Solutions

SGA advises companies facing or anticipating conflict with their shareholders, leveraging our unique backgrounds and intimate knowledge of the proxy advisory firms and institutional investors’ corporate governance teams to help win both the vote and the peace.

Principal Areas of Practice

Activism Preparedness

We help companies understand potential points of friction with shareholders, as well as any ancillary issues that may weaken the support of other shareholders should an activist launch a campaign.

Shareholder Activism

We help boards and management teams make their case more effectively to shareholders and proxy advisors alike, and de-risk their support for the incumbent board.

Contentious M&A

We help marshal the facts, terms, and strategy into a narrative that will build confidence in the Board among the proxy advisors and institutional holders who have not yet formed their opinions, and de-risk their support for the transaction.

Executive Compensation

We help companies communicate their compensation strategy, emphasizing the alignment between executives’ interests with those of long-term shareholders.

Shareholder Engagement

We help boards and management teams make their case more effectively to shareholders and proxy advisors alike, and de-risk their support for the incumbent board.

Shareholder Proposals

We help companies engage with institutional governance teams as well as the proxy advisors when opposing shareholder proposals pertaining to environmental, social, and governance (ESG).