Our toolbox includes the following tools:
Risk identification and risk assessment
We map your risk. We conduct intake meetings with compliance officers, business and inhouse legal counsel, perform tailored audits to identify and assess your compliance risks, and we propose compliance actions and programs.
Risk mitigation
We provide policies and guidelines, training, regulatory watches, as well as advice/guidance on competition law compliance matters.
We offer competition law compliance policies and guidelines, which are simple, clear, and jargon-free and address the identified compliance risks of your business. We can rely on a network of 27 specialized competition law teams in the EEA for a coordinated roll-out of a compliance program, including trainings, in Europe. More information on this network of specialists can be found on the website of the Distribution Law Center, which is driven by contrast.
We train your management and your employees and do so based on real-life experience. Our trainings are pragmatic, interactive and focus on practical dos and don’ts. They range from general competition law updates to deep dives on topics such as:
- Cartels as no go areas
- Cooperation with competitors: R&D, production, commercialization, purchasing, and sustainability
- Distribution and e-commerce, covering all distribution systems and with deep dives for specific distribution systems, such as selective distribution, franchising, and agency
- Exchange of information between competitors
- Joint ventures and competition law
- David v. Goliath: on abuse of dominance and abuse of economic dependence
- Spotlight on trade associations
- What to do when there is an inspection, and what to expect of an investigation?
- The ins and outs of merger control
Additionally, we train through real-life mock inspections and can supply repeat factors to keep compliance top of mind, such as 2-minute animated movies on core topics of competition law compliance, compliance quizzes, newsletters, and alerts. For new employees, we developed an onboarding movie which they watch as part of their onboarding. Watch our teaser here:
We offer a regulatory watch to update business about developments in competition law affecting your business.
Monitoring and measuring compliance
We assist you and your compliance officer to monitor and measure compliance. We provide compliance reports summarising the compliance activities, including statistics on the level of participation of each employee. These reports can be shared easily with your board, audit committee and management.
We also assist in setting up whistleblower or help lines to handle competition law compliance concerns.
