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HERING SCHUPPENER

Report by Ralf Hering, principal partner and chief executive officer

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Ralf Hering, principal partner and chief executive officer

HERING SCHUPPENER is the leading strategic communications consultancy in Germany with 160 consultants specialising in strategic communications solutions for companies in mission-critical situations such as M&A transactions, IPOs, restructuring and change processes, CEO transitions as well as crises. We advise more than 150 clients across all major industries in reinforcing their reputation and managing their corporate brand, in management and controlling of international communications activities, in issues related to corporate and public affairs on national and EU level as well as in long-term media and investor relations activities. We also have a powerful healthcare arm working with the pharmaceutical industry on communications strategies.

In 2014, we remained at the top of the Mergermarket rankings for M&A transactions in Germany, now for over a decade, and advised our clients on 30 transactions involving German companies. It was a year of solid growth for us, both in revenues and results.