Competition compliance
The level of competition law scrutiny around the world has continued to increase with the development of an international network of national competition authorities. We understand how important it is for you to avoid the severe penalties, not to mention the adverse publicity and reputational risk, which attend infringement of antitrust rules in many jurisdictions.
Our global competition team, spanning five continents, includes a dedicated cartel investigations group and assembles expertise from numerous practice areas. Major companies and financial institutions seek our advice on competition compliance. When competition authorities become involved we can navigate you through investigations, dawn raids and proceedings and explain the benefits of leniency and immunity programmes in cartel investigations. Our track record is hugely successful; the team has frequently managed to get high profile cartel cases closed without any recourse to sanctions. We have also successfully appealed against adverse decisions by various competition authorities.
We offer you
- tailored competition compliance programmes, including training seminars, competition compliance manuals, handy reference guides, and state-of-the-art on-line training tools
- competition audits and internal amnesty and whistleblowing programmes, designed to bring peace of mind and to identify any issues that need to be addressed
- where you are the victim of anti-competitive practices by suppliers or competitors, represent action for you in complaints to the competition authorities
- practical advice on specific questions of competition law