We help shareholders and founders navigate through their visions and concerns, chart their expectations, and effectively set up and engage with other shareholders, and with the board. Our good governance mastery, complemented by our knowledge of investor and shareholder behavioral patterns enable us to develop bespoke strategies that put principals of organizations at ease. We proffer considered and practical advice that enable founders and shareholders to make informed decisions on issues of share structuring and capitalization, corporate governance, board related matters, executive compensation, et al. We also develop bespoke frameworks to guide shareholders and founders towards more effective and sustainable governance structures. From screening a potential director, to reference checking, to making recommendations on compliance issues, to crafting effective communication policies, we efficiently provide unrivalled support and dependable guidance. We set clear expectations and engagement maps to ensure that there are no surprises along the way, in the co-shareholder/founder or the owner-manager collaboration.
Deploying novel technologies and expert mastery of tried and tested best practice governance models, we go beyond routine advisory to enable the shareholders and founders of an organization to make sound decisions that will add value to the organization and improve overall performance. We believe that good governance is critical to business, economic and national success. Effective governance has the power to transform an organization’s culture and positively affect its factors’ output. As such, we efficiently support organizations to optimize good governance, by identifying and implementing best governance practices that empower focused leadership, embed a narrative of organizational transformation, and build lasting management legacies.
Incorporation and Shares Arrangement
Founder Issues and Equity Compensation
Development of a Shareholders or Founders Agreement
Proxy Sourcing and Due Diligence
Nominee Director Sourcing, Due Diligence and Evaluation
Board Communication and Engagement
Management Sensitivity Analysis and Evaluation
Ownership Profiling and Analysis of Shareholder Expectations
Investor Profiling and Due Diligence
Trainings and Re-orientation
We also provide bespoke Environment and Social Governance (ESG) advisory services to assist organizations to manage shareholders’ and regulatory expectations on ESG risks, opportunities and disclosures. We help clients benchmark their ESG disclosure and advise on best ESG practice including how to engage effectively with stakeholders on key topics. We understand the growing market expectations for organizations to consider all stakeholders in their strategic decision making, and the need for a robust corporate governance framework that effectively considers environmental and social issues. As stakeholders increasingly manifest interest in how organizations respond to ESG issues such as climate related risks, gender diversity or human capital development, it has become essential that these issues are addressed in a consistent and structured manner. We effectively assess and design ESG processes and policies, and support organizations in improving reporting, against international and national benchmarks on the following issues:
We support organizations in identifying the most salient ESG issues by gaining a strong understanding of the organization’s priorities, conducting benchmark assessments on relevant peers and stakeholders’ expectation, and by reviewing relevant ESG ratings to understand stakeholder sensitivities. We conduct high level reviews on relevant reporting frameworks and support the organization to develop policies to address the disclosure areas, in light of the organization’s purpose and corporate culture. We also identify key personalities in the ESG space for engagement on ESG topics, disclosures, and trends, and distil practical best practice recommendations for the organization. We keep in mind that there is no cookie-cutter structure that can be applied; accordingly, we tailor each organization’s approach to what makes the most sense given its business model, resources and the level of sustainability integration into its business structure.