Halloran

A quiet office corridor with every door open and daylight falling across the floor

About

Fourteen people.
No account layers.

We stayed small on purpose — every client gets a partner, not a rotating team of juniors.

Our story

We met on opposite sides of the same story.

Two armchairs facing each other across a small table with a newspaper and two cups

In 2012, Elena Halloran was the agency lead pitching a story about a company Marcus Voss was the in-house head of communications for. The story ran. It was mostly wrong, and both of them could see exactly where it went wrong: the senior people got involved after the reporter had already written the first draft in their head.

Two years later they started Halloran around one rule: the most experienced person in the room does the work from the first call, not the review at the end. Priya Nair joined in 2016 to build the crisis practice, and wrote the rapid-response protocol the firm still runs today.

We’ve grown to fourteen people and deliberately stopped there. Growing past that would mean account layers, and account layers are the thing our clients hired us to avoid.

Point of view

Four things we believe about reputation.

Reputation is built on ordinary weeks.

The companies that survive a bad headline are the ones reporters already understood before it. Visibility during the quiet months is what earns the benefit of the doubt in a loud one. That’s why most of our work isn’t crisis work at all.

Judgement doesn’t delegate well.

Knowing when to speak, when to hold and when to walk away from a story takes years of watching stories play out. You can’t hand that to someone in their first year and review it later. So we don’t.

Reporters are an audience, not a channel.

A journalist is deciding whether your story is worth their readers’ time. We pitch the way we’d want to be pitched: fewer, better, and specific to what they actually cover. It’s slower to set up and far faster to land.

Legal and communications should sit together.

Most damaging statements are either legally safe and publicly disastrous, or the other way round. We draft with counsel from the first hour, so you don’t have to choose.

Reputation is built on ordinary weeks.

The companies that survive a bad headline are the ones reporters already understood before it. Visibility during the quiet months is what earns the benefit of the doubt in a loud one. That’s why most of our work isn’t crisis work at all.

Judgement doesn’t delegate well.

Knowing when to speak, when to hold and when to walk away from a story takes years of watching stories play out. You can’t hand that to someone in their first year and review it later. So we don’t.

Reporters are an audience, not a channel.

A journalist is deciding whether your story is worth their readers’ time. We pitch the way we’d want to be pitched: fewer, better, and specific to what they actually cover. It’s slower to set up and far faster to land.

Legal and communications should sit together.

Most damaging statements are either legally safe and publicly disastrous, or the other way round. We draft with counsel from the first hour, so you don’t have to choose.

The team

The people who will actually be on your calls.

Partners and senior counsel, most of whom have sat on your side of the table, in a newsroom or an in-house team.

Partners

Portrait of Elena Halloran, Founding Partner

Elena Halloran

Founding Partner

Reputation and executive visibility

18 years in financial and corporate communications. Placed stories in the major financial dailies and business wires before founding Halloran. Leads reputation and executive-visibility engagements, and advises boards through leadership transitions and activist campaigns.

Former agency lead, financial and corporate practice

Adviser to 20+ CEO transitions

Portrait of Marcus Voss, Founding Partner

Marcus Voss

Founding Partner

Media relations: technology and consumer

Former in-house comms lead at two publicly traded companies. Handles media relations for technology and consumer clients, and still reads the last ten pieces of every reporter he pitches. Runs the firm’s announcement and launch work.

Head of Communications at two listed companies

12 years in-house before co-founding the firm

Portrait of Priya Nair, Head of Crisis Response

Priya Nair

Head of Crisis Response

Crisis and litigation communications

12 years in crisis and litigation communications. Built the firm’s rapid-response protocol from the ground up, and leads every active crisis engagement. Known for getting a holding statement approved while everyone else is still scheduling the meeting.

Former crisis lead at a global agency

150+ active crisis situations managed

Portrait of Elena Halloran, Founding Partner

Elena Halloran

Founding Partner

Reputation and executive visibility

18 years in financial and corporate communications. Placed stories in the major financial dailies and business wires before founding Halloran. Leads reputation and executive-visibility engagements, and advises boards through leadership transitions and activist campaigns.

Former agency lead, financial and corporate practice

Adviser to 20+ CEO transitions

Portrait of Marcus Voss, Founding Partner

Marcus Voss

Founding Partner

Media relations: technology and consumer

Former in-house comms lead at two publicly traded companies. Handles media relations for technology and consumer clients, and still reads the last ten pieces of every reporter he pitches. Runs the firm’s announcement and launch work.

Head of Communications at two listed companies

12 years in-house before co-founding the firm

Portrait of Priya Nair, Head of Crisis Response

Priya Nair

Head of Crisis Response

Crisis and litigation communications

12 years in crisis and litigation communications. Built the firm’s rapid-response protocol from the ground up, and leads every active crisis engagement. Known for getting a holding statement approved while everyone else is still scheduling the meeting.

