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Katherine Fennell

Director
Katherine specializes in financial communications and advises our clients on their most momentous capital market announcements.

Katherine has extensive experience in investor relations best practice and special situations, e.g., Corporate Governance, Shareholder Targeting and Activism. She regularly advises on cross border M&A, international IPOs and financial reporting.

Katherine has extensive experience in investor relations best practice and special situations, e.g., Corporate Governance, Shareholder Targeting and Activism. She regularly advises on cross border M&A, international IPOs and financial reporting.

“Kekst CNC offers the most interesting and varied communications support to our clients. I have supported household brands navigating significant changes and financial headwinds, celebrated IPOs in Bucharest, Frankfurt, Lagos, London, and Riyadh. Enjoyed client secondments in Milan, and have worked across time zones to complete mergers, acquisitions (friendly and hostile), and major divestments. It has also been a place that is supportive of things I am passionate about outside of work. I’ve been a school governor, mentor, and trustee. Our people policies are second to none in our industry and have allowed me to grow personally and professionally.”


Katherine has over ten years of experience advising clients on investor and financial communications. She has worked across a broad range of market caps, industries, and markets.

She has extensive IPO and cross-border transaction experience and has developed complex stakeholder and multi-market communications strategies to ensure an investment case, corporate narrative and supporting materials are clear and aligned. Katherine has also worked on crisis and reputation mandates.

Prior to joining Kekst CNC, Katherine gained investor relations and communications advisory experience at Makinson Cowell, Edison Group and the US Democratic Party.

She holds a BA in Geography from King’s College London and an MPhil from Cambridge University.


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Why GameStop Only Reinforces The Need For Investor Relations to Digitalize Fast

Investor relations (IR) professionals have discussed the idea of digital IR for as long as we can remember. In the dot com bubble, this meant monitoring investor chat rooms. In the early noughties that meant the IR website got an overhaul. In the 2010s, that meant a focus on webcasting and video content. There has been little real change to the cadence of communications or conventional investor targeting, media monitoring and engagement programs.

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FTSE 100 Financial Reporting During the COVID-19 Pandemic

COVID-19 has spread across the world, leading to unprecedented lockdowns and an unpredictable business environment for companies everywhere. This paper provides an analysis of FTSE 100 COVID-19 inancial reporting between the start of 2020 and 3 April and highlights the uncertainty facing UK-listed companies and the investment community as we move into uncharted waters.

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