Jess Alden
Jess helps clients from around the world respond better to serious issues that impact their reputation and freedom to operate. Clients range from some of the largest businesses in the world and their executives to prominent individuals who have suddenly come under scrutiny.
Jess has a particular focus on working with those with interests around the world who experience disproportionate and unreasonable reactions from western media and financial institutions, often in response to misinformation and smear campaigns. As a result, she frequently works across Asia and the Middle East. Working with experts in the right jurisdictions, her work encompasses identifying the source of issues to obtain better information and, ultimately, better results for clients.
She is frequently recognised in awards, including the Asian Woman of Achievement Awards and the CityWealth Future Leaders Awards. She often speaks about issues that are important to her, having recently been invited to an Asian Women of Achievement Round Table at Downing Street, has contributed to documentaries on abuse of social media in harassment campaigns and writes for national and business titles.
Recent work includes:
- Advising and litigating for a multinational food retailer which was the subject of a complex blackmail plot, utilizing interim non disclosure injunctions and s11 Contempt of Court Orders in criminal proceedings
- Advising a major cryptocurrency exchange platform and its CEO on defamatory allegations and the publication of confidential information from international broadsheet press
- Advising a FTSE100 company on a blackmail threat made to its CEO’s family
- Advising a number of England international and premier league footballers on privacy risks and engaging in pre-publication correspondence
- Carrying out an internal investigation into the broadcast of a TV show produced that was contrary to the OFCOM code and leading subsequent pre-action correspondence.
- Advising the board and key individuals of various FTSE 100 companies on privacy and security risks that could impact their reputation.
- Advising various corporate clients on how to combat an online impersonation campaign affecting their reputation
- Advising corporate clients on the reputational consequences following an employee conduct issue, including an international banking organization and an international PR group
- Using the Norwich Pharmacal jurisdiction to reveal an astroturfing campaign by a competitor, using the same jurisdiction to uncover the identity of an impersonation scheme intended to obtain confidential information concerning a client
- Work on pre-publication correspondence matters relating to BBC Panorama, providing a successful result for both, ensuring that the narrative was fair and accurate
- Advising a middle eastern royal family member on the reputational issues surrounding a potentially high profile divorce