FTI Technology Helps Build a Better Case for Merger Between Two Manufacturing Companies
A large US manufacturing company announced an acquisition of a competing company based in Europe, and faced antitrust investigations from both US and European regulators.
FTI Technology Provided Complex Document Discovery and Review Services to Vodafone and Three in Historic UK Telecommunications Merger
Vodafone and Three agreed to a landmark merger in the UK, bringing an £11 billion investment to the country, to provide 5G coverage to 99% of the population and benefit more than 50 million customers. After the deal was announced, the Competition and Markets Authority launched an in-depth merger control investigation requiring the collection, review and production of millions of documents from both companies. Slaughter and May, representing Vodafone, and Freshfields, representing Three, separately engaged FTI Technology to lead discovery and document review for both organisations and support the clients’ needs.
FTI Technology Provides Rapid Discovery and Fact Finding for Multinational Client Facing International Chamber of Commerce Arbitration
A large, U.S.-based multinational organization made a fast withdrawal of its business from Russia when the country went to war with Ukraine, spurring an arbitration in the International Chamber of Commerce court. The company and its counsel engaged FTI Technology for e-discovery and fact finding, to comply with ICC rules and deadlines and prepare a strong defense.
FTI Technology Identifies Personally Identifiable Information Within Box Environment to Support Client’s Data Breach Response
Expert-led, proprietary emerging data sources solutions and workflows were instrumental in targeting the full scope of sensitive information impacted in a client’s data breach. The combined power of FTI Technology’s expertise in emerging data sources and data breach response allowed the client to reduce costs while meeting tight breach notification deadlines.
FTI Technology’s Cryptocurrency Valuation Methodologies Result in Unprecedented Testimony in Singapore Court
A valuation dispute involving a fintech and blockchain organization centered around allegations that losses due to the defendants' wrongful conduct prevented the blockchain from reaching its full potential. FTI Technology’s Blockchain & Digital Assets experts were engaged to provide expert valuation services in support of validating claims and resolving the matter.
Insurance Provider Engages FTI Technology to Drive Litigated Claims Management Platform Transformation
Faced with rapid nationwide expansion, a growing regional insurance provider found its existing litigated claims management platform inadequate to handle the claims volume associated with its considerable business growth. To address the needs of its increasingly large and dispersed team, the company initiated a project to transition to a scalable solution that could support its long-term needs. FTI Technology’s Corporate Legal Operations experts were engaged to support this transformation and to implement an industry leading enterprise legal management platform.
Cracking Software Code in $100 Million Entertainment Industry Intellectual Property Theft Litigation
An independent film media and distribution company suspected a departing employee of stealing proprietary software code, leading to an arbitration against the employee. Experts from FTI Consulting’s Technology and Forensic & Litigation Consulting segments were retained to investigate the matter and provide an expert report to the court. The work resulted in a settlement agreement in favor of the client.
Digital Risk and Compliance Due Diligence Supports $7 Million Valuation Adjustment in Manufacturing Industry Acquisition
In a competitive bidding scenario to purchase divested assets of a Taiwanese technology manufacturer, FTI Technology’s client sought support with conducting a detailed evaluation of the target’s IT and security risk position. FTI Technology’s global risk and compliance experts supported a wide-ranging due diligence exercise to uncover potential exposures and ensure the valuation accounted for the cost of any mitigation efforts that would be needed post-transaction.
FTI Technology’s Innovative Solution for Tracing Unhosted Wallets Supports Digital Assets Recovery in Large Bankruptcy Litigation
In proceedings for a large cryptocurrency bankruptcy matter, notices and summons needed to be sent to certain cryptocurrency wallet addresses that had at some point held misappropriated digital assets that should have been part of the bankruptcy, but where the owners of those wallets could not be identified. In this ongoing matter, FTI Technology has helped the legal team develop an innovative tracing methodology and recovery framework to identify and verify unhosted wallets and support recovery efforts.
FTI Technology Provides Advertising Technology Analysis and Review for Large Hospital Group Facing Data Privacy Litigation
One of the largest hospital groups in the U.S. was facing litigation relating to alleged data privacy violations. The organization had been using advertising analytics trackers on its websites to collect information to support digital marketing. Patients sued on the grounds that this was a breach of their privacy rights under various medical information privacy laws and wiretapping laws in California. FTI Technology provided a swift and extensive technical analysis and expert reporting to help the client understand how the ad trackers were used across its sites and whether patient data had been mishandled.
Large University Hospital System Engages FTI Technology to Provide Technical Investigation and Analysis Related to Alleged AdTech Privacy Violations
A network of university-affiliated health care providers was named in numerous complaints and legal actions relating to improper handling of patients’ personal health information and other personally identifiable information. The complaints surrounded the system’s use of advertising and pixel trackers on its websites, which were believed to be illegally collecting personal information and transferring it to third parties. The organization engaged FTI Technology’s adtech privacy experts to provide technical scoping, data collection, and analysis of how the advertising trackers were being used on its sites.
