Services
The work of the strategic layer.
Five disciplines, practised together. Most consequential matters do not respect the boundaries between them – the firm’s work is to hold all of them at once.
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Dispute advisory
Conflicts between shareholders, partners, boards, and counterparties – where control or value is contested and the formal process is only one dimension of the matter. Corvian holds the strategic picture across legal, financial, and relational fronts while counsel conducts proceedings.
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Regulatory strategy
Investigations, enforcement processes, licensing, and government decision-making. The work is sequencing and posture: how a company responds to a regulator while managing its board, its market obligations, and its standing – each on its own clock.
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Crisis advisory
Active events – cyber incidents, misconduct allegations, imminent adverse media. The discipline is consistent: assess privately before reacting publicly; establish a single source of truth; sequence stakeholders deliberately; speak with one voice.
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Strategic negotiation
High-value negotiations where interests are deeply misaligned and the dynamic itself has become the obstacle. Corvian designs objectives, sequencing, process, and preparation – and ensures the principal never enters a substantive session unprepared.
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Reputation strategy
The protection of standing through sensitive matters. Not publicity, and not its repair after the fact – the deliberate management of visibility, narrative, and timing while a matter is live.
Engagement
How the firm is engaged.
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Crisis response
Immediate engagement for active events. The firm can be retained within hours, with formal documentation following. The first seventy-two hours are for stabilisation, not statements.
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Special situation mandates
Discrete engagements around a defined matter – a dispute, an investigation, a negotiation. Each begins with a structured diagnostic and a written framing of the situation, options, and recommended course.
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Retained strategic counsel
A standing relationship with the firm’s principals: access, periodic review, and proactive briefing. Retainers exist for continuity of judgement, not volume of activity.
Fees are value-based and agreed in writing before work commences. Corvian does not provide legal, tax, or financial product advice; it coordinates the specialists who do.
The appropriate first step is a confidential conversation with a principal.