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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
Brazil’s federal antitrust prosecutors split with the competition authority’s investigative arm and recommended that only the National Federation of Journalists be charged over freelance pay tables, while reco... (more story)
March 17, 2026 | Clayton Vickers
North America
Investment management firms Vanguard and State Street have asked a federal court to trim 13 US states’ antitrust claims by granting partial summary judgment over their federal-law claims on behalf of electrici... (more story)
March 17, 2026 | Maria Júlia Baumert
Latin America
Brazil’s competition authority has formally queried Apple on access to near-field communication technology on iPhones, related fees, the treatment of different payment methods including Pix, the role of Apple ... (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
North America
MLex Summary: Defendants Meta Platforms, TikTok, Snap, YouTube and plaintiff Breathitt County (Kentucky) Board of Education have submitted their witness lists in advance of a trial over the platforms' alleged ... (more story)
March 17, 2026 | Madeline Hughes
North America
Meta Platforms was largely successful in getting thrown out most of the information about New Mexico’s civil investigation into the prevalence of child sexual abuse materials (CSAM) on its platforms. It will b... (more story)
March 17, 2026 | Xu Yuan
North America
As a Utah law will soon take effect that requires social media companies to allow users to migrate their account and personal data across different platforms, several US states have introduced similar bills to... (more story)
Intellectual Property View More
March 17, 2026 | Melissa Ritti
North America
Google secured dismissal Monday of consolidated US patent litigation by Valtrus Innovations in a decision that underscores growing judicial skepticism of the division of ownership and enforcement rights. The p... (more story)
March 17, 2026 | Nick Robertson
Europe, North America
The US Chamber of Commerce’s annual IP index report warns that multiple major countries are taking a step back on IP rights, including by pursuing increased regulation. Separately, USPTO Director John Squires ... (more story)
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)
Financial Crime View More
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)
March 17, 2026
North America
MLex Summary: In a brief order, US Judge Kenneth M. Hoyt delayed the sentencing of Texas-based Mexican businessman Ramon Alexandro Rovirosa Martinez to April 27. Rovirosa was found guilty of three of the four ... (more story)
March 17, 2026
North America
MLex Summary: A US judge granted a further delay to the sentencing of Francisco Roberto Cosenza Centeno, the former director of a Honduran procurement entity, due to ongoing medical issues. Cosenza is now sche... (more story)
Financial Services View More
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)
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 | 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)
Trade View More
March 17, 2026 | Bradley Dress
North America
Two US producers argued Tuesday in a preliminary phase investigation before the International Trade Commission that large diameter graphite electrodes from China and India are driving down prices in the market... (more story)
March 17, 2026
North America
MLex Summary: The US Court of International Trade upheld the Department of Commerce’s finding of circumvention of antidumping and countervailing duty orders for Vietnamese imports of solar cells. The complaina... (more story)
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)
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 | 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)
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)
Technology 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 | 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)