Our global panel discussed how authorities are stepping up antitrust enforcement, the challenges of managing cross-border investigations, and what effective compliance looks like in 2025.
Authorities are increasingly proactive and coordinated, using AI and data scraping to detect infringements such as bid rigging, price signalling, parallel pricing, and suspicious labour market practices. Traditional triggers such as leniency and customer / supplier complaints remain, but use of tech-enabled tools as well as increased reliance on whistleblowers and shared intelligence mean even once isolated incidents can spark multi-jurisdictional investigations.
Companies face practical challenges responding to simultaneous dawn raids, including managing data privacy conflicts, preserving communications on auto-deleting apps, and handling inspections of homes or personal devices. Strategic decisions – such as whether to pursue leniency or adopt a defensive approach – must now be made rapidly and with a global lens.
Regulators also expect companies to prove their compliance programs work in practice. It’s no longer enough to have policies on paper; authorities want to see dynamic, embedded systems with middle-management buy-in, behavioural metrics, and robust internal reporting and discipline.
Our speakers emphasised that in this environment, companies need holistic, tech-enabled compliance frameworks capable of identifying, responding to and preventing risks across the business.
You can access the webinar recording here.