Video Privacy Protection Act Litigation Spurs Complex Advertising Tracking Analysis for High-Profile Entertainment Company
Dozens of lawsuits have been filed in recent years alleging that advertising analytics trackers and website pixels used to collect information to support digital marketing violate data privacy protections under existing U.S. regulations. When a global entertainment company became subject to class action litigation arguing violations of the Video Privacy Protection Act (VPPA), FTI Technology’s adtech privacy experts delivered a highly complex, technical scoping, collection and analysis exercise to inform the case.
Medical Information Disclosure and Wiretapping Laws Prompt Advertising Tracking Investigation for Health Care Company
A growing number of lawsuits allege advertising analytics trackers and website pixels used to collect information violate data privacy protections under existing U.S. federal and state regulations. A leading U.S. health care provider became subject to class action litigation arguing violations of statelevel medical information sharing disclosure and wiretapping laws. FTI Technology’s adtech privacy experts were engaged to perform in-depth analysis in support of a formalized and defensible investigation of the company’s adtech practices, and remediation in response to the litigation.
FTI Technology Delivers Data Privacy Programme for Public Agency in the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia
A public sector body in the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia needed to build and implement a data privacy programme to fulfil its regulatory remit. The organisation engaged FTI Technology’s Information Governance, Privacy & Security experts to develop the privacy framework by an impending deadline under the country’s Personal Data Protection Law (PDPL).
Data Privacy Gap Assessment Supports Health Insurance Company with Compliance Across Middle East Region
A large health insurer requested support in understanding its data privacy obligations and compliance exposures across six jurisdictions in the Middle East. FTI Technology conducted a data privacy gap assessment to help the client identify areas of risk and opportunities for programme improvement.
FTX Bankruptcy and Technical Diligence
The bankruptcy of FTX (including FTX.com and FTX US), once the third-largest global crypto exchange, and Alameda, a crypto trading firm, brought unprecedented challenges to traditional bankruptcy and restructuring proceedings with the need for technical and operational understanding of digital assets. The FTX Unsecured Creditors Committee retained FTI Technology’s Blockchain & Digital Assets practice based on a deep understanding and world-class expertise in the digital assets ecosystem, combined with the award-winning traditional bankruptcy expertise from FTI Consulting’s Corporate Finance segment.
FTI Technology Leads Data Strategy and Document Review in Financial Services Class Action Litigation
The Financial Services and Markets Act is one of the U.K.’s most comprehensive and strict regulatory regimes, placing significant responsibility on financial institutions for a range of market activities. When a global bank became the subject of class action litigation under this regulation, it was charged with misleading investors and causing financial losses that could have otherwise been avoided.
FTI Technology Helps Manufacturer Unlock Multi-Million Dollar Revenue Opportunity Through Contract Transformation
A global financial and retail technology company was undertaking multiple companywide initiatives to increase operational and financial efficiency. A key challenge identified was a lack of centralized contract management for customer contracts, contributing to potential revenue leakage and other negative impacts to the business. The organization determined a contract repository was crucial to optimizing commercial contracting practices across the company.
FTI Technology Delivers Legal Hold Overhaul for Professional Services Firm
When a large, global professional services firm sought to migrate from a heavily customized legacy platform to a new legal hold system, the legal team engaged FTI Technology’s experts to manage end-to-end selection, migration, implementation and change management. The firm also wanted to improve its existing legal hold operations by establishing new workflows and supporting review and remediation of the data.
FTI Technology’s Expert Testimony Aids Win in Australian Federal Case
FTI Technology’s expert testimony played a key role in a federal court case in Australia involving a freight industry insurance company and a former employee accused of soliciting clients.
Contract Lifecycle Management Solution Selection and Implementation Deliver Strategic Value for Global Medical Device Company
A multinational organization in the life sciences industry engaged FTI Technology’s Corporate Legal Operations experts to help identify gaps in the legal department’s software systems and processes. The client requested an assessment of current state of contracting processes and recommendations for a contract lifecycle management solution to improve visibility of contracts and obligations across the organization.
FTI Technology Supports Extensive Information Request in European Transportation Industry Merger
When two large transportation companies were seeking merger approval from the European Commission, competition authorities issued a rigorous request for information (RFI), requiring the organisations to conduct a significant document discovery and review exercise in only 10 days. FTI Technology was engaged to help the client and counsel identify, collect, analyse, review and produce relevant documents as quickly as possible to support timely resolution of the regulatory review.
FTI Technology Provides Digital Safe Data Disposition for Global Bank
Struggling to manage decades of archived data and reduce its data footprint subject to litigation, a large international bank engaged FTI Technology to develop a process for defensible disposition of legacy data in its global Digital Safe archive.
Large Financial Services Company Turns to FTI Technology for Business Intelligence Assessment in Prospective Partnership with Layer-1 Blockchain Platform
When a Fortune 100 company was exploring a partnership with a layer-1 blockchain platform, FTI Technology’s Blockchain & Digital Assets practice was engaged to conduct a reputational, operational and financial diligence of the target.
FTI Technology Leads Contract Analysis for Large Second Request
When a U.S.-based merger triggered a second request review, more than 18 million company documents were in scope as potentially relevant to the Federal Trade Commission’s review. The law firm representing one of the organizations sought FTI Technology for its expertise across the Digital Insights & Risk Management framework and the team’s ability to scale a global team of domain experts. Contract Solutions were one part of the broader engagement.
