Senior-led, bespoke counsel for corporate boards, funds and institutional investors navigating contested shareholder situations. Advisory mandates are available to corporate and institutional clients only and are not offered to individuals.
Enquire About a MandateNo templated process. We begin with a forensic assessment of your specific situation before any recommendation is made.
A direct conversation with a senior partner to understand the situation, the timeline, and the desired outcome. Free of charge and fully confidential.
A forensic read of the shareholder register — identifying who holds what, where hostile or activist positions may be building, and what the vulnerability profile looks like.
Defining the engagement strategy — which shareholders to reach, in what sequence, with what message, and through which channels. This is where the engagement plan is formed.
The active phase — institutional outreach, proxy solicitation where required, mediatory engagement where appropriate, and real-time monitoring of where support is consolidating or at risk.
Vote outcome, settlement, or agreed resolution — followed by a structured debrief covering what the register looked like going in versus coming out, and what that means for ongoing shareholder relations.
Our senior advisory team includes the former chief executive of ISS — the world's leading proxy advisory firm — bringing direct insight into how institutional investors evaluate governance situations.
Zenvest Partners holds formal mediation accreditation, enabling us to facilitate structured resolution between boards and investors in a way that is legally recognised and procedurally robust.
Longstanding institutional investor relationships built through decades of advisory and stewardship engagement work, providing genuine intelligence and outreach capacity for complex, multi-jurisdictional situations.
Direct advisory experience across global markets, complemented by senior leadership at one of the world's largest vote processing platforms — bringing operational understanding of how institutional voting is executed at scale globally.
From initial forensic assessment through to vote outcome — we do not hand off work to junior teams or third parties at the execution stage. Every mandate carried through by the senior partner team.
All mandates handled with full confidentiality as a baseline. We do not publicise client engagements without explicit consent, and our conflict-checking process is completed before any engagement begins.
All advisory enquiries are treated as strictly confidential from the first point of contact. If your matter is time-sensitive, please email us directly rather than using this form.