Investigations and Disputes
What start as allegations affecting reputation can easily tip into more serious problems and involve regulators, litigation and blocks on freedom to operate. We work with clients to identify the risks of becoming embroiled in investigations and act to protect them from the consequences.
Not all reputation risks end with what is said about you - many serve as a leading indicator that an investigation by an authority may be prompted or that banks and others subject to compliance regimes may refuse to deal with you.
Likewise, impacting key stakeholders and damaging reputation through the media is a common tactical approach in litigation by parties seeking to advantage themselves and cause sufficient pain that their opponent yields to their demands.
We focus on identifying the substantive threats to help clients protect themselves tactically from attacks made by adverse parties, while working strategically to build protection against areas of reputation risk that might damage stakeholder confidence or disrupt their ability to operate freely.
Alongside working on substantive investigations, we work with businesses to protect their ability to operate while proceedings are ongoing.
Our recent work includes:
- Nations involved in allegations of corruption in FIFA.
- An individual subject to allegations in the CumEx fraud trials in Germany.
- A large corporation subject to US Department of Justice investigations into its government contracts across the globe.
- An individual accused of involvement in political corruption in Cyprus and involved in international regulatory proceedings.
- A business accused of involvement in political corruption and interfering with electoral processes.
- External investigation into allegations of misconduct against a senior figure in a sporting body.
- Advice to an entity accuse of breaching trading sanctions with Iran.
- Individuals involved in the 1MDB investigations in Malaysia.
- A military supply business whose executives saw their banking facilities withdrawn.
- Banks and individual bankers subject to allegations of manipulating markets.