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18 Aug 2023
DRD Inaugural Summer School: Bridging Gaps and Building Futures
DRD partnered with Future First, a charity dedicated to improving students’ motivation, confidence, and life chances, to launch our first ever ‘DRD Summer School’.
10 Aug 2023
Everyday People: Labour and the ‘everyday economy’
In the second of DRD’s Labour report series, DRD takes a look at Labour’s plans for the 'everyday economy'.
4 Aug 2023
Risky Business: how should companies act on the National Risk Register?
Lawrence Dore and Beatrix Lohn examine the implications of the National Risk Register for UK corporates and their communications preparedness.
5 Jul 2023
Going to extremes: can regulation protect charities from abuse?
Charities have found themselves at the heart of a regulatory debate over extremism and free speech, writes Jon McLeod.
3 Jul 2023
DRD ranked in Tier 1 in Chambers & Partners 2023 rankings
DRD Partnership has been ranked as a leading firm for both Litigation Support and Crisis and Risk Management by Chambers and Partners.
12 Jun 2023
Financial institutions face challenges to ESG investment credentials
Financial institutions should brace for a surge in challenges to their green investment credentials, argues Beatrix Lohn.
1 Jun 2023
Skeletons in the closet? Communicating supply chains in the activist world
Corporate reputations are increasingly exposed to threats that emerge from businesses’ supply chains coming under the public spotlight. DRD looks at how the use of strategic communications can help corporates pivot from fighting shy of discussing their supply chains towards taking ownership and gaining credibility.
19 May 2023
New report – Labour’s ambitions for competition
DRD Partnership’s specialist competition and regulation team has produced a report which provides a detailed look at what a Labour Government would do to the UK’s anti-trust and regulatory regimes, and what this could mean for businesses and the UK economy.
17 May 2023
Who’s watching the watchmen?
In this article, first published in this week’s ThoughtLeaders4 Competition journal, DRD’s Ed Bowie examines whether competition authorities have the right focus.
9 May 2023
Change or more of the same?
The 2023 local election results are unanimous about three things, uncertain about one, and have led commentators to ask a familiar, but misguided, question. DRD Partner, Pete Bowyer, attempts to answer the right one.
8 May 2023
Regulator “wrong to block” Microsoft deal – poll
A new poll says the balance of public opinion is that the UK's Competition and Markets Authority was wrong to block Microsoft's proposed acquisition of Activision Blizzard.
28 Apr 2023
The devil is in the detail of gambling reform
Ministers have raised the stakes for the gambling industry in their new White Paper, writes DRD Senior Adviser, Steve Myers.
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