Internal Antitrust Audits Are On The Rise

Internal audits and thorough documentary analyses are often triggered by regulatory investigations, so as to enable companies under inspection to respond to the regulator's demands. Following a number of billion-dollar fines imposed in antitrust cases recently, regulators' demands are becoming more and more extensive.

In 2017, companies need to be prepared for an ever closer scrutiny. They will need to plan ahead and put those plans into action. We have now reached the stage where businesses are required to gain a whole set of skills they have thus far been able to keep in the "don't need to know" box. One of those skills is carrying out an informal antitrust audit.

In particular, internal audits are increasingly being conducted: