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Our services integrate seamlessly with your existing team, forming direct connections with your finance, legal, marketing, and operational groups.

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Capital Markets

Capital Markets Strategy
Market Coaching
Market Connect
Investor Perception Studies

Communications

Corporate Communications
Crisis Communications
Design & Branding
Digital & AI Technologies

Investor Relations

Strategic Investor Relations
Financial Reporting
ESG & Sustainability
Investment Grade Events

Inflection Points

Financings and IPOs
Market Turnaround
Shareholder Activism
Transaction Packaging
We provide investor relations, corporate communications, and capital markets advisory to

Clients at Every Stage

Private Companies

We help private companies position themselves for success through sound corporate communications, enhanced stakeholder engagement, and access to private funding options with the help of our sell-side partners.

Initial Public Offerings

We help companies looking to go public deploy investment grade communications, systems, and collateral. Then we help them identify and engage the relevant relationships they need on both the sell-side and buy-side of the capital markets to ensure their first public financing is a success.

Public Companies

We provide a full suite of modern investor relations and strategic communication services to public companies interested in unlocking their full potential in the capital markets. We help management teams meet the varied and complex challenges and regulatory demands they face as a public entity.

Sectors

Our modern investor relations process has successfully propelled performance across every sector we have worked in.

Sectors

Energy & Resources

Energy Services
Mining & Metals
Oil and Gas E&P
Renewable Energy
Resource Royalties

Health Sciences

BioPharma
Biotechnology
Health Services
Health Technology

Industrials

Aerospace
Construction Services
Engineering Services
Heavy Equipment
Power & Utilities

Technology

AI Infrastructure
Data Centers
Software
Telecom
We do more than talk about unlocking shareholder value, we create

Investor Relations Success Stories

Our proven investor relations process has helped companies across the TSX, NYSE, and NASDAQ.

2.5 Times Oversubscribed

We supported the 2024 transformation of Western (TSXV:WI) into an insurance and investments holding company. By targeting and engaging early with relevant investors, we helped support a financing that was 2.5x oversubscribed.

IR Impact Magazine Awards

Best Investor Relations

Ranked eighth overall, Stantec (NYSE/TSX:STN) received IR Impact Magazine’s 2022 award for best investor relations in the mid-cap category after successfully navigating a hostile investor, the launch of their growth plan, COVID, and the acquisition of Cardno.

IR Impact Magazine Awards

Best Sustainability Communications

Ranked first overall, Stantec (NYSE/TSX:STN) received IR Impact Magazine’s 2022 award for best sustainability communications following our changes to their reporting framework. Specifically, we started regularly communicating objective ESG rankings and reporting revenue related to UN Sustainable Development Goals.

Stantec Investor Relations

155% Share Price Improvement

Evaluating and addressing market misperceptions, addressing the concerns of a hostile investor by launching a sound capital allocation strategy, managing investor expectations through COVID, and clearly communicating the company’s track record of sustainability success drove a 155% gain at Stantec (NYSE/TSX:STN)

Delivered award winning investor relations for Parkland during their dramatic capital markets turnaround involving the launch of the Penny Plan

197% Share Price Improvement

Articulating and executing a clear growth strategy through the Parkland Penny Plan, adding the coverage of eight sell-side analysts, managing communications for nine acquisitions and $1.2 billion in corporate actions, while measuring and reporting progress against the Penny Plan helped drive a 197% improvement in share price during our mandate.

IR Impact Magazine Awards

Top 50 Placement

Parkland (TSX:PKI) rose 112 places (from 143 to 31) in IR Impact Magazine’s ranking of investor relations programs based on spontaneous responses from capital markets professionals in their annual perception study.

Oilweek magazine annual report awards

Annual Report Awards

Grantierra Energy (TSX:GTE) won OilWeek’s 2012 award for best annual report following a complete redesign of their investor presentation, annual report, and reporting materials.

Investor Relations Accolades

‘They helped their client make progress reaching out to investors, and better tailoring a message that really resonates’

Buy Side Participant in IR Impact Magazine's 2022 Perception Study

‘Overall, they have a good approach to IR. They always find time to follow up and have supported senior management in providing the big picture.’

