We serve as trusted counsel to Boards through CEO and executive transitions, managing reputational risk and stakeholder confidence across a disciplined framework — from succession planning and message alignment through announcement and the new leader's first 100 days. We've advised on hundreds of leadership changes across every sector.

When a legal issue, investigation, or crisis threatens to reset the narrative, we work alongside legal counsel and in-house teams to contain the reputational exposure. We move quickly to intercept information flow, control the public record, shape opinion, and protect reputation across every stakeholder audience — from investors and employees to regulators and the media.

We advise on public and private M&A — friendly, hostile, and competitive auctions — helping companies articulate deal rationale, defend value, and position the business for post-transaction success. Our team has counseled on more than 1,000 transactions over the past decade, including the $27.8B acquisition of Horizon Therapeutics, the $30B CP–Kansas City Southern combination, and Nvidia's $20B licensing agreement.

We counsel Boards and management on activist preparedness and defense — from vulnerability assessments and tabletop simulations to live proxy-contest engagement and settlement. Our team has defended companies against the most prominent activist funds, and includes senior advisors who have sat on the other side of the table, including a decade at Elliott Management.

We guide Boards and management through the full restructuring spectrum — out-of-court liability management exercises, up-tiering and drop-down transactions, distressed-signal moments like credit downgrades and going-concern questions, and in-court Chapter 11 — preserving reputation and minimizing disruption in aggressive leak environments. Our bench includes former financial journalists, lawyers, investment bankers, and IROs with experience across every phase of in- and out-of-court restructuring.

We prepare companies for the public markets across IPOs, SPACs, direct listings, and spin-offs — refining the S-1 narrative, building the investor relations function, and orchestrating a controlled Listing Day. Recent work includes Airbnb's $3.5B IPO, Lineage's $4.4B listing, Adyen's $12B Euronext debut, and the spin-offs of Vestis from Aramark and Park Hotels from Hilton.

Our IR advisors — former sell-side and buy-side analysts and in-house IROs — partner with public companies across market cycles to sharpen the equity story, strengthen credibility, and support fair valuation. We run the full program: investor targeting, perception studies and investor audits, sell-side engagement, disclosure strategy, and ongoing financial media relations.

We help management and IR teams turn every quarter into a credibility-builder — developing the earnings release, script, and presentation, preparing executives for the toughest analyst questions, and reconciling the gaps between guidance, consensus, and sell-side models. Our advisors support ongoing earnings programs for public companies across consumer, technology, financial services, healthcare, and industrials.

We provide end-to-end investor day support — from investment narrative and long-term guidance framework to executive coaching, design, logistics, and day-of execution. We've delivered transformative investor days for companies including GM, Spotify, Rocket Companies, and Dollar Tree.