Bell Yard Kysen Communications

Founded in 2002 as a specialist litigation and legal PR firm (and recently bolstered by a strategic merger), Bell Yard Kysen Communications offers wide-ranging PR support as well as issues management and campaigning services. It has developed a reputation for providing results-driven legal PR to senior lawyers and law firms, working primarily on behalf of high-net-worth individuals, mid-sized commercial disputes, and barristers and chambers on contentious issues in the UK. Co-founder and managing director Melanie Riley advises a host of businesses, legal teams and high-profile individuals on sensitive disputes and crises across multiple jurisdictions, while also leading strategic campaigns on complex legal and public interest issues. A key contact for renowned litigation firms, director Louise Beeson works across a broad mix of contentious matters, from City employment and FCA enforcement cases to brand-led IP disputes and high-profile private litigation. Director Sarah Peters has considerable experience in senior in-house communications at a leading international law firm, focusing on media relations, issues management and crisis work, following earlier experience at a global consultancy advising on reputation and thought leadership, and at a specialist professional services agency where she began her career.