HKL Data

At HKL, Your success starts with the correct Data.

Our work is informed by the largest database of institutional voting in the industry. Our database stores and analyzes multiple data feeds, including the votes cast by ~2,000 institutional investors at ~30,000 issuers globally, tallying to over 100 million votes. This cloud-based infrastructure uses cutting-edge technology to provide the most comprehensive investor voting data. HKL’s database on institutional voting reveals likely institutional voting based on prior voting on the same or similar issues in comparable contests and highlights alternative paths to success.

Our data-driven approach leads to:

• More focused and effective campaign strategies

• More efficient allocation of campaign resources

• Defense against activist campaigns based on data and analytics, not intuition and anecdotes

• Increased accuracy of vote projections

• Projected alternative paths to success

• More efficient and effective investor engagement

Our superior data allows campaigns that are refined in real-time. We adapt each campaign to client, industry and market developments and trends, including ongoing and anticipated changes in share ownership.

HKL Analytics

Our analyses illustrate the overall nature and scope of the challenges posed, while highlighting alternative paths to optimal outcomes based on likelihood of success.

We provide clients and their advisors with the diagnostics required for accurate assessments of the risks posed by shareholder activism and for the proper planning of investor outreach programs to marshal requisite levels of shareholder support in M&A transactions and in proxy contests for board representation and control.

Our strategic advice flows directly from our own due diligence regarding share ownership, including projections of likely voting by shareholders based on, among other things, extensive prior experience in numerous similar campaigns and our proprietary database of institutional voting.

We also develop, implement and coordinate comprehensive and multifaceted investor outreach programs to maximize shareholder support in M&A transactions and in proxy contests for board representation and control.

Our proprietary analytics tools lead to:

• Prompt insights, derived algorithmically from Big Data sources

• Multi-faceted and client-specific strategies guided by comprehensive research and analysis

• Voting results analyzed and incorporated into forecasts, enabling timely adaptations to campaign strategies

Our superior analysis capabilities are derived from our superior data and research. Simply put, our team is able to project potential outcomes more accurately and plan accordingly.

HKL EXPERIENCE

When you work with HKL, you’ll always have a partner.

Our principals are involved directly in every aspect of the services we provide, and we work innovatively and constructively with our clients’ legal, investment banking, and financial media relations advisors to secure desired outcomes. Their experience includes proxy solicitation, shareholder identification, investor relations, law, investment banking, information technology, institutional proxy advisory firm services and securities research, trading and portfolio management. We also offer a full suite of call center solutions specifically tailored to the proxy, consent, and tender solicitation needs.

Our experience leads to:

• Practiced understanding of the challenges posed

• Use of proven techniques for soliciting shareholder support

• Superior advice flowing from skilled executives

We provide the analytical, logistical, and communications support necessary to maximize investor participation and support levels when voting on key issues of corporate control and governance.

VIVIANA OLEN
+1 (212) 468-5382
volen@hklco.com