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Data Privacy and Security
April 27, 2026 | Madeline Hughes
North America
Artificial Intelligence
April 27, 2026 | Emma Whitford
North America
Artificial Intelligence, Data Privacy and Security, Technology
April 27, 2026 | Patricia Figueiredo
Europe
Antitrust View More
April 28, 2026
Oceania
MLex Summary: Australia has released draft legislation to update its news-media bargaining regime by requiring major digital platforms to either strike deals with publishers or pay a levy based on their Austra... (more story)
April 28, 2026
Asia
MLex Summary: Hanwha Aerospace, Hanwha Systems and Hanwha Ocean will remain subject to merger remedies for longer after South Korea’s antitrust regulator extended the measures tied to Hanwha’s acquisition of a... (more story)
April 28, 2026
Asia
MLex Summary: South Korea’s revised notice on antitrust fine calculations will take effect on Wednesday, bringing sharply higher penalty floors and stricter reduction rules into force. The Korea Fair Trade Com... (more story)
Artificial Intelligence View More
April 28, 2026
Asia
MLex Summary: South Korean President Lee Jae Myung said global rules and standards for safe AI use remain insufficient, as he met Google DeepMind CEO Demis Hassabis in Seoul on Monday. Lee raised concerns over... (more story)
April 28, 2026 | Amy Miller
North America
Nine jurors from a wide range of backgrounds and professions were seated Monday in the legal battle between former friends and current rivals Elon Musk and Sam Altman as protestors gathered outside a federal c... (more story)
April 28, 2026
North America
MLex Summary: The US Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit has agreed to stay the US government's appeal of its loss to Anthropic while the US Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit hears its s... (more story)
Mergers and Acquisitions View More
April 28, 2026
Asia
MLex Summary: Japan's Daiwa Securities Group said Monday it has agreed to acquire Orix Bank from leasing-focused financial services group Orix for 370 billion yen ($2.3 billion). The transaction would involve ... (more story)
April 27, 2026 | Henrique Santiago
Latin America
Fleury’s proposed full acquisition of Femme has been unconditionally approved in Brazil following a nearly five-month review. The nation's antitrust watchdog particularly reviewed horizontal overlaps and verti... (more story)
April 27, 2026 | Flavia Fortes
Latin America
Brazil’s competition authority found that artificial intelligence partnerships struck by major tech companies such as Amazon, Microsoft and Google didn’t result in gun-jumping violations in the country, but th... (more story)
Data Privacy and Security View More
April 28, 2026
Asia
MLex Summary: Ninety South Korean lawmakers said Tuesday they will deliver a protest letter to the US ambassador, objecting to reported moves by some US lawmakers to seek protections for Coupang executives and... (more story)
April 28, 2026
Asia
MLex Summary: The Philippines is advancing its cybersecurity policy framework through a $25.6 million partnership with South Korea to establish a National Cyber Security Center aimed at centralizing threat mon... (more story)
April 28, 2026
Asia
MLex Summary: The Philippines privacy regulator has issued guidelines clarifying that data scraping of publicly available personal data remains subject to the Data Privacy Act, rejecting any assumption that pu... (more story)
Intellectual Property View More
April 27, 2026 | MLex Staff
Asia
Innoscience has secured another legal victory in its ongoing patent dispute with Infineon Technologies, after a Chinese court upheld the validity of two of its core gallium nitride, or GaN, patents.
April 27, 2026 | Toko Sekiguchi
Asia
Japan’s IP High Court has canceled a JPO, decision that upheld a thermoplastic resin patent used in display materials, finding that the invention was obvious and that its claimed performance benefits weren’t c... (more story)
April 27, 2026 | Freny Patel
Asia
An Indian court has set aside the refusal of Huntington Alloys’ patent application, ruling that authorities must provide reasoned explanations even in atomic energy cases.
