UK Competition Compliance.
CMA-ready, continuously.
Post-Brexit, UK competition law operates on its own track. Leah scans contracts, pricing decisions, distribution arrangements, and digital market practices against UK-specific rules, surfaces exposure, and routes counsel review.
UK competition law has its own rulebook now. Most programmes are still reading the old one.
UK rules diverge from EU post-Brexit
The Competition Act 1998 and Enterprise Act 2002 now operate independently of EU competition law. Conduct cleared under EU block exemptions may still draw CMA scrutiny. Compliance teams trained on EU precedent are working off a shifting reference set.
DMCC regime obligations unclear in operations
The Digital Markets, Competition and Consumers Act introduces conduct requirements, merger thresholds, and consumer enforcement powers that touch commercial agreements, pricing, and digital practices. Translating the statute into operational rules has been slow.
Vertical agreements scrutinized inconsistently
Resale price maintenance, exclusivity clauses, and territorial restrictions in vertical agreements draw attention from the CMA. Different business units sign different versions of the same agreement, and nobody is checking the portfolio against a single UK rulebook.
Distribution arrangements not stress-tested
Selective distribution, dealer networks, and online sales restrictions all carry UK competition law exposure. Most companies have never tested their distribution structure against the CMA's vertical agreements guidance, only against the EU equivalent.
CMA enforcement scenarios reactive
When a section 26 notice or market study lands, compliance teams scramble to assemble contract evidence, pricing decisions, and internal communications. There is no continuous monitoring layer that anticipates the question before it is asked.
Counsel review queue full
Competition lawyers spend their hours triaging routine clauses that never needed senior review. The genuinely novel risks, the ones that shape CMA exposure, sit behind a queue of standard distribution and pricing language.
Every contract and pricing decision read against UK rules
Leah ingests the full commercial contract estate and the pricing decisions that sit alongside it. Each clause and each price point is evaluated against the Competition Act 1998, Chapter I and Chapter II prohibitions, and the CMA's published guidance, not against the EU equivalent. Risk is surfaced at clause level with the specific UK authority cited.
“We had been running our compliance programme on EU muscle memory. The first UK-specific audit found exposure under Chapter I that nobody had thought to test against the post-Brexit framework.”
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Five steps to a continuously CMA-ready compliance programme
Leah operates on top of the systems you already run. No rip and replace. Value from the first contract scan.
Connect
Leah integrates with your CLM, contract repositories, pricing systems, and distribution management platforms. Commercial agreements, pricing decisions, and dealer arrangements all flow into a single intelligence layer.
Scan Practices
Every contract clause, pricing decision, distribution arrangement, and digital market practice is structured into queryable data. Amendments and renegotiations flow into the same layer with effective dates preserved.
Apply UK Rules
Each clause and practice is tested against the Competition Act 1998, the Enterprise Act 2002, the DMCC Act, and current CMA guidance. The EU position is noted for reference, never as the controlling rule.
Score Risk
Exposure is scored at clause and arrangement level with cited UK authority, severity, novelty against precedent, and a confidence level. Patterns across the portfolio are surfaced so the position reads as one.
Route to Counsel
Routine clauses self-clear. Novel exposure routes to competition counsel with full evidence attached. Every review, override, and remediation is logged into a CMA-ready audit trail.
Got Questions? Get Answers.
Leah's rule library treats UK competition law as the controlling framework, with the Competition Act 1998, the Enterprise Act 2002, the DMCC Act, and CMA published guidance as primary authority. The EU position is captured separately for reference, so reviewers see where UK and EU rules align and where they have diverged. Clauses are evaluated against the UK rulebook first, with EU precedent flagged as context, never as the controlling test.
Traditional review tools flag generic risk terms. Leah evaluates clauses, pricing decisions, and distribution arrangements against a continuously maintained UK competition law rule library. Each finding cites the specific provision or CMA decision that drives the assessment, with a confidence level and a routing recommendation. The output is a defensible UK competition position, not a list of keywords.
Leah maps DMCC obligations, conduct requirements, consumer enforcement provisions, and the new merger thresholds, against the company's commercial practices, contract estate, and digital arrangements. Coverage is reported as a live percentage with open action items tracked as workstreams. Where Strategic Market Status considerations apply, applicable conduct requirements are tested against internal practices and surfaced for counsel review.
No. Leah handles the volume that drowns counsel: clause-level audits, distribution mapping, DMCC readiness scanning, and evidence assembly. Genuinely novel exposure, strategic decisions, and CMA engagement are routed to counsel with full evidence attached. Counsel hours move from triage to judgment, which is where they add the most value.
Every contract scan, clause assessment, counsel review, override, and remediation is logged with timestamps, reviewer, and rationale. When a section 26 notice, market study, or dawn raid follow-up arrives, the response draws on a structured record. There is no manual reconstruction of decisions, and the chain of clearance is visible end to end.
Yes. Leah is deployed by regulated industrial, consumer, and digital platform groups with strict data security requirements. Customer content does not train Leah's underlying models. Data is encrypted in transit and at rest. SOC 2 Type II, GDPR, and ISO 27001 aligned. UK data residency and private instance deployment are available for customers with stricter isolation requirements.
