Public Affairs

Working in the political arena is demanding in terms of content, because only strong arguments are effective in the long term. A high level of knowledge is therefore just as necessary as familiarity with political processes, stakeholders, and their communication behavior. A key success factor is also integrated work with recourse to creation, moving image, digital, press, and crisis specialists. And in today’s multi-level EU system, a strong presence in Brussels is often required to effectively represent interests.

The major transformations of our time are also transformations of the political and regulatory environment. Protecting interests and reputation requires prudent public affairs work – today more than ever.” – Dr. Thies Clausen, Head of Corporate & Public Affairs

We believe that public affairs consulting is, at its core, knowledge- and consulting-intensive work at the interfaces of business, politics, civil society, media, law, and science. Therefore, a special focus of our work is the conception and management of scientific studies. In doing so, we always keep an eye on the essentials: the contribution of political communication to the goals of our clients: Companies, associations and NGOs. Our contacts are usually top management, public affairs, communications, and strategy managers.

Professional stakeholder management

We offer a highly qualified team with special expertise in the complex policy fields of Energy & Climate Protection as well as Financial Services and as a cross-cutting topic Tech & Digitalization. We are highly capable of strategy, and at the same time process-sure and strong in implementation. We analyze your problems as (business) challenges in stakeholder capitalism.

Services in detail

• Monitoring of issues and political processes, systematic survey of stakeholder attitudes
• Reputation building vis-à-vis political target groups by means of cross-channel communication programs
• Press and media relations with a focus on business and trade media
• Safeguarding interests in legislative processes
• Media, social media and political trainings
• Organizational consulting for the establishment and alignment of political departments and representative offices as well as for Group-wide stakeholder management

We work with a wide range of other specialists, which allows us to design and implement integrated communications solutions. In many projects, we work seamlessly with our public affairs colleagues at the Brussels office.