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FTI Technology Provides Assessment, Testing and Governance Framework for Copilot Implementation at Large Financial Services Institution

A financial services institution was seeking to deploy Copilot across its Microsoft 365 environment as part of a broader objective to leverage artificial intelligence to improve employee efficiency and work experience. With a robust risk management program in place, the company understood the importance of testing and evaluating the legal and regulatory risks associated with the new generative AI tool. FTI Technology is a longstanding trusted advisor to the company across information governance, e-discovery and digital risk, and was engaged to conduct a robust governance assessment during a contained project pilot.

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.

Rapid Forensic Analysis Across 80 Devices and Cloud Sources Provides Critical Insight During Contentious Intellectual Property Case

When an intellectual property dispute between two companies in the aviation industry escalated to litigation and potential criminal charges, the defendant organization needed to quickly understand whether there was any merit underlying the allegations in the suit. This necessitated expedited forensic analysis of many dozens of devices in addition to cloud searches and other discovery work relative to the litigation. FTI Technology was engaged to provide digital forensics and emerging data sources expertise and support.

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.

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