FTI Consulting helps executive teams, boards of directors and other senior decision makers effectively maximise their communications and marketing assets to protect, enhance, develop and defend enterprise value.
Events such as mergers, restructurings and crises require careful handling, both in terms of how they are managed and how they are presented. FTI Consulting gives our clients the insight and tools needed to better manage and communicate through the disruption that comes with change. Client services include:
Utilisation of best practices as a foundation for communications programs
Research into impediments to change and the necessary factors for change
Segmentation of the different needs and attitudes of internal stakeholders
Strategic communications plans with targeted messages, messengers and outcomes
As the expectation for communication between the corporate and financial communities evolves and expands, FTI Consulting helps companies understand how, when and why key financial audiences research and connect with corporations. We then develop creative, digital and social solutions to meet those needs. Client services include:
Digital/social media strategies and integration
Investor relations/M&A/IPO website design and development
IR+ (collaborative Web and capital markets communications)
Our research and strategy consultants help clients determine the impact of major changes in corporate strategy or capital allocation policies on valuation and shareholder sentiment. Our research serves as an independent filter, critical to ensuring objective feedback. We have been particularly effective in helping clients assess the implications of new strategies, identify the best capital allocation policies and evaluate the threat of shareholder activism. Client services include:
Investor and analyst perception studies
Equity valuation, including comparative valuation and financial statement analysis
Broader evaluation of the market, relevant peer sets and comparable situations
Shareholder alignment evaluation, including sentiment reviews and shareholder base diagnostics
Our Market Perception Index, which combines statistical and financial analysis with investor perceptions to determine the alignment of client performance, strategy and communications
Market scan and growth option development research and financial modeling to help clients evaluate and determine how to enter new markets
Our communications experts turn clients’ financial results into potent investor updates that showcase key initiatives and offer progress updates. Through an appropriate and balanced mix of traditional and online media, we ensure our clients’ messages influence investors, support valuations, and improve the visibility of company decisions and actions. Further, we serve as our clients' liaison to the international investment community.
Our services include:
Conference call scripting
Q&A preparation
Media relations
Presentation messaging
Creative engagement solutions
Market intelligence
Global investor outreach
Facilitation of meetings between management and key shareholders
Introductory calls with new investors
Analysation of investor discussions to uncover future messaging strategies
From prospectus filing to the listing and end of the quiet period, we develop and distribute key messages to help clients raise capital, maximise valuations and minimise transaction risks. Client services include:
Comprehensive communications advice before and during the transaction
Development and dissemination of the equity story
Preparation of management for engaging with the international investor community
Preparation of the company for becoming a publicly traded entity
Media relations to communicate the investment case and argue the valuation
We consistently are ranked as the #1 communications advisor in global league tables by deal count. We deliver comprehensive communications advice in recommended and unsolicited transactions and work for listed and non-listed companies to support the acceptance of a public offer or defend against a hostile bidder. We build and manage a communications platform to reach all audiences in a planned, multi-stakeholder approach.
Client services include:
Development and dissemination of the merger story
Media relations and shareholder communications
Communications surrounding proxy solicitation
Employee outreach and engagement
Transaction websites and digital/social media strategies
Counsel and implementation of post-merger integration or disposals
Quantitative and qualitative assessment of the effectiveness of each communication
