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MLex

Specialist regulatory and legal-risk news (professional/business audience), non-ideological

Owned byOwned by LexisNexis (the Legal & Professional division of RELX PLC, a London-listed company). LexisNexis agreed to buy it in July 2015.

FundingPaid subscriptions, mostly institutional and expensive. Customers include law firms, corporations, hedge funds, advisory firms and regulators. It sits behind a paywall, with little or no advertising.

On the administrationmostly neutral

Background

MLex was founded in London in 2005. It built a business on fast, often exclusive reporting about regulatory cases, with large teams in Brussels and Washington and other bureaus around the world. Its reporters include many qualified lawyers and sector specialists. Its customers are professionals who need early warning of enforcement, merger reviews and rule changes, not general readers. In July 2015 LexisNexis announced it would acquire MLex, adding it to a news portfolio that includes Law360 and Nexis. Robert McLeod continued to lead it after the deal. It is now sold as 'MLex by LexisNexis' and is part of RELX, a large, publicly traded information company. I found no major editorial controversies in this research, so I can't characterize its track record beyond that. Its coverage of the second Trump administration appears to be driven by the regulatory-risk beat. It focuses on what agencies such as the FTC, DOJ and FCC may do and how that affects markets and deals. That makes it analytical and transactional in tone, and its main tilt is toward business and legal-industry concerns.

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Profile compiled 2026-10-22; refreshed when ownership, funding, or the administration changes.

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