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What we do

Crises

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  • Help leaders plan, navigate, coordinate and control their response to crises

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  • Triage and prioritise different stakeholder threats

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  • Enable leaders to retain or regain control

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Investigations and inquiries

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  • Conduct Investigations and Inquiries, reporting privately or publicly

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Regulatory problems and prosecutions

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  • Advise and support leaders on conduct or governance problems facing investigation or prosecution

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  • Provide strategic advice on issues around culture, behaviours, ethics and compliance

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  • Liaise with regulators and prosecutors to manage problems, including advice on contemplating and negotiating Deferred Prosecution Agreements

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Strategy and Board Assurance

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  • Working with leaders to provide strategic and tactical advice

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  • Assure leaders (and other parties) that necessary action is being taken and is delivering results

Why us?

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  • We provide insight based on experience of many crises and stressful situations

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  • We are very focused on outcomes and success for our clients, not simply process

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  • We provide discreet counsel on how to manage the problem

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  • Our service is a personal one - we lead all of our engagements and work only with a small senior team

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  • Our approach is to complement and work alongside our clients and their existing advisors

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  • We are not prescriptive – each situation is different and we work to suit our clients’ needs

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  • Our advice is fiercely independent, objective and uncluttered - we are courteous but direct

Recent experience

Recent experience includes:

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  • Advising the Board of Rolls Royce plc on ethics and governance

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  • Advising the Board of Airbus on ethics and governance

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  • Advising the Chairman of a global professional services business on fallout from the ‘Gupta scandal’ in South Africa

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  • Advising international businesses on corruption issues

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  • Conducting independent inquiries including into circumstances leading to Xavier Rolet’s departure as CEO of the London Stock Exchange Group

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  • Advising a UHNW family and group of multi-national businesses

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  • Advising a Government department on its investigation into, and remediation of, conduct issues

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  • Advising a quoted company on strategic and tactical issues in response to class actions

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  • Assisting a major shareholder in a high profile ‘activist’ situation

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  • Providing assurance to a Government department on governance and compliance of a major supplier

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  • Advising minority shareholders following collapse of confidence in management of a quoted mining company

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