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Specialist news and analysis on legal risk and regulation

EU govts split over AI, data transfer rules in Digital Omnibus comments

Google says €403m Irish fine was over ‘historical’ location tracking practices

Meta bets on personal AI, with privacy baggage in tow

Google faces Irish location-tracking decision after consumer groups' complaints

Young UK adults spark rebound in counterfeit purchases, UKIPO study shows

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Antitrust

September 21, 2026 | Lewis Crofts

Europe

Google’s PlayStore fine unmoved by claims of ‘contentious’ EU legal case
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DealRisk®, Mergers and Acquisitions

September 18, 2026 | Alex Wilts and Flavia Fortes

North America

Paramount-Warner bond hearing puts US antitrust federalism clash before court
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Trade

September 17, 2026 | Eliana Hubacker and Bradley Dress

North America

US tariff powers in Russia bill could lead back to global trade chaos
Google’s PlayStore fine unmoved by claims of ‘contentious’ EU legal case
Paramount-Warner bond hearing puts US antitrust federalism clash before court
US tariff powers in Russia bill could lead back to global trade chaos

Antitrust View More

Former US antitrust enforcers say contempt order against Apple seeks to 'micromanage'

September 21, 2026

North America

MLex Summary: Former US federal antitrust enforcers told the US Supreme Court that the US Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit’s ruling on contempt against Apple in an antitrust action brought by Epic Games ... (more story)

Alexion pushes for judgment in EmblemHealth's US antitrust suit over Soliris

September 21, 2026

North America

MLex Summary: Alexion Pharmaceuticals filed a reply in support of its motion for judgment on pleadings in EmblemHealth's US antitrust suit over Alexion's alleged unlawful delaying of biosimilar competition for... (more story)

Tech groups back Apple at US Supreme Court, say injunctions must 'mean what they say'

September 21, 2026

North America

MLex Summary: Computer & Communications Industry Association, NetChoice, and Software & Information Industry Association told the US Supreme Court that court injunctions should be interpreted according to thei... (more story)

Artificial Intelligence View More

Data centers to report about water, electricity use under new Calif. laws

September 21, 2026

North America

MLex Summary: California Governor Gavin Newsom signed seven bills that will require data centers to report about water and electricity use. The bills aim to make data centers pay a share of grid update costs, ... (more story)

Amazon files amended US claims against Perplexity over AI agents

September 21, 2026

North America

MLex Summary: Amazon filed an amended US complaint against Perplexity AI in California federal court for allegedly disguising its artificial intelligence browser agent, Comet, as a human in violation of federa... (more story)

EU must step up simplification drive, 13 member states urge

September 21, 2026

Europe

MLex Summary: Thirteen member states have called on the EU to step up its push to simplify European law. In a note circulated in Brussels and obtained by MLex, Austria, Czechia, Denmark, Germany, Estonia, Hung... (more story)

Mergers and Acquisitions View More

States' settlement with Paramount a loss, American Economic Liberties Project says

September 21, 2026

North America

MLex Summary: A settlement of the antitrust case brought by US states against Paramount's acquisition of Warner Bros. Discovery is a loss, the American Economic Liberties Project said. “Today, billionaires hav... (more story)

China rails at EU foreign-subsidy rules, but is its M&A really treated unfairly?

September 21, 2026 | Andrew Boyce and Lewis Crofts

Europe

Chinese companies were complaining that the EU's Foreign Subsidy Regulation would be unfair to them long before it even came into force. A recent flashpoint was Beijing's block on cooperation with an EU probe ... (more story)

ABP-Dovecote Park meat deal faces UK antitrust review

September 21, 2026

Europe

MLex Summary: ABP Food Group’s acquisition of a stake in UK red meats supplier Dovecote Park is to be investigated by the Competition and Markets Authority. The CMA has served a freeze order on the deal, and h... (more story)

Data Privacy and Security View More

EU govts consider tighter cookie exemptions, revised cyber reporting

September 21, 2026 | Júlia Tar and Matthew Newman

Europe

A new draft of a legislative package to revise the EU's digital laws put forward on behalf of the member states  would amend data protection rules on AI and pseudonymized data and update ePrivacy rules on cook... (more story)

EU cybersecurity response hampered by information-sharing gaps, auditors say

September 21, 2026

Europe

MLex Summary: EU action to detect and respond to major cybersecurity incidents is only partly effective because information sharing remains limited and key tools face delays, the European Court of Auditors sai... (more story)

Axesor pays reduced €128,000 data privacy fine in Spain

September 21, 2026

Europe

MLex Summary: Business-information provider Axesor has paid a reduced €128,000 fine for processing the personal information of self-employed people obtained from Camerdata without a valid legal basis and witho... (more story)

Intellectual Property View More

How far can a software trademark reach? Autonomous cars put EU rules to the test

September 21, 2026 | Inbar Preiss

Europe

A dispute over Deutsche Bahn's Kira trademark for autonomous-driving software and vehicles has prompted the European Union Intellectual Property Office to ask its top appeal board whether “computer software” i... (more story)

Honeywell secures UPC injunction as judges refuse to await Dutch license ruling

September 21, 2026 | Inbar Preiss

Europe

Honeywell has secured a Unified Patent Court injunction against VeyorEx and related companies in Germany, Denmark, France, the Netherlands, Latvia and Italy, after judges rejected a disputed-license defense an... (more story)

