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From corporate criminal incidents to airplane crashes and from nuclear disasters and oil spills to data security breaches, Pillsbury’s Crisis Management team guides clients through complex crises.

Pillsbury’s Crisis Management team provides levelheaded, battle-tested advice, helping clients respond to investigations, stave off class action lawsuits, negotiate effective settlements with regulators, lawmakers and private parties, and avert reputational damage and financial disaster. We have helped reinstitute project financing and secure insurance recovery.

Ours is the Crisis Management team that advised on the Deepwater Horizon and Exxon Valdez spills, the Three Mile Island accident, the ValuJet Flight 592 crash, and many devastating data security breaches, defective product recalls and bond financing revocations. We also regularly assist clients in establishing crisis protocols and safety procedures. We take an integrated, multidisciplinary strategic approach, rapidly deploying the right team to meet the demands of any crisis. Our lawyers assist with government, customer and media relations and crisis communications; analyze risk exposure; ensure litigation preparedness; and have an impressive record of obtaining insurance recoveries. Our approach is based on best practices developed through decades of experience and careful consideration of crisis patterns and psychology. Our team is nimble, responsive and well equipped with the judgment, skill and sophistication needed to manage financial and reputational crises on all fronts. We respond quickly to our clients’ crises and help them prepare for as well as avoid future risk.

Whether facing an isolated crisis or a large-scale disaster, Pillsbury helps clients survive and even thrive during a crisis. Our vast experience includes:

Litigation and Civil & Criminal Investigations
- Antitrust Violation Claims
- Corporate Investigations and White Collar Defense
- FCPA Claims
- Construction/Collapse Accidents
- Insurance Recovery
- Securities Fraud Allegations
- Whistleblower Cases
- Global Pharma Matters

Environmental
- Contamination Investigations and Remediation
- Biohazard and Biomedical Violations
- Oil Spills and Pipeline Incidents
- Plant Explosions and Other Industrial Crises
- Nuclear Accidents

Insurance Recovery

Cybersecurity & Data Breaches
- California Consumer Privacy Act Counseling and Compliance

Aviation and Other Transportation Disasters

Toxic Torts and Product Recalls

Finance
- Project Finance Failures

Labor and Employment Matters

Terrorist Threats and Incidents

Construction Disasters

Representative Experience

Represented a Japanese company with an indirect interest in Brazil’s Estaleiro Atlântica Sul S.A., in a corruption investigation into allegations that its high-value drill-ship contract with Petrobras was procured through improper payments.
Assisted our Deepwater client in developing and implementing an eﬀective crisis management strategy that led to a billion-dollar settlement related to the 2010 Deepwater Horizon accident and oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico.
Developed a crisis management preparedness and response plan for a Fortune 500 company engaged in natural gas transmission, storage and distribution, as well as electric generation, transmission and distribution.

Our team has advised on numerous game-changing and precedent-setting crises, including:

Advised an international oil and gas exploration and production company on health and safety matters, incident investigations, responding to government investigations, process safety compliance and corporate oversight of process safety performance.

Represented one of the largest North American producers of biofuels in OSHA investigations and facility operations audits following two ﬁres at its Louisiana facility that caused substantial property damage and injured six workers.

Represented the owner and operator of Three Mile Island during and after the accident.

Advised clients on more than 100 oil spills, including the 2010 Gulf oil spill, the Exxon Valdez spill, the Berman spill in Puerto Rico and the Arco pipeline spill in Indiana.

Represented company in management of reputational issues that placed in jeopardy the proposed development and tax-exempt bond ﬁnancing of major state-of-the-art fertilizer plant project to be constructed in Indiana. Matter valued at $2.4 billion.

Represented one of the largest North American producers of biofuels in relation to reﬁnery ﬁres, plant shutdown and subsequent restart of reﬁning operations.

Represented Teck Metals Ltd. in developing and successfully negotiating transnational agreement with the EPA and DOJ in a cross-border contamination case involving discharges from a mining and smelting facility in Canada.

During his NOAA tenure, our Crisis Management team leader played a key role in the U.S. government’s Exxon Valdez oil spill response, led federal assessment of the NRD claim and achieved a $1 billion settlement.

Successfully resolved for Homestake Mining Company of California a major dispute with the Cheyenne River Sioux Indians regarding a claim for cultural and environmental injury to their historic lands from a North Dakota mine.

Practice Area Highlights

Pillsbury was named 2016 and 2017 Law Firm of the Year for Litigation – Construction Law by U.S. News & World Report/Best Lawyers reflecting our firm’s preeminence in the field of construction law.
In its special report on the top 100 verdicts of 2015, The National Law Journal ranked Pillsbury’s trial victories for insurance policyholders Lion Oil Company and Victaulic Co. as two of 2015’s largest litigation wins.
Pillsbury’s Environmental practice was ranked by Chambers USA in the national, California and Washington, DC categories (2016) and The Legal 500 U.S. recognized Pillsbury for excellence in environmental litigation (2016).

Pillsbury achieved U.S. News – Best Lawyers’ 2017 – Tier 1 national and Houston metropolitan rankings for Litigation - Environmental and national ranking for Natural Resources law.

Pillsbury was named one of the 10 most innovative law firms in North America at the Financial Times’ 2015 North America Innovative Lawyers awards dinner.

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From corporate criminal incidents to airplane crashes and from nuclear disasters and oil spills to data security breaches, Pillsbury’s Crisis Management team guides clients through complex crises.

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Practice Area Highlights

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Survive and Thrive in a Crisis

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