We are Anagallis.
Communications and strategic counsel when the stakes are high.
UK | Europe | US | Middle East | Africa
Advising investors, boards and management on complex situations across financial services, fintech, technology and international markets; for businesses navigating growth, transactions, scrutiny and change.
What brings you to us?
Work we have done
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The Situation
A company was planning for a series B raise and needed to attract new investors beyond those from the series A.
What Mattered
As required by investors, to develop a corporate narrative to over-lay the marketing story which had come to dominate the company's brand, and to do so in a way that included all stakeholders in the process.
The Outcome
A revised brand narrative that spoke to the capital markets, and more corporate and City press contact, together underpinned a successful raise and other follow-on corporate activity.
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The Situation
Investor decision: A fintech on the verge of significant investment driven expansion pivoted to an alternative strategy to divest its core business and leverage value hidden in a single operating division.
What Mattered
To ensure staff facing unexpected and significant change felt "inside the tent" and were not subjected to and influenced by disinformation (internal and external) and competitor action; to retain value in the to-be divested business through reassuring key staff and customers.
The Outcome
A smooth pivot and transition; value retained in the to-be divested business leading to a successful sale and concurrent spin-out of a new brand.
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The Situation
A successful but low-profile international businessman was incorrectly being associated with historic events which had an impact on his reputation and was in danger of reading across into his private and business activities.
What Mattered
To intermediate between sources of disinformation and key press to ensure no story was printed without facts being checked and to do so in lockstep with an existing legal strategy.
The Outcome
A "finger-in-the-dam" prevented further factually incorrect comment in leading news outlets which brought time to have inaccurate stories removed or edited by legal process; this led to an on-going programme of activity to develop reputational resilience.
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The Situation
A hitherto low-profile manager of luxury physical assets was being brought into a developing negative geopolitical issue attracting host-nation and other third-party regulatory attention.
What Mattered
To keep the brand away from press coverage on the issue and ensure that any reporting was accurate and proportionate and that all communications aligned with the legal strategy in place, giving management bandwidth to engage with authorities, in order to protect the business.
The Outcome
A communications' function was established fully integrated with the legal strategy and ensured minimal press and digital coverage and that any comment was accurate or challenged, giving management bandwidth, and the time and space, needed to navigate the issue.
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The Situation
A company was being listed but the equity story was not getting traction and appetite for the raise was not building consistently.
What Mattered
That information flow between all parties to the transaction was enhanced so that the retained financial PR was effective at delivering the required output to support the IPO.
The Outcome
The IPO was fully subscribed and after market performance was steady; the register quickly stabilised. Post IPO an ongoing programme to build profile and amplify growth and investment.
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The Situation
A PE backed platform consolidator acquired a competitor, but integration of the marketing and communications functions was not optimal as differing skill-sets and SME's needed to be retained making integration efficiencies hard to find, a challenge complicated by the retention of legacy offices across the UK.
What Mattered
To retain SMEs in both businesses communications' functions and to quickly deliver a coherent post-acquisition corporate narrative to ensure customers remained settled and competitor actions gained no traction.
The Outcome
An integrated and settled communications' function working across locations and delivering output as management required, and efficiently and effectively supporting the commercial objectives of the business; identifying a new head of function to manage an integrated communications team.
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The Situation
A PE-backed consolidator faced a complex integration and needed additional resource to back-stop an internal function (also responsible for communications) with senior resource known to the SLT.
What mattered
That the internal function, as the core commercial consolidation resource navigating commercial, communications, brand, people and customer integration segments had additional layered resource to meet change management objectives
The outcome
An enhanced function that completed the non-linear and integration programme, that was able to flex (resource and skill-set) as the change programme responded to business needs.
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The Situation
A profitable London main market company’s share-price was persistently low and not reflecting positive progress in the business, hampering the company’s opportunity for corporate action.
What mattered
The story was good it was simply not being communicated effectively. To improve the equity story, to increase buy-side interest, and to make the company more visible in a key target investor sector, and in turn to create positive momentum in the share price.
The outcome
A successful re-rating: The share price increased significantly over the four years of the contract.
Why Anagallis?
Experienced advisers.
Direct access.
No layers.
Anagallis was built around a simple idea: clients should get informed communications advice from experienced communications people.
You work directly with senior advisers who understand the commercial, financial and reputational consequences of what is said, and of what isn't.
“With decades spent watching boards, investors, governments, markets and companies make consequential decisions, we know what tends to happen next”
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