Special situations & crisis response

Crises often strike out of nowhere, disrupting your team, business operations and finances. Misconduct or emergencies can also impact your reputation and legal standing.

When the stakes are high, inaction increases the potential damage, while uncertainty and confusion affect trust both internally and externally.

After assisting a number of clients in similar situations, our team develops rapid-response plans and manages the aftermath, helping you contain the crisis, reduce damage, and restore stability.

Representative projects

  • Dawn-raids by law enforcement authorities against a retail operator that could have led to an immediate shutdown of all business operations.

  • Personal data breaches exposing the client to the risk of high financial penalties and reputational damage in a highly regulated consumer business.

  • Wide-ranging seizures of assets by bailiffs made based on interim measures granted during complex commercial disputes involving our client, a real estate company.

  • Verifying allegations of insider trading, bribery and unfair competition activities, and providing remedial strategy for a major consumer business.

  • Representing a financial institution in a multi-faceted dispute with one of the heirs of the bank’s client overpaying funds after the testator.

  • Investigating allegations of senior management’s malfeasance in a subsidiary of a foreign industrial manufacturer.

  • Investigating a situation in a subsidiary in which the managers had transferred assets out of the company for a foreign marketing business entity.

  • Advising a foreign investment fund in investigating the causes, course of events and consequences of a fraud committed by one of its counterparties.