Corporate Advisory & Capital Markets

Sharp and considered advice lies at the heart of everything we do. MHP helps companies,  private equity firms, investment groups and business organisations to communicate their value, build trusted relationships and enhance their reputation. 

We achieve this by combining our decades of experience across capital markets, deploying MHP’s City and media relationships to navigate crisis, influence perceptions and deliver outcomes. 

Our expertise in investor communications extends across the spectrum of private capital. We represent traditional financial sponsors and private equity firms, sovereign wealth funds and retirement funds as they execute their investment strategies across equity, debt and credit markets. 

We create proactive communications programmes to build and protect reputations among Limited Partners, and enable value creation across portfolios. 

In an ever-evolving reporting landscape, MHP’s full-service approach to Financial PR encompasses everything from strategic advice and engagement to ongoing operational support and best-in-class guidance. 

MHP’s broad client base and City network ensures that we are always plugged into the latest investor relations trends to engage capital markets. 

MHP has extensive experience supporting companies through the rigour of a public listing and shaping the views of key audiences – from investors and media to customers, suppliers and employees. 

Underpinned by exceptional business media relations, MHP provides independent thought, pragmatic advice and senior counsel through the entire IPO process.  

MHP has advised on some of the UK’s highest profile transactions in recent years, helping offerors and offerees preserve their reputations with all stakeholders, crucially with customers and employees, during periods of significant change.  

MHP is consistently ranked as a top advisor in the UK for public and private M&A advisory, working for both bidders and targets, and with financial sponsors for take-privates. 

MHP provides support throughout the restructuring process, ensuring messaging is consistent, our clients are supported, and their reputations are protected throughout as they communicate their transformation authentically and with impact.  

MHP has advised on some of the most complex and high-profile restructuring and insolvency situations of recent years, as well as supporting creditors, bondholders and shareholders in restructuring situations, helping them to ensure their interests are advocated for and reputations protected. 

As the rise of shareholder activism continues, so too does the breadth of issues that activists are focused on. Increasingly, every company is susceptible. As a top-4 ranked communications adviser in Europe in Bloomberg’s Global Activism League Table MHP has deep experience supporting Boards across a wide range of activist campaigns. Most importantly, that means we are on top of emerging issues and trends as they evolve.  

We are increasingly seeing a more aggressive activism in Europe. MHP’s approach is to help clients become their own activist by pre-empting and preparing for campaigns before they happen. We help companies to get on the front foot by articulating a strong equity story, anticipating lines of attack and engaging effectively with audiences to drive a powerful campaign for our clients. 

MHP provides strategic communications support across a range of disputes and critical issues including complex litigation, arbitration, class actions, parliamentary select committees and public investigations. We represent public and private companies, public bodies, institutions, private equity and hedge funds, representatives of class actions, private individuals and governments. 

With experience across a range of sectors and jurisdictions, MHP provides a full service support package encompassing communications strategy, media relations, presentation training, rapid rebuttal and stakeholder engagement. 

Through effective communications strategies MHP helps clients communicate authentic, credible sustainability strategies and campaigns to a variety of stakeholders, enabling them to overcome major barriers to attracting ESG capital. 

From green hydrogen to electric flight, transitioning to a Net Zero economy requires the deployment of capital at scale and at speed; to do what has never been done previously, before it is too late. New thinking always meets resistance, and disruption always threatens vested interests.