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About M:Communications

M: is a specialist financial communications consultancy. We partner with clients in long-term, strategic financial communication programmes as well as providing rapid-response consultancy services during periods of major corporate activity or crisis

M: operates at the highest level, advising CEOs, senior executives and investor relations teams. Our clients include high-profile multinationals and sector leading brands requiring M: to operate across the globe, with significant experience in complex, cross border transactions and projects.

Ethos and structure

M:Communications' overriding ethos is to provide objective and measured counsel - and supporting strategies - to our clients. We enable our clients to deliver their messages effectively in an increasingly crowded and short-termist landscape.

Each client's requirements are unique. Accordingly, M: will structure an appropriate team to reflect their needs - taking into consideration regional, industry and technical requirements. We will also ensure that our clients have a single point of contact with one of our most senior consultants, providing overarching strategy and counsel.

When events are moving rapidly, M: has the capacity to structure an appropriate team within one hour of an initial contact, should this be required.

Expertise

M:Communications is led by acknowledged leaders in the financial communications profession, with decades of experience and the valuable networks that have evolved in parallel. They are supported by a team with substantial experience and deep knowledge of the investment and media landscape, as well as broader issues.

Clients of M can draw upon a team of professionals who can quickly assess a given issue or situation and create a flexible, effective strategy which will be rigorously executed, whether over the short, medium or long-term.

International offering

M:Communications operates globally. We have offices in London, Moscow, Dubai, Cape Town, New York, Hong Kong and Stockholm, as well as having the capacity and experience to work wherever our clients have an interest or presence. Our consultants have a wealth of international contacts and the capacity to execute sophisticated communications' strategies across the globe - utilising over a dozen languages spoken fluently in-house, including Mandarin, Russian and Arabic.

Our success in assisting clients on numerous cross-border assignments is objective evidence of the benefits we can bring to clients in managing their financial and investment communications. We have the capacity to operate successfully in as broad a range of environments and circumstances as our clients encounter.

Many international transactions require considerable sensitivity to broader political and regulatory issues. In these situations, our clients benefit from the breadth of the M: team, which includes consultants with significant international diplomatic experience.

Pro bono work

M:Communications believes it is important to contribute to society through pro bono engagements. Examples include:

		Media and political consultancy advice to small shareholders in Northern Rock plc, whose shares were expropriated in February 2008.

		Advice on setting up the All Party Parliamentary Group on Huntington's Disease which seeks to raise the public profile of the disease and give a voice in the UK Parliament to disease sufferers, their families and carers.

		M: is on the Board of the charity foundation Big Brothers Big Sisters of Russia. M: is a strategic partner to the organisation, addressing tactical issues and managing the charity's public relations with the aim of raising its profile. Big Brothers Big Sisters of Russia has been successfully helping at-risk youth, mostly from orphanages, for 15 years.

		Set up Parliamentary meetings and gave media advice for the visit of Hazrat Omar Zakhilwal, the Afghan Finance Minister during his visit to London for the International Conference on Afghanistan in January 2010.

		M:’s Gulf office has been actively involved in the Middle East Investor Relations Society (ME-IR Society)for the past two years providing PR advice and guidance to the Society’s Board. Over this period ME-IRS has grown considerably and today there is a membership base of over 250 corporate entities across seven individual country chapters. The ME-IR Society is a non for profit organisation. The Society works to promote international best practice IR standards in the Middle East by arranging IR training, seminars, workshops and conferences and acting as a networking platform for IR professionals across the region. M:Gulf is the Society’s PR partner and offers strategic communications consultancy and tactical PR support to the organisation with regards to country chapter launches, events, committee activities and training sessions. M: is also a founding member of the ME-IR Society’s London chapter, launched in July 2012.

		M:Communications advises The Cure Parkinson's Trust on its communications. The Cure Parkinson's Trust is dedicated to finding, facilitating and funding work towards a cure for Parkinson's Disease.

		She came, she saw, she climbed. Helena King reached the summit of mount Kilimanjaro on 1^st January 2013. She undertook this challenge in aid of Diabetes UK, a charity close to her heart as both her sister and a colleague at M:Communications are type I insulin-dependent diabetics. To date she has raised £4692, a large amount of which came from corporate sponsorship from M:Communications and from her colleagues within the company. The going was tough! It took her group 6 days to climb the mountain and they passed through surprisingly varied landscape and weather, from drenching rain to sub-zero temperatures, sore knees, aching backs, exhaustion and fear. It was all worth it to see the snows of Kilimanjaro and the spectacular views from, what felt like the top of the world. Helena’s sponsorship page is still open so please feel free to donate to this worthy cause at http://www.justgiving.com/Aimee-Robinson-0/