Cartel Hunt: How Enforcers Use Whistleblowers and AI to Detect Conspiracies

Antitrust agencies around the world are turning to whistleblower reward programmes and AI-based screening tools to detect and investigate antitrust cartels. Skadden attorneys James Fredricks and Angela Chang discuss how these efforts are expected to uncover illegal cartels but also yield many false positives that result in costly investigations of lawful conduct, and why it is imperative that companies both maintain an effective antitrust compliance programme and be prepared to effectively respond to and curtail government investigations.