Cartel investigations
FORCYD has extensive experience in handling a wide range of cartel investigations, including ESG, labour market, and buyer cartels.

Dawn Raid support & readiness
FORCYD help clients prepare for and respond to dawn raids by regulatory authorities, ensuring compliance, swift action, and effective risk management.

Internal Investigations
Our team assists with conduct internal investigations to identify and address any potential competition law violations.

Regulatory information requests
FORCYD assists clients in responding to regulatory information requests in a timely and efficient manner.

Merger control
FORCYD assists clients in fulfilling merger control obligations, including premerger notification filings and obtaining clearance from regulatory authorities.

Leniency applications
FORCYD offers expert guidance and assistance in preparing and submitting leniency applications to regulatory authorities.

Mass actions
FORCYD provides support in defending against mass actions related to alleged competition law violations, ensuring a robust and effective response.

Proactive compliance monitoring
FORCYD helps clients develop and implement proactive compliance monitoring programs ensuring early detection and resolution of potential competition law violations.

Antitrust Investigation Case study

Client challenge:
A global pharmaceutical corporation, operating in a highly competitive industry identified potential antitrust violations within its operations. Aware of the serious consequences, the company engaged FORCYD to conduct a comprehensive internal investigation spanning 15 months. With approximately 50 key custodians and 1.038 GB of data involved, the scale of the task required advanced eDiscovery and document review methodology.
FORCYD solution:
The investigation began with the identification and processing of 15.150.000 documents linked to key custodians. Through meticulous application of De-NISTing, filtering, and deduplication, the document count was significantly reduced to 5.800.000. Subsequently, additional Early Case Assessment (ECA), and further refinement techniques Including date filtering, domain analysis, legal privilege filtering, email threading, near-duplicate identification, and keyword searching were employed, ultimately reducing the document pool to 2.590.000.

Our expert multilingual review team identified a potential corporate policy violation, which was verified by our qualified patent lawyers during second-level review. Based on this finding, the company decided to apply for leniency under antitrust regulations. The application, submitted within the strict deadline, included a comprehensive set of evidence gathered through the eDiscovery process.

Achieved results:
Due to the timely submission and the comprehensive evidence provided, leniency was granted. As a result, the client received a significantly reduced fine compared to the potential penalties that would have been imposed without leniency. Additionally, the company successfully mitigated the risk of reputational damage associated with public antitrust allegations.