CASE STUDY Financial Services | Global
Global Commodities Provider Successfully Investigates Alleged Securities Litigation Violations
Client Need
- Resolve a securities litigation investigation alleging public misrepresentations of asset values.
- Support counsel in conducting a structured, defensible investigation to satisfy independent reviewers.
Client Solutions
- Identify whether any intentional misrepresentation occurred through data analysis and review.
- Minimise costs using software to reduce a 3.5 million document set to 50,000 through targeted search term analysis.
- Validate that asset value representations and related procedures follow corporate policy and are communicated appropriately to the public.
Why Epiq
- Strengthen eDiscovery strategies in securities litigation with experience from the financial services practice group.
- Develop fact patterns with minimal human involvement with data reduction methods and advanced technologies, including supervised machine learning.
- Ensure a structured and defensible investigation by implementing a three‑pronged approach that counsel recommended.
Results and Benefits
Achieve a 98% reduction in reviewable data.
Disproved misrepresentation allegations through an advanced technology-based approach.
Identified behavior patterns through a supervised learning approach.