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Antitrust

July 06, 2026 | Simon Zekaria

Europe

World Snooker says UK damages suit evidence needs narrowing
Front pages of Belgian newspapers published in French

DealRisk®, Mergers and Acquisitions, Technology

July 03, 2026 | Anna Ferrari

Europe

Rossel-IPM merger wins Belgian approval with media plurality safeguards
Football in colors of the Brazilian flag

DealRisk®, Mergers and Acquisitions

July 03, 2026 | Henrique Santiago

Latin America

Soccer bloc FFU faces full-form antitrust review in Brazil

Antitrust View More

Medtronic loses bid to overturn jury verdict in US medical-device case

July 06, 2026

North America

MLex Summary: A California federal judge denied Medtronic's motion for judgment as matter of law, upholding a jury verdict finding that the company illegally stifled competition in the market for certain medic... (more story)

Lenaerts set to be reappointed as judge for EU top court

July 06, 2026 | Jean Comte

Europe

Koen Lenaerts, a judge at the EU higher-tier court and currently the president of the institution, is on track to be reappointed for another mandate, according to documents seen by MLex. EU member states are s... (more story)

EU's win against Google eases burden on antitrust investigators

July 06, 2026 | Lewis Crofts

Europe

EU judges have done the bloc’s antitrust investigators a favor. In last week’s defeat for Google, the Court of Justice ruled that regulators don’t have to construct a detailed hypothetical alternative world — ... (more story)

Artificial Intelligence View More

UK watchdogs should assess AI powers gap, financial regulator told in review

July 06, 2026 | Patricia Figueiredo

Europe

UK watchdogs should consider whether they need greater powers to oversee AI when increasingly autonomous systems create harms that firm-by-firm supervision cannot capture, a report published by the Financial C... (more story)

UK finance regulator told to prepare for increasingly capable AI

July 06, 2026

Europe

MLex Summary: Adapting the UK regulatory framework to increasingly capable AI, monitoring the shift to autonomous models and building AI-enabled supervision should be among the priorities for the UK financial ... (more story)

China issues new guidelines on deployment, use of AI agents

July 06, 2026

Asia

MLex Summary: China’s National Information Security Standardization Technical Committee, or TC260, has officially released security guidelines for companies to guard against security risks in their deployment ... (more story)

Mergers and Acquisitions View More

Saipem-Subsea7 Brazil clearance set to be challenged over analysis inconsistencies

July 06, 2026 | Flavia Fortes

Latin America

Critics of the approval of Saipem's proposed acquisition of Subsea7 in Brazil argue the Administrative Council for Economic Defense's investigatory unit relied on internally inconsistent reasoning to justify t... (more story)

Fine HarperCollins €550,000 for gun-jumping, Austrian watchdog says

July 06, 2026

Europe

MLex Summary: Austria's competition authority has asked the national competition-specialist court to fine book publisher HarperCollins's German unit €550,000 for taking over publisher Gräfe und Unzer without p... (more story)

ITV says changing media market supports UK clearance of Sky deal (update*)

July 06, 2026 | Jon Menon

Europe

ITV chief Carolyn McCall said that she is confident that UK regulators will recognize the “fundamental changes” that have taken place in the market to enable clearance of the sale of the company’s media and en... (more story)

Data Privacy and Security View More

US Supreme Court declines to intervene in challenge to Texas app store law

July 06, 2026

North America

MLex Summary: The US Supreme Court declined to intervene in the Computer & Communications Industry Association's constitutional challenge to Texas’ SB 2420, the App Store Accountability Act. The US Court of Ap... (more story)

Digital euro expected to face full EU assembly vote, but likely to pass

July 06, 2026 | Helena Freitas, Fanny Roux

Europe

The European Parliament’s digital euro position is set to face a full assembly vote on Thursday, as the far-right Patriots for Europe group is expected to challenge the committee’s mandate to start talks with ... (more story)

eBay gets German request to address alleged Digital Services Act breaches

July 06, 2026

Europe

MLex Summary: eBay has been asked by Germany's Digital Services Coordinator to respond to and remedy alleged breaches of the EU's Digital Services Act after the regulator identified shortcomings in its user-ri... (more story)

Intellectual Property View More

USPTO drops ‘Board of Peace’ trademark applications, ending unusual legal test

July 06, 2026 | Steve Scherer

North America

The USPTO abandoned trademark applications it filed for President Donald Trump's "Board of Peace," ending an unprecedented attempt to register marks it acknowledged it did not own.

Google, Meta, Streamz contest Belgian copyright payments at EU court

July 06, 2026 | Matthew Newman

Europe

Google, Meta Platforms, Spotify and Belgian streaming platform Streamz told the EU's highest court Monday that Belgium's requirement for streaming platforms to make additional payments to authors and performer... (more story)

Louis Vuitton win over Molly Tea fuels trademark debate in China

July 06, 2026 | MLex Staff

Asia

Louis Vuitton Malletier has won a trademark-infringement lawsuit against Chinese milk tea chain Molly Tea, in a ruling that has sparked debate over how far trademark law should protect a four-petal flower logo.

