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Corporate Governance Strategy & Advisory Services
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How we add value
Our strategic corporate governance service offering provides expert insight on regulatory and stewardship drivers among asset owners, asset managers and third-party advisers. We help boards and executives in their strategic decision making to address ESG risks and demonstrate impact and value creation through going after the opportunities.
We use on data driven market intelligence to enhance the understanding "how" exactly investors integrate ESG into their investment and stewardship activities, to identify governance risks and their link to remuneration practices, board diversity and help corporates with an action plan to engage and communicated with their stakeholders throughout the year.
Strategic Corporate Governance Advisory
General Meetings
Agenda review, vote projection, proxy solicitation, investor profiling, engagement campaigns
Remuneration & Board Risks
Independent assessment of governance risks in board, composition, diversity, skills and remuneration policies
Shareholder Engagement & Governance Roadshows
An action plan to proactively engage with the right contacts at investors, proxy advisory to ensure shareholder support for your campaign
Investors & Corporate Governance
Investor Profiles, Vote Behaviour, Stewardship Policies, and Governance Sensitivities
Board & Management Services
Briefings, workshops and training seminars for executives
Workflow Tools, Platforms & Technology
Our workflow tools around governance, voting, ESG data, communication & engagement
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Experts
Reza Eftekhari
Reza is an expert in special situations and leads our activism practice in Europe as well as advises clients on their shareholder sensitivities, whether it be in relation to deal support, ESG and corporate governance sensitivities, ESG activism or general meeting preparation.He previously worked at Morrow Sodali as a Director and was responsible for the UK market. Reza has held key managerial positions within shareholder advisory and consultancy businesses in London including 6 years at Georgeson and 4 years at D.F. King. Since 2007, he has contributed to the success of a large number of high-profile UK and cross-border M&A transactions that were implemented via scheme of arrangement or public tender offers. These deals include the takeover of Liverpool and Manchester City FCs, Lloyds/HBOS, Kraft/Cadbury, British Airways/Iberia, Shell/BG Group, Takeda/Shire and Visa/Earthport. He has also managed and executed a large number of activist mandates, shareholder engagement campaigns and corporate governance projects on behalf of some of the most notable FTSE100 and 250 companies.In 2016 he completed his Executive MBA at the Imperial College Business School in London.
Atsushi Matsunaga
Atsushi focuses on analyzing and advising APAC and Japanese issuers on governance risks leading up to contentious proxy campaign situations through an ESG, M&A, and governance lens.He has over 20 years of experience in the corporate governance advisory service industry of Japan. Prior to joining S&P Global in Summer 2020, Atsushi spent 12 years as a corporate governance consultant including board evaluations and the proxy voting simulation at IR Japan. Before that, he had provided IR consulting services at IR Japan. Atsushi earned his bachelor's degree in Economics at Meiji Gakuin.He is a CMA (Certified Member Analyst of the Securities Analysts Association of Japan) charterholder. Atsushi worked with some clients on proxy businesses, such as Nomura Holdings (JPN), Sanrio (JPN) , Tsukasa Corporation (JPN) and LG Chem (KOR).
Sara Abbasi
Sara has worked on projects involving ESG and governance risk assessments, proxy solicitation and M&A campaigns for leading banks and companies mainly in (but not limited to) the French, German and UK markets, with an aim to maximise shareholder participation.Sara has a strong background in journalism and communication, which she is able to use during proxy solicitation and M&A campaigns to create key communications materials for investors on behalf of clients. She has previously utilised communications strategies during contested campaigns to understand investor sentiment, convey key messages to the investor base, encourage shareholder engagement, thus increasing support for clients. Prior to joining the team, Sara worked in the proxy solicitation team at D.F. King Ltd, where the UK was her core market. She has worked on campaigns for Santander, Lloyds, Imperial Brands, L'Oreal, among others.Sara has a Master's degree in Journalism, Media and Globalisation (University of Hamburg) and a Bacherlor's degree in English and German Literature (University of Warwick).
Sandro Barbato
Sandro has over seven years of experience in Investor Relations related projects, such as Roadshows, M&As, Corporate Governance & ESG Advisory, Proxy Solicitation and Special Situations for many international clients, mainly but not limited to the UK, Germany, Switzerland and Italy. Before joining S&P Global Market Intelligence , he spent over five years at Morrow Sodali.Sandro holds a German degree in business law (Diplom-Wirtschaftsjurist/Dipl.iur.oec). He is a member of the IR Society in London (MIRSoc), and is certified by them in Investor Relations (ICIR). Also, he is certified by the EFFAS (European Federation of Financial Analysts Societies) as an ESG Analyst (CESGA) and is a full member of AIAF (Italian Society of Financial Analysts) which is the Italian member within the EFFAS. In addition, he is certified by the CFI (Corporate Finance Institute) as an Financial Modelling & Valuation Analyst (FMVA). He has strong intercultural communication skills and speaks German, Italian & English.
Kazuhiko Tahara
Kazuhiko is one of our senior experts working with Japanese and Asian companies on ESG and corporate governance related projects, including general meeting preparation, ESG and governance risks linked to market sentiment, disclosure and reporting as well as materiality and shareholder engagement needsHe has over 30 years of experience in the financial service industry of Japan. Prior to joining S&P Global in February 2020, Mr. Tahara spent 7 years as serving stewardship and ESG activity promotions including proxy voting at Daiwa Asset Management. Before that, he had several responsibilities including international primary markets, quants, corporate access and compliance at Daiwa Securities.Kazuhiko earned his bachelor's degree in Economics at Kyoto University and an MBA majoring in Finance at the University of Chicago. He is a CFA charterholder. At S&P Global, Kazuhiko worked with several corporates on governance and ESG related matters, including Z Holdings (JPN) and LG Chem (KOR).
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