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Antitrust
March 17, 2026 | Maria Júlia Baumert
Latin America
DealRisk®, Mergers and Acquisitions
March 16, 2026 | Flavia Fortes
North America
Trade
March 16, 2026 | Oscar Pandiello
Europe
Antitrust View More
March 18, 2026
North America
MLex Summary: Engineering consultancy Serco and ship builder Marinette Marine Corp. reached agreements in principle to settle all claims in antitrust litigation brought by plaintiff Susan Scharpf and a propose... (more story)
March 18, 2026
Europe
MLex Summary: Google has said it is working with the UK’s competition authority on digital market rules, and has proposed adding a “less intrusive” permanent switch in its device settings enabling users to eas... (more story)
March 18, 2026 | Inbar Preiss
Europe
Dolby secured a Europe-wide UPC injunction against Beko, after judges found smart TVs infringed its audio patent and rejected an antitrust defense. The court ruled Beko was not a willing licensee, ending the e... (more story)
Artificial Intelligence View More
March 18, 2026
North America
MLex Summary: Washington legislation (SB 5886) aimed at strengthening protections against AI-generated impersonations and other digital misuse of a person’s identity has been enacted by Governor Bob Ferguson.... (more story)
March 18, 2026 | Patricia Figueiredo
Europe
Mainstream social media, search engine and pornography platforms must strengthen protections against child sexual abuse material or face enforcement action, a senior Ofcom official warned, as new regulator-com... (more story)
March 18, 2026 | Frank Hersey
Europe
The UK government has dropped its previously-stated preference on proposals to change copyright law in favor of AI developers but has not ruled out change overall. It seeks to ensure the whole economy benefits... (more story)
Mergers and Acquisitions View More
March 18, 2026 | Ilana Kowarski
North America
Jim Vena, the chief executive of Union Pacific Railroad, argued that opposition from rival railways to the $85 billion acquisition of Norfolk Southern indicated those competitors’ fear of more intense competition.
March 18, 2026 | Jean Comte
Europe
EU heads of state and government will this week make a push to incentivize the scale-up of European companies, with one eye on strategic areas such as finance. But the same leaders who are ready to endorse thi... (more story)
March 18, 2026 | Jean Comte
Middle East
Oak-Eagle AcquireCo' s acquisition of US video game publisher Electronic Arts has been cleared by Turkey’s competition authority on Feb. 26, according to an update on the regulator's website on Wednesday. The ... (more story)
Data Privacy and Security View More
March 18, 2026 | Xu Yuan
North America
The jury in the trial over the role of Instagram and YouTube in the deterioration of the mental health of a 20-year-old plaintiff have asked a series of questions concerning Instagram’s features, YouTube’s dat... (more story)
March 18, 2026 | Mike Swift
North America
Meta Platforms, TikTok, YouTube, Snap and the Breathitt County, Kentucky, school district have disclosed their witness lists for the next generation of social media addictive-design trials, which will begin in... (more story)
March 18, 2026 | Júlia Tar
Europe
Online platforms face growing legal uncertainty after EU lawmakers and member states failed to agree on extending temporary rules allowing the voluntary detection of CSAM. Meanwhile, institutions are blaming e... (more story)
Intellectual Property View More
March 18, 2026 | Inbar Preiss
Asia, Europe, North America
Technology companies are increasing enforcement of patents underpinning Wi-Fi standards as Wi-Fi 7 expands into industrial use, according to a LexisNexis report. Rising disputes, new licensing benchmarks and l... (more story)
March 18, 2026 | Melissa Ritti
North America
Plaintiffs hoping to leverage litigation against original equipment manufacturers in licensing talks with upstream suppliers may have a new play in the enforcement playbook courtesy of Onesta IP. But a win for... (more story)
March 18, 2026
Europe
MLex Summary: The UK government will not yet introduce any changes to copyright law as it launches fresh consultations amid “substantial uncertainty,” according to a report and impact assessments of options pu... (more story)
Financial Crime View More
March 18, 2026
North America
