Corporate
Cohn & Wolfe Corporate Practice
In today’s market environment, the investment community increasingly looks beyond financial metrics when making investment decisions. A company’s credibility and visibility, leadership within its sector, reputation with partners and customers and a clear understanding of its strategic direction have a direct impact on value. If the market perceives these factors in a positive way, the company will be rewarded with a higher market capitalization.
Our corporate team experience at Cohn & Wolfe ranges from individuals who worked on Wall Street as licensed stock brokers to managing investor communications for companies with multibillion dollar market capitalizations. We thrive in positions where we help our clients develop communications strategies surrounding complex issues affecting corporate reputation, industry leadership and valuation.
Here are some specifics examples of our team’s Investor Relations and Corporate Communications experience:
- Financial thought leadership platforms
- Financial analyst, media and influencer communications strategies to support market-moving economic indicator based on ADP’s proprietary payroll data
- M&A services experience, including transaction positioning, launch and communication strategy, and managing investor and employee communications
- $6.7B @Home Network and Excite, Inc. merger
- Motorola’s acquisition of Broadbus, Inc.
- BigBand Networks acquisition of ADC’s IP Cable Business Unit
- Maxtor’s acquisition of Quantum’s Hard Drive Unit
- Andrew Corporation’s acquisition of Celiant
- ADP, Inc.’s strategic acquisitions in 2006
- Mintax
- Virtual Edge
- Employease
- Taxware
- Intuit’s outsourced payroll business
- IPO and private placement experience
- @Home Network’s private placement valuating the pre-IPO company at more than $1B
- @Home Network’s $100 million+ Initial Public Offering
- Competitor peer analysis
- Investor presentation development
- Internal response system
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Crisis/special situation experience
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Communications strategies to support Excite@Home’s stance on high profile and potentially damaging regulatory issues to preserve the company’s credibility among investors
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Investor and influencer communications surrounding Excite@Home’s renegotiated master distribution agreements with it’s cable partners
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- Investor relations processes and protocols
- Earnings reporting process (scripts, rehearsal, Q&A) for @Home Network
- Strategic financial relations programs for companies including, Excite@Home, ADP, Joost, CompuServe, Digicel
- Senior management presentation and disclosure training
- Creation of executive financial conference presentations
- Responsible for the development of Annual Reports
- Stock blogging and social media outlet monitor and response programs