Strategic Shareholder Engagement Support

EY’s Strategic Shareholder Engagement team consists of professionals in the area of shareholder engagement and was created in response to the growing need to address increasing activism and institutional investor shareholder engagement. We provide comprehensive, one-stop support to facilitate a range of activities aimed at enhancing corporate value for listed companies. This includes dialogue with shareholders, devising and implementing management strategies that incorporate shareholder opinions, and promoting new management strategies to capital markets.

Business landscape for Japanese companies

Japanese companies now face an increasing number of proposals and demands from activist shareholders. These not only address typical issues such as capital policies (enhancing shareholder returns) and governance (compensation and board composition) but also place a growing emphasis on business strategies and M&A.

EY’s approach to strategic shareholder engagement

In responding to activists, companies need to implement a cycle of initiatives for enhancing corporate value. This involves understanding expectations and concerns regarding corporate management through engagement with shareholders, and incorporating the insights gained into management strategies, capital policies and corporate governance, and promoting each of these initiatives to capital markets.

We work in collaboration with our strategy team to provide end-to-end support to develop and implement this value enhancement cycle.

We offer four key services designed to power our clients’ response to activism, enhance medium- to long-term corporate value and win the trust of capital markets.

1. Identifying institutional investor shareholders (Shareholder identification survey)
   
   
2. Facilitating dialogue with institutional investors (investor and shareholder relations) and providing advice on key discussion items
   
   
3. Support for gaining shareholder confidence at general meetings (voting rights simulation)
   
   
4. Support for responding to activist demands

What EY-Parthenon can do for you

Our team leverages a combination of tools and experience to support strategic shareholder engagement.

• With access to a global network of over 700 locations across more than 150 countries and regions, we collect daily updates on trends among institutional investors in the US, Europe and East Asia.
  
  
• Through collaboration with our data science team, we can achieve efficient and effective IR targeting based on an extensive database that covers not only the characteristics of institutional investors, such as trading patterns, performance and involvement in activism, but also the macroeconomic environment, stock market conditions, and the client's management and financial situation.
  
  
• Our professionals with an extensive track record in supporting shareholder engagement provide consulting services tailored to each client’s needs.