MLex Summary: The US Treasury Department's Office of Foreign Assets Control has issued a general license authorizing certain transactions involving Petroleos de Venezuela SA (PdVSA). The types of business with... (more story)
March 18, 2026 | Samuel Rubenfeld
North America
Changes in US anti-money laundering regulation and enforcement during President Donald Trump’s second term have thus far been a modest shift in emphasis and tools rather than a relaxation of core expectations,... (more story)
March 18, 2026 | Sofia Gerace
Europe
A senior official at the UK’s Financial Conduct Authority was concerned from the outset of 2020 inquiries into Odey Asset Management that the firm was allowing financial considerations to outweigh ethical stan... (more story)
Financial Services View More
March 18, 2026 | Sofia Gerace
Europe
The UK's Financial Ombudsman Service can continue to operate independently even if the government takes over responsibility for appointing senior figures at the organization, the interim chair of the body whic... (more story)
March 18, 2026
North America
MLex Summary: Christopher Ferguson, chairman and chief executive of Edison Nation, and Brian McFadden, a consultant, pleaded guilty to falsification of books, records, and accounts for causing the submission o... (more story)
March 18, 2026 | Sofia Gerace
Europe
The independence of the UK’s Financial Ombudsman Service is at risk after the government said it would take responsibility for appointing the chair of the body that resolves disputes between consumers and fina... (more story)
Trade View More
March 18, 2026 | Bradley Dress
North America
The US faces a growing supply chain risk as quantum technology is set to emerge as a major industry in the future, a new report warned.
March 18, 2026 | Karoline Del Vecchio
Europe
Metals and alloy trader Grondmet has filed a legal challenge at the EU’s first-tier court in Luxembourg, a filing in the tribunal’s register of cases shows. The company is contesting ferroalloy safeguard measu... (more story)
March 18, 2026
North America
MLex Summary: The US Commerce Department has opened an antidumping and antisubsidy investigation into large diameter graphite electrodes.
State Aid View More
March 18, 2026 | Toko Sekiguchi
Asia
Japan has proposed a bill to strengthen support for artificial intelligence, quantum and other strategically important technologies, while tightening the treatment of patents and other intellectual property ge... (more story)
March 17, 2026 | Simon Zekaria
Europe
Zenobē Energy told a UK tribunal hearing on Tuesday that the UK regulator of gas and electricity markets hasn't adequately explained changes it made to its defense against the company's suit alleging an unlawf... (more story)
March 17, 2026 | Jean Comte
Europe
Lluís Saurí Romero has been appointed head of unit for Strategic Coordination in DG Comp, the European Commission's directorate general for competition policy. Saurí replaces Astrid Cousin, who has moved to th... (more story)
Energy View More
March 18, 2026
Europe
MLex Summary: The EU's CO2 emissions standards for cars should be revised to ensure technological neutrality and protect industrial competitiveness, five EU countries said in a joint document. Czechia, Hungary... (more story)
March 18, 2026
Europe
MLex Summary: Heads of state from 10 EU member countries have said the pathway set by the EU Emissions Trading System is "too steep and overly ambitious," in a joint letter to the presidents of the EU Council ... (more story)
March 18, 2026
Europe
MLex Summary: Competition in the fuels market will be strengthened, under a draft package adopted by the Cabinet, the Federal Ministry for Economic Affairs and Energy said this week. The draft foresees three m... (more story)
Technology View More
March 18, 2026
Europe
MLex Summary: Fraudulent online ads will be a key focus for the UK’s Online Advertising Taskforce this year, with a new AI working group and a planned ad fraud unit, the UK government has said. The group would... (more story)
March 18, 2026
Europe
MLex Summary: Search engines and pornography sites — regulated under the UK’s Online Safety Act — are widely used to access child sexual abuse material, a new Ofcom-commissioned research report has found. Perp... (more story)
March 18, 2026
Europe
MLex Summary: The German government has said it intends to at least double its data center capacity — and to quadruple its capacity for AI and High-Performance Computing — through a new data center strategy ad... (more story)