Discipline III · Regulators · Agencies · Hearings
Regulatory Narrative
Regulatory scrutiny is a trust problem, not a communications problem. We rebuild that trust in parallel with the legal process — never after it concludes.
$2.3B
Market cap preserved
18 mo
Longest inquiry supported
91%
Value recovered, 11 months
What the engagement entails
Theodore Lindgren
Regulatory Affairs Lead · Former Agency Liaison
A regulatory inquiry is not a messaging problem. It is a confidence problem — with regulators, investors and staff alike. Communication is how that confidence is rebuilt alongside the legal process, not once it has ended.
The work happens inside the guardrails of your defense: coordinated with outside counsel, inside the document hold, never contradicting legal posture. What it adds is coherence — one account of the organization that the regulator, the board, and the market can all read without contradiction.
What's included
01
Counsel-coordinated posture
A communications plan built inside the document hold, reviewed against legal strategy, so nothing public ever hardens a position or creates discovery risk.
02
Disclosure support
8-K language, investor calls, and employee memos drafted as one coherent account — the filing, the market, and the staff hear the same organization.
03
Hearing & testimony prep
Spokespeople prepared for the twenty-second cable clip, the press gallery, and the constituent inbox — the three fronts of a congressional inquiry.
04
Short-seller response
Rapid factual rebuttal programs that deny opportunistic reports oxygen without amplifying their claims.
How a regulatory matter is narrated
Stage one
Align
Lock communications to legal posture from day one: what can be said, what must wait, and who decides the difference.
Stage two
Stabilize
Hold the three audiences — regulator, investor, employee — inside one account through every disclosure and headline.
Stage three
Recover
Convert the close of the matter into a recorded rehabilitation: the retraction, the recovery, and the proof it holds.
"Regulators read the same coverage your board does. Keeping what both audiences hear consistent is not a nice-to-have — it is the whole job."
Regulatory questions, answered
Won't any public statement hurt our legal position?
An uncoordinated one might — which is why every line we draft is reviewed against the defense strategy. Coordinated speech protects posture; silence merely surrenders the narrative.
Do you replace our law firm?
Never. We work alongside outside counsel, often inside the same hold environment. Legal owns the defense; we own the parallel account the world reads while it proceeds.
How do you prepare executives for testimony?
We train for the clip, not the transcript: twenty-second answers that survive hostile editing, plus the gallery and inbox fronts most prep operations ignore.
What does an 18-month engagement cost?
Every matter is scoped after the confidential intake — retainer or project basis, sized to the exposure. The intake call itself is without charge and under NDA.
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