Independent Strategic Counsel
When the room goes quiet,we speak with clarity.
Spotlight counsels management teams and boards of directors through proxy fights, contested transactions and the moments that define a company's trajectory.
over the last 5 years
*FactSet & Bloomberg, companies < $10B market cap, 2020–2025
About Us
Spotlight delivers integrated, multi-disciplinary guidance grounded in decades of experience across finance, strategy, shareholder engagement, communications and corporate governance.
Our principals have sat in every seat — serving in public company board leadership and senior management roles, advising boards, leading activist campaigns, shaping institutional voting decisions and structuring transactions — giving us the experience to help corporate leaders facing intense scrutiny navigate unfamiliar situations with confidence.
Our Team →Our Experience
Unmatched experience guiding companies through their defining moments.
Spotlight has counseled scores of companies in their moments of crises, including more than 200 publicly disclosed activist campaigns, contested M&A transactions, and proxy fights.
Proxy Contests & Contested Votes
Assisting boards and management teams in responding to director nominations, withhold campaigns, shareholder proposals and other contested votes.
Unsolicited Buyouts & Contested M&A
Providing strategic guidance through hostile buyout approaches, take-private proposals, topping bids and shareholder opposition to transactions.
Shareholder Engagement
Helping companies engage in dialogue with their investors with the aim of strengthening relationships and building support for corporate strategy.
Executive & Strategy Changes and Short Attacks
Supporting companies through executive transitions, strategic pivots, short-seller campaigns and other crises that threaten business continuity and stability.
Our Approach
Our perspective has been forged through years of experience supporting boards and management teams in complex situations.
Having advised on one-fifth of all proxy fights that went to a final vote in the United States in the last five years — and in contests in Australia, Canada, the United Kingdom, Israel, Japan, Spain, Switzerland and Turkey — our advice is grounded in live-fire experience, not theory or lessons learned in a seminar.
Independent
With no investment banking services to sell, we focus entirely on the best interests of our clients.
Integrated
With expertise in finance, strategy, shareholder engagement, communications and corporate governance, we deliver multi-disciplinary advice.
Incisive
With confidence derived from decades of experience, we have the courage to provide clear input in otherwise confounding situations.
Our Insights
Perspective from the front lines of activism and governance.
When the situation is critical,the counsel must be exceptional.
30+ years of advisory experience has taught us that responsiveness matters most when stakes are highest. Crises don’t wait, and neither will we.