Your greatest asset
Reputation is an essential asset. Maintaining control of privacy is critical to protecting that asset, and as with any asset, there are numerous threats that can undermine its value.
In today's interconnected world, these threats can emerge at any time, from anywhere. Some can be avoided. And with the support of experienced advisors, those that can't be avoided can be managed to minimise their impact.
A Rolls Royce firm with many significant and leading groups in a variety of different practice areas, none more so than the Media team. They provide significant reputation management advice to companies and UHNW individuals.
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Why clients choose us
Our award-winning Reputation Management and Privacy Protection team is an integral part of our International Private Wealth group and has a long history of advising ultra high net worth (UHNW) families and high-profile individuals on how to respond to all reputational challenges and threats to privacy. We can advise on both threats from the traditional media and other non-media threats faced by UHNW individuals and their businesses.
Our Private Wealth group provides a full-service offering to UHNW families, individuals, and family offices. Made up of over 100 lawyers across 17 jurisdictions, we are one of only a few international law firms that can provide clients with an integrated legal service that addresses their business, investment and personal interests.
Our team has historically acted for many UK publishers, and is still active in this space for online platforms and publishers. Acting for claimants and defendants gives us a unique perspective, having developed a range of expertise on both sides and built strong media relationships, allowing us to handle matters discreetly and effectively where necessary. We also advise in relation to protecting corporate reputation – visit our quick guide for more information.
Our approach
Our team deals with every kind of issue high net worth and high-profile individuals face, from privacy and reputational risks created during key life events, to crisis management, to restoring or protecting online profiles. Examples of how we can assist in protecting a client's reputation or privacy during key life events or during a crisis are set out in this publication.
Our approach is very different to that of our competitors. We've found our more collaborative approach proves more beneficial in reaching a client's desired outcome.
The specialist advice provided by our Reputation Management team is fully supported by the weight of the firm's full-service offering in other areas, particularly our Private Client and Private Wealth teams, we can quickly draw on the knowledge of the firm's other specialist teams across numerous practices to understand and advise on a vast range of issues and threats.
Taylor Wessing has a very impressive team and great clients, and is very active in the space.
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