Our Investor Relations Services

Stern Investor Relations offers a broad range of investor relations services. This often includes working with senior management to achieve the following key investor relations goals:

• Effectively positioning the company
• Enhancing visibility among the investment community
• Increasing and improving institutional ownership and sell-side coverage
• Preparing for initial public offerings and financings
• Developing guidance practices
• Managing communications around M&A, binary events and other strategic issues

Strategic Biotech and Healthcare Investor Relations

Stern IR emphasizes the importance of strategic planning. Each relationship begins with an analysis of the client's investment considerations, including perceived strengths and challenges as well as upcoming news items and milestones. We then develop several documents to help guide our communications and outreach strategies, including corporate messaging, a client-catered yearly calendar, an outreach plan and a sophisticated analyst and investor targeting analysis program.

Tactical Investor Relations

Among our many services, Stern IR provides full tactical and event planning support. We assist with or run the following for our clients:

• Roadshows
  • Sell-side meetings
  • Bank-sponsored roadshows
  • Investor conference schedules
  • Non-deal roadshows
• Other events
  • Analyst and Investor days
  • Earnings announcements
  • Major news announcements
  • Analyst breakfasts, lunches and dinners
  • Events at medical meetings

Our location in Manhattan provides access to New York City-based events and locations, and we can support management at IR-related events in New York. We also travel as needed to provide on-site support at scientific meetings, the annual JPMorgan Healthcare conference and other important investor events. Our extensive connections in the biotechnology industry and pharmaceutical industry give us additional opportunities to assist our clients.

Investor Relations Materials

Corporate websites and presentations are two of the most important resources for the investment community. Using strategic positioning and messaging, we help draft and edit these materials. We also assist with the development of news releases, fact sheets, FAQs, annual reports and other IR-related documents.

Additional key services we provide include:

• Financial reporting support
  • Financial and earnings issues
    • Guidance
    • GAAP vs. operating reporting
    • Analyst model tracking
  • Regulation Full Disclosure (Reg FD)
  • Sarbanes-Oxley compliance, including guidance on transparency and credibility
  • M&A communications
  • Proxy issues
• Issues management
• Global outreach strategy
• Recruiting new shareholders
• Perception studies
• Corporate governance
• Coordination with PR firms