Four Maltin PR partners ranked in the Spear’s 500 Reputation Managers Index 2026
Four Maltin PR partners have been ranked as leading reputation managers for HNW individuals in the Spear’s 500 Reputation Managers Index 2026.
Our Managing Partner Tim Maltin is listed as a ‘Top Flight’ Reputation Manager, one of the 11 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.
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 was previously a barrister who then became 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.
‘People can think that PR is all about spinning: it isn’t,’ Coleman tells Spear’s. ‘In a news landscape, particularly with social media where messages can get very tangled and can be put across in a way that is simply unfair and inaccurate, you’re there to make sure that [clients] are put across fairly and with accuracy.’
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.
Litigation PR expert James Lynch guides clients through the communications side of sensitive and high-profile criminal and civil proceedings. ‘The work we do is media-focused a lot of the time, but there is [also] a lot of background work that I do in terms of building a strong factual basis for our clients,’ Lynch tells Spear’s.
His firm, Maltin PR, brings together former journalists, barristers and solicitors to provide precise and ‘forensic’ advice to their clients, who have included billionaires, corporations and celebrities.
Au fait with international PR challenges, Lynch remains unfazed when clients’ reputational struggles play out amid geopolitical tensions. ‘Media pressure is always quite intense on some HNW individuals and big companies in particular, and when you haven’t dealt with that – and a lot of individuals haven’t, because they choose to be quite private – they appreciate the calmness that we are able to bring.’
Maltin PR’s Spear’s 500 profile can be found here.