Sell Side Participant in IR Impact Magazine's 2022 Perception Study

‘A combination of their in-depth conference calls, detailed presentations, events between quarters and the new IRO has brought them to the forefront in terms of IR this year’

Sell Side Participant in IR Impact Magazine's 2022 Perception Study

‘The best investor relations professional I’ve ever had the pleasure of working with.’

Mike Lambert, Previous CFO for Mark's Work Wearhouse, Canadian Pacific, The Forzani Group, Parkland Fuel, Black Diamond Group

‘Introduced a very helpful monthly investor newsletter that looks at key business drivers. I’m not sure anyone else does that.’

Sell side participant in IR Magazine's 2013 Top 50 perception study

‘We get regular presentations and email updates which really keeps us in the loop. They send out monthly information on business drivers and other external factors that affect its business which is also very helpful’

Buy side participant in IR Magazine's 2013 perception study

‘Produces events that are top-notch, more like something you’d expect from a mega-cap company.’

Buy Side Participant in IR Magazine's 2012 Perception Study
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Access Our Insights

The Good, The Bad, and the Ugly of Initial Public Offering (IPO) Outcomes

The Good, The Bad, and the Ugly of IPO Outcomes

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Not all outcomes of an initial public offering (IPO) are created equal. The size of your engaged investor pool determines the quality of price discovery and the depth of ongoing market support. This is often the difference between a strong debut and one that falls flat.

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The Activist Playbook For Management

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The Activist Resolution Playbook for Management provides a guide on how to resolve issues with hostile and activist investors before they lead to a proxy battle.

Understanding the three types of shareholder and investor activists and how their campaigns evolve.

How Shareholder Activist Campaigns Evolve

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Understanding the underlying motivation of an activist is the key to knowing how their activist campaign will evolve. We group activists into three broad categories: The Rational Activist; The Promotional Activist; and the Irrational Activist.

Put the Audience at the Centre of Initiating or Enhancing Your Company's Financial Reporting

How to Initiate or Enhance Your Financial Reporting

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Whether you’re preparing to report your financial results publicly for the first time, or you’re working to significantly enhance your company’s financial reporting, start by asking your audience what they want.

MCI Supports the Effective Implementation of Workiva in Financial Reporting and Investor Relations

Automate Your Financial Reporting

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Finance teams are under immense pressure to accelerate the reporting of financial results while also enhancing the quality of their financial disclosures. To deliver, these teams must look to automation platforms.

Headlines and Subheadlines that Clip the WIngs of Your News Release

Don’t Clip the Wings of Your News Release

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News aggregation services like Bloomberg, FactSet, and Refinitiv are a critical distribution channel to the financial community. But they cut off long headlines and subheadlines… clipping the wings of an otherwise newsworthy release.

IR Experts Connect the Right Elements of the Investment Thesis to Investors

AI and the Art and Science of Investor Relations

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Artificial Intelligence can play a significant role in generating content, analyzing data, and automating tasks within well-defined frameworks for Investor Relations Teams… But the art of IR is best left to the experts. 

Countering the Damning Fingerprints of Generative Artificial Intelligence

Don’t Leave Behind the Fingerprints of Artificial Intelligence

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Generative AI leaves behind invisible fingerprints that can infect the content you write, tip off competitors to AI generated content, and harm your company’s search rank.

Artificial Intelligence - Dangers to Publicly Traded Companies

Artificial Intelligence and Selective Disclosure

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Right this very second, someone in your organization is experimenting with artificial intelligence (“AI”) and inadvertently selectively disclosing material information about your company’s performance and strategy.

Contact Us

The capital markets can be bewildering, even to the most experienced management teams. We believe that most executives are committed to maximizing shareholder value, but poorly executed investor relations can lead to valuation loss, reputational damage, employee attrition, deal failure, and even shareholder revolt.

MCI has helped its clients unlock billions of dollars in market value through a proven system that delivers sound messaging, branding, and engagement strategies. Over the past two decades our team has been involved in $5.7 billion in corporate actions that include $3.1 billion in acquisitions and $2.6 billion in financings-all successful.

MCI can help you resolve unfair valuation discounts and get the most out of your company’s public listing. Contact us today to engage our data driven, results focused process to unleash real progress.

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