When a crisis strikes, we work with boards and C-suites to protect the enterprise – stabilize operations, manage legal and regulatory exposure, and reduce reputational harm in fast-moving, high-stakes events. We deliver an integrated response across investigations, litigation, compliance, and communications, with a constant focus on the endgame.

Clients turn to us for critical matters and existential brand threats, including war and financial crises, cyber intrusions and data breaches, government and Congressional investigations, workplace violence, executive scandals, product safety issues, and catastrophic explosions, fires, chemical releases, and oil spills – often alongside high-profile environmental investigations and enforcement. We partner early with crisis communications professionals and forensic experts, aligning legal strategy with business realities while anticipating longer-term liabilities such as loss of shareholder confidence.

Our team is built for board-level decision-making: seasoned private and public communicators with the judgment and gravitas to help leadership identify and navigate legal, regulatory, legislative, commercial, and reputational risk. We offer a deep bench of former senior government officials, including leaders and senior officials from the Department of Justice, Food and Drug Administration, Director of National Intelligence, Securities and Exchange Commission, Federal Bureau of Investigation, and Environmental Protection Agency, as well as bipartisan elected officials and prominent corporate governance leaders.

We pair our government experience with technical fluency – team members hold certifications or degrees in areas relevant to financial, cyber, environmental, energy, healthcare, and life sciences crises – and the ability to serve as spokespersons during high-pressure events.

We also marshal resources such as our Discovery Intelligence document preservationists, financial analysts, and white hat hackers, along with insurance and other specialists, and we collaborate closely with leading crisis communications professionals and forensic experts from the earliest moments. Beyond containment, we help clients prepare for the unexpected and mitigate risk through audits, compliance gap analysis, wellness checks, tabletop exercises, and implementation of best practices – and, after the immediate event, to recover, remediate, apply lessons learned, and emerge stronger.