Crisis Management - UK-wide
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What the Team is Known For
Herbert Smith Freehills Kramer offers a sophisticated crisis management practice assisting diverse clients with challenges including insolvency, executive misconduct, catastrophic cyber incidents and serious reputational threats.
Strengths
Herbert Smith Freehills Kramer has a global reach and covers most jurisdictions. The standard of legal services received is consistently exceptional and most importantly they apply their legal advice to the business in question which helps contextualise the legal advice so that the client can work out what is best for the company.
Herbert Smith Freehills Kramer has the advantage of their reputation, which is thoroughly deserved. Having HSFK representing you is, in itself, a massive advantage. It has huge experience and an ability to work very well between partners in the firm and to blend the skills and experience they have. They have a breadth of ability that they can blend together for your case.
Herbert Smith Freehills Kramer is extremely knowledgeable about the regulatory situation in the UK and the EU. They were knowledgeable about the commercial situation and the courts. They were very strategic about how to manage the comms and the crisis.
Work Highlights
Herbert Smith Freehills Kramer has advised Ferrexpo, an iron ore mining and processing company, on its response to sanctions put on its controlling shareholder and former CEO Kostyantin Zhevago by the Republic of Ukraine. The firm also assisted the company with its responses to various investigations into Mr Zhevago for alleged bribery and corruption in Ukraine, parallel investigations and regulatory actions against the company, and the subsequent withholding of VAT refunds allegedly owed to Ferrexpo by the Ukrainian tax authority.
Notable practitioners
Andrew Moir leads the cyber and data security practice at Herbert Smith Freehills Kramer and is also a partner in the intellectual property group. He advises on cyber crisis preparedness and cyber incident response, including data breaches.
Andrew is good and pragmatic. He does a lot of privacy work and data breaches, and he gave advice which was unimpeachable.
Andrew Moir is very good at data privacy. He is a very experienced pair of hands. When it comes to litigation risk arising out of cyber, Andrew and his team will be fantastic.
