FGS Global

Website: https://fgsglobal.com/

Tel: (212) 687-8080

Number of Employees: 1200

Languages: 26

Overview & History 

FGS Global is a leading strategic advisory and communications firm, helping organizations navigate mission-critical situations across audiences in a fast-moving interconnected world. FGS Global delivers strategic advice, deep experience, a 360º perspective, real-time intelligence and flawless execution across the disciplines of strategic communications, crisis management and advocacy. The firm supports clients with unmatched expertise and tools, to seize opportunities and confront challenges — 24 hours a day, 7 days a week, anywhere in the world.

FGS Global launched in 2022 as the merger of Finsbury Glover Hering and Sard Verbinnen & Co to create the world’s preeminent strategic communications firm advising clients in navigating critical opportunities and challenges. As the strategic advisor for the stakeholder economy, FGS Global builds on the strong heritage of its legacy firms, combining the depth of our expertise with an expanded global reach, a diversity of perspectives and a unique ability to reach and impact audiences that matter most.

The firm provides a complete integrated offering across the following practice areas:

• Litigation Support
• Crisis and Issues Management
• Corporate Reputation and Leadership Strategies
• Government Affairs, Policy and Advocacy
• Transaction and Financial Communication
• Transformation and Change

Compliance & Litigation 

FGS Global has unmatched experience managing communications across the lifecycles of compliance issues, court battles, enforcement actions and regulatory investigations in jurisdictions around the globe. Our approach forges partnerships with C-suite, legal advisors and external relations teams to further clients’ business goals and advance their legal strategy. Whether a client is facing an IP dispute in China, a precedent-setting U.S. Supreme Court case or patent claims by a European tech company, FGS Global helps clients maintain trust with breakthrough strategy and compelling narratives.

Working seamlessly with legal counsel, senior management, board members and in-house communications teams, FGS Global identifies the most significant risk factors and develops and executes strategic communications plans to stabilize key relationships and shape the opinions of relevant stakeholders, including the media, investors, analysts, employees, business partners, lawmakers and regulators.

FGS Global’s areas of expertise include:

• Government and regulatory investigations and enforcement actions
• IP, patent and trade secret cases
• Foreign Corrupt Practices and RICO actions
• Cybersecurity and data privacy issues
• Product liability, wrongful death and class-action suits
• Bet-the-company litigation
• Antitrust matters
• Environmental litigation
• White collar cases
• Discrimination and harassment suits
• Securities and financial litigation
• Defamation cases
• Cross-border litigation
• Employee and labor issues
• Whistleblower cases
• U.S. Supreme Court and appellate cases
• Corporate governance disputes
• Settlement and contract negotiations
• False advertising claims
• Monitorships

The Team 

With senior team members who include former lawyers, journalists, bankers, government officials and corporate communications executives with decades of experience managing communications for high-profile and high-risk situations, FGS Global brings to each assignment multidisciplinary teams that provide seasoned, measured and independent counsel.

Key Differentiating Factors 

• Design and Creative – FGS Global has a team of designers, storytellers, producers, and creative strategists who work hand-in-hand with the firm’s insights and digital teams to understand a client’s priority audiences, providing context and clarity to their messaging through creative work in every medium.
• Digital Strategy – Working in collaboration with the insight and creative teams, the digital strategy team develops interactive storytelling — for every platform — that makes a lasting impact. The team spans the globe, providing an eagle-eye perspective and the capability to reach local communities and worldwide audiences alike.
• Presentation and Media Coaching – FGS Global’s presentation and media coaching team develops bespoke training programs to improve every type of executive public appearance, including media interviews, internal presentations, public speeches, investor interactions, panel Q&A and government testimony.
• Research and Insights – The firm’s research and insights team deeply understands those who wield influence, from decision-makers in regulatory and financial centers to voters with the power to alter the political map. Using a full suite of research methodologies and platforms, the group distills what matters to a client’s most important audiences, and how to meet their priorities.

Offices: 

Amsterdam

Abu Dhabi

Beijing

Berlin

Boston

Brussels

Calgary

Chicago

Dubai

Dublin

Düsseldorf

Frankfurt

Hong Kong

Houston

Kingston

London

Los Angeles

Munich

New York

Paris

Riyadh

San Francisco

Shanghai

Singapore

South Florida

Tokyo

Toronto

Vancouver

Washington, DC

Zurich

Headquarters: 

909 Third Avenue, 32nd Fl

New York, NY 10022

Contact Us: 

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