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Firm Overview

Schillings is the definitive expert in reputation defence and the only firm able to offer an award winning defamation and privacy legal offering with Risk Consulting and Cyber Security. The innovative ABS licence means Schillings provides clients with an integrated multidisciplinary team that no other firm can match.

Whether it’s identifying potential reputational risks before they happen, implementing procedures and investigations to counter the reputational threat posed by cyber-crime and data losses or protecting reputations with the same legal robustness shown over the last three decades, Schillings safeguard client reputations – whatever the threat.

With 30 years of specialist experience behind them, Schillings has always been there to protect the reputations of high profile individuals, business leaders and the companies they lead. By combining their vast legal experience in libel and privacy, pre and post publication, with wider reputation services including Risk Consulting and Cyber Security, they have moved beyond the brand that you call on your worst day, to one that you want on your side before the damage occurs.

Success has always brought with it the need for greater vigilance where reputation is concerned and with prominent individuals and businesses facing a greater variety of threats to their reputation than ever before, Schillings offer their clients the power and versatility to stay ahead of trouble where possible and wrestle back control of the agenda where necessary.

In much the same vein, Schillings Family is adept at handling the big, often life changing events in the family lives of successful individuals with skill, professionalism and discretion.

Principle Areas of Work

Reputation Defence - The multidisciplinary team operates in the sector of reputation defence. From an innocently placed image on social media impacting the credibility of a business leader to a hostile attack, successful individuals and businesses face a huge variety of threats with the potential to negatively affect their reputations. Schillings exist to help clients anticipate and contain these threats.

In an ever more transparent world, the speed at which issues intensify has increased; meaning the margin of error is shrinking all the time. Schillings use a combination of Risk Consulting, Law and Cyber Security to work with legal and communications teams, stopping escalation and preventing reputational crises before they happen.

Schillings Family - Schillings Family specialises in using litigation, mediation and negotiation to solve a broad range of family issues.

Financial disputes, multi-jurisdictional issues and the well-being of children means changes to the family’s structure following the breakdown of a relationship, will never be simple. Schillings Family provides a specialist and tailored service to help clients navigate changes to their family life and find solutions to meet their individual needs. Specialisms include negotiating pre-nuptial and post-nuptial agreements, both domestically and internationally, and advising the boards of companies who find themselves joined to financial remedy proceedings as related entities to one of the spouses in a divorce.

Practice Areas

Reputation Defence

Risk advisory consulting
IT and cyber security
Law (Defamation, Privacy, Copyright, Commercial Litigation)

Family and Divorce matters

Clients

The Schillings client base is made up of high profile and high-net-worth individuals and large private and publicly listed businesses. Schillings work for about a fifth of the FTSE 100’s, in addition to other businesses in sectors including hedge funds, private investment, mining, healthcare, energy, infrastructure, transport and gaming.

Languages

English, Spanish, Italian, Russian, French

Staff

Keith Schilling, Senior Partner

Rod Christie-Miller, Chief Executive

Christopher Mills, Chief Operating Officer

Number of partners, 7

Assistant solicitors, 14

Consultants (non–lawyer advisors), 5

Total staff, 44

Contact

41 Bedford Square,

London, WC1B 3HX

T: +44 (0)207 034 9000

F: +00 (0)207 034 9200

E: legal@schillings.co.uk

W: www.schillings.co.uk

DX: 89265 Soho Square 1

Media Contacts:

Sam Billet E:sam.billett@schillings.co.uk

Rachael Mowle

E: rachael.mowle@schillings.co.uk

Schillings

www.schillings.co.uk