Keeping pace with changing market dynamics, clients, their key decisionmakers, corporate networks and competitors, is vital for law firms to continually add value, differentiate and unlock new business development opportunities.

Manzama and CGLytics have joined forces to drive business development and opportunities for world leading law firms. Through this partnership, law firms gain access to intuitive relationship mapping tools, revealing connections between corporate decisionmakers, their peers, as well as finding the easiest and shortest way to connect, which is not an easy feat. Clients can keep track of key executive movements and corporate changes by receiving daily or weekly updates and alerts.

CGLytics’ extensive database provides access to hundreds of thousands of comprehensive profiles of business leaders including their compensation arrangements and corporate networks of more than 5,500 globally listed companies. Its powerful relationship mapping algorithm maps over 1.3 million connections between directors, executives and key business leaders across the globe.

Accessing the broadest and deepest global corporate governance data set available in the market today, law firms are able to perform a deep-dive on corporate governance practices, enabling them to provide top quality services to their clients, by analyzing their peer practices and quickly spotting potential inefficiencies that may put them at risk of shareholder activism.

“We’re delighted to partner with CGLytics to deliver law firms with actionable relationship analytics and first-class corporate governance intelligence,” explained Peter Ozolin, CEO from Manzama. “The joint service offerings will allow our customers to easily perform due diligence on key decisionmakers, uncover new connections and find the most effective way to establish relationships with new targets. At the same time obtaining deeper corporate governance intelligence to take their corporate governance advisory work to the next level.”

Aniel Mahabier, Founder and CEO of CGLytics described the partnership as “one of our most exciting collaborations. Our unique and powerful relationship mapping algorithm combined with actionable corporate governance information in one system will drive law firms to take their business to another level and provide the best possible advice to their clients.”

Law firms that are interested in easily uncovering new relationships and expanding their business network reach for client management and development activities, along with leveraging best of class corporate governance data, get in touch with Manzama today.

About Manzama

Manzama sets the bar when it comes to finding crucial information for organisations. Since 2010, they have been the leading provider of current awareness and market intelligence solutions to professional service organizations around the globe. They provide intuitive search and sharing tools, user-friendly implementation, and integrations into numerous best-in-class third-party platforms. Using sophisticated search algorithms and cutting-edge machine learning techniques, Manzama delivers critical insights that help teams better serve their clients, make informed business decisions, and support knowledge and business development initiatives.

About CGLytics

CGLytics is transforming the way corporate governance decisions are made. Combining the broadest corporate governance dataset, with the most comprehensive analytics tools, CGLytics empowers corporations, investors and professional services to instantly perform a governance health check and make better informed decisions. From unique Pay for Performance analytics and peer comparison tools, to board effectiveness insights, companies and investors have access to the most comprehensive source of governance information at their fingertips – powering the insights required for good modern governance.

[San Francisco, Amsterdam, London – June 5, 2019] – Glass Lewis, the world’s leading independent provider of governance and engagement support services, and CGLytics, a leading provider of governance data and analytics globally, today announced an expansion of their strategic partnership. CGLytics will serve as the global provider of compensation datasets and analytics to Glass Lewis, with an initial focus on North American, Australian and European markets.

Building on the success of the firms’ existing European partnership, Glass Lewis will now utilize CGLytics’ extensive compensation data in its proxy research and voting recommendations on executive compensation and Say on Pay, and integrate the same data into the proxy voting policies of institutional investors via its vote management solution, Viewpoint.

Glass Lewis’ Say on Pay analysis will now also be available via CGLytics’ proprietary platform, giving investors, issuers, advisors and board members the exact same data, tools and insights Glass Lewis uses to review and model CEO and executive compensation plans, and prepare for engagements with all stakeholders. Combining Glass Lewis’ proprietary policies and methodologies and CGLytics’ extensive data and analytical tools, the two companies will give all market participants unprecedented transparency and access into Glass Lewis’ compensation analysis that was not widely available and is needed for successful governance and stewardship in the modern digital age.

“CGLytics’ software and dataset enables the Glass Lewis global research team to establish a robust and consistent data source for our analysts to use in developing our unparalleled analysis and recommendations on compensation matters,” said Katherine Rabin, CEO of Glass Lewis. “Not only will this benefit our investor clients, who rely on us to provide them in-depth research and accurately implement their custom policies, but also the corporate issuers that directly purchase our Proxy Paper reports as an important part of their preparation to engage with shareholders.”

“We are thrilled to be extending our partnership with Glass Lewis, especially at a critical moment when corporations and investors are facing increasing demands from multiple parties for greater transparency and socially responsible and sustainable pay practices – all of which are essential to upholding good modern governance,” commented Aniel Mahabier, CEO of CGLytics. “By partnering with Glass Lewis, we will be able to provide corporations and their investors with an unmatched solution to evaluate compensation practices. The extensive toolset and enhanced access to Glass Lewis’ proprietary methodology will help companies and investors effectively connect their analysis, engagement and decision-making, resulting in improved stewardship and shareholder engagement.”

About Glass Lewis

Glass Lewis, the leading independent provider of global governance and engagement support services, helps institutional investors understand and connect with companies they invest in. Glass Lewis is a trusted ally of more than 1,300 investors globally who use its high-quality, unbiased Proxy Paper research and industry-leading Viewpoint proxy vote management solution to drive value across all their governance activities.

About CGLytics

CGLytics is transforming the way corporate governance decisions are made. Combining the broadest corporate governance dataset, with the most comprehensive analytics tools, CGLytics empowers corporations, investors and professional services to instantly perform a governance health check and make better informed decisions. From unique Pay for Performance analytics and peer comparison tools, to board effectiveness insights, companies and investors have access to the most comprehensive source of governance information at their fingertips – powering the insights required for good modern governance.