FTI Technology Establishes Robust Information Governance and Data Protection for German Investment Firm
After a high-value, high-profile investment firm in Germany experienced an incident of information theft, the organisation’s leaders realised the company was facing significant risk due to weaknesses in its approach to data protection and information governance. FTI Technology partnered with the organisation’s law firm to quickly assess existing practices and implement a new framework to reduce overall risk.
FTI Technology Provides Complex, Time-Sensitive Investigation and Document Review for TGS During Two Concurrent European Merger Control Cases
After entering an agreement to a large and complex cross-jurisdictional merger, TGS and PGS positioned the outcome as a “stronger and more diversified geophysical company and data provider to the energy value chain,” with a reported valuation of more than US$860 million. The transaction spurred parallel merger control investigations initiated by the U.K. Competition & Markets Authority (CMA) and the Norwegian Competition Authority (NCA), requiring TGS to collect, review and produce internal documents. TGS engaged FTI Technology to lead discovery and document review to support the needs of the merger response. The CMA and NCA approved the deal, allowing TGS and PGS to complete the deal on 1 July 2024.
FTI Technology’s Emerging Data Sources Experts Create Custom Solution to Collect Project Management Data from Azure DevOps in Breach of Contract Dispute
When an agriculture company became the subject of breach of contract allegations from one of its IT service providers, it needed to access technical project management information to prove its counterclaims in the dispute. The company and its service provider had used Azure DevOps as the project management platform for the work that was the source of the litigation, presenting the legal team with the challenge of collecting data from a complex non-traditional source. Outside counsel engaged FTI Technology’s emerging data sources experts to ensure critical evidence could be accessed and collected in a fulsome, forensically sound manner.
FTI Technology Provides Extensive Data Identification and Transfer in Global Telecommunications Divestiture
A longstanding FTI Technology client in the telecommunications industry was preparing to divest a European business unit to a global network and voice services company. The organization needed to migrate the divesting business unit’s Microsoft 365 environments and data sources to the acquiring company, in compliance with numerous regulations and in a timely manner to uphold the parameters and deadlines of the transaction. FTI Technology’s global team coordinated with the client’s IT stakeholders to manage the data transfer, as well as a cross-functional deal team tracking the project.
FTI Technology Serves as Neutral Third Party Expert in Technology Industry Intellectual Property Litigation
During the discovery phase of an alleged theft of trade secret litigation between two technology companies, parties contended with a search and production protocol relating to confidential information, trade secrets, personal data and highly complex metadata in the set of potentially relevant documents. The district court appointed FTI Technology as the neutral third party expert charged to handle execution of the court ordered search protocol involving the analysis and extraction of forensic artifacts at scale beyond the corpus of custodian communications and work data, to determine which items should be turned over to opposing counsel, and which contained sensitive information that should be withheld. The findings helped the parties reach a settlement.
FTI Technology Provides Legal Operations Assessment and Gap Analysis for Global Life Sciences Company
A life sciences startup was looking to scale the maturity of its legal operations function and improve processes to support risk management and increased legal department demand. In-house counsel engaged FTI Technology’s corporate legal department experts to evaluate the maturity of existing capabilities and prioritize future initiatives according to the 12 core legal operations competencies defined by the Corporate Legal Operations Consortium (CLOC).
Software Provider Leans on FTI Consulting to Evaluate Global Compliance Analytics and Metrics
A global software company needed to modernize its compliance program. With a focus on applying data and technology effectively in support of a global framework, the organization engaged FTI Consulting’s Risk & Compliance experts to assess the existing program’s maturity, data sources, analytics dashboarding and existing tools, and guide the company in transforming its program.
FTI Technology Supports Law Firm Cloud Data Migration to RelativityOne
When organizations need to migrate to a new e-discovery platform due to changes in industry, consolidation of software providers, costs and various data and volume requirements, moving large, complex data volumes can introduce numerous challenges. Without adequate technical support, the process can become burdensome, error prone, time intensive and costly. In this engagement, a law firm approached FTI Technology to support effective movement of its e-discovery matters and related data from an on-premise environment to the RelativityOne cloud.
FTI Technology’s Managed Document Review Team Provides Nuanced Privacy and Privilege Review for Multi-national Litigation
During cross-border litigation related to a merger, a multi-national client needed to conduct review on a set of documents that included personal information and spanned multiple jurisdictions with varying requirements. The client engaged FTI Technology’s managed document review experts to address unique privacy and privilege needs during review and ensure a thorough, timely completion of the review ahead of court deadlines.
FTI Technology Supports Multiple Technology Platform Integrations and Large Data Transformation to Improve E-Discovery Program Efficiency for an International IP Law Firm
As part of an initiative to streamline internal resources, an intellectual property law firm selected a new e-discovery platform with advanced analytics capabilities. The firm selected FTI Technology to provide managed services for multiple technology integrations, improved review workflows, follow-the-sun support and advanced analytics training to enhance in-house efficiencies and offset urgent client workloads.
