We believe that we’re only as good as the good we do.
All the facts and figures that talk to our size and diversity and years of history, as notable and important as they may be, are secondary to the truest measure of Deloitte: the impact we make in the world.
So, when people ask, “what’s different about Deloitte?” the answer resides in the many specific examples of where we have helped Deloitte member firm clients, our people, and sections of society to achieve remarkable goals, solve complex problems or make meaningful progress. Deeper still, it’s in the beliefs, behaviors and fundamental sense of purpose that underpin all that we do.
With over 150 years of hard work and commitment to making a real difference, our organization has grown in scale and diversity—more than 245,000 people in 150 countries and territories, providing audit, tax, legal, financial advisory, risk advisory, and consulting services—yet our shared culture remains the same.
For us, good isn’t good enough. We aim to be the best at all that we do—to help clients realize their ambitions; to make a positive difference in society; and to maximize the success of our people. This drive fuels the commitment and humanity that run deep through our every action.
That’s what makes us truly different at Deloitte. Not how big we are, where we are, nor what services we offer. What really defines us is our drive to make an impact that matters in the world.
Link Asset Services is part of Link Group, a leading global provider of financial administration solutions. Link Asset Services works in partnership internationally with almost 7,000 clients including asset managers and investors, business managers, asset owners, trustees, issuers and borrowers. As one of Europe’s leading asset servicing platforms, Link Asset Services interacts with almost 6m investors, administering and safeguarding £600bn of assets across 10 highly regulated markets. For more information, see www.linkassetservices.com
Diligent is a leading provider of secure corporate governance and collaboration solutions for boards and senior executives. Over 4,500 customers in more than 75 countries and on all seven continents rely on Diligent to provide secure, intuitive access to their most time-sensitive and confidential information, ultimately helping them make better decisions. The Diligent Boards (formerly Diligent Boardbooks) solution speeds and simplifies how board materials are produced, delivered and collaborated on via any device, removing the security concerns of doing this by courier, email and file sharing.
Blueprint OneWorld is a global web-based entity management and corporate governance solution, allowing you to access and manage your corporate compliance data 24/7, anytime, anywhere. With more than 25 years of experience, thousands of users worldwide, across every conceivable industry, our client base features many of the largest companies in the world. Our commitment to providing highly secure and integrated solutions is the reason why many FTSE 100, FORTUNE 500, EURONEXT 100, ASX 50 trust us to manage their corporate information to deliver good governance.
Visit www.diligent.com and www.blueprintoneworld.com or follow us on twitter @diligentHQ to learn more.
Kroll is the leading global provider of risk solutions. For more than 40 years, Kroll has helped clients make confident risk management decisions about people, assets, operations and security through a wide range of investigations, cyber security, due diligence and compliance, physical and operational security and data and information management services. Headquartered in New York with more than 35 offices in 20 countries, Kroll has a multidisciplinary team of nearly 1,000 employees and serves a global clientele of law firms, financial institutions, corporations, non-profit institutions, government agencies and individuals.
As one of the world’s leading law firms, we advise many of the biggest and most ambitious organisations across all major regions of the globe. Our clients trust us with their most important transactions, disputes and projects because of our ability to cut through complexity and mitigate risk.
With 26 offices spanning Africa, Asia, Australia, Europe, the Middle East and the US, we offer local insight and seamless cross-border service in all major regions. Positioned to support the major trade flows, we help the world’s top companies thrive in the global economy.
Because technical ability alone is not enough, we seek to build exceptional working relationships with our clients. By doing so, we are able to develop a deeper understanding of our clients’ businesses, provide commercially astute, innovative advice and create better business outcomes for our clients.
Davis Polk & Wardwell LLP (including its associated entities) is a global law firm with offices located in the world’s key financial centres. The firm advises industry-leading companies and global financial institutions on their most challenging legal and business matters involving mergers and acquisitions, joint ventures, cross-border securities offerings, financings and a wide range of other corporate transactions, as well as a broad array of investigations and litigation-related issues. Approximately 50% of the firm’s principal clients are based outside of the United States.
Davis Polk has practised US law in London for over 40 years, advising on the majority of marquee capital markets transactions in Europe including the UK Government’s privatisations in the 1980s, technology-related IPOs in the 1990s and recapitalisation of numerous financial institutions in the 2000s. The firm’s English law practice started five years ago with lateral hires at partner, counsel and associate level from leading UK law firms.
Our growing London-based team now consists of over 60 UK and US qualified lawyers covering a range of equity and debt capital markets, private and public M&A and finance and restructuring transactions. The corporate and credit teams are supported by first rate corporate tax, financial regulatory and antitrust expertise.
