Clemenson and Ryan Dickinson, a... (more story)
Financial Services View More
January 23, 2026 | Fanny Roux
Europe
Social-Democratic EU lawmaker Eero Heinäluoma will co-lead discussions in the European Parliament on a proposal to better integrate and supervise the bloc’s capital markets, along with Markus Ferber from the c... (more story)
January 23, 2026 | Martin Coyle
Europe
Saxo Bank has been fined the equivalent of $49 million by Denmark’s financial supervisor for breaching the country’s money laundering regulations. The bank pointed to improvements since a May 2023 inspection o... (more story)
January 23, 2026
Europe
MLex Summary: The UK's financial watchdog has set out its proposals on how the Consumer Duty, conduct standards, redress and safeguarding rules will apply to cryptoasset firms. The Financial Conduct Authority ... (more story)
Trade View More
January 26, 2026
Europe
MLex Summary: Imports of candles and tapers from China into the European Union will be subject to definitive dumping duties of up to 60.3 percent, the European Commission said Monday. The measures will start a... (more story)
January 26, 2026
Europe
MLex Summary: EU dumping tariffs of up to 24.6 percent on imports of aluminum flat-rolled products from China will expire on Oct. 12, 2026, the European Commission said Monday. Originally adopted in October 20... (more story)
January 23, 2026
North America
MLex Summary: The US Treasury Department's Office of Foreign Assets Control is increasing pressure on Iran’s shadow fleet, targeting nine vessels and their respective owners or management firms, which have col... (more story)
State Aid View More
January 23, 2026 | Sachiko Sakamaki
Asia
Facing growing risks of semiconductor supply disruptions, Japan’s automotive industry is preparing to launch a common platform with chip suppliers to assess supply-chain conditions. The head of the industry gr... (more story)
January 23, 2026
Asia
MLex Summary: Japan’s Ministry of Internal Affairs and Communications said Friday it has approved loans and subsidies of up to $73 million to support the expansion and operation of undersea cables between Japa... (more story)
January 22, 2026
Europe
MLex Summary: Property developer Masserud Utvikling is challenging a decision made by the EFTA Surveillance Authority last year which ordered recovery of Norwegian support it deemed illegal, and granted to the... (more story)
Energy View More
January 23, 2026
Africa, Asia, Europe, Latin America, Middle East, North America, Oceania
MLex Summary: Liquefied natural gas is expected to be the main driver of gas markets in 2026, the International Energy Agency has said in its new Gas Market Report. Supply is projected to increase by 7 percent... (more story)
January 23, 2026
Europe
MLex Summary: Negotiations between the European Union and Ecuador on a Sustainable Investment Facilitation Agreement have concluded, the European Commission said Friday. The deal will help to unlock investment... (more story)
January 23, 2026
Europe
MLex Summary: The European Commission is seeking feedback on barriers to power purchase agreements —long-term contracts in which electricity is sold at a fixed price to support new clean energy projects and pr... (more story)
Technology View More
January 26, 2026
Europe
MLex Summary: X’s Grok chatbot is facing a new formal investigation by the European Commission under the Digital Services Act, over whether risks linked to X’s deployment of Grok were properly assessed and mit... (more story)
January 26, 2026 | Sara Brandstätter
Europe
X’s AI chatbot Grok will be formally probed by the European Commission under the Digital Services Act, the EU executive said today. This step follows public outrage when Grok was used to generate numerous non-... (more story)
January 24, 2026 | Amy Miller
North America
A former Google software engineer on trial for allegedly stealing trade secrets related to supercomputing data centers to help China could be a con artist who never believed he could replicate the company’s te... (more story)