Withers Worldwide

Recent work

• Handling the media affairs of Sir David and Frederick Barclay, their family and companies.
• Negotiating a number of confidentiality/privacy agreements, and agreements that reputations will not be damaged on either side when individuals join or leave a company.
• Advising a head teacher on her dismissal from a high-profile school, and on the defamation proceedings against her former consultancy. Our involvement involved obtaining damages, a correction and an apology from the consultancy and from a newspaper that repeated the allegations.
• Providing clients - senior executives being dismissed over alleged fraud - with guidance on privacy, data protection, harassment, and issues concerning the monitoring and interception of communication.
• Obtaining injunctions to prevent the disclosure of private and confidential information when the claimant is in the public eye.
• Preventing the filing of false statements in a form U-5 that would have unfairly impugned the business reputation of a well-known Managing Partner of an international investment firm within the financial services industry.