Jordans Corporate Law is a new kind of law firm that’s part of Vistra, one of the world’s leading corporate services providers. Compliance is at the very heart of what we do and ours is a flexible, tailor-made approach that’s responsive and competitively priced.
Perhaps you need additional help around busy periods -AGM time for example – or longer term support to cover absences or specific projects. Our corporate governance and compliance experts can step in as required.
When you need legal support, we’ll deliver corporate advice tailored to your goal. You can access our services for all or part of your transaction, at a price that works for you, helping you manage your time, budget and your ongoing legal requirements.
Pinsent Masons is a full-service international law firm, employing over 2500 people in total including over 1500 lawyers and more than 400 partners. We respond to the pressures and opportunities facing businesses globally with legal excellence and innovation. We are ranked as one of the five most innovative law firms in Europe for 2016 by the Financial Times and were the 2015 winners.
Our focus is on our clients’ long-term success in public markets providing the specialist advice required to deliver value to shareholders through equity capital markets transactions and public M&A, whilst ensuring sound corporate governance and compliance.
With 23 offices across Europe, Asia Pacific, the Middle East and Africa, and a comprehensive coverage across each of the UK’s three legal jurisdictions, we ensure that wherever a business’s commercial interests take them, we have the footprint and expertise to provide support.
Merrill Corporation provides technology-enabled platforms and workflow solutions supporting secure content collaboration and multi-channel fulfilment for capital markets transactions, compliance and regulated communications and marketing.
Clients trust Merrill’s premium service delivery, innovative cloud-based applications and deep subject expertise to successfully navigate the secure sharing of their most sensitive content, perfect and distribute critical financial and regulatory disclosures, and create customized communications across stakeholders. With more than 3,800 people in 47 locations worldwide, clients turn to Merrill when their need to manage complex content intersects with the need to collaborate securely around the globe.
Linklaters is a leading global law firm, supporting and investing in the future of our clients wherever they do business. We combine legal expertise with a collaborative and innovative approach to help clients navigate constantly evolving markets and regulatory environments, pursuing opportunities and managing risk worldwide.
Diversity of thought is important and our 5,200 people, of which almost half are lawyers, are located across 29 offices in 20 countries. In order to offer our clients the highest quality advice, our lawyers across three divisions; Corporate, Dispute Resolution and Finance and Projects, specialise in industry sectors as well as practice areas.
Linklaters. Diverse voices, leading minds.
Shoosmiths LLP is a growing national law firm with 186 partners and 726 legal advisers acting for companies and individuals in all UK jurisdictions. In addition to core strengths in corporate, commercial, real estate, dispute resolution and employment law, the firm offers well-regarded national specialisms in competition compliance, pensions, planning, regulatory law, tax/EIS advice and data protection. What distinguishes our service approach is the way we invest in the relationships we have with clients and actively work with them at a strategic level to help achieve their business and compliance goals. Clients choosing Shoosmiths include fast-growth businesses, PLCs, global corporates and inward investors to the UK, public bodies and financial institutions. A network of offices makes us easily accessible to clients, with our newest locations launched in December 2016 in Leeds and Belfast to complement our existing network in London, Birmingham, Manchester, Edinburgh, Southampton, Nottingham, Milton Keynes and Thames Valley.
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BWW brings together five of the market’s most well known, trusted consultants to form an independent agency focusing 100% on the recruitment of company secretarial staff. The BWW team offers the most knowledgeable resource you can hope to find in this niche area of recruitment. We have advised the market for over 20 years, and many individuals and companies rely on our in depth expertise.
eShare was founded in 2004 because people lost their pensions and trustee boards were having ineffective meetings. The world runs on meetings, but ineffective meetings still hamper business today.
eShare makes software that is simple to use so that organisations we work with make better decisions, are more honest and get more done.
We now work with over 500 partners and clients across the globe in various industries, including Endemol, Diageo, Credit Suisse, EDF Energy, JISC, Rolls Royce, Telkom, Barnardos, International Olympic Committee, Time Warner, Mars, Queens University and Luton and Dunstable NHS Foundation Trust.
To find out more visit: www.eShare.net
Black&Callow provides secure, 24/7 printed and online communications services for confidential, price-sensitive or Regulatory documentation on a global scale. Our brand encompasses Black&Callow financial printing, iRoadshow and IPO Research Online.
We work with the world’s leading companies, investment banks and law firms on M&A, Capital Markets and Corporate Reporting projects.
We provide Best Practice consultancy and can structure, design, translate, typeset, print, SEC-file and distribute documentation for you – anywhere in the world. With the largest in-house financial typesetting team in Europe, next generation online IPO Research and roadshow services, and a team which has worked on the largest and most complex global transactions, we ensure the success of your most critical projects.
