Equiniti is a leader in securing voting and participation in shareholder meetings and corporate transactions. Our Strength? Strong shareholder relationships.
Equiniti provides proxy solicitation services to rally shareholder support at AGMs, General Meetings, and as part of M&A activity. Whether a result of activism, stricter corporate governance requirements or tighter regulations, we can help you respond confidently.
Proxy solicitation aims to secure favourable voting in situations requiring shareholder approval.
Together with our clients and their advisers, we develop communication strategies that inspire positive shareholder sentiment and voting outcomes.
You will be kept up to date with any anecdotal sentiment provided and vote intentions for relevant proposals.
You can stay one step ahead with insight into voting trends and reconciliation of intentions-vs-actual votes received.
Helping you meet complex corporate governance expectations and requirements while taking into account the uniqueness of each organisation and their individual shareholders.
Our corporate governance experts can examine your shareholder meeting proposals against the individual criteria of the key proxy advisers and institutional investors and determine the issues of interest. We identify the key drivers that will ultimately affect vote decisions so that these can feed into our shareholder messaging and engagement strategy.
For issuers outside of the UK, the Equiniti team will also assess your corporate governance practices in relation to the key international proxy advisers’ policies to give us the greatest opportunity to achieve favourable voting outcomes.
Confidence: to win votes - even in challenging and contentious situations which may be under scrutiny and in the public spotlight
Rapport: with key decision makers (knowing exactly who to speak to, how and when)
Insight: into the complex network of share ownership - acting as your eyes and ears
Intelligence: in investor relations and intimate knowledge of the principles and mechanics of corporate governance
Foresight: of contentious issues through awareness of market trends, stakeholder sentiment, public mood and potential risk factors.
We are a tenacious team of dedicated shareholder engagement and corporate governance experts. Governed by an independent Advisory Board of seasoned industry professionals, we draw on years of combined experience in the areas of proxy solicitation, shareholder communications, corporate governance advisory, share ownership analysis and global equity market intelligence.
Wayne Slyfield
Director - Head of Campaign Operations
Wayne, Chartered FCSI, Head of Operation in EQ Advisory. Project manages campaigns and leads all M&A transactions. He has a corporate broking, corporate finance and dealing background covering IPOs and secondary fund raisings, trading with an in-depth knowledge of front, middle and back-office processes, advising corporate clients across all sectors.
Anne-Marie Clarke
Director - Head of Corporate Governance
Anne-Marie joined EQ in 2020, as Head of Corporate Governance, EQ Advisory, following a 13-year career as a practising company secretary. Responsible for providing corporate governance advisory services to listed companies and shareholders, Anne-Marie also chairs the CGPro Network.
Will Furzer
Director - Head of Sales and Business Development
Will, Director of Business Development for EQ Advisory, joined in 2021. His career has been in financial services, asset management, servicing pension and sovereign wealth funds - conducting global relationships for fintech organisations. He ensures the highest level of shareholder engagement.
A big thank you to all at Equiniti for your excellent advice and guidance throughout the process. It was great to get above 90% on all resolutions and reflects all the excellent work that has gone into the annual report and shareholder engagement.
Robert Welch, Group Company Secretary, Tesco plc
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Rally shareholder support at meetings, respond confidently to activism and adhere to corporate governance requirements.
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