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Crisis Management - UK-wide
What the Team is Known For
Osborne Clarke's crisis management practice has a particular specialism in health and safety matters and data breach or cyber attacks. The team comprises litigators and sector specialists experienced in reputation management as well as incident response. The firm also has expertise in product recalls, financial reporting and business crime matters.
Strengths
Osborne Clarke has a deep knowledge of cyber, combining legal, technical, regulatory expertise and understanding of communication.
Osborne Clarke is extremely responsive, pragmatic, wise, and just an excellent sounding board. They're very reliable.
Osborne Clarke is very good at crisis management. They are level-headed, with good response and reaction times.
Work Highlights
Osborne Clarke advised the liquidators of Wirecard UK on their insolvency proceedings following a fraud discovery.
Notable practitioners
Ashley Hurst is the head of client strategy at the firm and has expertise in media and information law, contentious data privacy and cybersecurity. He advises international businesses and individuals on reputational issues, focusing on major tech and media clients.
Ashley is a very good lawyer specialising in tech and cyber disputes.