Merlin has established a leading practice in Financial Services, where our clients include hedge funds, private equity firms, exchanges, alternative lenders and publishers specialising in the sector.

Clients have ranged from the FTSE 100 company, Man Group plc, the largest quoted hedge fund manager in the world, to MICEX, Russia’s most important stock exchange, and private companies across a range of alternative and innovative financial services. The latter include or have included hedge fund managers Rubicon Fund Management, North Asset Management, Ferox Capital Management, and MKM Longboat; private equity companies Bridgepoint and MML Capital Partners. Recent clients have included CDC, Baird Capital, DAM Capital and Park Square Capital.

Our team has excellent connections within the sector ranging from national newspaper editors to specialist correspondents, and across the full spectrum of print, online, newswire, radio and TV media on a wide international basis. Our executives’ past experience as bankers, brokers, accountants and journalists in the financial services, added to our PR expertise, gives us a unique insight into the industry that we can bring to our clients.

Recent experience has included developing the international profile of the MICEX Stock Exchange, launching a specialist lender in Continental European markets, and crisis management for various hedge funds hit by the market turmoil, and helping UK government owned CDC to manage the presentation of its changed investment policy, a change of Chairman, as well as preparing for Select Committee hearings regarding its overall performance and structure.