The directory includes a list of companies that support the IR function in the Middle East, categorised by their main area of expertise.
All listed service providers have a proven track record in the region in the field of investor relations.
Advert One Communications is a division of Shawaf International Co. Ltd. Advert One offers clients top quality, innovative, integrated financial communication solutions.
We provide in-depth knowledge and support throughout the projects which include: IPOs, RIs, M&A, Sukuk and PP.
APCO is a global advisory and advocacy firm helping leading corporations, foundations and governments navigate a complex world. An independent and majority women-owned company, APCO brings diverse people and ideas together and works beyond traditional boundaries, building un/common ground ℠ upon which progress is made.
Beltone is a leading financial services provider with a multi-decade track record of success in the MENA region. The Company offers a comprehensive and growing set of financial solutions such as brokerage, investment banking, asset management, equity research, in addition to end-to-end non-banking financial institutions (NBFIs) including private equity & direct investments, leasing, factoring, consumer finance, venture capital, mortgage finance and microfinance. The Company is driven by a vision to redefine the financial ecosystem in the region by capitalizing on global expertise, knowledge, and disruptive, value-accretive solutions that unlock limitless opportunities for clients, to drive market value and impactful results. The company is listed on the Egyptian Stock Exchange under the following ticker symbol: BTFH.CA Learn more about their work at: https://beltoneholding.com/
Sitting on the desks of 325,000 of the world’s most influential decision makers, the Bloomberg Terminal is a modern icon of financial markets. Launched in 1981, long before PCs and the internet became ubiquitous, the Bloomberg Terminal brought transparency to financial markets. It connected market participants to a groundbreaking data, analytics and information-delivery service — and revolutionized an industry.
BNY Mellon Depositary Receipts business is a global leader in the industry, with 763 sponsored DR programs in a total of 71 countries and custodizing $545 billion in DR assets as of June 30, 2019. BNY Mellon is a global investments company dedicated to helping its clients manage and service their financial assets throughout the investment lifecycle. Whether providing financial services for institutions, corporations or individual investors, BNY Mellon delivers informed investment management and investment services in 35 countries. As of June 30, 2019, BNY Mellon had $35.5 trillion in assets under custody and/or administration, and $1.8 trillion in assets under management. BNY Mellon can act as a single point of contact for clients looking to create, trade, hold, manage, service, distribute or restructure investments. BNY Mellon is the corporate brand of The Bank of New York Mellon Corporation (NYSE: BK). Additional information is available on www.bnymellon.com. Follow us on Twitter @BNYMellon or visit our newsroom at www.bnymellon.com/newsroom for the latest company news. https://www.bnymellon.com/content/dam/bnymellon/documents/pdf/depositary-receipts-brochure.pdf
BRR Media helps companies to create engaging live-streamed and pre-recorded content for online audiences. By harnessing our leading production capabilities for onsite or remote production, as well as our webcasting platform, companies communicate directly with key stakeholders including analysts, institutions and retail investors rapidly and globally. We produce a broad range of digital events, including executive video interviews, results presentations or capital markets day presentations with synchronised slides, live shareholder engagement events or hybrid AGMs, self-produced videos and corporate/brand/product videos. These branded media assets can be seamlessly integrated into company websites, social media platforms and other distribution channels with post-event analytics on audience size and profile. Contact us via www.brrmedia.co.uk, sales@brrmedia.co.uk or +44 20 3435 7010 to see how we can help to broadcast your equity story and for further information.
Brunswick is an advisory firm specializing in critical issues and corporate relations: a global partnership with 24 offices in 14 countries. Founded in 1987, Brunswick has grown organically, operating as a single profit centre, allowing the Firm to respond seamlessly to clients’ needs, wherever they are in the world.
Debbie Nathan Associates – DNA, is a London based, leading global recruitment and search partner for Investor Relations and Communications, with over 15 years’ experience in the industry. We match high performing talent with companies across the globe on both permanent and interim assignments. Our knowledgeable, trustworthy, and thorough approach to every search combined with a deep understanding of the clients’ requirements underpins our success.
