02 · Antitrust and competition · Bruxelles · Paris
Antitrust and competition regulatory and enforcement
What assistance changes in this practice, what it does not change, and the time reduction actually observed.
Where the gain is real
Preparation of responses to requests for information, review of practices against the guidelines, triage of seized documents.
Where it is slight or nil
Dawn raids, meetings with the case team, settlement negotiation.
Observed time
−50% at constant case scope, on cases closed over the last three financial years. This measure says nothing about the quality of the outcome.
What the practice covers
- Preparation of responses to the authority’s requests for information
- Triage and indexing of the documents seized during a dawn raid
- Review of commercial practices against the guidelines
- Competition compliance programmes and training materials
- Preparation of leniency applications and of the chronology of the facts
- Monitoring of the commitments given and of their deadlines