Shareholder Activism Defence
Proactive defence frameworks and rapid response protocols against activist campaigns, hostile approaches and contested AGMs. Includes register analysis, assessment of activist intent and engagement strategy.
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Institutional Advisory for High Stakes Situations
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.
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●How we work
Every mandate starts the same way.
No templated process. We begin with a forensic assessment of your specific situation before any recommendation is made.
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Initial Confidential Briefing
A direct conversation with a senior partner to understand the situation, the timeline, and the desired outcome. Free of charge and fully confidential.
02
Register and Threat Assessment
A forensic read of the shareholder register: who holds what, where hostile or activist positions may be building, and what the vulnerability profile looks like.
03
Strategic Positioning and Stakeholder Mapping
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.
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Campaign Execution and Engagement
The active phase: institutional outreach, proxy solicitation where required, structured shareholder engagement where appropriate, and real time monitoring of where support is consolidating or at risk.
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Resolution and Outcome Report
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.
●Advisory mandates
What we are retained to do.
Proxy Solicitation
End to end campaigns to secure support for key resolutions, including contested director elections, M&A scheme votes and major governance proposals.
Enquire →Perception Studies
Confidential, structured interviews with your largest institutional holders and the analysts who cover you, reported back to the board as an unvarnished view of how strategy, leadership, capital allocation and governance are perceived, and what would change a vote.
Enquire →M&A Transaction Advisory
Shareholder engagement strategy and investor communications for mergers, acquisitions, hostile bids and other transformational transactions.
Enquire →ESG & Governance Positioning
Helping companies frame, communicate and defend their governance and ESG credentials to global institutional investors.
Enquire →Campaign Management
Design and management of multi stakeholder engagement campaigns, covering outreach sequencing, messaging, sentiment monitoring and vote outcome analysis.
Enquire →Charts are illustrations of the format of our work. Figures shown are not drawn from any client engagement.
●Why Zenvest Advisory
The credentials behind every mandate.
Former ISS Leadership
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.
Global Investor Networks
Longstanding institutional investor relationships built through decades of advisory and stewardship engagement work, providing genuine intelligence and outreach capacity for complex, multi jurisdictional situations.
Multi Market Experience
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.
Register and Perception Analytics
Proprietary register look through and structured investor perception work, so that every recommendation rests on who actually holds the shares and what they actually think.
Full Cycle Execution
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 is carried through by the senior partner team.
Strict Confidentiality
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.
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