Crisis Management - UK-wide
Band 2
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 strong, solid health and safety regulatory team doing advisory as well as contentious work. They are well-versed and well-experienced with some really strong players there.
Osborne Clarke is very responsive, provides clear concise advice and regular fee and matter updates. As well as this, they have awareness of commercial considerations.
Osborne Clarke has excellent co-ordination with stakeholders and is a trusted adviser in their field. The matters they have advised on have involved a high degree of complexity, overlapping regulatory and legal areas.
The team at Osborne Clarke is approachable and provides clear, straightforward advice to clients. They are eminently flexible, and due to their full-service offering are great at bringing in specialists from across the firm as potential crises evolve. They also have a robust appreciation and understanding of the importance of reputational considerations when providing client advice.
Osborne Clarke provides sound, calm advice and has good technical understanding. They are pragmatic.
Work Highlights
Osborne Clarke represents RWE Generation (UK) Limited regarding the premature collapse of the boiler house during a demolition project carried out at RWE's site.
Notable practitioners
Ashley Hurst is the head of client strategy at Osborne Clarke 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 Hurst is a really sound, good guy. He's got good judgement and is able to see the wood for the trees. He would be calm in a crisis.
