Sloc offers a digital platform for antitrust experts to automate competitive effects analysis in merger control. It provides tools for geospatial and market share analysis, enabling efficient data computation, visualization, and submission of empirical evidence.
Funding
Funding not disclosed
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Problem
Antitrust experts face challenges in conducting timely and rigorous competitive effects analysis for merger control cases, often relying on manual processes that are time-consuming and prone to error. This can lead to delays in strategy development and potential risks in regulatory submissions.
Solution
Sloc provides a digital platform that automates economist-grade competitive effects analysis for merger control. The platform offers tools for complex geospatial and competitive analysis, enabling users to efficiently compute, visualize, and submit empirical evidence. By streamlining these processes, Sloc empowers antitrust professionals to develop proactive strategies and deliver high-quality, data-backed assessments. The platform supports both local market analysis and broader market share calculations, ensuring comprehensive coverage for various merger scenarios.
Target Audience
The primary users are competition and antitrust lawyers, competition authorities, and private equity firms that require efficient and robust tools for merger control analysis and competitive effects assessment.
Features
- **Sloc Local**: Facilitates geospatial analysis, including centroid and catchment analysis, with support for Haversine and Isochrone distance metrics, and various methods of transport.
- **Data Access**: Provides access to over 60 million global sites across 2,000+ key industries for early-stage scoping and case preparation.
- **Automated Data Wrangling**: Specialized tools for data preparation to ensure accuracy and reduce manual effort.
- **Interactive Visualizations**: Enables intuitive exploration of findings through interactive maps and clear visual representations of market data.
- **Sloc Concentrate**: Focuses on market share analysis, including calculations for market shares, Herfindahl-Hirschman Index (HHI), and GUPPIs.
- **Scenario Testing**: Allows for the assessment of thousands of markets with flexible segmentation and parameter adjustments.
- **Market RAG Rating**: Provides traffic light indicators to flag risks across product and geographic markets.
- **Report Generation**: Creates submission-ready reports, charts, and data packs with consistent formats that detail methodology and findings.
- **Collaboration Tools**: Features role-based access for secure project management and sharing of results among teams.