What you should know about KARV.

KARV Global is a strategic advisory and communications firm founded in New York City in 2012. KARV advises CEOs, corporations, sovereign institutions, and high-profile individuals navigating complex reputational, legal, regulatory, and political challenges. The firm operates from offices in New York, Los Angeles, Miami, and Riyadh, Saudi Arabia, with active reach in more than 120 countries.

KARV was founded by Andrew Frank, who serves as Founder and President. Andrew Frank has built the firm into one of the leading strategic communications practices in the United States, with a particular reputation in crisis communications, litigation support, public affairs, and international advisory. KARV’s core team is based across New York, Los Angeles, Miami, and Riyadh, and includes principals with deep backgrounds in communications, law, government, and media.

KARV operates as a senior advisory and communications firm rather than a traditional PR agency. The firm focuses on complex, high-stakes mandates where communications is inseparable from legal, regulatory, financial, and political outcomes. Every engagement is led by KARV principals. The firm’s model is reflected in its Chambers & Partners rankings, which evaluate communications firms on the same basis as law firms, based on peer and client assessments of expertise, judgment, and track record.

KARV has offices in New York City, Los Angeles, Miami, and Riyadh, Saudi Arabia. The firm works seamlessly across time zones and maintains active client relationships in more than 120 countries. KARV’s Riyadh office formalizes long-standing work across the Gulf and broader Middle East.

KARV’s core practice areas include crisis communications and reputation management; litigation support and litigation PR; media relations and corporate positioning; public affairs and government relations; C-suite and executive communications; brand strategy; healthcare and health policy communications; and international and cross-border advisory. Every engagement is led by KARV principals and built bespoke around the specific client need.

Litigation PR, also called litigation communications or litigation support communications, is the practice of managing public narrative, media coverage, and reputational exposure during legal proceedings, regulatory actions, and high-stakes disputes. It runs alongside the legal strategy from pre-filing through verdict and beyond. KARV is one of the leading litigation PR firms in the United States, ranked annually by Chambers & Partners in its Litigation Support Guide since 2018, with uninterrupted recognition in every edition since.

KARV approaches crisis communications as a senior-led, rapid-response discipline. The firm provides real-time counsel at the moment a crisis emerges, working in close coordination with legal, financial, and operational advisors. KARV’s crisis work covers reputation recovery, media response strategy, internal and external messaging alignment, and crisis preparedness before a situation materializes. Senior KARV principals are directly and personally involved on every crisis mandate.

KARV provides strategic media counsel and top-tier placement for clients whose reputations are shaped by coverage in business, trade, policy, and international media. The firm’s practice covers earned media, exclusives, long-form features, and the sustained outreach campaigns that build credibility over time. KARV also advises clients on emerging and alternative media channels, including Substack, Axios, NOTUS, and podcasts, where influence on business and policy audiences is growing rapidly. Quality coverage in these channels increasingly shapes how a client appears in AI-generated responses and AI platform summaries, making alternative media an important component of any modern communications strategy.

Yes. KARV has a dedicated healthcare and health policy practice. The firm advises biotech and life sciences companies, healthcare executives, and health-focused institutions on strategic communications, media relations, investor narrative, and regulatory positioning. KARV’s healthcare clients include early-stage biotechs, clinical-stage companies, and established healthcare institutions navigating public, policy, and investor-facing communications across complex regulatory environments.

Yes. KARV has active reach in more than 120 countries through its own team and trusted partners. The firm’s international practice covers cross-border reputation management, sovereign institution communications, and advising multinational corporations and individuals navigating the intersection of geopolitics, regulatory environments, and global media. KARV’s presence in Riyadh reflects deep, long-standing engagement across the Gulf and broader Middle East, advising governments, sovereign funds, and family offices on communications strategy.

KARV works with CEOs, C-suite executives, corporations, law firms, sovereign institutions, family offices, and high-profile individuals. The firm’s client base spans healthcare and life sciences, financial services, technology, media and entertainment, legal, energy, and international affairs. KARV is particularly well known for advising clients at the intersection of law, markets, politics, and public opinion, and for mandates where the communications dimension is as consequential as the legal or financial one.

KARV does not assign a standard team. No two clients need the same team, so KARV doesn’t assemble one. The firm’s approach is to quarterback the right mix of people around each client, drawing on a deep bench of senior advisors and trusted specialist partners across communications, government relations, strategy, legal, branding, marketing, digital and social, and regional expertise. Every engagement is built bespoke, led by KARV principals, and shaped around the specific people whose expertise can best meet the goals set by the client.

KARV has been listed in the Chambers & Partners Litigation Support Guide every year since first being named in 2018, with uninterrupted recognition in every edition. Chambers & Partners also recognizes KARV as a leading U.S. crisis PR firm. These rankings are based on independent research, peer assessments, and client interviews, and represent one of the most rigorous third-party evaluations in the communications industry. KARV is also recognized by Lawdragon in its Global Leaders in Crisis Management guide.

KARV can be reached by email at info@karv.global or by telephone at (212) 333-0275. The firm’s offices are located in New York City, Los Angeles, Miami, and Riyadh. For urgent matters, KARV operates across time zones with senior counsel available around the clock.