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Corporate Governance

redefining financial communications

As corporate governance increasingly takes center-stage in the global markets, ICR believes it is imperative that issuers proactively update their existing practices and communicate to all shareholders that governance is an integral part of their overall strategic objectives. Corporate governance is now used by companies to differentiate themselves; and has evolved as a key metric that the capital markets use to evaluate investment risk.

Establishing a strong corporate governance structure can benefit a company invaluably:

Immediate -- companies become more attractive to investment bankers and investors, because strong corporate governance equates with less risk and stronger performance.

Short-term– companies can reap monetary benefits in the forms of lower D&O premiums and lower costs of raising capital; as well as non-monetary benefits in the form of positive corporate image, especially from the point of view of proxy advisory firms.

Long-term -- reduces the likelihood that a company will be the target of activist investors, from the plain vanilla shareholder proposal proponents to the more aggressive hedge fund and take-over activists.

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