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ESG and internal investigations: New compliance challenges
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Antitrust laws exist in most countries around the world. Although these laws mostly share a common goal – to protect the functioning of markets and, ultimately, consumers – there is significant variance from one country to another in terms of the precise nature of the rules, the scope of the sanctions for infringing them and the extent to which they are actively enforced.
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As ESG concerns have come to the forefront in different jurisdictions, the scope of these inquiries is expanding in kind.
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