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Representative Global Investigation Expertise

At Consilio, we have deep expertise working with law firm and corporate clients on their global investigations to enhance legal and regulatory compliance and lower downstream costs — from the negotiation of keyword terms to cross-border collection of data to managing cross-border reviews.

Our global experts employ proven, practical approaches to meet discovery obligations while adhering to data privacy, secrets and security regulations. We leverage our expertise and technology to deliver early insights on issues that improve decision-making and lower costs.

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Reducing risks and costs associated with global investigations

Cross-border data privacy, secrets and security regulations. Foreign language reviews. Multi-regulator coordination. Time zone and tight deadline constraints. Global investigations, whether internal or regulator-led, share traits that add complexity, cost and risk if not properly managed.

Consilio experts use sophisticated data analysis technologies, proven workflows, and expert assistance to develop sound compliance and investigation strategies that enhance legal and regulatory compliance, lower downstream costs, protect and secure sensitive data, and foster productivity and collaboration.

Case Study

F100 Multinational Corporation Subject of Global Investigation into Potential FCPA Violations

The Issue
A multinational corporation with nearly half a million employees and operations in over 150 countries found itself under investigation by the U.S. Department of Justice and the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission for possible bribery of foreign officials and falsification of corporate books and records. Shortly after raids on its foreign offices, the corporation disclosed potential violations of the Foreign Corrupt Practices Act to U.S. investigators and initiated its own massive, global internal investigation.
Approach

Significant up-front effort was required by all parties to accurately scope the project’s requirements, to ensure that goals and timeframes were aligned and to understand how value would be measured.

Four key parameters defined the magnitude of the engagement:

  • The consultancy involved the capture and preservation of hundreds of millions of documents from locations around the world. Expertise in the translation of multiple languages including non-Latin alphabet languages, decryption of encrypted and encoded data, and the precise navigation of data and privacy laws, was also required.
  • To protect its proprietary assets during the investigations, the corporation tasked its outside counsel and Consilio with an evolving list of strict requirements to manage and control access to its data.
  • The engagement presented significant geographic and time zone challenges. Consilio gathered data in nine countries and supported two concurrent investigations separated by 12 time zones.
  • Unlike most engagements where litigation support is provided to a single entity, in this instance Consilio supported three separate law firms, two accounting firms, and ultimately, the multinational corporation.
Result

Although the corporation ultimately made a guilty plea, the impact of the plea and its associated fines was mitigated by what the U.S. Department of Justice cited as their extensive efforts in preserving and making available documents from foreign countries. It found the corporation’s effort to be exemplary and one that could serve as a model to other multinational corporations. Consilio, in supporting the law firm conducting the internal investigation, was responsible for significantly improving the outcome for the corporation. The corporation benefited from an estimated 40% reduction in the total fines it could have received, a savings of hundreds of millions of dollars.

Consilio team:

  • Created three independent data centers for use by four investigative entities
  • Gathered and managed data collected from Germany, China, Belgium, Russia, Greece, Italy, Singapore, the United States, the United Kingdom, complying with each respective country’s data protection laws
  • Developed custom security controls for document review
  • Deployed robust, custom security protocols to rapidly decrypt and process emails in bulk
  • Deployed custom techniques for determining coding in CJK (Chinese, Japanese, Korean) so highly-accurate data capture, indexing and searching could be performed.
40%
Reduction in fines
9
Countries with data needed to be gathered
12
Time zones spanned
3
Independent data centers created

Our expertise

Proven global investigations & compliance matter expertise

We work with law firm and corporate clients on unique challenges when responding to fast-moving global investigations and compliance matters.

Multilingual & Global Support

We offer technologies and workflows adaptable to any language including CJK.

Strategically located experienced project management teams

We create and oversee complex workflows and custom processes with robust administration and oversight—including rapid escalation and issue resolution. For projects with enhanced support, our time zone hand-off procedures ensure continual progress during off hours.

Automated & scalable data processing capacity, speed and quality

Our scalable, secure global hosting infrastructure can adjust to workload in any region where demand requires timely response. We can establish review environments to meet cross-border review requirements—even on client site.

Experienced team-based approach to mitigate timelines with analytics

Our unique and proven team-based approach to Analytics combines legal expertise with technology expertise to identify relevant data, reduce costs and increase review efficiency.

Our Data Centers- Global reach meets local expertise

Our Data Centers Around the World - Global reach meets local expertise. We are in North America, UK, Middle East, Australia and Asia Pacific.
25+
Countries Staffed with Legal Review Professionals
15
Data centers around the World
5400+
Employees Worldwide
31
Languages Covered for Review Projects

Explore our areas of expertise

Litigation & Arbitration
Litigation and arbitration matters are increasing in complexity. Consilio’s consultative, collaborative approach helps clients improve efficiency, lower risk and cost, and increase defensibility.
Antitrust & Competition
Consilio experts manage the scale and rapid pace of document productions that accompany Second Requests, SIRs, and Phase II investigations, while providing strategies to reduce costs and increase defensibility.
Cyber Incident Response
Our experts help clients reduce risk and manage their reputations by employing advanced techniques to identify sensitive data and notify individuals impacted by a cyber incident.
Corporate Transactions
Our multilingual contract review experts help clients inventory, classify and analyze the content of their contracts to surface and reduce risk, discover missed opportunities, and recover costs.
Risk & Compliance
Consilio uses technology, workflows, and expertise to develop sound compliance and investigation strategies that improve compliance, lower downstream costs, protect sensitive data, and foster productivity.

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