Parallel Trade Investigations

We are highly experienced in assisting our clients to identify the source of diverted product and unauthorised internal activity.

Our head office is in London and we have a further office in Istanbul that manages investigations in Turkey and the neighbouring Eastern European countries and Russia. Our office in Warsaw manages investigations throughout Poland and the neighbouring territories.

We have worked in most industries that have grey market issues and have assisted brand owners by gathering evidence to allow the client to resolve their internal and external issues. Some of the strategies used when conducting these investigations are as follows:

• Identifying the supply chain from the end seller to the source, to gather evidence to expose the manufacturers to legal or other remedies.
• We make trap purchases or obtain samples together with offers to supply to use as evidence.
• We have various front companies that we use to make covert trade approaches.
• We conduct market surveys to highlight specific problems in the market place.
• We have commissioned forensic analysis of products and packaging to assist with investigations.
• We have provided evidence for seizure and destruction orders of infringing products.

We can assist the client with choosing and liaising with local lawyers in difficult territories where they do not usually have any IP expertise.

We have conducted investigations in the following territories:

Algeria, Antigua, Australia, Austria, The Balearic Islands, Bangladesh, Belgium, Bermuda, Canada, The Canary Islands, China, Cyprus, Dominican Republic, Dubai, France, Germany, Greece, India, Indonesia, Italy Japan, Jersey, Korea,,Morocco, The Netherlands, New Zealand, Pakistan, Poland, Portugal, Romania, Russia and the former Russian countries, Saudi Arabia, Serbia, South America, South Korea, Spain, Sri Lanka, Switzerland, Taiwan, Thailand, Turkey and USA.