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Global: This app tells you what to do in a dawn raid

By  |  January 22, 2018

Baker McKenzie has launched an expanded version of its Global Dawn Raid App, a mobile application that provides clients experiencing a raid with real-time step-by-step guidance on their rights and obligations.

The expanded “Global Dawn Raid App” provides guidance and response teams for anti-bribery, antitrust and tax raids, the legal advisory firm said.

Leana Engelbrecht, a senior associate at Baker McKenzie in Johannesburg noted that dawn raids have always been an important enforcement tool for competition regulators.

“They provide the regulator with a wide scope of powers to enter and search the premises of a company under investigation for anti-competitive conduct and to seize any document or item. During 2017, the South African Competition Commission twice raided fresh produce agents suspected of price fixing and raided an unprecedented 25 fire sprinkler installers.”

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