Competition Law
Smart and defensible solutions for complex competition investigations
Competition matters demand a legal-technological approach driven by investigative precision. Whether navigating merger reviews or defending against cartel allegations, FORCYD delivers clear, defensible evidence services tailored to the complex competition law landscape.
Expert-Led eDiscovery Solutions for Complex Competition Cases
We have proven experience managing large investigations for law firms and corporations. We’ve supported clients through second request productions, multijurisdictional merger reviews, and major cartel investigations, ensuring regulatory precision, rapid execution, and audit-ready outcomes. Our teams are experienced in working with competition authorities across multiple jurisdictions, ensuring that disclosures are defensible and complete.
Our team of eDiscovery experts understand what technology to use to satisfy the specific requirements of competition matters. Our large network of experienced competition lawyers are available to bring expertise or scale up your team when handling highly sensitive and time-constrained matters.
How we help
Cartel investigations
Dawn Raid support & readinesss
Internal Investigations
Regulatory information requests
Merger control
Leniency applications
Mass actions
Proactive compliance monitoring
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Competition 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.
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.
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Why FORCYD
- Exclusively European, operating globally. Headquartered in Europe, we bring deep regional expertise while delivering solutions worldwide.
- End-to-end project knowledge, support, and multilingual project management as a single point of service
- Incident Response and Compliance consulting to monitor and ensure compliance with regulations and local laws
- Bespoke workflows and solutions to match our client’s unique data challenges and needs
- Long-term relationships and bespoke workflows and solutions to match our client’s unique data challenges and needs