Corporate leaders increasingly face apparently impossible decisions, balancing the interests of investors, customers, civil society and colleagues.
Businesses have never had more options or faced a more fragmented, less forgiving environment. In this world, establishing and rebuilding reputation and trust in their organisations and brands is now the number one job for CEOs, whether they recognise it or not. The process of doing this job properly touches every aspect of corporate activity, especially the way in which companies manage stakeholder relationships in response to changing events. We help organisations and business leaders to act with certainty as they face these critical challenges.

Our Approach

Our North Star is the need to earn trust, which is the essential commodity that makes all other business actions possible.

Our map is created by our team of researchers, analysts and subject matter experts who use cutting edge tools to help plot the right course.

Our engine is the biggest team of corporate communications, public affairs and financial communications specialists in Europe; supported by the digital, planning, creative, strategic media and influencer teams that can only be sustained in an agency of our size.

By bringing together close, passionate client-centric core teams and giving them access to these resources, we help companies answer some of the hardest questions they face.

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John has nearly 30 years of experience advising companies on all aspects of their capital market communications. He is co-founder of Smithfield, which is now Edelman’s wholly owned financial media and investor relations practice in the UK.

He has recently been involved in a number of high profile cross border M&A and restructuring projects including Vantiv’s $28.8bn merger with Worldpay, CME’s £3.9bn acquisition of Nex Group, PayPal’s acquisition of iZettle and Walt Disney Company’s acquisition of Euro Disney.

Additionally, John has also worked on a number of IPOs and spinoffs including, C&W Worldwide from C&W Group (London), TNT Express from Post NL (Amsterdam), Emaar Malls (Dubai) and a number of international deals.

He advises on special situations, shareholder activism and pension trustees on a range of issues. John is also a guest lecturer on Investor Relations and crisis communications at the London Business School.

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