"You can't call every retail shareholder, and sending direct mail to every holder multiple times is expensive," says Collected Strategies partner Scott Bisang.

Investors are skewing younger and they consume information differently, which means the proxy comms playbook needs to change with the times, says Collected Strategies founding partner Dan Moore.

Hammond says that, "The unspoken truth of the PR industry is that it has very few practitioners who actually know what journalists do all day."

The New York Times features commentary from Scott Bisang.

One of our founding values is "Community" under which we give back 1% of our profits to worthy causes, with a focus toward efforts that foster a strong, free press. Our year-end post by Jude Gorman recaps our 2024 contributions.

Collected Strategies advised Red Lobster as it filed for Ch. 11 bankruptcy protection.

The Observer recognizes Tali Epstein, who was "part of the high-powered team that left fin-comms giant Joele Frank to launch Collected Strategies in July."

Axios highlights Collected's 2023 launch, naming it one of the "challenger firms" offering high-level, strategic communications advice.

The Deal ranked Collected Strategies fifth among PR firms for deals announced in Q1 2024.

Insider named Collected Strategies Partner Scott Bisang as one of the 18 PR execs to call in a crisis, citing his work counseling Twitter through the Elon Musk transaction and Jack Dorsey transition, Vice Media with its recent restructuring and First NBC Bank on its 2017 FDIC seizure.

The former Bloomberg reporter was part of the group this month that launched Collected Strategies, a strategic communications firm that helps clients navigate mergers and acquisitions, corporate crises, restructurings, bankruptcies and other issues.

Ed Hammond, formerly of Bloomberg, joins new outfit focused on strategic communications

The business of advising companies on corporate crises is growing, and so is the number of firms specializing in it.

Six founding partners have advised clients and broken news on the highest profile M&A, shareholder activism and crisis matters of the last 20 years block.