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Cases · Markets, trade & operations · Competition, antitrust & market conduct

Urgent Handle a regulator inspection or dawn raid

Regulators have arrived at our office abroad. What do we do now?

WONE Global brings in local counsel immediately to manage the inspection, protect privileged material and record what is taken.

Countries in the typical case Netherlands · Belgium

The situation

What is happening

A competition, financial or sector regulator arrives unannounced or demands documents.

What is at stake

What is said and handed over in the first hours can decide the case.

Who faces this

  • Corporations
  • Mid-sized companies

A scenario

DistributorMid-sized company · from Netherlands · in Belgium

A competition authority is raiding its Belgian office.

Where it ends A raid managed properly.

A representative scenario of the work WONE Global coordinates, not a specific client’s matter.

Also asked as “Dawn raid response”“Regulator inspection abroad”“The competition authority has announced a dawn raid”“Our company has received a corporate search warrant”

The solution

How WONE Global handles it

WONE Global brings in local counsel immediately to manage the inspection, protect privileged material and record what is taken.

Usually led by Anti-bribery, sanctions and compliance, with Licences, permits and regulators, Disputes and arbitration and Data protection and cyber.

Step by step, in the scenario

  1. First hoursCounsel attends.
  2. Day 1Documents managed.
  3. Week 1Review.
  4. ThenResponse.

Timings are typical. They depend on the countries, the authorities involved and how quickly documents are available.

Decisions

The decisions involved

  1. 01Who speaks and what must be handed over
  2. 02Privilege and data protection
  3. 03Coordination with other countries

Outcomes

What you receive

  • A response protocol
  • Representation during and after the inspection
  • Follow-up submissions

This is a general guide. Your WONE Global professional confirms the work, timing and fees for your markets before anything starts.

Who handles it

Anti-bribery, sanctions and compliance, market by market

The status of the lead service in the markets that matter for this case. A named WONE Global Partner acts under their own licence; where none is in place yet, WONE Global confirms availability before anything else.

  1. Belgiumin the typical case On request Availability confirmed before any work begins Bring a requirement →
  2. Netherlandsin the typical case On request Availability confirmed before any work begins Bring a requirement →
  3. Cameroon WONE Global Partner Kelvin A. Egbe · Managing Partner Brief this Partner →
  4. China WONE Global Partner Roberto Gilardino · Regional Partner North Asia & additional countries Brief this Partner →
  5. Luxembourg WONE Global Partner Bruno Abbate · Owner - Managing Director Brief this Partner →
  6. India On request Availability confirmed before any work begins Bring a requirement →
  7. Saudi Arabia On request Availability confirmed before any work begins Bring a requirement →
  8. Singapore On request Availability confirmed before any work begins Bring a requirement →
  9. United Arab Emirates On request Availability confirmed before any work begins Bring a requirement →
  10. United Kingdom On request Availability confirmed before any work begins Bring a requirement →
  11. United States On request Availability confirmed before any work begins Bring a requirement →

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Kelvin A. EgbeYaoundé · Cameroon

WONE Global Capability Partner · Cameroon

Kelvin A. Egbe

Managing Partner · Midas Law Group · Yaoundé

Attorney specialized in structuring, licensing, control, project permitting, patents, trademarks & Designs registration, venture financing, trade finance, regulatory intelligence & compliance, Financial markets, natural…

Roberto GilardinoShanghai · China

WONE Global Capability Partner · China

Roberto Gilardino

Regional Partner North Asia & additional countries · Horizons (Shanghai) Corporate Advisory Company · Shanghai

Roberto Gilardino is Regional Partner at Horizons, supervising the advisory’s activities in North Asia as well as additional countries (including Mongolia, Malaysia, Indonesia, Pakistan, UAE, Cyprus and Malta).

Katherin Diaz VelillaBogotá · Colombia

WONE Global Capability Partner · Colombia

Katherin Diaz Velilla

Complete profile

Co-Founder · V&V Associates · Bogotá

International tax attorney and strategic advisor with 12+ years across Colombia's DIAN, Ministry of Finance, Senate, Presidency, and EY. Co-founder of V&V Asociados. Specializes in cross-border tax structuring, transfer…

Dr. Silvia Patricia MaccariPalermo · Argentina

WONE Global Capability Partner · Argentina

Dr. Silvia Patricia Maccari

Lawyer · Maccari Adam & Asociados · Palermo

She is a lawyer, graduated from the Faculty of Law and Social Sciences of the University of Buenos Aires. She took his first steps in the nation's judiciary, in the National Labor Court, where he developed a rapid caree…

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