About

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Our team advises a very broad spectrum of clients on issues affecting their reputation. Clients range from high-profile individuals and families, corporates and financial services firms, to educational, not-for-profit and sports organisations. Our clients include leaders in the worlds of entertainment and sport, business, politics, education and retail. Uniquely, we also continue to advise a small selection of publisher clients. We understand the media, making us well placed to assist our clients where the threat to their reputation is from news or media outlets. 


We have extensive expertise of the legal issues that arise where clients' reputations are under threat. When needed, we draw upon our close network of third-party advisers (including communications experts, digital intelligence and investigations firms, cyber and physical security advisers and specialist barristers). We ensure that every one of our clients receives a comprehensive and bespoke service, which best protects their interests.


Our defamation lawyers and reputation management solicitors have vast experience in protecting clients' reputations, privacy and security. As well as media coverage, our experience ranges from family disputes to the removal of online content (including via the ‘right to be forgotten’), to corporate crisis planning and threats posed to individuals and organisations by challenging personnel (whether employees or otherwise) or obsessed/harassing individuals.


Chambers Review

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Defamation/Reputation Management: High Net Worth - UK-wide

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What the Team is Known For

Farrer & Co is well recognised for advising high net worth individuals on a range of matters including reputation management, defamation, and privacy and security.

Strengths

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Notable Practitioners

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Julian Pike
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Julian Pike
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Julian Pike is an experienced practitioner who leads the reputation management practice at the firm.

Julian is well known as one of the leading reputation management lawyers in the country. He has a fantastic manner with clients and inspires confidence from his decades of experience.

Julian Pike is the best in the business in terms of advice and being cool under pressure. He is also someone who works around the clock. He is an absolute machine.

Thomas Rudkin
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Thomas Rudkin
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Thomas Rudkin's work includes advising clients on reputation management and cybersecurity matters.

Tom is really brilliant to work with and super bright. He is great at thinking outside of the box and offering clients practical solutions, in addition to his legal knowledge.

Thomas Rudkin is very confident with his understanding of the law and very complicated situations.

Thomas is a fantastic operator. He's very capable, very smart, very cool under pressure and gives good advice to clients.

Athalie Matthews
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Athalie Matthews
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Band 4

Athalie Matthews has a wide range of experience in dispute resolution and reputation management. Matthews brings to bear her experience in journalism and has a particularly strong claimant-side practice on reputation matters.

Oliver Lock
Oliver Lock
Star Associates

Oliver Lock has significant expertise relating to media and reputational issues, including defamation, privacy and blackmail. Lock is well regarded for his expertise in defamation issues concerning artificial intelligence and deepfakes.

Oliver Lock is calm under pressure. His talent is communicating difficult legal ideas and theories effectively.

Oliver Lock is very responsive and on top of everything.

Oliver Lock is great with clients. I appreciate his transparency and he is very able to talk in layman's terms.

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Farrer & Co LLP

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Defamation/Reputation Management: High Net Worth

Julian Pike
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Julian Pike
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Band 1
Thomas Rudkin
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Thomas Rudkin
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Band 2
Athalie Matthews
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Athalie Matthews
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Band 4
Oliver Lock
Oliver Lock
Star Associates

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