ARTICLE · 06 NOVEMBER 2026
What Every Multinational Should Know About … Conducting An Antitrust And Fair Competition Compliance Self-Check
Multinational companies face persistent antitrust and fair-competition compliance risks that can arise from ordinary commercial activities like pricing discussions, distributor relationships, and trade association meetings. This comprehensive self-check assessment guide helps organizations evaluate whether they have a functioning, risk-aligned antitrust compliance framework covering governance, training, oversight, and response mechanisms to protect against increasingly aggressive global enforcement.
United StatesAntitrust/Competition Law
As detailed in Part I of this risk-assessment self-check series, we are publishing a series of self-check assessment guides covering the key regulatory and contractual risk areas for multinational companies. This article provides Part VIII, which is a self-check assessment of antitrust and fair-competition compliance. Previous self-check risks assessments are found Part I (general compliance), Part II (buy-side contracts review), Part III (sell-side contracts review), Part IV (supply chain integrity compliance self-check), and Part V (antiboycott self-check), Part VI (customs compliance and tariff-risk review), and Part VII (economic sanctions compliance).
Antitrust and fair-competition compliance present persistent and often underestimated risks for multinational companies. Unlike many regulatory regimes, antitrust exposure can arise from ordinary commercial activity, such as pricing discussions, distributor relationships, trade association meetings, or informal information
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