Investor Relations Built by Capital Markets Operators, Not Communications Generalists

IPO communications and listing support, equity story and investor narrative development, financial PR and results communications, investor engagement and roadshow support, analyst relations and research engagement, and M&A and capital markets crisis communications. The practice spans the lifecycle of a public company’s IR needs — from pre-IPO equity story development through to listed-company crisis response.

Most financial PR firms are communications consultancies that learned IR. Lantern Comitas’s IR practice is led by senior advisors with actual capital markets experience — equity research, sell-side, senior in-house IR. We have been on the other side of the analyst meeting. That changes how we build equity stories: we know which questions the sell-side will actually ask, we know where the sensitivity analysis needs to be tight, and we tell clients honestly when the story they want to tell is not the story their numbers support. Combined with the firm’s broader strategic communications heritage, that delivers IR that earns analyst respect — not IR that reads well in a deck and falls apart in a one-on-one.

Yes. Pre-IPO equity story development, listing communications strategy, prospectus messaging review, roadshow preparation, listing-day communications, post-listing first-results readiness and the ongoing IR programme that takes the business through its first reporting cycle as a listed company. The work is structured around the listing timetable and the realities of the chosen exchange — premium listing, AIM, AltX, JSE, NSE or continental European markets.

We focus on engagements where senior counsel materially affects the outcome. That tends to mean small to mid-cap listed companies where IR resources are constrained, AIM-quoted growth companies, African-listed businesses, and selected larger-cap mandates where a specific strategic communications challenge requires senior outside advisory. We are a boutique — we do not work with every listed company, and we will tell you honestly if your needs are better served by a larger IR consultancy with more capacity.

Our deepest IR expertise is in critical minerals and mining, listed and pre-IPO corporations, the emerging conservation finance space, and capital markets businesses themselves. Sector specialism matters in IR because analysts cover sectors — an IR partner who does not understand your sector cannot brief the specialists who shape your coverage. We will tell you honestly if a sector falls outside our genuine capability.

Yes. M&A communications, profit warnings, activist defence, regulatory issues and trading update crises are core to the practice. These are the moments when communications materially affects the share price, and where the lifetime value of the equity story is tested. Many of our clients use the IR practice in combination with our broader Crisis Communications work for these situations.

Measurement framework is agreed before work begins. Standard indicators include sell-side coverage quality and breadth, analyst sentiment shifts, institutional shareholder register movements, share-price performance against peer group on results and trading updates (relative, not absolute), financial media coverage in tier-one outlets, message penetration in analyst notes, and qualitative feedback from investor and analyst meetings. Monthly written reporting; quarterly strategic review tied to the reporting cycle.