Financial Crime View More

Adani ‘name and shame’ case should be dismissed, US DOJ official tells court

July 06, 2026 | Samuel Rubenfeld

North America

Criminal charges against Indian billionaire Gautam Adani and several others should be dismissed because the conduct occurred abroad and involved foreigners, the case is difficult to prove and it is inconsisten... (more story)

Turkish defense contractor arrested on US fraud charges in NATO corruption scheme

July 06, 2026

North America

MLex Summary: Bahadir Hatipoglu, a Turkish defense contractor, was arrested on US fraud charges relating to alleged corruption at a NATO procurement agency, according to court records.

EU anti-money laundering body seeks views on cross-border data-sharing rules

July 06, 2026

Europe

MLex Summary: Financial intelligence units — national agencies that receive and analyze suspicious financial activity — would face clearer EU standards for sharing suspicious activity reports across borders un... (more story)

Financial Services View More

Etrading Software Netherlands selected as EU's consolidated tape provider

July 06, 2026

Europe

MLex Summary: Etrading Software Netherlands has been selected as the EU’s consolidated tape provider for over-the-counter derivatives, the European Securities and Markets Authority said Monday. Once authorized... (more story)

EU businesses’ sustainability reporting simplified by the EU Commission

July 03, 2026

Europe

MLex Summary: EU businesses’ reporting on sustainability issues is simplified by the revised reporting standards adopted on Friday by the European Commission. The measures, an implementing text, reduce the num... (more story)

Lawmakers warmer toward more EU-level capital markets oversight than govts

July 03, 2026 | Fanny Roux

Europe

EU lawmakers are pushing for more EU-level oversight of capital markets than national governments in a jumbo legislative package which aims to foster a more efficient, integrated, and competitive financial sys... (more story)

Trade View More

US Commerce opens Section 232 probe into anthracite coal imports

July 06, 2026

North America

MLex Summary: The US Commerce Department opened a Section 232 trade investigation into imports of anthracite coal.

USITC votes to determine Japanese cranes injure domestic industry

July 06, 2026

Asia, North America

MLex Summary: The US International Trade Commission voted unanimously to determine a domestic industry is injured by dumped Japanese imports of lattice-boom crawler cranes. This means antidumping duties will b... (more story)

EU countries seek greater say over 'Made in EU' scope of planned industry law

July 06, 2026 | Cynthia Kroet

Europe

EU governments want more say over which countries would be subjected to or excused from controversial so-called Made in Europe conditions for suppliers in the bloc's planned green industry law, a draft seen by... (more story)

State Aid View More

EU outlines data-protection approach in enforcing foreign-subsidies law

July 01, 2026

Asia, Europe

MLex Summary: The European Commission has adopted internal rules allowing it to restrict certain data-protection rights when conducting investigations under the EU's power to patrol foreign subsidies. In a dec... (more story)

PostNord's 2017 capital injection into Post Danmark undergoing state aid probe

June 30, 2026

Europe

MLex Summary: PostNord Group's capital injection of 1 billion Danish krone (approximately €134 million) into its Post Danmark subsidiary in 2017 is undergoing an in-depth probe to assess whether it was in line... (more story)

Open Markets says US Supreme Court 'grossly usurped' Congress in Slaughter case

June 29, 2026

North America

MLex Summary: The Open Markets Institute said the US Supreme Court has "grossly usurped Congress' constitutional authority" by ruling the president could remove Federal Trade Commission commissioners at will, ... (more story)

Energy View More

New 'small mid-cap company' category backed by EU lawmakers in committee

July 02, 2026

Europe

MLex Summary: EU lawmakers in committee backed new rules creating a new category of small mid-cap companies, following a provisional agreement with member states earlier this month. The agreed text will now go... (more story)

EU clean-energy projects face shorter approval deadlines under lawmakers' plan

July 02, 2026

Europe

MLex Summary: Renewable energy developers, grid operators and storage companies could face faster permitting decisions under draft rules backed Thursday by the European Parliament’s energy committee. Part of t... (more story)

EU power plan, emissions system review, banking report postponed to July 17

July 02, 2026 | Helena Freitas

Europe

The EU’s electrification action plan, the review of the bloc’s Emissions Trading System, network-charges measures and a bank competitiveness report are set to be unveiled on July 17, two days later than initia... (more story)

Technology View More

Porn platforms’ risk assessments under EU digital law fall short, report says

July 06, 2026

Europe

MLex Summary: Pornhub, Stripchat and XVideos failed to fully meet any of the nine risk-assessment criteria reviewed by the Digital Intimacy Coalition, according to a new report. The analysis says the platforms... (more story)

Big porn sites fail to meet EU risk assessment standards, advocacy group says

July 06, 2026 | Sara Brandstätter

Europe

Three major porn platforms — Pornhub, Stripchat and XVideos — fall short of basic Digital Services Act risk-assessment standards, according to a new analysis by the Digital Intimacy Coalition. The coalition sh... (more story)

China seeks to rewrite internet rulebook, expand AI and platform oversight

July 06, 2026 | MLex Staff

Asia

China has proposed a sweeping rewrite of the country's foundational rules for internet information services, seeking to build a single compliance framework that would significantly expand oversight of the broa... (more story)