Complex Environments

As global volatility continues to rise, businesses are increasingly required to operate in hostile and complex environments. We support clients in developing practical strategies to address systemic risk, respond to major incidents to secure decisive outcomes.

Our team is an elite specialist group providing clients with operational solutions to help manage and resolve major incidents. This includes casualties, war, terrorism malicious risks, blockade and political risk; seizure and detention of people and property; hijacking, piracy, kidnapping and extortion; ransom payments, including funding, logistics and compliance; confiscation, expropriation, sovereign rights and resources; drug seizures and smuggling; asset recovery, special projects and reputation management.

Our clients include corporations, insurers, financial institutions, risk and security companies, family offices, NGOs, governments and all companies operating in high-risk environments.

By providing legal advice and frontline crisis management support, we assemble and deploy the required multi-disciplinary expertise, project manage the response, and work side by side with clients throughout the incident. Our team undertakes on-the-ground urgent investigations and preserve and take evidence to support potential litigation and intervention by authorities. We act as evidence custodians and support clients with multi-jurisdictional disputes and investigations that often develop after a major incident.

Advising clients on matters worldwide, we are frequently called upon to work discretely and confidentially on high profile incidents.

Drawn from our global network, our team consists of experienced commercial lawyers and specialist counsel with extensive litigation experience, technical experts, ex-military personnel with combat experience, former government employees, and media experts. We co-founded the Hostage Support Partnership, a pro bono humanitarian organisation that works worldwide to free hostages and detainees, particularly those who do not have access to the means or resources to secure their release.

Holding high readiness across all time zones, our team operates from offices in Europe, the Middle East, Asia Pacific and the Americas, utilising our sector and regional experience across our global network.