Antitrust & Competition.
Self-audit before the regulator does.
Antitrust risk hides in pricing structures, MFN clauses, exclusivity terms, M&A architecture, and sales practices. Leah continuously scans contracts, pricing, and commercial conduct against EU, US, UK, and sector competition rules, scores risk, and routes counsel review.
Most companies do not audit their own conduct against antitrust rules until a regulator asks.
Antitrust risk hides in everyday commercial terms
Pricing schedules, distributor agreements, and partner contracts contain clauses that look ordinary to a commercial team and high-risk to a competition lawyer. Without continuous review, the risk only surfaces when a regulator or a complainant brings it up.
MFN and exclusivity clauses go unaudited
Most-favored-nation pricing, no-poach provisions, and exclusivity arrangements are negotiated by commercial teams under deadline pressure. They rarely return to legal review and almost never get re-examined as the portfolio evolves.
Pricing practices not stress-tested vs competition law
Selective discounting, loyalty rebates, and price coordination between affiliates can each draw scrutiny under abuse-of-dominance or cartel rules. Pricing teams optimize for margin, not for competition exposure, and counsel sees only what gets escalated.
M&A deals create antitrust concerns post-signing
Due diligence focuses on financials and integration. Competition risk in the combined entity, gun-jumping during pre-closing coordination, and information exchange between the parties are all common findings only after a regulator opens a file.
Cross-jurisdiction rules diverge
EU competition law, US antitrust, UK CMA guidance, and sector-specific regimes treat the same conduct differently. Vertical restraints, resale price maintenance, and information sharing each carry different thresholds. Tracking divergence by hand does not scale.
Counsel review queues full of false positives
Keyword screens flag every contract that mentions price or exclusivity, drowning specialist counsel in low-risk reviews. The signal-to-noise problem means real risk gets the same attention as routine clauses.
Continuous scan of the contract portfolio for risky clauses
Leah reads every commercial contract, pricing schedule, and distribution agreement, and tags clauses that touch competition law. MFN provisions, exclusivity, non-compete restrictions, resale price maintenance, territory restrictions, and information-sharing clauses all surface as structured findings, with the source language and the relevant rule attached.
“The first portfolio scan surfaced exclusivity language in distributor contracts we had not reviewed in five years. We had been carrying that risk silently the whole time.”
General Counsel, Industrial Manufacturer
Five steps to continuous antitrust self-audit
Leah integrates with the systems your legal and commercial teams already run. No rip and replace. Risk visibility from the first scan.
Connect
Leah integrates with your CLM, contract repositories, pricing systems, channel program tools, and document stores. Contracts and commercial artifacts flow into a single intelligence layer without disrupting the systems your business teams already use.
Scan Practices
Every contract, pricing schedule, sales playbook, and pricing committee record is read and tagged. Clauses and practices that touch competition law are surfaced as structured findings with source citations.
Apply Rules
Findings are evaluated against a maintained rulebook covering EU competition law, US antitrust, UK CMA guidance, and sector-specific regimes. The same conduct is scored against every jurisdiction it touches.
Score Risk
Each finding is scored by clause type, jurisdiction, contract value, and counterparty market position. Severity tiers are assigned with full rationale, and patterns across the portfolio are flagged.
Route to Counsel
High-severity findings go to antitrust counsel with full context. Lower tiers route to generalist counsel or auto-clear. Every disposition is logged for audit-ready proof of self-review.
Got Questions? Get Answers.
A periodic audit is a snapshot. It looks at a sample of contracts and practices at one moment in time. Leah scans the full portfolio continuously and re-evaluates it as new contracts are signed, new pricing decisions are made, and new regulator guidance is published. Outside counsel still does the judgment work on high-severity findings, but they do it on a continuously curated risk picture rather than a stale sample.
No. Leah surfaces and scores risk so that specialist counsel can spend their time on findings that actually require specialist judgment. The auto-clearance tier handles routine matter so the Tier 1 queue is finally credible. Outside firms and in-house specialists keep doing the legal interpretation and the regulator-facing work.
The rulebook is structured by jurisdiction. Every finding is matched against the rules of each jurisdiction the contract or practice touches. The same MFN clause may be cleared in one market and flagged in another, and Leah shows that explicitly rather than collapsing it into a single verdict. When a regulator decision changes the treatment of a clause type, the rulebook is updated and the existing portfolio is re-scored automatically.
Risk scoring is the core of the design. Findings are tiered by clause type, jurisdiction, contract value, and counterparty market position. The Tier 1 queue is reserved for findings that actually warrant specialist counsel. Most low-severity findings auto-clear or route to commercial counsel. In production, around 71% of findings are cleared before reaching specialist review.
Yes. During due diligence, Leah scans the target's contract portfolio and commercial practices for the same risk categories applied to your own portfolio. Pre-closing, she watches for gun-jumping signals and unauthorized information exchange between the parties. Post-closing, the combined portfolio is re-scanned against the merged competitive footprint.
Yes. Leah is deployed by manufacturers, pharmaceuticals firms, and financial services groups with strict confidentiality requirements around competition matter. Contract content does not train Leah's underlying models. Customer data is encrypted in transit and at rest. SOC 2 Type II, GDPR, CCPA, HIPAA-ready, and ISO 27001 aligned. Private instance deployment is available for customers with strict data isolation requirements.
