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DealRisk®, Mergers and Acquisitions
March 16, 2026 | Flavia Fortes
North America
Trade
March 16, 2026 | Oscar Pandiello
Europe
Trade
March 13, 2026 | Bradley Dress, Zack Budryk
North America
Antitrust View More
March 17, 2026 | Maria Júlia Baumert
Latin America
Google has rejected accusations from Brazilian journalism groups that its AI Overviews are responsible for sharp drops in traffic to news outlets, arguing instead that the decline predates the launch of the to... (more story)
March 17, 2026
North America
MLex Summary: US Senator Amy Klobuchar introduced the Antitrust Accountability and Transparency Act aimed at strengthening review of antitrust settlements to ensure they protect consumers, workers, and small b... (more story)
March 17, 2026
Europe
MLex Summary: Visa-targeted antitrust damages claims in the UK from GrandVision over allegedly anticompetitive card-payment fees must be withdrawn due to the payment-card company's settlement agreement over th... (more story)
Artificial Intelligence View More
March 17, 2026 | Frank Hersey
Europe
The UK government wants the country to have the fastest rate of AI adoption of any country in the G7, finance minister has said as she outlined policies including investment plans and allowing for temporary am... (more story)
March 17, 2026
North America
MLex Summary: The US International Trade Administration is calling for industry proposals on two AI export consortia, pre-set and on-demand. The former category involves preparation in advance for ongoing depl... (more story)
March 17, 2026
North America
MLex summary: Tennessee Republican Senator Marsha Blackburn and Vermont Democratic Senator Peter Welch wrote to Chinese company ByteDance, calling its Seedance 2.0 artificial intelligence video generating tool... (more story)
Mergers and Acquisitions View More
March 17, 2026 | Curtis Eichelberger
North America
Norfolk Southern Chief Executive Mark George said customers are choosing to pay more money to deliver their products using trucks in order to avoid the inconvenience of rail delivery.
March 17, 2026 | Curtis Eichelberger
North America
Amtrak’s ability to maintain on-time passenger train schedules and to expand into new markets using Union Pacific and Norfolk Southern rail lines is going to play a critical role in the regulatory analysis of ... (more story)
March 17, 2026 | Flavia Fortes
Latin America
The Brazilian antitrust authority is seeking input from maritime regulator Antaq in its review of the proposed combination between offshore engineering groups Saipem and Subsea7, MLex has learned. The agency i... (more story)
Data Privacy and Security View More
March 17, 2026 | Mike Swift
North America
The recent lifting of an injunction blocking enforcement of the California Age-Appropriate Design Code Act by a federal appeals court could send regulatory ripples across many sectors of the tech industry, inc... (more story)
March 17, 2026
Europe
MLex Summary: German data protection authorities have proposed targeted revisions of the EU's data protection law as part of the European Commission’s Digital Fitness Check, while preserving its core principle... (more story)
March 17, 2026
Europe
MLex Summary: Restaurant Partner Polska, which operates the Glovo app in Poland, has been fined almost 5.9 million złoty (around €1.4 million) for breaching the EU’s General Data Protection Regulation, the Pol... (more story)
Intellectual Property View More
March 17, 2026 | Inbar Preiss
Europe
The Unified Patent Court ruled that it cannot hear infringement claims relating to non-UPC patent rights when jurisdiction is based on the “place of harm” rule, appeal judges ruled in favor of OpenAI, Adobe an... (more story)
March 17, 2026 | Douglas Clarke-Williams
Europe
Lufthansa’s appeal of a UK High court ruling which determined damages for Panasonic’s and Astronic’s infringement of Lufthansa’s patent for supplying electricity for airplane passengers to charge their devices... (more story)
March 17, 2026 | Toko Sekiguchi
Asia
A Japanese court rejected a damages claim against Amazon Japan over allegedly copied product photos used by a third-party seller, holding that a marketplace operator isn’t liable for copyright infringement if ... (more story)
Financial Crime View More
March 17, 2026 | Samuel Rubenfeld
North America
TradeStation Securities, a Florida-based brokerage firm that operates online trading platforms, agreed to pay $1.1 million to resolve a US sanctions violations probe after discovering failures in its complianc... (more story)
March 17, 2026
North America
MLex Summary: TradeStation Securities, a Florida-based brokerage firm that operates online trading platforms, agreed to pay $1.1 million to resolve a US sanctions violations probe arising from its provision of... (more story)
March 17, 2026 | Martin Coyle
Europe
A whistleblower who alleged corruption involving the UK government and high-ranking Saudi officials over Airbus-linked defense contracts has run out of time in bringing his claim, the government has said. Ian ... (more story)
Financial Services View More
March 17, 2026 | Sofia Gerace
Europe
The UK's Financial Ombudsman Service should have a chair appointed by government rather than the financial markets watchdog, the finance ministry has said in a proposal that has sparked impartiality concerns. ... (more story)
March 17, 2026
Europe
MLex Summary: The Basel Committee on Banking Supervision has appointed Ben Gully as its next secretary-general for a three-year term, starting on Aug. 14. Gully currently works at Canada’s banking supervisor a... (more story)
March 17, 2026
Europe
MLex Summary: Banks, building societies and investment firms have been asked for their views on an updated liquidity framework from the UK Prudential Regulation Authority. The regulator said on Tuesday that th... (more story)
Trade View More
March 17, 2026 | Cynthia Kroet and Oscar Pandiello
Europe
The European Parliament’s International Trade Committee is set to hold a repeatedly delayed vote on the EU-US trade deal on Thursday, paving the way for a vote in the parliament as a whole on March 26. The mov... (more story)
March 17, 2026
Europe
MLex Summary: Ukraine has accepted EU technical support and funding to repair the Drujba pipeline, European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen and European Council President Antonio Costa said in a join... (more story)
March 17, 2026 | Patricia Figueiredo
Europe
UK officials are considering scrapping the Regulatory Policy Committee, but no decision has yet been made, a UK finance ministry official told lawmakers on Tuesday morning. The body plays an “important role” i... (more story)
State Aid View More
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)
March 17, 2026
Europe
MLex Summary: State aid rules for banks in difficulty are now open for public feedback, after the European Commission started a call for evidence on provisions that were last updated in 2013. The review aims t... (more story)
Energy View More
March 17, 2026
Europe
MLex Summary: The European Commission is seeking feedback on plans to simplify its system for defining sustainable economic activities. The proposed changes aim to make the rules clearer and easier to apply, h... (more story)
March 17, 2026
Europe
MLex Summary: European Parliament committees approved new rules to standardize how greenhouse gas emissions from transport services are calculated across the EU. Companies will not be required to report emissi... (more story)
March 17, 2026
Europe
MLex Summary: The recent surge in energy prices and global instability caused by the conflict in the wider Middle East have made it clear that improving cross-border energy interconnectivity in the EU has beco... (more story)
Technology View More
March 17, 2026 | Matthew Newman
Europe
The European Commission may consider making the EU’s decisions on UK data adequacy — allowing the free flow of personal data between the two jurisdictions — permanent, following a review of UK data protection ... (more story)
March 17, 2026
Europe
MLex Summary: Cloudflare, a content delivery and security platform, has published a blogpost detailing its reasons for appealing a recent fine by the Italian communications regulator under the national piracy ... (more story)
March 17, 2026
Europe
MLex Summary: Louisa Specht-Riemenschneider, Germany’s Federal Commissioner for Data Protection and Freedom of Information, said on Tuesday she would resign once a successor is appointed. Specht-Riemenschneide... (more story)