UK Law and Practice Contributed by: Ben Morgan, Ali Sallaway, Matthew Bruce and Emily Knight, Freshfields
Freshfields has a market-leading crisis man- agement practice that excels in advising high- profile clients on high-stakes complex risk is- sues – from corporate scandals to cyber attacks to environmental disasters – and in navigating the intricate landscape of political and military events, especially in the current volatile geopo- litical climate. It covers the full spectrum and timeline of clients’ potential risk exposure and crisis response, from urgent incident response
and internal investigations to the co-ordination of long-running dispute management/defence, data review, regulatory engagement and stake- holder strategy. The firm manages complex mandates that straddle multiple areas of law, including civil, regulatory and criminal. No other firm acts on, and has leading expertise in, the same range of crisis and risk management is- sues, making Freshfields the “go-to firm” for long-standing and new clients alike.
Authors
Ben Morgan is a partner in the global crisis management, investigations and corporate crime teams at Freshfields. He is instructed in some of the most significant current enforcement
Ali Sallaway is co-head of the global investigations and corporate crime practice at Freshfields in London and continues to lead on many of the practice’s most complex and
processes both in the UK and overseas, covering risk generated by conduct entailing fraud, bribery and corruption, money laundering, sanctions breach and taxation issues. Ben was previously joint-head of bribery and corruption at the SFO, and clients find his experience of government agencies and the way they operate and interact to be a helpful complement to their own thinking, which has resulted in him now regularly being trusted to handle their most sensitive crises when necessary.
high-profile mandates, including particularly sensitive crises, enforcement investigations and cross-border matters with sensitive reputational components. She advises the most sophisticated clients in all sectors on all manner of crises, including corporate crime, serious regulatory investigations and non- financial misconduct. Ali is recognised as a leading individual for crisis management, global investigations, corporate and financial crime, and contentious financial services.
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