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Crisis Management - UK-wide
What the Team is Known For
Freshfields assists businesses, institutions and global corporations facing significant reputational and existential crises. The firm has leading financial crime, competition law and public international law practices, and its crisis response work includes industry-wide scandals, allegations of serious misconduct, terrorism incidents, environmental disasters, IT failures and financial collapse.
Strengths
Freshfields' advice is accessible, practical and delivered with speed and efficiency.
Freshfields has expertise in relevant areas of the law, transferable client-based knowledge and experience, speed of response and pragmatism.
Notable practitioners
Ali Sallaway is co-head of the global investigations and corporate crime practice at Freshfields Bruckhaus Deringer. She brings significant experience in criminal and regulatory matters to her work advising on crisis situations.
Ali is brilliant: she's very incisive and cuts through a lot of the issues. She is tough and thoughtful.
Ali is brilliant, very experienced and calm in a crisis. She is thoughtful, considers all the angles and is a pleasure to work with.
Ali is an excellent lawyer and commercial litigator; she runs a very well-regarded team.
Matthew Bruce is a co-head of Freshfields’ global investigations group and its corporate crime practice. Bruce is experienced in handling a range of crises including white-collar crime, government investigations and whistle-blower allegations.
Matthew is very experienced, commercially minded and reassuring.
Matthew is our go-to partner. He is trusted, responsive and understands our business, enabling him to give us pragmatic advice.