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
Oceania
MLex Summary: Bubble tea franchisor Sharetea Australia has paid A$39,600 ($27,850) in penalties for breaches of the country’s franchising code, the competition watchdog said. In a statement on Monday, the Aust... (more story)
October 30, 2026
MLex Summary: A US judge warned plaintiffs’ counsel in CCell cannabis vaping systems antitrust litigation that misrepresenting documents in their complaint and doubling down on those misrepresentations in thei... (more story)
MLex Summary: Iowa and Nebraska have standing to pursue antitrust claims on behalf of electricity buyers who were allegedly harmed by a conspiracy involving BlackRock and State Street Corp. to artificially con... (more story)
Asia
MLex Summary: About 50 top executives of Samsung Electronics and other Samsung Group affiliates held a town hall-like event with OpenAI CEO Sam Altman on Saturday in South Korea to discuss future artificial-in... (more story)
MLex Summary: US House Judiciary Committee Democrats Jamie Raskin, Jerry Nadler and Hank Johnson filed an amicus brief in pending copyright litigation by news publishers and authors against OpenAI and Micrsoft... (more story)
October 30, 2026 | Clayton Vickers
The attorney general for Maryland, the first state in the US to issue a surveillance pricing ban, wants a new task force to investigate the practice, saying a more specialized team like those already created b... (more story)
MLex Summary: Coles Supermarkets' proposed acquisition of a supermarket site at Cannonvale Central in Queensland is under review by Australia's competition watchdog. The Australian Competition & Consumer Commi... (more story)
October 30, 2026 | Ilana Kowarski
Canadian Pacific Railway Co. urged the US Surface Transportation Board to end its review of the Union Pacific-Norfolk Southern rail deal because of shippers’ allegations that Union Pacific Chief Executive Jim ... (more story)
MLex Summary: The US Department of Justice Antitrust Division announced in a press release that it closed its probe into a merger between New England electricity suppliers Vistra and Cogentrix after merging pa... (more story)
MLex Summary: Hong Kong's Privacy Commissioner ruled that the Hospital Authority violated the city's data-privacy law after a vendor employee leaked personal information of 56,243 patients and hospital staff t... (more story)
October 31, 2026 | Maria Dinzeo
A US federal judge certified four nationwide classes of Facebook users accusing the company of collecting their sensitive health data through tracking technology embedded in healthcare websites and apps.
MLex Summary: A US federal judge has certified four classes of Facebook users in litigation accusing Meta of improperly collecting sensitive medical information through tracking technologies embedded in health... (more story)
October 30, 2026 | Melissa Ritti
The alleged bugging of an OpenAI executive conference room underscores why companies protecting trade secrets need safeguards beyond cybersecurity, experts told MLex.
October 30, 2026 | Nick Robertson
Europe, North America
The US Supreme Court’s Hikma Pharmaceuticals v. Amarin Pharma decision this year makes induced patent infringement claims against “skinny label” generic drugmakers harder to plead, practitioners say, contrasti... (more story)
October 30, 2026 | Steve Scherer
The federal judiciary is exploring artificial intelligence tools to improve productivity, while cautioning judges against delegating core functions to AI technology. Judge Leonard Stark of the US Court of Appe... (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)
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)
Africa, Asia, Europe, Latin America, Middle East, North America, Oceania
MLex Summary: The Financial Action Task Force launched a targeted review process to accelerate global implementation of the body's anti-money laundering and counterterrorist financing standards in relation to ... (more story)
October 30, 2026 | Neil Roland
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)
Europe
MLex Summary: Cryptocurrency platform Binance said it has fallen victim to a hack estimated to have affected $6.3 billion worth of customer funds. The exchange said it was likely the funds had been accessed vi... (more story)
Asia, North America
MLex Summary: China has urged the US to withdraw restrictions on Chinese testing laboratories and certification bodies, warning that it will take further countermeasures if Washington proceeds with the measure... (more story)
Asia, Middle East, North America
MLex Summary: The US International Trade Commission unanimously voted in a preliminary determination there is a reasonable indication a domestic industry is injured by allegedly dumped imports of corrugated di... (more story)
MLex Summary: The US Department of Homeland Security announced that it has added three Chinese genomic companies to its Entity List for forced Uyghur labor. Under the Uyghur Forced Labor Prevention Act, compan... (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)
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: Reporting obligations for wholesale energy transactions — including liquefied natural gas trading, market exposure and bilateral contracts with energy-intensive consumers — have been clarified in... (more story)
October 30, 2026 | Imogen Howse
Google has said individual online services should remain responsible for age assurance, after a report by the UK's online safety regulator found that app stores could do more to protect children. Ofcom said ap... (more story)
Meta Platforms has renewed its criticism of information demands issued by UK regulator Ofcom, after the High Court rejected legal challenges brought by Meta, TikTok and X. Meta maintained that the scale of the... (more story)
MLex Summary: French appeal judges have published a ruling dismissing Meta Platforms' appeals against two interim injunctions issued in July by the French competition authority. The regulator had ordered the U... (more story)