Addressing a major crisis requires a coordinated approach among the key players at the affected organization and its outside advisors (lawyers, communications advisors, forensics experts, etc.). Brunswick is an essential cog in that machine – we help to ensure that a situation doesn’t get worse when the world is watching to see how a company responds to an existential threat.
Prior to joining Brunswick, he spent nearly two decades counseling major corporate clients at reputational crossroads, often against the backdrop of Congressional, SEC, or other federal government investigations. Kevin served as BP’s head Washington lawyer for seven years and was a key strategist on the company's response to myriad issues related to the Deepwater Horizon accident in the Gulf of Mexico. Kevin also helped to shape BP’s public affairs strategies across the United States and served as a key risk management advisor to its Board of Directors for nearly a decade. Before he joined BP, Kevin practiced law at WilmerHale in Washington and represented dozens of major companies before Congress and government agencies and in complex litigation.
Kevin earned his J.D. and two undergraduate degrees from Duke with honors and clerked on the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit.