Complex Financial Transactions
Successfully communicating the merits and the milestones of strategic transactions is what 10K Partners does best. We offer strategic counsel and plan execution to top private equity sponsors and public and private companies undergoing mergers, acquisitions, divestitures, partnerships and joint ventures. Working closely with executive leadership, legal counsel, investment advisors and other key parties to the transaction, 10K Partners develops communications strategies, press releases and outreach strategies, and the supporting stakeholder toolkits needed to communicate the rationale and strategic goals of the transaction.
Investor Relations
As a public or private company, you will need to communicate with your financial stakeholders on a regular basis providing a platform for proper valuation. 10K has deep understanding of operations and capital structures in order to effectively advised across a broad range of investor relations activities including IR team structure, investment case and earnings narrative, earnings call scripting and preparation, press releases, financial media outreach strategies, Annual Reports/CEO letters and annual meeting preparation.
Crisis Management Communications
Despite all the preparation, if the crisis communications are handled poorly, the damage to personal and corporate reputations can undo valuations, affect sales, and impact investor, consumer, and employees' trust and morale. 10K Partners develops and executes targeted programs in times of crisis or in response to sensitive situations by identifying the best messaging and influencers to help turnaround the flow of negative information and address your stakeholders greatest concerns. Whether it’s a simple as preparing media holding statements, press releases, and FAQs, or conducting crisis workshops, governance and crisis simulations, and spokesperson training, 10K partners can advise you on your crisis communications programs.
Executive Thought Leadership
CEO thought leadership is clearly a different type of communications for executives that showcases their special skills and abilities that have driven their and the companies they have managed success. We have know-how to assess, package and share those leadership best practices, knowledge-sets, and case studies. We also know the owned, earned and paid channels that can be used to raise the visibility and manage the perceptions about key executives. And we have developed social strategies to improve influencer status on LinkedIn and other social media channel.
In order to create a comprehensive thought leadership program, we compliment the content effort by leveraging our relationships with the top leadership conference organizers to secure top speaking opportunities and the knowledge of the top CEO and related industry awards and winning submissions to secure recognition opportunities
Corporate Reputation Management
A durable corporate reputation is more important than ever, and can help you weather the good and bad times. At 10K, we help clients develop strategies, consistent narrative and storylines that effectively communicate your brand and strategic business priorities to your target audiences. We help you develop the key elements that will tell your stories in every possible way whether it’s through messaging and content development, to executive thought leadership programs, website content or impactful traditional and social media campaigns. Having experience leading the communications function, we also can help you design and develop the most successful communications organization and define the right level of talent and expertise that will bring continuous value to your business operations. We also have been brought in by many of these organizations to evaluate the effectiveness of their communications function, and have advised on newsroom and war room strategies including providing strategic counsel, storyboarding and tactical media support and training for financial transactions and crisis management situations. And, because we are independent, we use a leaner more efficient model that cut through the noise and process minutia.
Media Relations
Achieving high quality placements is not easy within the 24/7 rapid paced news cycle, and managing the fall-out from factually incorrect reporting is even harder. Our success in advising clients on their media strategies is based on knowing what stories ‘sell’ to editors and reporters versus mass pitching to a media list of publications. We are also a resource to media, and they come to us often for smart articulate subject matter commentary. We have deep long-standing relationships with the most influential media across multiple broadcast, print, trade and .com media channels, including top-tier, trade and social media influencers. We also write impactful press releases, media statements and brieflys that get your news to the right audiences, and build a steady cadence of news flow to showcase how you are executing on your business plans and investment case.