Race to Report: Antitrust Leniency in the Whistleblower Era [Competition Policy International] 

July 20, 2026

Brian Faerstein and Nicole Sprinzen examine how the Department of Justice Antitrust Division’s recently introduced Whistleblower Rewards Program, offering financial incentives for reporting antitrust-related crimes, interacts with the Division’s Corporate Leniency Policy, which for decades has relied on a race among conspirators to self‑report cartel conduct in exchange for the prospect of immunity. 

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Brian Faerstein

Member

bfaerstein@cozen.com

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Nicole H. Sprinzen

Co-Chair, White Collar Defense & Investigations

nsprinzen@cozen.com

(202) 471-3451

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