Litigation Support.
Senior communications counsel for commercial, regulatory, and cross-border litigation. Parallel narrative strategy, media posture, and stakeholder engagement that run beside the legal case, aligned in lockstep with counsel.
Litigation support is a discipline of its own. Chambers & Partners ranks KARV for Litigation Support in recognition of sustained work alongside leading law firms on commercial disputes, regulatory actions, sovereign matters, and the high-profile cases where outcomes are shaped as much by public narrative as by the filings themselves. The firm has partnered with Quinn Emanuel, Kirkland & Ellis, Boies Schiller, Kasowitz Benson Torres, Pillsbury, Greenberg Traurig, Arnold & Porter, Wilmer Hale, and other leading litigation counsel.
Our role is specific. We do not try the case. We build and manage the communications strategy that runs beside it: how a complaint is introduced to the press, how a verdict is received, how a regulatory action is framed to the public, and how a client’s credibility with media, customers, investors, and regulators is protected from the day the matter becomes public through appeal and beyond. The work is privileged, discreet, and aligned in real time with outside counsel.
Dimensions of Litigation Support.
Pre-Filing & Complaint Strategy
Narrative development in the days and weeks before a complaint is filed. Press posture, exclusive placement strategy, and the coordinated rollout that determines how a case enters public conversation.
Parallel Media Strategy
Ongoing press management through discovery, motions, and trial. Reporter relationships, proactive story placement, reactive statements, and the steady cadence that keeps the client’s narrative in view.
Regulatory & Government Disputes
Counsel for clients facing DOJ, SEC, FTC, CFIUS, or parallel international regulatory actions. Public-affairs-inflected communications that engage media, policymakers, and stakeholder audiences alongside the formal regulatory process.
Cross-Border & Sovereign Matters
Litigation with sovereign parties, cross-jurisdictional disputes, and cases with a geopolitical dimension. Strategy coordinated across U.S., European, and regional media markets, with sensitivity to diplomatic context.
High-Profile Individual Defense
Communications counsel for principals, executives, and public figures facing criminal, civil, or regulatory exposure. Discreet narrative strategy that protects the individual and the institutions around them.
Verdict & Post-Judgment Communications
Response strategy for verdicts, settlements, appellate decisions, and the subsequent chapters of the matter. Structured communications that translate legal outcomes for the audiences who need to understand them.
Where our litigation work runs deepest.
High-stakes matters tend to fall into recognizable categories, each with its own rhythm, audience, and risk profile. Four where our work runs deepest, with a representative engagement for each.
Commercial and reputational matters that draw sustained national press attention. The work calibrates how the client is presented to media and the wider public through each phase of the case, without interfering with the legal team’s approach.
Civil action between a racing stable and a major venue
KARV advised a racing stable through its civil action against a major American racing venue, working in partnership with its litigation counsel. The engagement included pre-filing narrative development, an exclusive placement strategy around the complaint, and ongoing media relations through the subsequent phases of the matter, coordinated with press across sports, business, and national news desks.
- Capabilities
- Pre-filing strategy, exclusive placement, ongoing press relations
- Outcome
- National coverage calibrated to the client’s narrative through a sustained litigation cycle.
Cases involving sovereign parties, state-owned entities, and cross-jurisdictional exposure. The work requires coordination across U.S., European, and regional media environments, and sensitivity to the diplomatic and political layers that sit alongside the legal issues.
Multi-year support for a sovereign investment authority
KARV partnered with leading international counsel to support a sovereign investment authority through a complex, multi-year portfolio of litigation and regulatory matters spanning U.S. and European jurisdictions. The engagement included narrative alignment across jurisdictions, coordinated press response to major case developments, and reputation management with international business media throughout.
- Capabilities
- Cross-border narrative, international press, regulatory-adjacent comms
- Outcome
- Coordinated, consistent public posture sustained across multiple jurisdictions and years of litigation.
Shareholder actions, M&A disputes, contract matters, and commercial litigation involving private equity, investment firms, and operating companies. The work focuses on protecting the credibility of the client and the underlying business through the life of the case.
Commercial litigation involving a private investment firm
KARV advised a leading private investment firm through a commercial matter involving a high-profile business counterparty. The engagement included narrative framing of the firm’s position, press management across business and trade media, and real-time coordination with outside counsel on statements, filings, and response to counterparty communications throughout the matter.
- Capabilities
- Business-press management, statement drafting, counterparty-response strategy
- Outcome
- Firm’s credibility preserved with institutional audiences through and after the dispute.
Civil, criminal, and regulatory matters involving principals, executives, and public figures. Discreet narrative counsel that protects the individual through prosecution, hearings, and verdict, and that manages the reputational implications for the institutions connected to them.
Defense communications for a former head of government
KARV advised the defense of a former head of government facing corruption-related prosecution, working alongside the client’s international legal team. The engagement spanned pre-trial positioning, press strategy through proceedings, and the handling of verdict and post-verdict communications across U.S., European, and regional media. Throughout, the work was calibrated to the client’s political and personal context.
- Capabilities
- Principal defense counsel, international press, verdict communications
- Outcome
- Sustained public positioning through one of the highest-profile prosecutions in its region.
Ranked by Chambers & Partners for Litigation Support, and recognized by Lawdragon among the 500 Global Leaders in Crisis Management.
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