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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 | 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)
March 18, 2026
North America
MLex Summary: AliveCor failed to convince a US appeals court to rehear its antitrust claims over heartrate analysis on Apple Watches. The US Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit affirmed a judgment against A... (more story)
March 18, 2026 | Henrique Santiago
Latin America
Brazil’s competition regulator has postponed the final decision on a cartel formation probe related to the expansion works of a Petróleo Brasileiro building in Salvador, the capital of Bahia.
Artificial Intelligence 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: A plan to amend the EU's AI Act, known as the AI omnibus, has been endorsed by the European Parliament’s committees on civil liberties and internal market, paving the way for the parliament as a ... (more story)
March 18, 2026
Europe
MLex Summary: Data protection issues when implementing Artificial Intelligence systems that might require the regulator’s intervention were discussed at the Polish data watchdog’s AI working group meeting on M... (more story)
Mergers and Acquisitions View More
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)
March 18, 2026 | Jon Menon
Europe
The UK government is hiring up to 12 new panel members for the Competition and Markets Authority, who will help make decisions on in-depth merger and market investigations and potentially be part of a new regi... (more story)
Data Privacy and Security View More
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)
March 18, 2026
North America
MLex Summary: The Center for Digital Democracy, Electronic Privacy Information Center and Fairplay wrote to the US Federal Trade Commission to lay out concerns that the commission’s recent policy statement on ... (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)
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 | 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)
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 17, 2026
North America
MLex Summary: François-Philippe Champagne, Canada's minister of finance and national revenue, issued a statement on the country's progress against money laundering. FINTRAC, Canada's financial intelligence uni... (more story)
Financial Services View More
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)
March 18, 2026
Europe
MLex Summary: Key elements in the EU bank capital framework should be simplified by reducing overlapping requirements, the Association for Financial Markets in Europe said in a report published on Wednesday. A... (more story)
March 17, 2026 | Neil Roland
North America
The US Securities and Exchange Commission and the US Commodity Futures Trading Commission joined in issuing an interpretation today clarifying how federal securities laws apply to some cryptocurrency assets an... (more story)
Trade View More
March 18, 2026
North America
MLex Summary: The US Commerce Department has opened an antidumping and antisubsidy investigation into large diameter graphite electrodes.
March 18, 2026 | Oscar Pandiello
Europe
EU industries are facing a massive challenge from global overcapacity, fueled in particular by Chinese state subsidies, which EU trade defense instruments and World Trade Organization measures are failing to t... (more story)
March 18, 2026
North America
MLex Summary: The US Commerce Department announced a nationwide inquiry into whether Vietnamese steel wheel imports are circumventing antidumping and countervailing duties for Chinese imports. The inquiry foll... (more story)
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: 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)
March 18, 2026
Europe
MLex Summary: The EU risks missing climate targets and delaying industrial decarbonization unless it urgently simplifies its hydrogen framework, a coalition including Eurogas, Ammonia Europe and GIE has warned... (more story)
March 18, 2026
Europe
MLex Summary: The European Commission on Wednesday issued updated guidance clarifying details on prior authorization of non-Russian gas imports in light of the conflict in the Middle East. The updated guidance... (more story)
Technology View More
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)
March 18, 2026
Europe
MLex Summary: A four-week call for evidence on a review and "targeted revision" of the Water Framework Directive was opened by the European Commission on Tuesday. The goal is to secure the EU's supply of criti... (more story)
March 18, 2026
Asia
MLex Summary: Philippine authorities have warned gaming platform Roblox to strengthen child safety measures or face possible restrictions, following reports of sexual predation, grooming and exploitation invol... (more story)