We support management teams on going public to attract investors and to attract better management.
Going public requires management to be prepared to meet shareholder and market expectations from day one. This includes addressing ongoing compliance and regulatory requirements, operational effectiveness, risk management, periodic reporting and investor relations. We save you time and costs – and increase your chances of success – through a structured approach to your IPO value journey.an IPO is not something you should undertake lightly or as a way to raise funds for short-term needs. To make a success of an IPO means implementing change throughout the business, organization – and even rethinking your corporate culture. As a public company, you will be subject to increased filing requirements, transparency, compliance, scrutiny by investors and analysts, and overall accountability for delivering on promises.
We know how IR should be organized pre- and post-IPO for successful public companies. You need someone to navigate your company though complex laws and regulations that otherwise could be hazardous. The IR team’s function is to be your interface with the capital markets, investors, shareholders and sector analyst groups. This means it should play a central role in allowing the strategic decision makers in organizations of all sizes to get a thorough understanding of sentiment and trends in the wider investment landscape. This is why your Investor Relations (IR) function is so important. We help to deploy your IR strategies to ensure the equity stories are pitched directly to highly targeted audiences by formulating an IR programme that produces more engaging investor focused collateral with excellent storytelling and enables corporates to reach investors directly.
Brilliant ideas demand great execution. Our team have world-class professional backgrounds and we think like investors. We work with clients to develop and communicate clear, compelling investment cases to support their results and other regular capital markets communications and major strategic events. We help clients think through the critical execution and market issues typical in a transaction. We bring a unique perspective to each mandate, shaped by our deep industry knowledge and backgrounds as well as our organization’s experience.
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The preIPO capital raising process can be challenging as well as time and resource intensive. We can prepare companies for discussions with investors, bring an extensive network of relationships across numerous pools of capital, and help structure transactions to address the current and long-term objectives [...]
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