Financial Crime View More
April 27, 2026 | Samuel Rubenfeld
North America
A former financial director of Stericycle’s Latin American division has pleaded not guilty to US charges over his alleged role in a foreign bribery scheme at the waste-management firm, according to court recor... (more story)
April 27, 2026 | Martin Coyle
Europe
International law firm Dentons is facing a further UK court case over its handling of a wealthy client after court of appeal judges rejected its bid to dismiss the case on Monday. The case is focused on claims... (more story)
April 24, 2026
Asia, Latin America
MLex Summary: In a disclosure to the Singapore Stock Exchange, Seatrium said the general division of the High Court in Singapore has approved a deferred-prosecution agreement related to the Operation Car Wash ... (more story)
Financial Services View More
April 27, 2026
North America
MLex Summary: The US Department of the Treasury announced that is has initiated a review of certified community development financial institutions to identify potential violations of applicable law or CDFI requirements.
April 27, 2026 | Sofia Gerace
Europe
The UK’s financial regulator has been given some relief in its push to roll out a sweeping redress plan for the car-finance mis-selling scandal, after the industry’s main trade body confirmed it would not moun... (more story)
April 27, 2026
Europe
MLex Summary: EU finance ministers have been asked to consider the scope of direct supervision and the governance framework in a policy initiative to improve the EU's capital markets called the Market Integrat... (more story)
Trade View More
April 27, 2026 | Bradley Dress
Asia, North America
The US Court of International Trade ruled that Customs and Border Protection cannot impose interim measures in a pending case concerning low-speed personal transportation vehicles from China.
April 27, 2026
North America
MLex summary: Mexican producer Deacero S.A.P.I. de C.V filed a lawsuit at the US Court of International Trade to contest the Commerce Department's March final affirmative circumvention determination on certain... (more story)
April 27, 2026 | Eliana Hubacker
North America
Both sides in the final hearing on US antidumping and antisubsidy duty petitions against Russian palladium agreed that speculation dominates the palladium market, but disagreed on whether that speculation refl... (more story)
State Aid View More
April 23, 2026
Europe
MLex Summary: Companies in Estonia relying heavily on electricity and exposed to international trade will be eligible for a levy rate reduction of between 75 and 85 percent under a €36 million plan that has wo... (more story)
April 23, 2026
Europe
MLex Summary: A Croatian measure worth €37 million, for the construction of two business facilities offering workspaces for the gaming sector in the town of Novska, has won state aid approval, the European Com... (more story)
April 23, 2026
Europe
MLex Summary: Lufthansa has lost its legal challenge to a lower court verdict that ruled a German €6 billion recapitalization plan for the air carrier was illegal. In a judgment delivered Thursday, the EU's Co... (more story)
Energy View More
April 24, 2026 | Amy Miller
North America
Maine's Democratic governor said Friday that she’s vetoed a bill that would have made Maine the first US state to pause construction on large new data centers. The decision highlights the tough choices for pol... (more story)
April 24, 2026
Europe
MLex Summary: Additional sanction proceedings against power sector companies regarding the April 2025 blackout have been opened by Spain’s competition watchdog Comisión Nacional de los Mercados y la Competenci... (more story)
April 24, 2026
Europe
MLex Summary: European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen said the EU will accelerate its shift to domestic clean energy and push to complete the single market by 2027, following talks in Cyprus between... (more story)
Technology View More
April 27, 2026
Europe
MLex Summary: The EU’s planned law to strengthen protection and digital fairness for consumers, the Digital Fairness Act, could create disproportionate impacts on low-risk media businesses, trade groups repres... (more story)
April 27, 2026 | James Konstantin Galvez
Asia
Singapore is studying potential restrictions on youth access to social media and is not committing to an outright ban, Law Minister Edwin Tong said Monday, signaling a preference for targeted safeguards to add... (more story)
April 27, 2026 | James Konstantin Galvez
Asia
Singapore is preparing to start its new Online Safety (Relief and Accountability) framework, introducing a dedicated Online Safety Commission with powers to order rapid content removal and strengthen victim re... (more story)