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Crisis management has emerged in Brazil as an essential strategic tool in complex regulatory environments marked by intense public scrutiny and heightened reputational risk. Crisis events require rapid, coordinated, and multidisciplinary responses to simultaneously address legal, financial, operational, and reputational challenges.
We advise clients on preventing, mitigating, and managing events that may affect business continuity, corporate governance, and relationships with public authorities, investors, employees, communities, and other stakeholders.
We provide technical, legal, and strategic advice, coordinated with external experts in communications, government affairs, finance, and other relevant technical fields, always tailored to the context and needs of each crisis.
Each crisis event features unique characteristics that require tailored solutions. Our Crisis Management practice addresses these demands through coordinated, multidisciplinary teams. Thus, we operate in an integrated and committed manner with all stakeholders, focusing on mitigating the risks and impacts of the crisis, preserving business continuity, and protecting our clients’ interests.
Our crisis management expertise includes:
- Large-scale disasters and accidents with significant impacts on the environment, public health, and communities.
- Investigations by public authorities into alleged corporate, environmental, financial, and government crimes.
- Asset preservation measures, including searches and seizures and preventive detention.
- Criminal liability proceedings against directors, officers, and legal entities.
- Corporate governance, compliance, and integrity issues, including internal investigations and complaints received through ombudsman offices or dedicated channels.
- Proceedings at the competitive, labor, environmental, and consumer law levels in sensitive settings.
- Response to cyber incidents, data breaches, and data protection law violations.
- Measures to trigger insurance policies applicable to crisis events, including analysis of coverage, exclusions, deductibles, and limits.
- Potential corporate, contractual, and reputational implications.
In addition to advising on crises that have already arisen, our Crisis Management practice operates proactively to help companies improve their response capabilities and mitigate the immediate effects and impacts of crises. This includes:
- Crisis-specific training for boards of directors and senior management.
- Advice on corporate governance and risk management, with a focus on crisis events.
- Media management training.
- Assistance in signing and renewing insurance policies related to crisis events (D&O, Cyber, Environmental Liability, among others), including the negotiation of terms and conditions based on the client’s needs.
- Review of internal policies, insurance programs, protocols, and crisis management and response plans.
- Planning and execution of crisis simulations and exercises.