Four Maltin PR partners ranked in the Spear’s 500 Reputation Management Index 2025
Four Maltin PR partners have been ranked as leading reputation managers for HNW individuals in the Spear’s 500 Reputation Management Index 2025.
Our Managing Partner Tim Maltin is listed as a ‘Top Flight’ Reputation Manager, one of the 13 top reputation managers in the guide.
Senior Partner Clive Coleman is listed as Top Recommended, with Senior Partner Arthur Maltin and Partner James Lynch listed as Recommended Reputation Managers.
Spear’s Review – Tim Maltin
Known for a forensic focus and dynamic nature, Maltin PR founder and managing partner Tim Maltin guides HNWs on pressing reputational issues.
Previously chairman of Hardy Amies and Lehmann Communications, Maltin launched his own firm in 2008. He uses his broad experience across crisis management and litigation PR – he has written numerous essays and industry guides on the matter – to support HNWs and organisations dealing with complex legal and financial disputes.
When not helping to keep reputations afloat and sinking PR risks, Maltin is an RMS Titanic aficionado and presented a National Geographic documentary on the famed ocean liner.
Spear’s Review – Clive Coleman
Clive Coleman is a senior partner at Maltin PR, where he advises clients on communications strategies around litigation.
Coleman previously worked as the BBC’s legal correspondent and was presenter of Law in Action on Radio 4, covering major stories from a legal perspective and gaining a huge network of important contacts in the judiciary, business and politics spheres.
His clients are now major corporates and high-profile, high-net-worth individuals who need his skills in presenting complex, long-running litigation in a way that journalists can understand and pitch to the right editors. ‘What those people and organisations need to ensure their narrative is clear and understood is really good, credible coverage from high-ranking journalists,’ Coleman says. ‘Good litigation PR can win the war.’
Spear’s Review – Arthur Maltin
Regarded as a tenacious, speedy and confident PR professional equipped with strategic nous, senior partner Arthur Maltin of Maltin PR specialises in creating reputation management campaigns for corporates and HNWs.
For clients facing litigation, he is skilled in retracing digital footprints and works apace to expunge online defamatory content – often with an unflappable determination when spurious content spreads.
Drawing on a wide network of journalists and media contacts throughout the industry, Maltin uses a scientific lens to disseminate media truths; his clients’ reputational struggles often require in-depth analytical work to ascertain the sources of falsehoods. Fundamentally, for Maltin, his focus is about getting the ‘right narratives’ out into the world.
Spear’s Review – James Lynch
Taking the lead in some of Maltin’s most sensitive and difficult cases, litigation communications expert James Lynch always seeks to tease out the ‘optimum story arc’ for his clients, according to the firm. Known for his speed, Lynch can parse complex legal arguments from detailed court notes and dovetail corresponding media strategies with a rapid-fire turnaround.
His high-stakes reputational work for HNWs has included managing messaging for an international billionaire embroiled in a cross-jurisdictional financial dispute.
Au fait with international PR challenges, Lynch remains unfazed when clients’ reputational struggles play out against tense geopolitical relationships: he has also assisted a central bank in a fraught campaign involving international media.
Read Tim, Clive, Arthur and James‘ full profiles in the Spear’s 500 Reputation Managers Index 2025.
Maltin PR’s Spear’s 500 profile can be read here.