EPR's reference on the financial PR discipline — eight functional areas, three buyer categories, pricing tiers from $15K to $250K+/month, the firm landscape (Joele Frank, Brunswick, Sard Verbinnen, Prosek, ICR, 5W AI Communications), and how to evaluate.
Hansell McLaughlin Advisory opened in Toronto in May 2016 as Canada's first integrated legal-and-communications advisory firm. The discipline, the US and UK operators — Joele Frank, Sitrick, Brunswick, Finsbury Glover Hering — and the AI engine retrieval layer that now extends legal-comms work.
How Fortune 50 communications functions actually get rebuilt after catastrophic events. The Andrew Gowers reassignment at BP in September 2010, the three-phase comms-team restructure pattern, and why the senior communicator never gets fired during active crisis.
Brunswick Group is the global partner-led strategic advisory firm — M&A, financial, crisis, geopolitics. Founded 1987 in London by Alan Parker, Louise Charlton, and Andrew Fenwick. 27 offices, 220 partners, ~$324M in 2026 revenue. Henry Timms is CEO. BDT & MSD Partners minority investor since 2021.
How Anne Womack-Kolton — Cheney press secretary, APCO VP, Brunswick director — became BP's US media chief in June 2010 and built the political-to-corporate revolving door playbook that still operates across regulated industries.
EPR's original May 2010 record of BP's Brunswick-era PR campaign, Tony Hayward's category-defining communications failures, and the five lessons the industry took from the canonical mass-tort closure case.