Risk & Crisis ManaGEment

S. R. Labby provides innovative risk, security, liability and crisis management to public and private companies, political campaigns, and individuals. Whether we are leading investigations and audits, setting up security and risk plans, or managing an active crisis, our quantitative and qualitative analyses of enterprise-wide business risks allow us to provide clients with a superior assessment of risk and liability, mitigation options, implementation and crisis planning. From cybersecurity to physical threats to people and facilities, or from public relations crises to the emerging arena of climate risk and liability, S. R. Labby takes a comprehensive view of risk, integrating business cost, legal liability, public relations, media coverage, and any other relevant considerations into our assessments. Often acting as quarterback for a team of specialists carefully assembled by the Firm as well as our clients, we help navigate unique challenges with world class teams.

Risk management is vital for all types of clients, from individuals to corporations. The key is understanding the unique nature of each client’s needs and working to assess and mitigate risks specific to that client. No material risk can be reduced to zero; risk management is not risk elimination. Consequently, our Firm is particularly attentive to the context of business risk and to the effects of risk assessments themselves. For example, we avoid the common “list” approach to risk management because we believe it often increases rather than reduces company costs by providing potential litigants and deal counterparties with misleading and damaging information that has not been properly and contextually quantified.

In addition to other areas of risk management, S. R. Labby helps businesses, political organizations, and individuals assess major climate risks and provides solutions to build resilience and sustainability. Climate change poses a growing and serious threat to financial and physical security of nearly all industries and our firm’s depth and breadth of experience in risk and crisis management uniquely situate us to assist clients in the increasingly tumultuous world of severe weather events, crop destruction, fire, and flooding. Climate risks can be addressed much like many other risks businesses face, though the large scale and encompassing nature of this risk and potential related crises require unique and innovative solutions to ensure the future of any organization.

Crisis management is a separate but connected practice to risk management. One can have risk management without a crisis, but no crisis management can happen without a thorough evaluation and mitigation of risk, both present and future. When a crisis hits at the heart of an organization or a person’s life, immediate and effective action must be taken to lower the impact and fallout. Our attorneys have dealt with crises from hedge fund meltdowns to Presidential campaign shocks, from hostile shareholders to terrorist threats, and provide a calm and stable lead for clients during these upsets.

Some of the analyses S. R. Labby provides include:

  • Command and control of risk and crisis management (the frequent failure to address this area renders many other risk management components valueless)

  • Political risks

  • Climate risk, climate resilience, climate adaptation, and corporate structural sustainability

  • Cybersecurity

  • Media management

  • Regulatory risks*

  • Corporate governance

  • Industry best practices

  • Acquisition and joint venture risk

  • Physical risks, including facility risk, executive protection, executive and employee security and special risks

  • Vendor and advisor risk and vetting processes

  • Business risks arising from personal matters

  • Regional, national and global political risks

  • Our representations include a spectrum of multinational hedge funds and multinational public companies with facilities in sensitive regions; political campaigns; Fortune 50 companies; private companies; and family offices.

 

* S. R. Labby does not generally act as primary advisor for environmental and financial industry regulation; as part of broader engagements, the Firm engages and monitors professionals in these areas.