When a client is involved in a dispute or investigation, managing public and stakeholder interest is critical. That’s why it’s important to have a communications strategy in place.
We are specialists in Disputes & Investigations communications. Our team is instructed by claimants and defendants in high profile domestic and international cases across a wide range of business sectors. Clients call on Byfield’s specialist expertise to support their legal strategy, or to provide alternative solutions that help them achieve their objectives.
We advise clients on proactive and reactive communications strategies to help advance a case or cause, or to protect them from unwanted attention.
In doing so, we deploy the complete set of communications tools to ensure our clients’ narratives are promoted and protected. This includes engaging with the media, public and other stakeholders.
Clients also benefit from our in-depth knowledge of the international disputes market and the key trends and legislative developments affecting the sector. This helps us shape our approach to cases, the advice the client receives, and allows us to work seamlessly with legal teams and other experts.
We act in a broad range of cases across commercial litigation, investment treaty disputes, shareholder actions, regulatory investigations including bribery and corruption, asset tracing and recovery, enforcement actions, international arrest warrants, civil and criminal fraud, public inquiries, professional negligence and workplace disputes and investigations. We also have significant experience in class actions where we have built and delivered effective PR campaigns in some of the most prominent cases in recent years.
Our Work
Some examples of our work include:
Navigating an 8-week trial for a public body, in the Commercial Court in 2023.
Launching the first shareholder action in emissions litigation both in the UK and in Germany.
Handling the communications around bringing and defending criminal charges on between political and high-profile individuals, including red notices and arrest warrants.
Launching a Bilateral Investment Treaty Arbitration on behalf of a Sovereign Wealth Fund.
Advising a law firm and its private equity owner through financial distress, insolvency and eventually sale out of insolvency of the law firm.
Advising an energy services company through financial distress, litigation, scrutiny by investigative journalists and ultimately insolvency.
Launching a major group action on behalf of small businesses against a major retailer.
Assisting the former head of a British charity navigate legal and regulatory investigations by the Charity Commission.
Built a pan-European consumer action seeking redress for mis-sold properties.
Launching the FX market manipulation class action.
Assisting a HNW individual facing asset freezes by an international bank in relation to a commercial dispute.
Supporting an education institution facing local authority investigations into alleged sexual misconduct.
Reputational advice to a South African consumer goods company on a complex restructuring and responding to allegations of fraud.
Internal investigation into a director of a British regulator’s conduct on social media.
PR support for a British university around the investigation of a lecturer’s conduct and public comments about a high profile and divisive issue.
Assisting multiple law firms on reputational issues around investigating partner and other personnel conduct issues and SRA/SDT regulatory proceedings.
MIROVIA
Our expertise and reach is enhanced by Mirovia, our international network of specialist legal sector PR agencies. This gives us on-the-ground presence in key European and international jurisdictions which is crucial to running effective cross-border campaigns. Our global reach is based on real, local knowledge.
In 2022, Mirovia, launched a European-wide class-action PR desk to coordinate the communications campaigns of clients who are both bringing and defending claims across EU member states and the UK.
Contact us:
Capabilities
- Advisory and audit
- Strategy and planning
- Media handling (in and out of court)
- Messaging development
- Scenario planning
- Stakeholder mapping and management
- Internal communications
- Influencer and public advocacy support
- Rebuttals and correction
- Through trial reputation management
- Website and digital
- 24/7 monitoring
Our thinking
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