China court shields hit drama title from copycat alcohol marketing

September 21, 2026 | MLex Staff

Asia

China’s top court has highlighted a ruling that protects the title of hit crime drama The Knockout as a commercial identifier, signaling that widely recognized television titles can be shielded from copycat ma... (more story)

Financial Crime View More

Top job at UK's Serious Fraud Office to be advertised next week

September 21, 2026 | Martin Coyle

Europe

Recruitment for the new head of the UK’s Serious Fraud Office will formally start next week when the post will be advertised by the government, MLex has learned. It is understood that the Attorney General’s Of... (more story)

MeSoFa sues EU institutions over resolution of Croatian Sberbank subsidiary

September 21, 2026

Europe

MLex Summary: MeSoFa, formerly Sberbank Europe, has sued several EU institutions over measures taken during the 2022 resolution of its Croatian subsidiary. The case, filed on July 30 and published on Monday in... (more story)

Former Vitol trader sentenced to 4 years in prison in US bribery case

September 18, 2026 | Samuel Rubenfeld

Latin America, North America

A former trader at commodities giant Vitol was sentenced Friday to 48 months in prison for paying bribes to Ecuadorian and Mexican officials in exchange for hundreds of millions of dollars in contracts. Vitol ... (more story)

Financial Services View More

Revolut breach on desks of UK finance regulator, Lithuanian privacy watchdog

September 21, 2026 | Imogen Howse

Europe

Revolut is engaging with the UK's Financial Conduct Authority and Lithuania's State Data Protection Inspectorate after reporting a data breach that affected about 680 customers. The company earlier this month ... (more story)

Central bank settlement for tokenized markets introduced in Eurozone

September 21, 2026

Europe

MLex Summary: The Eurozone’s central banks have launched Pontes, a system allowing transactions in tokenized financial assets to be settled using central bank money. Banks and financial-market operators will j... (more story)

EU business sustainability reporting rules streamlined from 2027

September 21, 2026

Europe

MLex Summary: Smaller companies outside the EU’s mandatory sustainability reporting rules will have a new voluntary reporting framework, while larger companies will have simplified mandatory reporting requirem... (more story)

Trade View More

Foreign silicon metal producers challenge US trade commission finding

September 21, 2026

Asia, Europe, North America

MLex Summary: Australian producer Simcoa Operations and Norwegian manufacturer Elkem ASA filed separate lawsuits at the US Court of International Trade to contest the International Trade Commission's August fi... (more story)

G20 energy ministerial outlines collaborations on critical mineral supply chains

September 21, 2026

North America

MLex Summary: The G20 Energy Abundance Ministerial released a joint statement announcing the intention of the member countries to collaborate to create more resilient critical mineral supply chains through vol... (more story)

US-China summit could see Board of Trade emerge

September 21, 2026 | Bradley Dress

Asia, North America

A high-stakes meeting later this week between President Donald Trump and Chinese leader Xi Jinping could lead to new trade agreements and an extension of a truce on tariff hikes, but it’s unlikely a major brea... (more story)

State Aid View More

Latvia calls for higher, reviewed minimum thresholds for EU state aid controls

September 21, 2026

Europe

MLex Summary: Latvia has proposed having higher and regularly reviewed minimum threshold for investment that would trigger EU state aid controls, saying the current level no longer reflects inflation, rising i... (more story)

EU countries to start aid pre-notifications in first major AI project this month

September 16, 2026

Europe

MLex Summary: Eleven out of nineteen EU countries involved in the first Important Project of Common European Interest in the field of artificial intelligence and planning to grant state aid, will start pre-not... (more story)

Vindenergi challenging Danish aid for wind farms project at EU court

September 14, 2026

Europe

MLex Summary: Energy company Dansk Vindenergi is challenging the Danish government's €5 billion plan to back the construction and operation of the Hesselø and North Sea I Mid offshore wind farms at an EU court... (more story)

Energy View More

EU data centers to get sustainability labels in 2027; minimum standards to follow

September 21, 2026 | Louis de Briant

Europe

Data centers will receive their first EU sustainability labels by August 2027, under a European Commission regulation published on Monday. The labels will assess energy and water efficiency and low-emission en... (more story)

Larger data centers to get sustainability ratings, says EU Commission proposal

September 21, 2026

Europe

MLex Summary: Data centers with a capacity above 500 kilowatts would receive EU sustainability ratings covering energy and water efficiency, low-emission energy use and contributions to the electricity system,... (more story)

Virginia governor releases AI data center 'accountability framework'

September 18, 2026

North America

MLex Summary: Virginia Governor Abigail Spanberger on Friday announced a new framework for data center accountability standards with an accompanying executive order, agency directives and policy recommendation... (more story)

Technology View More

Meta faces complaint over monetization enforcement under EU digital law

September 21, 2026 | Sara Brandstätter

Europe

Meta faces a complaint from Dutch advocacy group What to Fix over Facebook’s alleged failure to enforce monetization rules and provide effective systems for reporting potentially illegal monetization. The grou... (more story)

Meta faces Dutch group complaint over Facebook monetization

September 21, 2026

Europe

MLex Summary: Meta has been targeted in a complaint by digital-accountability group What To Fix. The group's filing to the Netherlands’ consumer and markets regulator, or ACM, alleges that Meta violated the EU... (more story)

UK's Forrester raises doubts over effectiveness of fines

September 21, 2026 | Lewis Crofts

Europe

Fines may not be "appropriate" where enforcers are trying to "change market equilibrium" rather than sanction past breaches, UK judge Ian Forrester said. The jurist, who previously served as a UK judge at the ... (more story)