Market and Sector Investigations
Scrutiny of specific markets or practices which are perceived as anti-competitive by competition bodies around the world are increasing in frequency. When competition authorities announce a market investigation or a sector inquiry, it will place an entire industry under the spotlight.
These wide-ranging and complex investigations can result in fundamental changes to commercial practices and behaviour in a sector and can be extremely burdensome to the companies involved.
The scope of a given competition authority’s power to compel companies to provide information are significant and strategic management of the processes and procedures are essential to navigate these industry-wide investigations.
Our team has extensive experience of working on investigations across a wide range of sectors in both the EU and UK and are highly skilled at communicating a company’s views and position to influence the thinking of investigators and shape the outcome of an inquiry.
Featured Experience
- European Commission together with Europe Economics, appointed to assist and advise the European Commission DG Comp in its market study in relation to loan syndication in Europe.
- AXA in relation to the CMA’s market investigation into digital comparison tools and follow-on investigation into a price comparison website (PCW) for its use of “most favoured nation” clauses in the home insurance market.