Closir is a technology platform helping listed companies from emerging and frontier markets directly reach institutional investors. Investor profiles, meeting notes, IR calendar, peer holders, perception studies in one intuitive and easy to use platform.
Equitory is a dedicated Investor Relations consultancy. Its team has extensive experience leading investor communication strategies, along with helping companies through the IPO process and with the establishment of IR functions.
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Equitory hosts the leading Investor Relations podcast, Enquire, which brings together IR and capital markets professionals to share their experiences, best practices and offer listeners insights and ideas in the dynamic world of IR.
Emperor is a leading UK-headquartered Brand and Corporate Communications agency, with a regional office in Dubai. We’re a 21 year old market-leader in our space, with 180 employees. Our range of complementary Design services helps our clients to define who they are and what they do, communicate where they’re going and how they will get there, and engage audiences in what they care about and why. We act for nearly 300 corporate clients internationally, including c. 15% of the FTSE350, right through to small-caps and a host of unlisted organisations (including for example Sovereign Wealth Funds, private equity backed businesses and professional advisers, lawyers, accountants). We specialise in IPO communications - no other UK design agency has acted on more flotations than Emperor over the last 20 years. Many of our clients’ listings are on the London markets, but equally some are on Toronto, Abu Dhabi, Johannesburg, Dubai, Moscow, Riyadh, Mumbai, Doha or elsewhere.
Euroland IR has been assisting companies in improving their Investor Relations by providing Best Practice tools and outstanding 24/7 service for years. Rather than embracing an approach that settles for being a Jack of all trades, we believe in being the master of one.
In niching ourselves and focusing on improving the web based IR communication of our customers, we are able to provide the most technologically advanced and user-friendly solutions in the industry. Our services are second to none.
Intuitive design enables comprehensive understanding of your equity story. It is the blueprint to our tools. Making them accessible and interactive encourages users to engage further with your financial history. This is how we engage investors.
Striving always to stay ahead of the curve, we work tirelessly to reinvent and improve the way you communicate with your investors and build relationships with your stakeholders.
Fairvue Partners is a strategic management consultancy dedicated to investor relations and the capital markets. Fairvue brings deep, functional expertise to help companies integrate IR into their broader strategic planning. Its goal is to help clients optimise valuation and enhance their capital markets positioning. Fairvue has a global client base, is sector agnostic and works with equity and debt issuers of all sizes. They have one of the highest client retention rates in the industry and all engagement is Partner-led. Learn more about their work at: https://www.fairvuepartners.com/case-studies
GFM Mubasher is A leading MENA FINTECH company based in DIFC-UAE, specialized in providing investor relations solutions assisting +70 listed companies in enhancing their IR digital communication and transparency.
We have 8 international offices & 500+ professionals – offices in UAE( HQ), KSA, Kuwait, Egypt, Bahrain, Sri Lanka & Pakistan.
Our Capital Markets Communications professionals serve as trusted advisers to board of directors and management teams at companies of all sizes and at every stage of growth. With an in-depth understanding of what the investment community wants and needs, FTI Consulting helps corporate leaders navigate through moments of transition, deliver a consistent and credible corporate narrative to the market, engage with the market and cultivate a growing shareholder base. FTI Consulting is an independent global business advisory firm dedicated to helping organisations manage change, mitigate risk and resolve disputes: financial, legal, operational, political & regulatory, reputational and transactional. FTI Consulting professionals, located in all major business centres throughout the world, work closely with clients to anticipate, illuminate and overcome complex business challenges and opportunities.
Hill+Knowlton Strategies (H+K) was the first global communications consultancy to establish operations in the Middle East, more than 30 years ago. Today we have 8 vibrant, interconnected and fully-owned offices across the MENA region – in Dubai, Abu Dhabi, Cairo, Doha, Jeddah, Kuwait City, Manama and Riyadh. H+K in MENA provides governments, brands and businesses with world class strategic communications counsel and localised execution across sectors and services. Our award-winning consultants are trusted advisors for integrated campaigns that drive stakeholders to think + act differently.
