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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 | MLex Staff
Asia
China’s Shanxi market regulator has fined a provincial construction supervision association $29,000 after rejecting the argument that its industry pricing guidelines were merely advisory, concluding a probe th... (more story)
March 17, 2026 | Jenny Lee
Asia
Dong Suh Foods, South Korea's leading instant coffee mix maker, is under antitrust investigation over whether it used its market power to push through unfair price increases on products including the Maxim and... (more story)
March 17, 2026 | Lewis Crofts
Europe
Meta Platforms must do more to give consumers a real option to use Facebook and Instagram while sharing less data and seeing less targeted advertising, to EU consumer lobby group BEUC has said. The social-medi... (more story)
Artificial Intelligence View More
March 17, 2026
Asia
MLex Summary: South Korea’s Shinsegae Group said it signed a memorandum of understanding with US-based artificial intelligence company Reflection AI on Monday to form a partnership that includes a project to b... (more story)
March 16, 2026
North America
MLex Summary: The American Civil Liberties Union and the Center for Democracy and Technology told a federal appeals court that Anthropic's proposed "guardrails" prohibiting use of its products for the mass sur... (more story)
March 16, 2026
North America
MLex Summary: The White House announced the establishment of the Task Force to Eliminate Fraud, with Vice President JD Vance the chairman and the chair of the Federal Trade Commission to be the vice chair. The... (more story)
Mergers and Acquisitions View More
March 17, 2026
Asia
MLex Summary: Intelligent power-management company Eaton’s acquisition of Goldman Sachs’ cooling-components specialist Basilisk Holdings was among five transactions that received unconditional antitrust cleara... (more story)
March 17, 2026
Oceania
MLex Summary: Astra Energy Group’s proposal to acquire independent fuel retailers Gull and NPD is raising competition concerns for New Zealand’s antitrust regulator. In a statement of issues published on Tuesd... (more story)
March 16, 2026 | Flavia Fortes
North America
Passengers challenging Alaska Airlines’ acquisition of Hawaiian Airlines urged a federal court to reject the carrier’s attempt to dismiss their antitrust lawsuit, arguing the merger has already reduced flight ... (more story)
Data Privacy and Security View More
March 17, 2026 | Saloni Sinha
Oceania
Companies carrying out age checks should minimize the collection and retention of biometric data and ensure clear consent, Australia’s privacy regulator has warned. The Office of the Australian Information Com... (more story)
March 17, 2026
Oceania
MLex Summary: Businesses need to consider the goals of performing an age check and whether it is necessary before doing so, the Australian privacy regulator has warned. In a statement announcing the release of... (more story)
March 17, 2026 | Madeline Hughes
North America
Antigone Davis, the global head of safety at Meta, gave a New Mexico jury a personal view on Monday of how the company is working to help its users.
Intellectual Property View More
March 17, 2026 | Freny Patel
Asia
Surging counterfeit trade demands stronger global cooperation, with experts at a recent conference in India calling for an international legal framework to enforce cross-border court orders. Digital platforms ... (more story)
March 16, 2026 | Nick Robertson
Europe, North America
Last week’s changes to design patent eligibility in the US, such as the eligibility of projected and virtual designs, follow in the footsteps of broader reforms in the EU, but critics of the US changes say the... (more story)
March 16, 2026 | Toko Sekiguchi
Asia, Europe
Japan’s Supreme Court has agreed to review whether the design of the widely recognized Tripp Trapp infant chair can qualify for copyright protection. The case could clarify how Japanese law treats artistic exp... (more story)
Financial Crime View More
March 16, 2026
North America
MLex Summary: The US Securities and Exchange Commission announced that Judge Margaret Ryan, the SEC's Enforcement Division director, has resigned. Sam Waldon has been named acting director.
March 16, 2026
Latin America
MLex Summary: Bosch was ordered by a Brazilian regional labor court to pay 12.2 million reais ($2.3 million) over a corruption scheme in which the company allegedly paid bribes to court-appointed experts to ma... (more story)
March 16, 2026 | Samuel Rubenfeld
North America
Iurii Gugnin, the founder of cryptocurrency payments firm Evita, has "reached an agreement in principle" with US prosecutors concerning allegations that he laundered more than $500 million on behalf of sanctio... (more story)
Financial Services View More
March 16, 2026
North America
MLex Summary: A proposed US Securities and Exchange Commission rule change aims to clarify that the rule applies only to equity securities, not to debt securities as well, according to Commissioner Hester Peir... (more story)
March 16, 2026 | Neil Roland
North America
US President Donald Trump signed an executive order aimed at promoting access to mortgages through community banks. The order, signed Friday, directs the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau to target mortgage... (more story)
March 16, 2026 | Sofia Gerace
Europe
The UK is moving ahead with an overhaul of the financial services redress system to address concerns the Financial Ombudsman Service was acting as a "quasi-regulator." The government said it would legislate wh... (more story)
Trade View More
March 17, 2026
Africa, Asia, Europe, Latin America, Oceania
MLex summary: Ministers from 10 members of the Future of Investment and Trade, or FIT, Partnership endorsed a declaration to strengthen the rules-based trading system ahead of the World Trade Organizations’s 1... (more story)
March 17, 2026
Asia, North America
MLex Summary: China said that it reached “new consensus” with the US during the sixth round of bilateral economic and trade consultations held in Paris on March 15-16, according to state media Xinhua. China’s ... (more story)
March 16, 2026
North America
MLex summary: The US Trade Representative announced the resolution of a labor dispute under the United States-Mexico-Canada Rapid Response Labor Mechanism with a Mexican company, ThyssenKrupp Springs & Stabili... (more story)
State Aid View More
March 16, 2026 | Lewis Crofts
Asia, Europe
Chinese security scanner company Nuctech will appear before EU judges on April 14 to contest inspections at its Dutch and Polish premises that were conducted in 2024 under powers to vet unfair foreign subsidie... (more story)
March 16, 2026
Europe
MLex Summary: Ryanair has asked the EU General Court to overturn a decision by the European Commission in October last year not to disclose documents related to an ongoing probe into state aid granted to Lufth... (more story)
March 16, 2026
Europe
MLex Summary: The European Commission has published new guidelines on how countries can support sustainable forms of transport such as rail and inland waterways. The State Aid Land and Multimodal Transport Gui... (more story)
Energy View More
March 16, 2026
Europe
MLex Summary: Improving grid productivity through a legal proposal and expanding long-term power contracts could help shield EU industry from volatile electricity prices, the European Commission says in a lett... (more story)
March 16, 2026 | Louis de Briant and Jean Comte
Europe
A letter from European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen ahead of an Energy Council meeting outlines plans to assess gas price cap measures, promote long-term power contracts and support energy-intensi... (more story)
March 16, 2026
Europe
MLex Summary: Hungary has asked the EU Court of Justice to annul a regulation phasing out Russian gas imports and preparing a phaseout of Russian oil. In an action filed to the court on Feb. 2 and published on... (more story)
Technology View More
March 17, 2026 | Chris May
North America
Live Nation Chief Executive Michael Rapino shot down a venue booking deal worth up to half a million dollars in profit to keep competition out of a California amphitheater controlled by the company, according ... (more story)
March 16, 2026 | Maria Dinzeo
North America
If children under 13 are not allowed on Instagram, why do so many appear to be using it? Testimony in two social media addiction trials has repeatedly returned to this question. Meta Platforms says the answer is complicated.
March 16, 2026
North America
MLex Summary: Plaintiffs filed an amended US class action complaint accusing Roblox of providing havens for adult sexual predators who use its negligently designed app to gain access to and prey upon thousands... (more story)