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Antitrust, Technology
March 19, 2026 | Chris May
North America
Artificial Intelligence, Intellectual Property
March 18, 2026 | Emma Whitford
North America
Antitrust
March 17, 2026 | Maria Júlia Baumert
Latin America
Antitrust View More
March 19, 2026
Europe
MLex Summary: The EU Court of Justice has requested amendments to its internal rules, most significantly, to allow the institution to deliver a ruling even after the participating judges have left the court. T... (more story)
March 19, 2026 | MLex Staff
Asia
The market regulator in China’s Zhejiang province has warned platform companies about antitrust risks linked to data, algorithms and pricing, as authorities step up preventive compliance efforts in the digital... (more story)
March 19, 2026 | MLex Staff
Asia
China’s prosecutors have pushed back against a county-level gas-market consolidation that left a single supplier dominating the local market, in a case involving multiple types of anticompetitive conduct. The ... (more story)
Artificial Intelligence View More
March 19, 2026 | Yonnex Li
Asia
Hong Kong’s Law Reform Commission is examining whether existing laws adequately address crimes involving the use of artificial intelligence, amid growing global scrutiny over deepfake pornography and misinform... (more story)
March 19, 2026
Asia
MLex Summary: Hong Kong has issued six pilot licenses covering 62 autonomous vehicles operating in locations including North Lantau, West Kowloon and Kai Tak, as the government accelerates commercial deploymen... (more story)
March 18, 2026 | Amy Miller
North America
Colorado’s artificial intelligence law could be scaled back under a proposal released by a task force made up of consumer advocates and technology groups, which is setting off renewed public debate on how to r... (more story)
Mergers and Acquisitions View More
March 19, 2026
North America
MLex Summary: California Attorney General Rob Bonta, alongside a coalition of eight attorneys general, filed a lawsuit to block Nexstar Media Group's acquisition of Tegna. If allowed to proceed, the deal would... (more story)
March 19, 2026 | Sachiko Sakamaki
Asia
Japan’s conditional clearance of the planned merger between Daimler’s Mitsubishi Fuso Truck and Bus and Toyota’s Hino Motors marks one of the most complex remedy packages in recent merger control, relying pred... (more story)
March 19, 2026 | Lewis Crofts
Europe
The combination of Paramount Skydance and Warner Bros. Discovery could see EU regulators asking questions about the impact on creatives and their options to sell work such as scripts, according to Teresa Riber... (more story)
Data Privacy and Security View More
March 19, 2026
Europe
MLex Summary: Companies may refuse data access requests under the EU’s General Data Protection Regulation only when they can demonstrate abusive intent, the bloc’s top court ruled, largely endorsing an opinion... (more story)
March 19, 2026 | Saloni Sinha
Oceania
A Deloitte report commissioned after Medibank Private’s 2022 data breach was primarily intended to enable the health insurer’s lawyers to provide legal advice, an Australian court hearing an appeal was told. A... (more story)
March 19, 2026 | Maria Dinzeo
North America
A US federal judge has signaled she will deny most efforts by a Kentucky school district and major social media companies to limit what evidence a jury can hear in a closely watched trial over whether platform... (more story)
Intellectual Property View More
March 19, 2026 | Toko Sekiguchi
Asia
A Tokyo court rejected a real estate firm’s claim that former employees misappropriated customer data to fuel a rival business, holding that overlapping deals and employee departures weren’t enough to prove tr... (more story)
March 19, 2026 | Freny Patel
Asia
Free trade agreements prove global recognition of the alcoholic beverage Pisco from both Peru and Chile, an Indian court said. In rejecting Peru’s exclusivity claim, the Delhi High Court on Wednesday mandated ... (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)
Financial Crime View More
March 18, 2026 | Samuel Rubenfeld
North America
A Texas-based businessman was charged with offering “a substantial amount in bribes” to an official of Mexico’s state-owned energy company to help an equipment company obtain a $540 million supply contract. He... (more story)
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)
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 | 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)
Trade View More
March 19, 2026
Asia
MLex Summary: China’s Commerce Minister Wang Wentao met South Korea’s Minister of Trade, Industry and Energy, Kim Jung-kwan, in Beijing on Wednesday, the Ministry of Commerce said in a statement on Thursday. T... (more story)
March 18, 2026 | Zack Budryk
North America
Representatives of manufacturer RealTruck Inc. argued before the US International Trade Commission Wednesday in favor of antidumping and countervailing duties on truck bed covers imported from China.
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.
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 | Madeline Hughes
North America
Members of the US Senate Commerce Committee used a majority of a hearing on Wednesday questioning how Section 230 of the Communications Decency Act has impacted lawsuits alleging addictive harms brought agains... (more story)
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 | 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)