Cicero Consulting

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Cicero Consulting is a London-based financial services lobbying consultancy.

Profile

Cicero Consulting London offices, 1-2 Lower James Street, London, W1F 9EG (just off Golden Square)

Cicero has offices in London and Brussels, providing strategic public affairs, policy and communications advice to a wide range of asset managers, mortgage lenders, life offices, insurers, banks, hedge funds, intermediaries, financial trade bodies and private clients.

It describes a typical public affairs campaign as follows: "A typical programme may include representations to UK or EU government, officials or regulators, contributing to the policy debate through green papers, think tanks or the media, training for UK or EU committee interviews, support drafting UK Private Members Bills or EU own initiative reports, preparing political intelligence reports or acting as an early warning monitor. Cicero undertakes these and many other activities on behalf of our clients."

People

Directors

• Jeremy Swan, managing director. Swan is a former vice president of both JP Morgan and Citigroup and has served as Conservative Councillor for the (London) Putney ward of Parkside until 2002. He then switched to the Liberal Democrats.
• Iain Anderson, Director, Chief Corporate Counsel. Anderson leads the agency’s corporate communications practice. Over an 18 year career, he has advised financial institutions, trade and regulatory bodies, NGOs and political parties in the UK and US. He previously worked at Ludgate Commu­nica­tions, alongside among others
• Soph­ia Harrison, European head of corporate comms at private equity firm Black­stone.
• Mark Twigg, director. Twigg worked for the Labour Party in the run up to the 1997 general election before becoming a ministerial aide to Nick Brown - one of Gordon Brown's closest allies - at the Ministry of Agriculture. Since 1999 he has worked as a public affairs consultant in London, Brussels and in the US. During that time he has worked across a wide range of sectors with a focus on financial services, regulation and EU policy issues.

Staff

Staff listed in 2009 Cicero Consulting UK Staff and clients, 1 June 2009 to 1 August 2009 (from APPC voluntary register of lobbyists, to August 2009)

• Edmund Lakin - Senior Associate since 2008 based in London

Former employees

• Terry Paul, director. Before joining Cicero, Paul was a "key figure in the Labour Party’s Parliamentary Campaigns Unit where he devised campaign strategies for senior Ministers and Labour Party figures and played a leading role in implementing the Labour Party’s 2001 General Election strategy".. He previously worked for Abbey National in both marketing and branch management roles.
• Chris Saunders, consultant. The APPC register for June 2006 to August 2006 lists Chris Saunders as a member of staff (employed and freelance) providing consultancy services between 01.06.06 to 31.08.06 for Cicero. Although no longer available via the official APPC website, Saunders is also listed under Cicero Consulting UK Staff and clients, 1 June to 30 Nov 2005. Saunders now works as a Special Adviser to Liberal Democrat MP and Deputy Prime Minister Nick Clegg.

Clients

Clients listed in November 2011: Aberdeen Asset Management | AXA | Bank of America Merrill Lynch | Barclays Capital | Barclays Group | Chartered Institute for Securities and Investment (CISI) | European Federation of Financial Advisers and Financial Intermediaries (FECIF) | GE Corporation | Home Retail Group | HSBC Group | HSBC Insurance | International Financial Centres Forum | Invesco Perpetual | Just Retirement | Kennedys LLP | Market Axess | MetLife UK | Morgan Stanley | NYSE Euronext | Payments Council | Pension Income Choice Association (PICA) | St James's Place | Standard Chartered | Swiss Bankers Association | The Online Clinic | TheCityUK | Tax Incentivised Savings Association (TISA) | Unum | World Gold Council

Clients listed in March 2011: Aberdeen Asset Management | ACI/Forex | Aegon | Alvarez and Marsal | AXA Insurance | AXA-Life | AXA-UK | Bank of America Merrill Lynch | Barclays Capital | Barclays Group | Berwin Leighton Paisner | BNY Mellon | British Bankers Association | Citigroup | Clydesdale Bank | Deutsche Bank | Elliot Advisers | Fidelity International | Financial Reporting Council | Financial Services Skills Council | GE Corporation | Goldman Sachs | HSBC Group | HSBC Insurance | IFCF – International Financial Centres Forum | IFDS | Ignis Asset Management | IMA – Investment Management Association | Invesco Perpetual | Legal & General | Lifesearch | Lloyds Banking Group | MarketAxess | Morgan Stanley | Nomura | PADA | Pension Income Choice Association | Pilotlight | Prudential | PWC | RBS | Restless Development | RSA | Society of Trust and Estate Practitioners [STEP] | Swiss Bankers Association | The Online Clinic | The Pensions Regulator | TheCityUK | Tomorrow’s People | Unum | World Gold Council |

Clients listed in 2009: Cicero Consulting UK Staff and clients, 1 June 2009 to 1 August 2009 (from APPC voluntary register of lobbyists, to August 2009)

Clients listed in 2008 include:

AXA | Abbey | Alliance and Leicester | Association of British Insurers | Blackstone | British Property Federation | Direct Line | eBay | Financial Services Forum | Financial Services Skills Council | International Financial Data Services | Investment Management Association | JPMorgan | Jupiter | Latvian Inward Investment Agency | Scottish Widows | Standard Life | UBS | Yorkshire Building Society

Contact

1-2 Lower James Street
London
W1F 9EG
http://www.cicero-europe.com

Powerbase resources

• Cicero Consulting UK Staff and clients, 1 December 2003 to 31 May 2004
• Cicero Consulting UK Staff and clients, 1 June to 30 Nov 2005
• Cicero Consulting UK Staff and clients, 1 June 2009 to 1 August 2009

References

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