Hawksbury are experts in the design of corporate, investor and sustainability communications materials. We are headquartered in Dubai. We help companies creatively articulate their investment proposition during periods of capital market activity such as IPOs, M&A, results releases and corporate reporting. The investor communications experience of our Directors is unmatched in the Middle East, with Hawksbury’s leadership team having built and led the corporate reporting market over the last decade as Managing Directors of their previous firms. We work principally across design, digital, content and video. Services include annual & ESG reports, brochures, presentations, infographics, websites, videos and animations delivered in English and Arabic. Clients are largely GCC based and from diverse sectors including real estate, entertainment, retail, travel, industrial, construction, oil & gas and financial services. Our core expertise is the design of corporate reporting materials (print and online annual & sustainability reports, results presentations and factsheets); we have consistently produced best in class collateral for many of the leading listed companies in the Middle East over the past twenty years.
At IHS Markit Issuer Solutions, formerly Ipreo, we help corporate issuers target sustained access to capital, develop a compelling equity story and achieve full and fair valuation. Our market-leading IR solutions are across an integrated suite of advanced technology, data science and analyst expertise that help investor relations professionals in areas that matter most to them and their management teams:
Global Markets Intelligence, Investor Targeting and Engagement, Investor Relations CRM Platform, Perception Analytics, IR Strategy and Advisory, and ESG and Corporate Governance. As you plan for 2021 and beyond, we invite you to meet with the IHS Markit Advisory team to learn more about how we can help you achieve your IR Goals.
Insight Ridge is an investor relations & ESG consultancy focused on the Middle East and broader Emerging Markets. Our team has decades of combined experience as award winning in-house practitioners in investor relations, corporate access, ESG integration, portfolio management, sell-side research, and management consulting. We know what it’s like to build successful IR function in Emerging Markets and how to showcase investment story to the right audience. We believe that correctly articulating company’s investment story revolves around thoroughly designed investor education tools, well-thought investor engagement process and ESG principles integration. Insight Ridge delivers tailor made services specific to EM needs, jumpstarts your IR program and provides strategic IR support. We educate, engage & embrace.
Instinctif Partners is a leading consultancy advising companies on IPOs, growth strategies and fundraising. Our team combines strategic insight and deep sector expertise with an integrated approach spanning capital markets, corporate affairs, brand building, internal engagement and public policy. We have extensive experience in advising our clients across a full spectrum of communication challenges; fromB2B and B2C brand building, social media strategy and reputation management through to financial PR and transaction support. Instinctif Partners has worked with prominent listed clients in the region against a backdrop of increasingly challenging and uncertain global and local markets.
For over 50 years, Institutional Investor has built its reputation on providing award-winning editorial for the world's most influential decision makers in global asset management and banking. This prestigious audience relies on Institutional Investor to provide in-depth coverage of the people and events impacting the world's economy and all facets of institutional asset management. Institutional Investor offers highly-respected proprietary benchmark research and rankings on buy-side and sell-side research, hedge funds, corporates, fixed income and asset management, and has a proven history of anticipating the personalities and trends most likely to influence the global financial markets. The website reaches a highly engaged global audience and has regular features that focus on: Social Currency, Corner Office, Portfolio, and Research. In March 2018, Institutional Investor acquired Extel and is integrating it into the Institutional Investor Research business.
Iridium is the Middle East's first and leading Investor Relations consultancy. The firm was founded on the belief that first-hand capital markets and in-house senior management experience are central to the process of converting business value into shareholder returns. Iridium possesses exceptional insight through its proprietary artificial intelligence platform, track record and depth of expertise. Our results-oriented experts design, build and operate transformational investor relations programs that help organizations and leaders engage, transact and grow - whether they are healthy, challenged or distressed. For information visit www.iridiumadvisors.com.