FTI Technology Provides Complex, Time-Sensitive Investigation and Document Review for MÁSMÓVIL and Orange in International EU Merger
After entering an agreement to a largescale and complex cross-jurisdictional merger between telecommunications providers MÁSMÓVIL and Orange, both parties had to collect, review and produce internal documents as part of an extensive merger clearance investigation by European competition authorities. The parties engaged FTI Technology to lead discovery and document review for both organisations and support the needs of the merger review before its approval in February 2024.
FTI Technology Provides Personal Information Assessment, Investigation and Notifications Following Data Incident at a Global Corporation
A global corporation headquartered in Europe experienced a data incident with potential exposure of sensitive and personal information. With multiple global regulators on alert for privacy breaches, FTI Technology helped the client assess large volumes of data to quickly understand the extent of the data exposure and support the notification process.
FTI Technology Supports Regulatory Agency With Document Review for Freedom of Information Requests
FTI Technology was approached by a health care regulatory agency in Europe to facilitate the consolidation and review of disparate data records needed to respond to Freedom of Information (FOI) requests relating to assessments of medical professionals’ fitness to practice.
FTI Technology Leads Selection, Evaluation and Implementation for Contract Management System at Global Manufacturing Corporation
A global manufacturing company engaged FTI Technology’s Corporate Legal Operations experts to improve commercial efficiency through optimization and automation of contract processes. Working from the client’s long list of potential software vendors, FTI Technology led efforts to arrive at a shortlist of preferred solutions, evaluate leading options, make a selection, provide change management advice and lead the implementation efforts of the selected solution across four continents.
FTI Technology Delivers Fast-Paced Phase II Investigation and Privilege Review
When the EU Competition Commission launched a Phase II investigation into the establishment of a joint venture, the parties’ law firm needed support to review over 55,000 documents in just nine days.
FTI Technology Supports Multi-Issue Investigation for Large Steel Industry Client in Spain
A large manufacturing company in Spain was under investigation by the Spanish National Markets and Competition Commission. FTI Technology was engaged to conduct numerous workstreams that would help the client understand the facts of the matter and respond to the authorities.
FTI Technology Delivers Rapid Response, Critical Fact Finding and Defensible Reduction of More Than 10 Million Documents in Multi-National Financial Services Regulatory Investigation
A large, global bank was facing multiple regulatory inquiries into certain practices, which required the organization to conduct an in-depth investigation across jurisdictions. FTI Technology was engaged to provide digital forensics, data processing, project management and managed document review services across the entire matter.
FTI Technology Responds to Large European Commission Phase II Request Within 24 Days
A large European corporation in the midst of an acquisition received a wide-reaching request for information (RFI) from the European Commission. With only weeks to respond, the organisation selected FTI Technology for the team’s extensive merger control expertise and market-leading technology solutions, to successfully respond to the inquiry on time.
FTI Technology Provides Contract Lifecycle Management Transformation, Supports Merger Readiness for Leading Food Retailer
On the heels of an extensive information governance, privacy and records management overhaul supported by FTI Technology, a large North American retail chain was pursuing a contract lifecycle management (CLM) implementation. The company aimed to centralize its contracts, deploy a new CLM tool, establish new contracting policies and improve workflows ahead of a planned merger. FTI Technology’s Corporate Legal Operations experts were engaged to ensure the project remained on course and provide a full transformation of contracting processes.
Contract Fusion: Optimizing Vendor Relationships at a Merged Technology Company
FTI Technology helped a newly combined technology company maximize value in its vendor contract portfolio, saving millions of dollars, and solidifying operations as the companies integrated.
Strategic Contract Review Helps Airline Soar Through Bankruptcy
FTI Technology worked with a global airline to realize significant cost savings through organization, analysis, rejection and re-negotiation of more than 40,000 contracts during restructuring proceedings.
FTI Technology Delivers Transformed Contract Portfolio Following Large Pharmaceutical Company Bankruptcy
In a large bankruptcy matter, FTI Technology’s Contract Solutions experts identified and quantified risk and opportunities across a company’s contract population, to support recovery efforts by a group of lenders acquiring the emerging entity.
FTI Technology Enables Privacy Transformation for Fortune 50 Drug & Food Retailer
National supermarket retailer engages FTI Technology’s Information Governance, Privacy & Security (IGP&S) practice for comprehensive privacy program transformation, technology implementation and enhanced automation.
FTI Technology Delivers Extensive IP Identification and Destruction in High-Stakes Intellectual Property Suit
After a joint venture between two large multinational organisations deteriorated into breach-of-contract claims and litigation, FTI Technology’s client was ordered to conduct a widespread and all-encompassing discovery, preservation and remediation exercise for all instances of the former partner’s intellectual property (IP). The matter covered information from more than 10 locations in multiple countries and more than 1,000 data sources.
FTI Technology Facilitates Divestiture Rights with More Than 1,000 Supplier Relationships for Global Software Company
In March 2021, a global security software corporation, announced the divestiture of one of its business units to a private equity company. The corporation engaged FTI Technology’s Contract Solutions practice to ensure that divestiture rights with more than 1,000 vendors and suppliers were in place by the transaction close date. The team had eight weeks to complete the project.
