How can you mitigate long-term damage during a crisis? When faced with a fast-moving crisis situation, it is important to take immediate, strategic, and effective action, responding in a way that keeps you two or three steps ahead. We have worked alongside some of the most’s most prominent individuals, defending their side robustly and forcefully in difficult and challenging situations.
Our Crisis Communications team is quick-to-act, tough, and strategic. They have decades of experience plotting creative routes for clients out of difficult and challenging situations. They are discreet, proactive, and dependable.
To speak with our London-based communications advisers call us on +44 (0) 207 556 1040 or contact us online.
We support clients through the full crisis lifecycle, from taking action to prevent a crisis, responding to press inquiries, as well as advising in the aftermath.
Our services
Our Crisis Communications team acts for clients both preparing for a crisis as well as those in the midst of one already. Our key services include:
- Strategic communications advice on personal and corporate positioning
- Devising your strategic response to a crisis situation
- Gameplanning the evolution of the crisis
- Advising on stakeholder engagement, including employees, suppliers, and partners, through the crisis
- Responding to hostile press, public, and other inquiries
- Drafting press quotes, FAQs, and other stakeholder content
- Acting as a spokesperson to the media through the crisis
- Conducting extensive risk audits to identify crises before they occur
- Setting a reputation recovery plan in the aftermath of a crisis
- 24/7 crisis management support
A crisis is a fast-moving, dynamic situation, and the strategy has to constantly adapt in response to the escalating situation. Our team will tailor a plan to your specific needs.
Our experience
Our team has supported a wide variety of clients who need to navigate crises threatening to do long-term damage to their businesses. Our recent highlights include:
- Setting the communications strategy around the announcement of a significant redundancy programme (c. 700 people), game planning potential lines of attack, and getting ahead of unhelpful misinformation and speculation.
- Acting for a family business during a high-profile administration, acting as the point of contact for the media, and ensuring the client's side of the story was represented throughout.
- Devising the high-level strategy for responding to a supply-chain crisis, including the setting up of an internal supply-chain audit committee to show how the company was learning from the process and responding in a positive way.
- Conducting a full online audit for a senior executive to identify any latent online content and material that could pose a risk to their reputation as they took on a new, high-profile position at a listed company.
- Preparing a crisis communication plan, including drafting quotes and stakeholder FAQs, for a listed company, so it was prepared for any potential unexpected leadership succession event through death, illness, or otherwise.
In all cases our work is carried out on a confidential and discreet basis, protecting our client and their interests at all times.
Crisis situations
We have supported entrepreneurs, executives, and their businesses through a wide variety of different crisis situations. Key crisis events include:
- Business administration, collapse, & restructuring
- Litigation, as well as regulatory or government sanctions
- Shareholder activism
- Workplace or employee welfare challenges
- Employee & consumer activism
- Accounting issues or challenges
- Supply-chain issues
- Data leaks or cybersecurity threats
- Death of leadership, and sudden resignations
- Geopolitical risks & rapid change in legislation
- Failure of M&A activity
- Alleged corporate misconduct
Every crisis situation is unique and demands a bespoke plan of action. Our experienced team will devise a strategy specifically suited to the crisis you are currently facing.
Our clients
Our services are carefully tailored to successful individuals, families, and their businesses. Recent clients include:
- CEOs, Board members, senior executives
- NEDs and audit committees
- High-net-worth individuals
- Business founders & entrepreneurs
- Activist investors or shareholders
- Next-generation family members
- Landowners and property developers
- Political donors
- High-profile defendants
- Politicians and civic leaders
- Family investment vehicles
- Multi-generational family businesses
- Family charitable entities
Our clients demand discretion, confidentiality, and trust. They demand a highly personalised approach, sensitive to their individual, personal needs.
Our company
Transmission Private is an award-winning strategic communications adviser to successful individual, families, and their businesses.
Once you become a client of Transmission Private, your reputation becomes the central and sole focus of all our energy, passion, and thinking. Our expert team is mobilised to advance your best interests at all times.
We have been built from the ground up to meet the unique needs of successful individuals and their businesses. We are unapologetic about that singular focus. It means we can understand our clients’ needs, expectations, and requirements better than anyone else.
We blend the high-quality personal, attentive, discreet service that successful individuals expect from a private bank with the up-to-date, modern communications techniques they need to navigate the risks of an increasingly digital world.
Services: Crisis Communications