Strategic Stock Surveillance

Shareholder Identification and Surveillance

Our Stock Surveillance Department has been providing Shareholder Identification and Strategic Stock Surveillance for over 30 years. Our extensive experience, strong knowledge of the investment community and ability to provide timely and accurate market intelligence, while maintaining a low profile, separates us from our competitors. Our long-standing relationships with leading institutional investors, banks and brokerage firms allow us to identify ownership characteristics of major institutional investors, non-filing hedge funds and other entities. We analyze and provide comprehensive assessments of a client's entire ownership base – including institutions and the influence of proxy advisory firms, individuals, employees and non-U.S. investors. For investor relations support, we provide clients with a daily analysis of their trading, market activity and ownership changes. Moreover, our extensive network of relationships can often help clients avoid or appropriately prepare for future crises by quickly identifying potential problems - often before they become public.

Our Strategic Capital Markets Group provides clients with a thorough understanding of who owns their stock and who is buying their stock on a real-time basis, enabling us to provide insight and understanding of the shareholder composition, profile, and trading activity.We clarify whether the threat comes from an existing shareholder that has become dissatisfied or a new investor with a position that is most likely established to launch an activism campaign. We have substantial experience with the hedge funds that practice shareholder activism, and knowledge of the various approaches and the tactics they employ. The intelligence we provide clients in this highly specialized area is invaluable.