Investis Digital (IDX), an Investcorp portfolio business, is the global market leader in digital IR solutions. Helping 3,000+ listed companies communicate and engage with institutional investor and capital market audiences online; providing website development and all associated digital solutions that listed companies require (including share price data, tools, stock exchange newsfeeds, and quarterly results webcasting). All delivered via an industry-leading, enterprise-grade cloud platform, and trusted by the world's leading organisations including Accenture, Anglo-American and HSBC. IDX provides IR teams peace of mind and 24/7/365 support, guidance and technical assistance, with a 15-minute response time SLA.
Kekst CNC is a global strategic communications firm with deep roots in the world’s corporate and financial centres. It is part of the Publicis Groupe, the world’s third largest communications group. Established in 2018, as a result of a merger between two of the world’s leading strategic communications firms, Kekst, founded in 1970, and CNC, founded in 2002. Kekst CNC acts as a trusted advisor on reputation management and high stakes matters, including: M&A, investor relations, IPO communications, restructurings, crisis communications, shareholder activism, governance, digital communications, employee engagement, regulatory investigations, litigation support, and political lobbying. Its team of over 300 experienced professionals advises leading corporates and organisations in navigating complex issues across 15 locations around the world. In the Middle East, the firm has offices in Dubai, Abu Dhabi and Riyadh.
Link has extensive experience delivering Registry and Meeting Services for clients in the public, private and government sectors. In the Middle East Link provides registrar and meeting services for a wide variety of clients. Link’s in-house General Meeting (GM) service ensures clients receive a world-class GM. Link’s aim is to facilitate a seamlessly run event and ensure a first-class GM that achieves or exceeds all desired objectives. We also offer an extensive range of additional services including meeting specific microsites, webcasting and proxy solicitation. Our virtual meeting service allows our clients to run a hybrid meeting, which are run alongside physical meetings, or a fully virtual meeting. We provide comprehensive services required to facilitate a virtual meeting, including full webcasting, production and conferencing services and a voting and question app. Link Market Services is part of the Link Group of Companies. https://www.linkgroup.eu/ or contact Victoria.Keenan@linkgroup.co.uk
Lumi is the dominant player globally in the facilitation of Annual General Meetings for Companies (whether listed or non-listed), Associations, Legislative Bodies, Membership Organizations and Partnerships. Based on proprietary, patented technology, Lumi provides software, hardware and services that assists registrars or event organizers to register delegates, provide live, secure polling, Q&A management services and relevant reporting – whether in a physical location, a virtual environment or a combination of the two. Lumi is headquartered in Hampshire, UK where central functions including finance, product development and marketing are based, but has offices in 11 countries across EMEA, APAC and the Americas. Highly differentiated in the majority of markets where it is active, it benefits from extremely strong, experienced and renowned MDs who head up each in-country team. Registrars play a pivotal role in facilitating the AGM process, by enabling issuers to obtain access to the Lumi platform. Lumi holds global relationships with multiple leading company registrars and has long-term licensing and service arrangements with all leading registrars across all operating territories. Following a successful MBO in 2017, backed by Vespa Capital, Lumi has continued to consolidate their market leading positions across the globe, as well as expanding both organically and through acquisition. Its mobile solution enabled Lumi to facilitate the UK’s first electronic AGM held by a listed company, Jimmy Choo, in June 2016. The onset of the COVID-19 global pandemic rapidly accelerated the adoption of the Lumi virtual meeting platform, expanding the number of countries in which Lumi operates to over 30.
MerchantCantos is a leading provider of investor communication solutions. We have been operating in the Gulf for the past 7 years - during this time we have produced multiple award winning annual reports, executive interview videos and IR websites for some of the region’s leading businesses. We have considerable experience working on corporate transactions such as IPO’s and Merger & Acquisitions.
Morrow Sodali provides corporate boards and executives with strategic advice and services relating to investor engagement, environmental, social, and corporate governance, mergers and acquisitions and shareholders activism, strategic communications, investor relations, and research. From headquarters in New York, London, and Sydney, with offices and partners in major capital markets, Morrow Sodali serves more than 2,000 clients in 70 countries, including many of the world’s largest multinational corporations. In addition to listed and private companies, our clients include financial institutions, mutual funds, ETFs, stock exchanges, and membership associations.
