Information risk today.
Information warfare has become a routine feature of commercial and political life. Most individuals — including experienced professionals — still assume that what appears in the press, on Wikipedia or on the first page of Google Search is the product of reliable reporting. In practice, the reality is far more fragile. Online narratives can be shaped by actors operating across borders, and publications in loosely regulated jurisdictions routinely enter global databases such as WorldCheck and LexisNexis, where they are treated as verified fact.
The consequences for high-profile clients are immediate: delayed transactions, terminated partnerships, frozen bank accounts and the loss of European residence permits. In several cases within our practice, clients have even been added to sanctions lists on the basis of unverified or defamatory press material.
The Luxembourg office of Silver Eye exists to address this legal exposure — to document what is happening, to connect it to the relevant legal frameworks, and to coordinate the strategic steps that follow.
Adding the legal dimension to reputational defence.
Silver Eye Luxembourg complements the group’s analytical work with a legal-oriented function based in Luxembourg. Where the media analysis reconstructs how a hostile storyline was created, this office examines what can be done about it in law and procedure.
Our legal teams determine the jurisdictions in which proceedings may be brought and the legal instruments that can be deployed. These range from formal notifications to search engines, to the invocation of the client’s constitutional rights, the qualification of allegations under defamation statutes, provisions relating to criminal conspiracy, followed by GDPR-based court decisions obliging Google to delist all publications in question from the search results.
While the French Silver Eye office focuses on investigative media analysis and crisis response, the Silver Eye office in Luxembourg provides the legal coordination and strategic framework for civil and criminal cases.
Working with European counsel on reputational cases.
For over a decade, Silver Eye has worked alongside a group of long-standing European media-law colleagues — practitioners with whom we have collaborated across numerous cases. Each is recognised in their jurisdiction for litigation and for contributing to modern digital-media law. As digital ecosystems evolved faster than national legislation, this created significant gaps in enforcement and wide scope for abuse — gaps to which domestic legal frameworks were often unable to respond. While the responsibilities of traditional broadcast or print media have long been clearly defined, digital media still operates without comparable clarity.
Our experienced legal colleagues have taken part in drafting reforms on digital press law, platform liability and the regulation of digital content — work carried out in conversation with parliamentary committees and regulators. Their involvement in shaping the rules now used to judge and remove unlawful material gives our clients a level of strategic clarity that generalist representation cannot replicate.
Cross-border mandates
The Luxembourg office coordinates civil and criminal mandates that respond to cross-border reputation attacks, working with counsel in the jurisdictions where proceedings may be brought and where regulatory or data-protection remedies are available.
Engagements and discretion.
The Luxembourg office works with a limited number of clients. For these clients, the French office undertakes the analytical work, and the Luxembourg office provides the corresponding legal coordination and procedural strategy.
All enquiries are handled through private channels only.