FTI Technology Helps Major National Bank Enhance Its Smarsh Deployment to Deliver Cross-Functional Single Source of Truth for Communications Data
After implementing Smarsh to archive all communications, a major national bank needed access across multiple end-user teams and functions, including legal, regulatory compliance and more. The bank engaged FTI Technology to provide access to this single source of communications data for a broader audience, thus enhancing the bank’s return on its initial technology implementation.
FTI Technology’s Digital Forensics and Emerging Data Sources Experts Solve Complex Data Extraction Challenges in High-Profile Japanese Investigation
The FTI Technology team in Tokyo received a request from one of the largest firms in Japan to extract and preserve private cloud data relating to an ongoing high-profile criminal investigation. The data of interest included calendar items in a cloud-based calendaring application, typically installed and used on personal devices. FTI Technology’s emerging data sources experts developed custom solutions to ensure a complete and defensible extraction of information from the application, despite not being compatible with existing e-discovery and digital forensics tools.
FTI Technology Reduces Reviewable Contract Population by 90% to Beat Data Deadline in Corporate Restructuring
In an ongoing restructuring engagement for a global client of FTI Consulting’s Corporate Finance segment, FTI Technology’s Corporate Legal Operations practice was tapped to assist with scoping of tens of thousands of contracts during the restructuring.
FTI Technology’s Find Facts Fast Solution Uncovers Evidence of Misconduct in Food Industry Internal Investigation
When a client in the food services industry suspected that a newly acquired subsidiary was engaging in misleading and dishonest business practices, it sought to conduct an extensive internal investigation and lookback into the subsidiary’s activities. Using its Find Facts Fast analytic research methodology, FTI Technology was able to validate the client’s suspicions and provide the insight needed to take remedial action.
FTI Technology’s Find Facts Fast Solution Provides Rapid Insights for a Misconduct and Foreign Corruption Investigation
A transportation company was conducting an internal investigation regarding allegations of improper conduct by specific employees. The allegations included reports that misconduct had occurred in a foreign country and involved corruption and illegal payments through an intermediary for that country’s government. The client engaged FTI Technology to answer key questions quickly.
FTI Technology Conducts Targeted Find Facts Fast Review for Time-Sensitive Internal Discovery Matter
A U.K.-based client was notified of a suspected legal issue that had the potential to scale to a multi-jurisdiction investigation. The organisation’s legal team sought to quickly review a population of documents to ascertain the validity of the matter in advance of a board meeting at which key decisions would be made about how to move forward. FTI Technology’s Acuity® Managed Review team and e-discovery experts were engaged to conduct a Find Facts Fast review.
FTI Technology Delivers Proactive Compliance Monitoring, Supports Internal Investigations at Global Life Sciences Corporation
After uncovering compliance violations within its operations in the Asia Pacific region, a global life sciences corporation decided to take a more targeted, proactive approach to finding problem areas and self-reporting them ahead of a regulatory inquiry. The organization engaged FTI Technology to support the internal compliance team with quarterly evaluations of randomly selected business segments and global communications monitoring.
Distressed Cryptocurrency Exchange Selects FTI Consulting for Bankruptcy and Restructuring Services
When the cryptocurrency markets declined suddenly, a cryptocurrency platform providing mobile app-based brokerage, custody and lending services faced serious hardship. The company engaged FTI Consulting’s experts in corporate restructuring and cryptocurrency and digital assets to provide in-depth technical due diligence and strategic recovery advice.
FTI Technology Supports Extensive Legal Operations Transformation Initiative to Reduce Cost and Risk for a Global Bank
As part of a global bank’s enterprisewide transformation initiative, its legal department planned an ambitious programme to simultaneously reduce data privacy and security risks, enhance its responsivity to legal and regulatory bodies, in addition to streamlining its operations through modernisation and the use of advanced technologies. To achieve these objectives, the organisation selected FTI Technology to deliver a unifying global platform and on-the-ground support in key geographies, along with business transformation experience to drive the initiative and deliver meaningful results.
Emerging Data Sources Prompt Extensive Investigatory Hurdles and Regulator Negotiations in Multi-Jurisdiction Antitrust Matter
In an ongoing series of antitrust and merger clearance investigations in the U.S. and Europe, a global life sciences company was facing significant challenges in meeting the authorities’ data production requests. Large volumes of data from numerous emerging data sources, including Box, Microsoft 365, Confluence, Workplace from Facebook, Mattermost and Foundation IP, had been collected to respond to a Second Request investigation in the U.S. As the investigations progressed, the data requests became increasingly complicated and difficult to fulfill. FTI Technology’s emerging data sources experts worked closely with the client to overcome obstacles and coordinate requirements with numerous regulatory agencies.
Emerging Data Expertise Helps Solve Complex Linked Content, Business Automation and Technical Data Challenges in Multi-Jurisdiction Price Fixing Investigation
An Asia Pacific-based shipping company was under investigation by the U.S. Department of Justice and competition bureaus in numerous countries for alleged price fixing. The company was required to collect, review and produce documents from numerous emerging data sources, including Google Workspace and AppSheet. FTI Technology’s emerging data sources team was engaged to help navigate the nuances of linked content and collecting relevant electronic evidence residing in Google Workspace.
FTI Technology Addresses Complex Technical and Logistical Challenges Across Numerous Emerging Data Sources in High-Profile Second Request
When a Second Request investigation was initiated as part of a large and high-profile technology industry acquisition, the companies were required to produce more than 8TB of data across a wide range of digital sources. Many of these were emerging data sources for which compliance and e-discovery controls and workflows had not yet been developed. As a long-time trusted advisor to the law firm representing the client, FTI Technology was engaged to handle e-discovery for the matter and create solutions to ensure relevant documents could be identified, collected, processed, reviewed and produced from the emerging data sources in scope.
FTI Technology Navigates Pandemic Challenges and State Secrets Restrictions in Vast Cross-Border Pharmaceutical Investigation
Following a 2019 Food & Drug Administration recall of a drug that was thought to contain a harmful contaminant, numerous lawsuits were filed against the pharmaceutical manufacturer in multiple states. The matter eventually consolidated into class action litigation, triggering a widespread investigation spanning three countries. Over the course of more than 18 months, FTI Technology’s Digital Forensics & Investigations team conducted the investigation across numerous facilities and more than 80 custodians, overcoming complex challenges relating to cross-border data transfer issues, Chinese state secrets restrictions and global data privacy regulations.
Managed Review and Predictive Coding in High-Stakes Disclosures
A U.K.-based law firm representing a pharmaceutical client in the damages phase of a patent infringement litigation faced extensive disclosure requirements and tight deadlines for a dataset of more than 500,000 documents.
M&A Risk Assessment Internal Investigation
A large U.S.-based law firm conducting an internal risk assessment investigation for a client’s acquisition faced data privacy restrictions impeding the review of 11 million documents.
Data Subject Access Request Document Review
With the advent of GDPR, companies entered a new era of regulation around how they collect, handle and store personal data belonging to EU citizens. This includes the fulfillment of data subject access requests (DSARs), in which individuals can exercise rights and inquiries relating to the personal information an organisation has about them and how it is managed. In the first year of GDPR enforcement, more than 70 percent of surveyed organisations indicated an increase in DSARs.
FTI Technology Delivers Vast Data Identification and Remediation Exercise for Multi-National Acquisition in Response to Unprecedented DG Comp Provision
When the EU Commission’s competition department, DG Comp, reviewed an acquisition involving a European manufacturer and a multi-billion-dollar U.S.-based manufacturer, they provided conditional approval for the deal, contingent upon an unprecedented provision. For the purchase to move forward, the target company would need to identify and destroy all instances of specified third-party IP across its entire IT landscape. This was the first time DG Comp had ordered a data-driven remedy in a merger clearance decision.
FTI Technology Provides Information Governance Assessment and Deploys Global Records Management Initiative for Technology Provider
When a global financial technology deployment and management provider sought to migrate its systems to Office 365, its general counsel recognized an opportunity to establish a records retention policy and assess information governance maturity.
FTI Technology Serves as Independent Privacy and Data Protection Assessor to Support Global Technology Company’s Obligations Under FTC Consent Order
Privacy experts from the Information Governance, Privacy & Security practice within FTI Consulting’s Technology segment were engaged to conduct a biennial privacy and data protection assessment for a large, global technology company.
FTI Consulting Provides GDPR Assessment and Action Plan for Global Energy Company
When Europe’s General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) was enacted, many U.S. corporations were suddenly facing data protection requirements far more stringent than any preceding privacy rules. This was the case for a Houston-based drilling company, which had a significant international footprint, including in Europe, but limited visibility into how its practices were impacted by the new regulation. With an active GDPR compliance program in development, the company engaged FTI Consulting’s Information Governance, Privacy & Security (IGP&S) practice to conduct a readiness assessment and provide a roadmap of additional steps needed to bring the company into full compliance.
FTI Technology Leads HIPAA Assessments, Privacy Program Implementation for Global Medical Device Company
The Information Governance, Privacy & Security practice within FTI Consulting’s Technology segment was engaged to lead HIPAA Security Rule risk assessments for several U.S. entities owned by a German-based medical device company.
E-discovery and Electronic Evidence Review for Financial Services Client
When an international retail banking institution needed a single, trusted e-discovery provider backed by a global team of renowned experts to improve consistency across their functional areas and reduce their overall e-discovery costs, our experts were able to help.
Leading Financial Institution Engages FTI Consulting to Support Global Defensible Data Disposal Initiative
A large, multinational financial services institution kicked off a global effort to remediate its legacy data environments and enable defensible disposal, an effort driven in part to support compliance with the EU’s General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR). The company’s U.S.-based legal, compliance and e-discovery team engaged FTI Consulting’s Technology segment, looking to the expertise of the segment’s Information Governance, Privacy and Security practice to support the project. FTI was tasked with scoping nearly 800 legal matters for legal hold obligations, establishing new legal hold workflows and supporting review and remediation for the sunsetting of multiple systems and storage vendors.
