Joined-up approach
Aligns every aspect of the wider situation.
Crisis Management
Strategic control for complex, evolving crisis situations.
SQN Crisis Management provides an ongoing strategic relationship where legal, commercial, personal or reputational issues need to be understood and coordinated as one wider situation.
Specialist coordination
Access to trusted professionals where required.
Practical outcomes
Greater clarity, control and confidence.
What SQN coordinates
A complete, coordinated approach.
One controlled view of the risks, priorities, people and actions shaping the wider position.
Strategic Positioning
Maintaining one coordinated view of the overall strategic position.
Threat & Risk
Identifying and maintaining the wider threat and risk picture.
Linked Matters
Coordinating multiple issues or linked live matters over time.
Decisions & Actions
Structuring decisions, actions, reviews and financial or operational oversight.
Engagement
Coordinating professional instructions, key reviews and client engagement.
Escalation Support
Responding when circumstances materially change and the position needs to move.
Linked matters
Greater value across connected matters.
Crisis Management is not simply another litigation case. SQN works across the wider relationship, helping the client identify risks, priorities, live matters, decisions, professionals and actions while maintaining one coordinated view of the overall position.
The relationship can include multiple issues or linked matters over time. Where a standalone Civil dispute requires its own case structure, it is opened and managed separately through the SQN Civil route.
Reduced fees
Lower internal fees for linked matters.
Crisis clients benefit from reduced SQN internal fees where a linked matter becomes a separate case, reflecting the existing relationship, context and efficiencies.
Legal
Standalone disputes can move into the separate SQN Civil case structure when required.
Commercial
Commercial realities remain visible alongside legal and operational decisions.
Personal
Personal priorities and consequences are considered within the wider position.
Reputational
Reputational risks and communications can be coordinated with the broader strategy.
How it works
Control from assessment to progress.
A disciplined route that keeps the wider situation visible while individual matters move.
Assess
Understand the position, priorities, live threats and immediate risks.
Structure
Set a coherent strategic framework for decisions, actions and reviews.
Coordinate
Bring the right professionals and linked work into one controlled view.
Progress
Maintain momentum, oversight and escalation as circumstances change.
Specialist support
The right expertise. When you need it.
SQN may coordinate solicitors, counsel, investigators, experts and other specialist providers where required. Regulated professional services are provided by the relevant professional under their own applicable engagement and regulatory framework.
Private third-party litigation funding may be considered for a linked Civil matter where appropriate. It does not fund the ongoing Crisis Management consultancy relationship itself unless a separate approved arrangement expressly provides otherwise.
Legal Professionals
Solicitors and counsel may be coordinated where a legal matter requires regulated professional advice or representation.
Financial Advisers
Financial expertise can support the commercial, funding and operational dimensions of the wider situation where appropriate.
Investigative Specialists
Investigators and evidence specialists may be brought in under a clear, case-specific scope.
Reputational & Communications
Reputational and communications support can be aligned with the legal, commercial and personal position.
Other Specialist Support
Other experts and providers may be coordinated where the circumstances require specialist capability.
Begin with the situation
Bring the moving parts into one strategic view.
Tell SQN what is happening so the position can be understood and the appropriate next step considered.