Questor Consulting

Questor Consulting (QC) is an independent, litigation, corporate and financial communications PR consultancy with international experience that provides support for cases as well as for companies including law firms and litigation funders to build their profiles and manage their reputations.

Founded by Desiree Maghoo over a decade ago, QC is a senior team of advisors dedicated to making a positive difference to our clients’ profiles, revenues and reputations. The work is done by practitioners with decades of experience and strong relationships across the media. We are strategic, efficient and the results that we generate make a real difference.

The team is one of the most experienced in providing strategic litigation PR support on complex and high profile matters. Clients are looked after by senior professionals, leveraging decades of experience and strong relationships across the media. What distinguishes QC are its strong relationships across the national and international business media at editorial and sector level, including The Financial Times, The Wall Street Journal, The Times, The Daily Telegraph and Bloomberg.

QC’s team is responsive and agile, supported by a team of senior legal experts including solicitors and barristers who have experience across a wide range of disputes as well as experts in corporate finance and digital marketing.

Areas of expertise

Litigation PR

Questor Consulting (QC) has been active in providing litigation PR and communications advice to law firms, litigation funders, organisations that represent the interests of the litigation funding industry, corporates, institutions and individuals for almost a decade.

QC is the go-to advisor for claimant side cases including single cases involving an individual, a law firm, or a corporate as well as cases involving large groups of claimants. We advise on some of the most complex and high-profile matters in the High Court, Court of Appeal, Supreme Court and Competition Appeal Tribunal (CAT) and we have advised on large shareholder, consumer and corporate group claims. From the UK’s first carriage dispute in the CAT and first ever class action settlement agreement in the CAT to the largest GLO in English legal history, QC’s breadth of experience is unparalleled and is the reason why clients trust them, especially when the stakes are high.

QC supports clients throughout the lifecycle of a litigation, from launch to settlement or judgment and enforcement. The team has a strong reputation for book-building, having built the largest book of claimants through media and digital campaigns for the VW dieselgate litigation, which is the largest GLO in UK history. QC also assists legal teams in identifying suitable class representatives and expert witnesses for cases, thanks to a deep understanding of the cases and the team’s extensive network. QC also work closely with digital marketing experts to advise on marketing campaigns to support cases.

Crisis and reputation management

QC is a leading provider of Crisis PR and Communications, advising companies across a broad range of sectors from legal and financial services to technology and healthcare. QC works to protect and build clients’ reputations in order to create value for clients. QC’s commitment to bolstering clients’ reputation is relentless.

Clients include corporates, funds, professional services firms, industry associations and investment banks. Having strong relationships at editorial level and with the sector journalists at national, Tier 1 media publications is crucial to help ensure that media coverage is well informed, accurate and fair and also enables clients to get cut through in the media that matters and to build relationships with journalists.

Legal sector PR

QC also provides PR and communications advice to clients in the legal sector, including leading law firms and litigation funders. QC takes a holistic approach to legal mandates, providing a communications and media strategy that dovetails with law firm partners’ business development plans, boosting their profiles and the strength of the firm’s reputation. QC also provides strategic advice to the litigation funding industry.