Antitrust & Competition

Smart and defensible solutions for complex antitrust/competition investigations
Antitrust 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 with authorities including DG COMP, CMA, Bundeskartellamt, BCA and ACM, and ensure 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

At FORCYD, we offer comprehensive assistance for various competition law matters. Our services include:
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Cartel investigations

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

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Dawn Raid support & readinesss

FORCYD help clients prepare for and respond to dawn raids by regulatory authorities, ensuring compliance, swift action, and effective risk management.
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Internal Investigations

Our team assists with conduct internal investigations to identify and address any potential competition law violations.
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Regulatory information requests

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

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

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

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

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Proactive compliance monitoring

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

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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.

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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