Reputation Management for Corporates

Corporate Crisis Management

Corporate Defamation

False allegations can cause significant reputational and financial damage to businesses and their stakeholders.

We advise on:

• Defamation claims
• Malicious falsehood and negligent misstatement
• False online reviews
• Vexatious complaints, disgruntled ex-employees, and opportunist competitors
• Reputation recovery strategies

Data Protection and Cyber Incidents

Data breaches can quickly become reputational crises.

We advise on:

• Data protection disputes
• Privacy complaints
• Cyber incident response
• Information rights issues
• Reputation management following breaches

Online Reputation and Social Media

The online environment creates unique risks for organisations.

We assist with:

• Harmful online content
• Social media issues
• Website publications
• Online impersonation
• Reputation monitoring and response

Managing Litigation and Court Reporting

Court proceedings are often played out in the public eye. We help individuals and organisations manage reputational risk, protect sensitive information and navigate media reporting throughout the lifecycle of a dispute.

Our expertise includes:

• Court reporting and open justice issues
• Reporting restrictions and anonymisation applications
• Protecting confidential and commercially sensitive information
• Disclosure and privacy issues in litigation
• Challenging inaccurate or misleading reporting
• Managing media interest during legal proceedings
• Reputation management before, during and after litigation

Examples of our work

Our team advises organisations through complex investigations, allegations and crises where legal strategy and reputation management must go hand in hand.

Examples of our work include:

• Advising a business on reputational issues, following serious allegations against a senior leader, seamlessly working with colleagues on strategy, regulatory and criminal issues
• Advising a Premier League football club in respect of various media issues both pre- and post- publication
• Acting for a charitable foundation in respect of reputational advice following negative press, including making a serious incident report to the Charity Commission
• Acting for a financial services company threatened with inclusion in a prime-time television broadcast regarding allegations of wrongdoing, resulting in it being omitted from the programme.
• Advising a global food business in relation to pre- and post-publication media advice.
• Advising an educational institution on its intellectual property rights in relation to a former employee’s use of social media.