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Provided by Withers LLP
Guiding clients through crises is central to the service we provide at Withers. Our specialists – across our white-collar crime and investigations, media and reputation, financial services regulatory, employment, charities, restructuring and insolvency, data protection, tax and family teams – come together to provide tailored advice to businesses and individuals facing all kinds of crisis, whether that's financial, organisational, personnel, situational or otherwise. We advise clients at every stage of a crisis, from immediate response and recovery (managing relationships with key stakeholders including law enforcement, regulators and the media; mitigating damage caused by threats or allegations; leading contentious disputes) to evaluation and prevention (conducting risk and reputational audits; compliance advisory; providing tailored training to individuals, businesses and boards). The crises faced by our clients are rarely contained within a single jurisdiction. With crisis management lawyers across the Withers' global network (including London, Los Angeles, New York, Hong Kong and Singapore), we are able to harness the relevant expertise to provide a bespoke team to suit our clients' needs, working 24-7 to resolve the situation.
Chambers Review
The Withers crisis team focuses on advising executive leadership and high net worth individuals on various reputational risks. This includes working with broader corporate reputation, encompassing issues such as harassment and sexual misconduct claims as well as commercial risk management.
Jo Sandersis a key contact at Withers for crisis management work.
Work Highlights
- The Withers team is assisting private equity firm WRM Group with declaratory relief and libel proceedings against the Vatican and two Italian newspapers, following an investment dispute between the firm and the Church.
Strengths
Provided by Chambers
"Withers have a good reputation for this sort of work."
"Jo Sanders runs a really good team. They have strong charities and private client teams, as well as media and defamation where they are definitely coming up. They have a big set of corporate clients."
"Withers have a good reputation for this sort of work."
"Jo Sanders runs a really good team. They have strong charities and private client teams, as well as media and defamation where they are definitely coming up. They have a big set of corporate clients."
Members
Provided by Withers LLP
Carl Newman
Claire Christy
Harvey Knight
James Hockin
Jeff Millington
Jo Sanders
Maurice Martin
Natalie Sherborn
Stephen Ross
Tessa Lorimer