Spear’s Review

Once dubbed the ‘crisis king’, Lawrence Dore is a founding partner at DRD Partnership, where he provides communications advisory services to leading players in the private client and wealth management industry, as well as their HNW and UHNW clientele.

Dore is regarded as a go-to adviser in the litigation communications, risk preparedness and ESG reporting space. Through DRD Private, the firm’s private client branch, his clients have access to a wealth of expertise and a tailored response – as well as tools from across DRD’s wide network. 

‘DRD was born out of not wanting to be day-to-day or routine,’ he tells Spear’s. ‘The ambition was to be the best focused firm.’

He says he appreciates the importance of ensuring positive client outcomes. ‘The first thing we do is really understand what it is that [clients] are going to need,’ Dore says. ‘Sometimes what they say they want and what they need are different.’ 

Adviser Profile

Lawrence is a founding partner of DRD Partnership. The firm focuses on assisting clients through crises, litigation and disputes and more broadly managing their reputations – both proactively and defensively.

We assist clients globally, with projects completed in over 60 countries. We operate from London and advise alongside local partners from our network where specific country knowledge is required. We frequently work alongside our clients’ legal and intelligence advisers. Our clients range from global corporates to UHNWIs.

Our approach is driven by the commercial and reputational goals of our clients – whether that be dealing with media intrusion or explaining complex transactions or business arrangements to multiple stakeholders, ranging from investors to policymakers. Our work is based on a highly analytical assessment of our client’s environment, supported by a highly personal and intuitive level of advice given by highly experienced senior team members.

We are abreast of traditional challenges such as inaccurate misreporting and newer challenges driven by the the advances in AI and the proliferation of media across platforms. We deploy highly developed approaches to managing these threats while focusing on the longer-term goal of creating a strong reputation that is well understood among those audiences important to our clients.

Our work for UHNWIs ranges from supporting their businesses, foundations and personal interests to advising on highly personal matters around their assets, family and lifestyles.