Partners

Berenberg was established in 1590 and today is one of Europe’s leading privately owned banks, focusing on four operating divisions: Private Banking, Investment Banking, Asset Management and Corporate Banking, with 1,250 staff working out of 19 offices across Europe and North America.

Our Equities division settled in London 5 years ago and has grown to 90 analysts covering 529 stocks at time of going to press. Our top-rated research is brought to the market by 50 salespeople in 8 locations, covering institutional clients in 14 countries.

Berenberg’s corporate access programme currently consists of three flagship conferences (in New York, Munich and Ascot), up to 15 sectoral and thematic conferences and over 600 roadshows per year in Europe and North America. We actively cover and interact with over 800 mainly European listed companies, and will be expanding into US coverage as of 2016.

The combination of our independent research, analysts constantly on the road and a large, experienced sales force means we have a strong grip on live interest, allowing the Corporate Access team to provide thoughtful targeting and ensure conferences and roadshows are an effective use of corporate time.

HSBC Global Banking and Markets is an emerging markets-led and financing-focused business that provides tailored financial solutions to major government, corporate and institutional clients worldwide. Global Banking and Markets has offices in more than 60 countries and territories.

Managed as a global business, we offer clients geographic reach and deep local knowledge. Our clients are served by teams that bring together relationship managers and product specialists to develop financial solutions that meet individual client needs. To ensure that we build a comprehensive understanding of each client’s financial requirements, we take a long-term relationship management approach. HSBC Global Equities has equities sales, trading and research personnel located around the world which brings together first class Cash and Derivatives trading, sales and distribution, structured equity capabilities and equities finance expertise. The continued development of our award-winning Emerging Markets franchise supports our aim to deliver a global and successful Equities capability to our clients.

Morgan Stanley has earned a worldwide reputation for the excellence of its advice and execution in financial markets. With offices in more than 43 countries, the Firm is truly global – and a market leader in the U.S., Europe and Asia as well as in emerging markets. Morgan Stanley’s success rests on the talents and passion of our people, who share a common set of values and bring excellence and integrity to everything they do. We seek to grow long-term relationships by virtue of our consistently rigorous thinking and the unsurpassed access to financial markets that Morgan Stanley can bring. This means providing leadership in specific areas such as investment banking, debt and equity underwriting, research, and sales and trading. We also focus increasingly on creating custom-tailored solutions that cut across functions to help our clients realize new opportunities and solve complex problems. Our aim is to be the first choice of everyone who deals in financial markets, whether as prospective clients, employees or investors. For further information about Morgan Stanley, please visit www.morganstanley.com

Societe Generale is one of the largest European financial services groups. Based on a diversified universal banking model, the Group combines financial solidity with a strategy of sustainable growth, and aims to be the reference for relationship banking, recognised on its markets, close to clients, chosen for the quality and commitment of its teams. More than 154,000 employees, based in 76 countries, accompany 32 million clients throughout the world on a daily basis. Societe Generale’s teams offer advice and services to individual, corporate and institutional customers in three core businesses: Retail banking in France with the Societe Generale branch network, Credit du Nord and Boursorama; International retail banking, with a presence in Central and Eastern Europe, Russia, in the Mediterranean basin, in Sub-Saharan Africa, in Asia and in the French Overseas Territories; Corporate and investment banking with a global expertise in investment banking, financing and global markets. Societe Generale is also a significant player in specialised financing and insurance, private banking, asset management and securities services. Societe Generale is included in the socially-responsible investment indices FTSE4Good and ASPI. For more information, you can follow us on twitter @societegenerale or visit our website www.societegenerale.com.