DealRisk®, Mergers and Acquisitions
November 06, 2026 | Curtis Eichelberger
North America
Data Privacy and Security
November 05, 2026 | Maria Dinzeo
Trade
November 05, 2026 | Zack Budryk
November 06, 2026 | Jean Comte
Europe
Google will see on Dec. 16 an appeal ruling in a damages action brought against it by advertising technology company Equativ, MLex has learned. The judgment will shed light on whether plaintiffs can seek damages in France ...(read more)
November 06, 2026
Middle East
MLex Summary: Ferrero and six other hazelnut buyers face a Turkish antitrust investigation into suspected coordination of purchase prices and policies, the country's competition authority said Friday. The probe will also e...(read more)
MLex Summary: Valve has been ordered by Portugal’s Competition Court to preserve evidence in a lawsuit brought by consumer protection organization Ius Omnibus on behalf of Steam customers, Ius Omnibus said. The court found...(read more)
November 06, 2026 | Choonsik Yoo
Asia
South Korea’s Presidential Council on National AI Strategy on Friday approved a framework directing ministries to amend existing laws before drafting new AI legislation, with the aim of giving businesses greater regulatory...(read more)
MLex Summary: South Korea’s top policymaking body on artificial intelligence approved a framework to govern future AI-related legislation and two other agenda items at its plenary meeting on Friday. The legislative framewo...(read more)
November 06, 2026 | MLex Staff
China rejected SoftBank Group's $5.4 billion acquisition of ABB's robotics business on national security grounds, marking the second publicly known case this year where Beijing blocked a foreign deal in artificial intellig...(read more)
MLex Summary: Parties interested in plans by India-based specialty generics business Sun Pharma to buy US healthcare business Organon have ten days to provide comments to the European Commission. The EU merger watchdog has...(read more)
November 06, 2026 | Anna Lauwereys
Amplifon got EU clearance for its GN Hearing purchase, according to an update on the regulator's website. The European Commission had set a Nov. 6 deadline to decide on the deal. Amplifon intends to finalize the acquisitio...(read more)
MLex Summary: Japanese technology investment company SoftBank Group said Friday that China's foreign investment security review authority had prohibited its acquisition of Swiss engineering group ABB's robotics business in...(read more)
MLex Summary: Major Japanese mobile operator NTT Docomo received administrative guidance on Friday from Japan's Ministry of Internal Affairs and Communications after sharing phone numbers and user identifiers of 344,213 su...(read more)
MLex Summary: Muji's China operations said Friday Chinese consumers' information was safe following unauthorized access to its Japanese headquarters' official app that put some user data at risk of exposure. Muji Shanghai ...(read more)
November 06, 2026 | Sean Maguire
Oceania
Reddit told Australia’s High Court that the government's proposed digital duty-of-care legislation could protect children from online harm while imposing a lesser burden on political communication than the country's under-...(read more)
Japan’s Ryohin Keikaku cannot rely on its service trademark to justify using “Wuyin Liangpin,” the Chinese characters used for its Muji brand, as product branding on goods covered by another company’s registered trademarks...(read more)
November 06, 2026 | Toko Sekiguchi
Japan’s Intellectual Property High Court rejected a copyright owner’s attempt to stop the commercial use of a lookalike mascot, finding that its earlier cooperation had given permission it could not simply withdraw.
November 05, 2026 | Steve Scherer
PepsiCo asked the US Supreme Court to treat trademarks’ inherent strength as a legal question for judges, saying it helps define owners’ rights to restrict similar branding. It argued its win against Rise Brewing should st...(read more)
November 05, 2026
MLex Summary: Colombian businessman Alvaro Pulido Vargas is scheduled to go to trial on Dec. 14 on charges in two separate indictments involving the alleged laundering of more than $2 billion associated with Venezuelan bri...(read more)
November 05, 2026 | Martin Coyle
Kuwait’s government pension fund has won a claim in the UK courts against a former director of the fund accused of corruption on a “breathtaking scale.”
November 05, 2026 | Samuel Rubenfeld
A former executive of Balt's US subsidiary wants to see the concessions the company received as it resolved a corruption investigation that led to criminal charges against him. “The court should order the government to pro...(read more)
MLex Summary: A report by the US Government Accountability Office found that the US Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation, Federal Reserve System and Office of the Comptroller of the Currency helped develop financial stand...(read more)
Investment trading platform Webull Financial was fined $4.2 million on Thursday by industry self-regulator Finra for failing to implement anti-money laundering, identity theft and best execution compliance programs.
MLex Summary: FINRA has fined Webull Financial LLC $4.2 million for failing to implement reasonably designed programs for anti-money laundering, identity theft prevention and best execution.
MLex Summary: Imports of certain polyethylene terephthalate resin chemicals, mainly used to make bottles, are now the subject of a safeguard investigation, following a request received from EU countries. Imports of the goo...(read more)
MLex Summary: Russian birch plywood faces an EU review of antidumping duties after European producers warned that allowing the measures to expire would lead to renewed dumping and harm to their industry. The European Commi...(read more)
MLex Summary: EU imports of certain polyether polyols from China will be registered at the bloc's borders starting on Saturday, the European Commission said on Friday. The move follows an anti-dumping probe opened in June....(read more)
November 05, 2026 | Anna Ferrari
EU countries are revising renewable-support programs with tender criteria intended to strengthen European supply chains, which the European Commission must assess for openness, transparency and nondiscrimination, official ...(read more)
European governments want simpler EU state aid rules and greater legal certainty, requiring a “delicate balance” in the planned revision of rules that allow them to grant certain subsidies without prior EU approval, a seni...(read more)
November 05, 2026 | Anna Ferrari and Jean Comte
An Italian mechanism that allows the approval of debt restructuring for firms despite tax authorities' opposition will be examined by EU judges for its compatibility with state aid rules, following an October referral to t...(read more)
November 05, 2026 | Louis de Briant
Companies would retain most of their free allowances under the EU Emissions Trading System even if they failed to carry out required decarbonization investments, under a draft compromise from Ireland, which is steering neg...(read more)
MLex Summary: OpenAI has published a National Community Compact and Compute Campus Policy Blueprint, laying out company commitments and policy suggestions for data center development in the US. The compact says OpenAI will...(read more)
November 05, 2026 | Cynthia Kroet
Talks on changes to the EU’s Critical Raw Materials Act are provisionally scheduled to resume on Dec. 9, as national governments have yet to agree on plans for a dedicated raw materials center, MLex understands. Both membe...(read more)
MLex Summary: Reddit and the Digital Freedom Project appeared before Australia’s top court on Tuesday and Wednesday, arguing that the country’s under-16 social-media ban impermissibly burdens political communication, with ...(read more)
MLex Summary: Google moved to dismiss a third amended US complaint filed by Korea-based android developers, which accuses it of unlawfully monopolizing the global markets for Android app distribution and in-app payment pro...(read more)
MLex Summary: The EU’s planned supply-chain diversification tool — DiversifyEU — is scheduled to be unveiled on Dec. 9, according to the European Commission’s latest draft agenda. The EU executive also plans to present it...(read more)