Linklaters

In the event of a dawn raid, companies need immediate legal assistance. Linklaters has extensive experience of assisting clients with dawn raids, ensuring a unified and efficient response to regulators across multiple jurisdictions and protecting our clients’ rights in any subsequent cartel or other antitrust investigation.

Linklaters works with clients to ensure that they are prepared for a dawn raid by:

• assisting with the design, implementation and ongoing assessment of tailored competition compliance programmes
• advising on and preparing dawn raid guidelines and procedures for employees to follow in the event of an inspection by competition authorities
• conducting a dawn raid response audit to test client procedures for dealing with a dawn raid
• providing face-to-face training and eLearning programmes on handling a dawn raid

In the event of a dawn raid, Linklaters assists clients by:

• providing a 24-hour dawn raid hotline for clients to call in the event of a raid; the dedicated telephone number puts clients in immediate contact with the right lawyers in the right jurisdictions across Europe who have the expertise and practical experience to support them through the inspection. In jurisdictions where Linklaters does not have an office, the hotline will connect clients with a trusted advisor who is part of our best friend network. The 24-hour dawn raid hotline saves clients valuable time locating individual lawyers in multiple jurisdictions and ensures an efficient and cohesive response to the competition authorities
• assisting on site during the dawn raid
• defending our clients’ interests in any subsequent cartel or other competition investigation

Recent experience includes attending and assisting clients with numerous dawn raids across Europe in the last 18 months, including the healthcare, aviation, energy, banking, retail, food and beverage, manufacturing and supply chain industries.

Download our dawn raids brochure to find out more about the team.