Lowenstein Sandler’s Crisis Management team partners with companies, boards, and executives to navigate the multitude of challenges that can accompany a high stakes event—from the first call to long term response. Deploying an interdisciplinary team with deep experience at the intersection of law, government, and reputation, we collaborate with clients facing white collar and government investigations, complex litigation and class actions, environmental emergencies, employment-related issues, cybersecurity and privacy breaches, and regulatory challenges by such agencies as the IRS, DOJ, SEC, and FTC, national security matters and sanctions, providing multi-dimensional strategy and unified execution when it matters most.
We emphasize rapid, 24/7 mobilization in the initial, critical hours of a crisis to stabilize operations, preserve evidence, set strategy, and align legal, regulatory, and communications tracks in real time. We help design and execute protocols that coordinate on site incident response, regulator engagement, and disclosure strategy, providing our clients with time-tested ways of responding immediately to a crisis as it unfolds while keeping options open across parallel government, civil, and media forums.
Our capabilities span the full spectrum of crises that corporate clients face today.
Our services include:
- Managing subpoenas, search warrants, whistleblower issues, and parallel civil/criminal matters
- Preparing witnesses while coordinating and communicating with federal and state authorities and, when appropriate, elected officials
- Running end to end cyber and data breach response—from forensics and notifications to regulator interfaces and class action defense
- Handling industrial incidents and environmental emergencies with on the ground command and federal and state agency coordination
- Providing counsel on board governance, market disclosures, activism and hostile takeovers
- Conduct sensitive internal investigations on such issues as workplace misconduct
- Managing sanctions/export controls and multi jurisdictional coordination on cross border matters to keep global responses coherent and privileged.
- Advising on reputational and public relations challenges that impact organizations both internally and externally, even after the crisis has passed.
Beyond our immediate and rapid response to crises and post-event mitigation strategies, we help clients prepare and build resilience to challenges that may arise in the future. Our preparedness and prevention offerings include bespoke crisis playbooks, tabletop exercises, drills, risk assessments, compliance audits, “lessons learned,” and post crisis remediation, all designed to stress test governance, disclosure, and operational controls before the next issue arises.
This interdisciplinary practice is led by former prosecutors and government lawyers, enabling credible engagement with regulators and law enforcement while maintaining disciplined litigation posture, managing reputational risk, and coordinating external media and key stakeholder strategies. Team members have assisted high ranking government officials, universities, Fortune 500 companies, and a wide range of other clients on highly sensitive matters, leveraging their extensive experience across such sectors as healthcare and life sciences, financial and professional services, manufacturing, and technology—to name only a few.