Notified’s solutions help investor relations professionals engage global stakeholders with multi-channel communications. Earnings calls and webcasts, investor days, IR websites, ESG communications, global press releases and more - all through a single partner with 24/7 customer support, helping you tell a compelling investment story. We work with more than 10,000+ global customers, from growing businesses and new IPOs to some of the world’s most recognizable brands. Learn more about our work at: https://www.notified.com/
Orient Capital is a global leader in share ownership analysis and identification, market intelligence, investor communication and shareholder management technology. As the world’s largest analyser of equity ownership across multiple markets, we help companies identify and track their shareholders, as well as their behaviour, using either local ownership disclosure provisions or our own proprietary methodologies. miraqle is our unique web-based platform through which our products are delivered or managed, empowering companies to most efficiently manage their interaction with the capital markets and the functions that arise as a consequence of being listed. Orient Capital enables IR teams to maximise the opportunity of public ownership and to reap the benefits of good investor relations. Orient Capital is part of the Link Group of Companies.
Pivot Advisory was founded to support businesses to understand, improve and implement best practice investor relations with the support of qualified and experienced IR professionals. We help bring out the best your business has to offer and advise on how to communicate to a wide range of stakeholders to ensure your strategy, performance, and guidance are delivered clearly and transparently. Our main job is to understand your business and help you achieve your goals by curating bespoke plans that meet your business needs at each stage of its maturity. We also offer a range of support to help you execute these plans in conjunction with experienced and trusted partners that we work with to help give you the holistic service offering you need. Pivot Advisory is your strategic partner in everything IR. So whether your business is on track to list, needs to improve its current IR program, or is restructuring, we provide a standard approach for each scenario in addition to tailored solutions for ad-hoc projects.
Since opening for business 20 years ago, Proof Communications has successfully proofreaded literally thousands of documents.
Annual reports, financial statements, CSR reports, Initial Public Offering documents and product disclosure statements – these and more are entrusted to the professional care of Proof Communications by listed and private companies, and government agencies.
From ten pages to over 800, often with complex and sophisticated content, the documents we proofread all share one common feature: they reflect our clients’ reputations and so they seek proofreading of the highest possible standards. Global and MENA companies entrust their documents to Proof Communications as they know they are in the safest of hands.
If you would like the comfort of knowing that your documents are free of typographical and grammatical errors, spelling mistakes and inconsistencies, please get in touch.
Prose Solutions is the leading Middle East-founded knowledge and content development firm. With a network of over 150 talented and experienced comms experts, writers, editors and translators, we drive the communications and business objectives of hundreds of clients each year across IR, branding, digital, employee comms, marketing, PR, sustainability and more. In the IR space, Prose Solutions provides best practice advisory and bilingual content development solutions for over 20 Annual Reports for listed and government clients across the region each year, as well as broader investor engagement strategy and execution and a growing number of Sustainability/ESG Reports, and has helped its clients win a number of MEIRA awards over the last few years.
Signum Global Advisors is an independent advisory firm operating at the intersection of policy and global markets. Signum Global works with financial institutions and multi-national businesses to anticipate and assess policy agendas that will have a material impact upon markets, sectors, and asset classes. They provide the highest-quality predictive research, market insights and policy events.
Teneo is a global advisory firm that works exclusively with the CEOs and leaders of the world’s largest and most complex companies providing strategic counsel across their full range of key objectives and issues. Comprised of the most senior talent, we work collaboratively to solve the most complex issues. Our teams integrate the disciplines of strategic communications, investment banking, management consulting, political risk analysis, talent development, risk management, digital analytics, corporate governance, government affairs and corporate restructuring to solve for the most complex business and reputational challenges and opportunities. The Firm was founded in June 2011 by Declan Kelly, Doug Band and Paul Keary and now has more than 700 employees located in 16 offices around the world.
Visible Alpha provides access to sell-side analyst models and deep consensus data to enable investor relations professionals to uncover and explore the market's view of their company, competitors, and suppliers.
