Crisis Management
When a serious incident occurs, boards and management are often required to deal with several issues at once: gaining control of the situation, establishing the facts, handling regulatory and criminal law exposure, conducting internal investigations, engaging with authorities and maintaining business continuity. Decisions made in the first hours and days can have significant legal, financial and reputational consequences long after the immediate crisis has passed.
Arntzen Grette advises companies, boards and senior management throughout all stages of a crisis, from the initial response and internal fact-finding process to regulatory engagement, disputes and post-crisis remediation. We provide clear and practical advice on risk exposure, available options and next steps, helping clients make legally sound and commercially informed decisions under pressure.
We assist both in preparedness planning and in live crisis situations. Our teams are assembled quickly across practice areas and jurisdictions to ensure coordinated handling where time pressure, incomplete information and reputational concerns must all be managed simultaneously.
We assist, among other things, with:
- Strategic crisis management and decision support for boards and senior management
- Crisis preparedness and the establishment of structures and procedures for handling serious incidents
- Internal investigations and fact-finding reviews
- Engagement with supervisory authorities and prosecuting authorities, including across jurisdictions
- Whistleblowing matters in critical phases, including follow-up investigations and response measures
- Regulatory and criminal risk assessments, including corporate criminal liability, sanctions, enforcement measures and administrative penalties
- Matters involving corruption, tax evasion, insider trading and other forms of economic crime
- Crisis management relating to cyber incidents and information security breaches
- Disputes, remediation measures and post-crisis follow-upinformasjonssikkerhet
- Tvister, oppfølging og forbedringstiltak etter en krise
