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
Our Principals' 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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Advising in relation to the Government inquiry into Greensill and the company's collapse
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Providing strategic advice to ENRC in its claims against Dechert and the SFO
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Conducting a review for EY of its decision not to proceed with Project Everest, a plan to separate the EY businesses