Financial Dynamics

For the ninth year in a row FD topped the global M&A league tables, a proud record that was aided by the acquisition of new M&A business from Shell Petrochina in APAC and Babcock in the UK, and underpinned by the retention of the Ford M&A account. Private Equity News made FD its PR firm of the year, and PRWeek awarded the agency city campaign of the year for its work with INEOS.

Its crisis communications division also had a good year winning the Transocean, Dubai World and Government of Iceland accounts. Top billing clients were Nycomed in the UK, Dow Chemicals in the Americas, Ireland and Australia, Ford in the UK, and Coca-Cola globally.

There were several new faces at the top of the agency. Former Sunday Times city editor John Waples joined as MD in London and former MD of Edelman Europe, Pamela Fieldhouse, took on the newly created role of MD international corporate communications.

The opening of a Berlin office, together with new offices in Toronto and New Delhi, brought FD’s global tally to 30.