FTI Consulting Leads Massive Internal Documents Inquiry in Multibillion Euro Merger
In an ongoing Phase II merger clearance investigation, FTI’s client needed to respond to a Request for Information (‘RFI’) received from DG Comp that required the identification, preservation, searching, and production of internal documents from thirty-eight employees over three years.
Queensland Nickel – Digging for Answers Down Under
FTI Consulting was appointed as Administrators and subsequently as Liquidators of Queensland Nickel. Once on the job, various anomalies were discovered which required an investigation jointly led by FTI Consulting’s corporate finance, forensic and e-discovery experts. With the situation quickly deemed one of Australia’s largest corporate failures and Clive Palmer, a larger than life character at the helm, the Administrators with guidance from Strategic Communications professionals launched a proactive communications approach. This addressed the political landscape and various agendas with key stakeholders, including employees and clients of Queensland Nickel, government authorities, creditors and the media.
FTI Consulting Leverages Innovative Analytics Workflows to Accelerate Healthcare Merger Second Request Ahead of Pandemic Shelter-In-Place Mandates
In a merger between two healthcare industry companies, the Federal Trade Commission (FTC) issued a quick look as part of the second request process. Working under a compressed timeline, outside counsel engaged FTI Consulting to quickly structure a review and stabilize the Brainspace Technology Assisted Review (TAR) model so the parties could determine the risk level of overproducing and prepare the dataset for production to the FTC. A first set of documents had been submitted to regulators, with a second production due just as the COVID-19 pandemic reached the U.S. and self-isolation orders were being implemented.
FTI Consulting Leads Extensive Email and File Share Remediation and Deploys New Retention Policy for Global Financial Services Corporation
Given the client’s lack of a dedicated information governance program and decades of operating without a distinct and enforced email policies, a myriad of obstacles stood in the way of establishing a new approach. FTI would first needed to understand the client’s email and file share universe, and identify any information within those systems that was subject to existing legal hold obligations. With that a baseline, the team could begin disposing of unnecessary data and prepare the archive for a new retention policy.
FTI Consulting Refreshes Legal Hold Practices and Provides E-Discovery Operations Leadership for Global Financial Services Client
Building upon its ongoing partnership with FTI’s experts, the client engaged the team to refresh its legal hold process and serve as its e-discovery operations team. With 80 multinational open matters spanning litigation, compliance cases, data subject access requests (DSARs) under the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) and regulatory audits in EMEA and APAC, the client faces a range of complex, high-stakes e-discovery challenges.
FTI Consulting Defensibly Disposes of Tens of Thousands of Backup Tapes for Global Financial Services Corporation
As a continuation of its information risk management initiative, and to prevent future legal expenses relating to tape restoration, the client sought to remediate more than 50,000 backup tapes. With FTI’s guidance, the organization planned to destroy any tapes that contained legacy data no longer relevant to present legal hold or records retention obligations. Because the previous remediation and retention effort had solidified the email archive as the “golden source” for email data, any tapes containing email were also considered redundant and in need of disposal.
FTI Technology Helps Global Electronics Corporation Establish Records Retention Program in Response to Government Monitorship
The U.S. division of a global electronics manufacturer was under regulatory orders to establish a records retention schedule and policy in order to bring its operations in compliance with a government monitorship. Outside counsel engaged FTI’s Information Governance, Privacy & Security team to drive the effort and implement a focused retention schedule as well as a policy that would direct retention for all records and information across the client’s U.S. operations.
FTI Helps Biotech Company Meet Second Request Deadline for Major Merger
A major biotechnology company was seeking Federal Trade Commission regulatory approval of $1.2B merger. The agency issued a Second Request requiring a rapid response. The amount of relevant data to collect and review amounted to several terabytes. Also, there was an additional challenge in that the company’s systems were located primarily in the cloud, with data housed within multiple non-traditional platforms including Slack, Confluence, Workplace by Facebook, Asana, Box and more. The FTI team was able to work quickly with the diverse data sources to target, collect, and review over 12 million documents, helping the corporation to achieve compliance within the deadline set by the FTC.
Responding to Multiple Government Requests to Aid Multi-Billion Dollar Merger
FTI Consulting’s client, one of the largest life sciences corporations in the world, was responding to government requests in the US, Canada and Europe, relating to its multi-billion dollar merger with a US-based corporation. As trusted advisors to the client, FTI’s M&A and competition investigation experts were ready to help.
Gaming Industry Company Collects and Processes Data Only Once for All of its Matters, Using FTI Master Repository
A large gaming company faced multiple, ongoing matters involving vastly different issues and originating in numerous jurisdictions, yet the same key custodians were relevant to most of the cases. Its legal team understood the excessive costs involved with recollecting and reprocessing the same information for each case and set out to find a solution that would enable the reuse of processed data.
Radiance Visual Analytics Helps Law Firm Answer Government Inquiry
Assess the size and scope of potentially responsive documents within 12 terabytes (TB) of unstructured data in response to a government inquiry in one month. The data set included more than 6 million documents and e-mail from a bankrupt company that had acquired bankrupt companies - leaving investigators with many questions and few starting points.