Former crisis lead at a global agency

150+ active crisis situations managed

Senior team

Portrait of Hannah Lindqvist, Director, Executive Visibility

Hannah Lindqvist

Director, Executive Visibility

Bylines, speaking and thought leadership

Has ghost-written for CEOs, founders and board chairs across fintech, healthcare and enterprise software. Runs the firm’s executive-visibility programmes and quarterly reputation audits. Believes two sharp bylines a quarter beat a stream of forgettable commentary.

Portrait of Daniel Okafor, Director, Media Relations

Daniel Okafor

Director, Media Relations

Business and technology press

Nine years as a business reporter before crossing to the other side of the pitch. Knows how a newsroom decides what runs, and builds every pitch around what the reporter needs rather than what the client wants to say. Leads funding and launch announcements.

Portrait of Grace Whitaker, Senior Counsel

Grace Whitaker

Senior Counsel

Financial and transaction communications

Advises on funding rounds, M&A announcements, activist situations and investor-facing communications. Works closely with investor-relations teams and advisers so that what the market hears matches what the filings say.

Portrait of Tomás Reyes, Senior Counsel

Tomás Reyes

Senior Counsel

Litigation and regulatory communications

Trained as a lawyer before moving into communications, which makes him the person general counsel most like working with. Specialises in litigation, regulatory investigations and data incidents, where every public word has to survive legal review.

Portrait of Jordan Mercer, Head of Monitoring and Insight

Jordan Mercer

Head of Monitoring and Insight

Media monitoring, sentiment and issues watch

Runs the daily monitoring behind every engagement: coverage, social, search and AI answers. Writes the situation reports clients read during a crisis, and spots most issues before they become stories. Designed the firm’s no-vanity-metrics reporting.

Portrait of Hannah Lindqvist, Director, Executive Visibility

Hannah Lindqvist

Director, Executive Visibility

Bylines, speaking and thought leadership

Has ghost-written for CEOs, founders and board chairs across fintech, healthcare and enterprise software. Runs the firm’s executive-visibility programmes and quarterly reputation audits. Believes two sharp bylines a quarter beat a stream of forgettable commentary.

Portrait of Daniel Okafor, Director, Media Relations

Daniel Okafor

Director, Media Relations

Business and technology press

Nine years as a business reporter before crossing to the other side of the pitch. Knows how a newsroom decides what runs, and builds every pitch around what the reporter needs rather than what the client wants to say. Leads funding and launch announcements.

Portrait of Grace Whitaker, Senior Counsel

Grace Whitaker

Senior Counsel

Financial and transaction communications

Advises on funding rounds, M&A announcements, activist situations and investor-facing communications. Works closely with investor-relations teams and advisers so that what the market hears matches what the filings say.

Portrait of Tomás Reyes, Senior Counsel

Tomás Reyes

Senior Counsel

Litigation and regulatory communications

Trained as a lawyer before moving into communications, which makes him the person general counsel most like working with. Specialises in litigation, regulatory investigations and data incidents, where every public word has to survive legal review.

Portrait of Jordan Mercer, Head of Monitoring and Insight

Jordan Mercer

Head of Monitoring and Insight

Media monitoring, sentiment and issues watch

Runs the daily monitoring behind every engagement: coverage, social, search and AI answers. Writes the situation reports clients read during a crisis, and spots most issues before they become stories. Designed the firm’s no-vanity-metrics reporting.

Plus six more across media relations, monitoring and operations.

60+ years

combined agency and in-house experience

combined agency and in-house experience

Est. 2014

independent, partner-owned

independent, partner-owned

18

maximum active retainer clients at any time

maximum active retainer clients at any time

12 industries

active from pre-IPO technology to publicly traded consumer brands

active from pre-IPO technology to publicly traded consumer brands

Figures as of September 2026.

We say no more than we say yes.

We take on a limited number of active clients at a time — so a crisis call gets a partner who already knows your business, not one meeting you for the first time.

We also turn down work we’re not the best firm for. If you need a consumer social campaign, a paid-media buy or a product launch event, we’ll introduce you to someone who does it better. And we don’t take on clients whose position we couldn’t defend in good conscience. That protects our judgement, and it protects your reputation by association.

Who we’re a good fit for

  • Companies of 50–2,000 people with something specific at stake

  • Leadership teams who want counsel, not just output

  • Situations where the press, regulators or investors are the audience that matters

See how we work →

Recognition

Boutique Firm of the Year

Regional Communications Awards · 2024

Crisis Response Team of the Year

Shortlisted · 2025

Council of Independent Communications Firms

Member since 2016

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