Whether you need a powerful but cost effective online roadshow, you’re struggling with producing regulatory documents easily and on time, or you want to ensure Best Practice in your Corporate Reporting, we can help.
Corker Binning is a law firm specialising in business crime and fraud, regulatory litigation and general criminal work of all types. The firm acts for a diverse range of individuals, companies and professional firms as well as international organisations and government departments.
Corker Binning is consistently highly ranked by the legal directories and offers a highly personalised service, a creative and dynamic attitude and a determination to achieve the best results possible.
We are a global leader in delivering corporate, fund, capital market, private wealth and employee benefit services to multinationals, fund managers, financial institutions and business entrepreneurs worldwide.
Our 2,500 specialists are located throughout our network of 41 offices in 30 jurisdictions across Europe, the Americas, Asia and the Middle-East.
Our Corporate Services team can support you all the way through setting up, maintaining and managing your companies, wherever you are in the world. From incorporation, company secretarial support and administration to director services and board support as well as cash management, accounting and reporting; we can do it all for you.
Additionally, we can help with your employee and executive incentive arrangements. Our Performance & Reward Management team can provide plan administration and trustee services to a range of incentive plans including share plans, pension plans, deferred compensation plans and carried interest plans.
Morrow Sodali is the leading global consultancy specializing in shareholder services, corporate governance, proxy solicitation and capital markets transactions. The firm provides corporate boards and executives with strategic advice and services relating to a broad range of activities, including: mergers and acquisitions, annual general and extraordinary shareholder meetings, dissident and contested campaigns, shareholder activist initiatives and multinational cross-border equity and debt transactions.
From headquarters in New York and London and seven offices in major capital markets, Morrow Sodali serves more than 700 corporate clients in 40 countries, including many of the world’s largest multinational corporations. In addition to listed and private companies, its clients include mutual funds, stock exchanges, membership associations and activist investors.
Board Intelligence enables your board to make smart decisions by equipping them with high quality information in the boardroom. Board Secretaries can plan effective agendas, Management can write concise reports and Board Directors can read their board packs — all on one ultra-secure platform.
Azeus Convene is a simple and secure digital meeting solution trusted by FTSE 100 and Fortune 500 companies in over 40 countries.
Convene offers everything you need to run productive meetings in the platform of your choice without compromising on security. With its intuitive user experience, omni-platform compatibility and simple learning curve, Convene gives the world’s top companies a modern alternative to paper-based meetings. Convene collapses the multiple painstaking steps of a traditional meeting cycle into a convenient one-stop platform for all stakeholders whether senior executives or administrative staff.
Azeus, Convene’s parent company, has set a solid track record of building secure, mission-critical systems for both public and private sector clients for over 25 years.
Perivan Technology creates online software that helps boardrooms, marketing, compliance and governance teams in the financial and professional services sectors manage the increasing flow of documentation they are tasked with managing every day.
VirtualBoardroom®, the company’s leading board portal software, was created and developed in response to the specific challenges faced by company secretaries, administrators and boards. It is a totally secure, user-friendly, intuitive board portal that makes the compilation and publishing of the board pack quick and easy for anyone.
Cygnetise is a digital Blockchain platform for maintaining and distributing Authorised Signatory Lists. It significantly simplifies the current process that is carried out by nearly all organisations, alleviating internal operational inefficiencies, reducing risk and mitigating opportunities for fraud. The application provides significant benefits to clients and counterparts removing the existing administrative burden and improving the overall customer experience.
Expolink’s whistleblowing services enable employees to speak up and report their workplace concerns, in confidence.
Founded in 1995, we are Europe’s longest-established provider of outsourced whistleblowing solutions. Today we offer a uniquely comprehensive service – including the widest range of speak up channels on the market – supported by highly configurable case management software.
Expolink is trusted by many of the world’s largest brands and institutions, helping them minimise risk in order to protect their employees, reputation and profits.
Value Alpha Limited was founded by Seamus Gillen FCIS in 2006. The company offers governance advisory services, working with boards, directors and company secretaries to embed high-quality systems of governance, improve board effectiveness and drive stronger operational performance.
Seamus works with clients across all sectors, commercial, public and not-for-profit –
– conducting board evaluations
– leading board and executive team interventions
– running training and development workshops
– mentoring directors and executives
Value Alpha Limited also runs the Leadership Development Programme for Company Secretaries, a Programme of coaching, mentoring and networking dinners with company secretary guest speakers.
Seamus receives client feedback at the very top end of performance, and is happy to share testimonials with colleagues.
Seamus can be contacted on seamus@valuealpha.com, and on +44 07739 088208. Visit the Value Alpha website at www.valuealpha.com.
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