Continuous Active Learning (CAL) from FTI Technology Aids Baker McKenzie
Baker McKenzie was challenged to quickly and cost-effectively conduct a legal review of more than 200,000 documents to help determine case strategy. The law firm was on the cutting edge of using various technologies and processes – from visual analytics to offshoring legal review to lower-cost review lawyers in other countries – to build in efficiencies and keep e-discovery costs low for clients.
How to "Find Facts Fast" in an Internal Investigation
Advanced technology – continuous active learning (CAL) – and a seasoned team of "find facts fast" investigators work in tandem to find key data quickly.
FTI Consulting Showcases Second Request Expertise with RelativityOne
FTI Consulting—a global advisory firm with decades of experience handling the riskiest and most complex matters in e-discovery—has an impressive track record for managing huge, multinational projects. When they applied RelativityOne to their global playbook for Hart-Scott-Rodino second requests, they achieved a speed and scale that exceeded expectations.
Comprehensive E-Disclosure Solution Differentiates FTI Consulting on Complex Matter for Large Financial Services Institution
A large international financial services organization, with operations throughout Europe, needed to collect, review and produce relevant data to opposing counsel.
Retail Industry Merger Aided by FTI Technology’s Second Request Expertise
Prepare for and respond to antitrust regulators in the United States, Canada and Europe.
FTI Consulting’s Digital Forensics Expertise Exposes Fabricated Evidence, Aids Client in Dismissal of $280M Counterclaim
Flextronics was countersued by a former business partner and the main evidence for the countersuit was an email allegedly sent to Flextronics that no one had seen before. Sensing that the key evidence may have been fabricated, Flextronics and their Counsel turned to FTI Consulting’s Technology practice for digital forensic expertise.
Forensic Data Collection From Mobile Devices
When our client, a global financial services institution, needed to quickly investigate a suspected security breach which required data from over two hundred of its employees’ mobile phones to be collected and reviewed, our computer forensic experts were able to help.
Stopping a Brazen Theft
A leading international real estate information company suspected its data had been stolen and sold by a competitor. FTI Technology’s forensic experts teamed with local law enforcement to conduct a search and seizure, performed forensic imaging on close to 300 computers and devices and documented every step while adhering to the collection laws of the Philippines.
FTI Technology’s Antitrust Expertise Aids in Energy Merger
A large energy industry company planned to acquire a competitor. Given the size of the companies and the likely impact of the deal across the market, the companies anticipated regulatory scrutiny in the form of a Department of Justice (DOJ) antitrust “Second Request” investigation.
Healthcare Merger Aided in Second Request and Litigation by FTI Technology’s Managed Review and Analytics
Achieved the Second Request production within budget and in compliance with healthcare industry requirements. Through analytics research, the managed review team also helped counsel prepare for impending antitrust litigation.
FTI Technology Crafts Solution to Remedy Health Care System’s Data Ills
Understand corporate data residing on various networks and Sharepoint sites to proactively reduce data footprint and reduce future risk and exposure.
FTI Customizes E-discovery Process to Save Entertainment Service $600K
1.7 M documents quickly reduced to 25,000 despite unfavorable search terms.
FTI Balances Competing Concerns in Major Telecom Merger to Deliver Second Request on Time and Under Budget
A proposed merger between telecom giants generated a Hart Scott Rodino Second Request action that resulted in considerable difficulties for the parties involved.
FTI Assists Client in Uncovering Employee Fraud in Europe Through Mobile Investigations Unit
A global law firm contacted FTI to assist in the investigation of unusual activities between employees in two different European offices. Data from key custodians needed to be collected, processed and reviewed so that investigators could determine whether fraud was occurring, and if so, who else was involved or knew about it, how much was involved and what legal action could be taken.
Lovells Reduces E-discovery Costs and Time by 75%
Lovells, the sixth largest international law firm in the world, was tasked with evaluating potential conspiracy and fraud claims arising out of a complex multi-party transaction. During the investigation stage, the firm set out to review thirty-five gigabytes (two million pages) of restored e-mail data under tight staffing and cost controls.
FTI Responds Immediately on Refco Matter
FTI’s Computer Forensic consultants were deployed within minutes to collect, process and analyze complex transactional and document data at the request of Refco’s board and outside counsel. Within just three days of the initial collection, FTI provided an initial report to the board on money transfers and accounts outside of Refco.
Proactive Management: Fortune 1000 Company Takes Control of its E-discovery Process
A large Fortune 1000 company, with billions in revenue, was tasked with implementing an efficient, cost effective, defensible and reasonable document review tool when the company was facing a large-scale litigation. The legal team recognized the need for a system that was sophisticated enough to produce high caliber results yet simple enough to explain to opposing counsel and the court how those results were reached.
JMBM Finds Key Documents Among Millions For Millions
JMBM had very little time to review millions of pages and needed an easy, efficient way to search and manage all of the information required for depositions, motion practice and trial preparation. To find the most relevant documents in a large collection of electronic information within an established four month timeframe, JMBM sought the help of high-powered discovery technology.
Six Weeks, Five Productions and Millions of Documents
How Ringtail & Attenex e-discovery software enabled Bartlit Beck to create five productions in six weeks from millions of documents.
