Cicero Consulting
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Cicero Consulting is a London-based financial services lobbying consultancy.
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Profile
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."[1]
People
Leadership Team
- Jeremy Swan, chief executive. 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.[2]
- 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.[3]
- Mark Twigg, executive 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.[4]
- Stephen Knight, non-executive chairman
- Mike Robb, executive director
- Paul Middleton, research director
- Helena Walsh, executive director
- Andrew Naylor, executive director. Former communications officer for the Conservative Party business relations team and researcher for a cabinet minister in the House of Lords.[5]
- Peter Benton-Sullivan, head of Americas
- Tom Frackowiak, executive director
- John Rowland, executive director
- James Plaskitt, senior counsel. Former member of Parliament as Labour MP for Warwick & Leamington between 1997 and 2010, served on the Commons Treasury Select Committee from 2000 to 2005 and was appointed a minister at the Department for Work and Pensions
- Mark Hemingway, senior counsel
- Nick Gardner, senior counsel
- Nicola York, account director
- Anusha Mallikarachchi, finance director
- Theo Lartey, logistics manager[6]
APPC UK
June 2014-August 2014
Iain Anderson | Judith Becker | Peter Benton-Sullivan | Ben Carson | Ben Collins | Sebastian Damberg-Ott | Simon Fitzpatrick | Tom Frackowiak | James Hughes | Theo Lartey | Andrew Naylor | Cameron Penny | Cameron Rae | Daniel Regan | Michael Robb | John Rowland | Jeremy Swan | Adam Taylor | Mark Twigg | Helena Walsh | Paul Worthington[7]
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".[8]. 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.[9] 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.[10]
- Edmund Lakin - Senior Associate since 2008 based in London [11]
Clients
June 2014-August 2014
Aberdeen Asset Management | Aldermore | AXA | AXA Commercial | Bank of America Merrill Lynch | Barclays | Brewin Dolphin | Chartered Insurance Institute | comparethemarket | ETF Securities | Fidelity | Financial Conduct Authority | Financial Reporting Council | GE Corporation | Hermes | Just Retirement | Kennedys LLP | Payments Council | Peer 2 Peer Finance Association | Rio Tinto | St James's Place | Swiss Bankers Association | TheCityUK | Unum | WMA | World Gold Council[7]
September 2011-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 [12]
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 [13]
2009
Cicero Consulting UK Staff and clients, 1 June 2009 to 1 August 2009 (from APPC voluntary register of lobbyists, to August 2009)
2008
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 [14]
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
- ↑ Cicero website (accessed November 2008) [1]
- ↑ Cicero website accessed Jan 08
- ↑ Blackstone hires Cicero for political intelligence, PR Week
- ↑ Cicero website accessed Jan 08
- ↑ John Owens Cicero elevates five managers to expanded board as business matures PR Week, 12 May 2014, accessed 19 October 2014
- ↑ Leadership team Cicero Group, accessed 19 October 2014
- ↑ 7.0 7.1 Register 1st June 2014 - 31st August 2014 APPC, accessed 19 October 2014
- ↑ Cicero website accessed Jan 08
- ↑ APPC, "APPC Register June 06 - Aug 06", accessed 08.09.10
- ↑ Department of Information Services, "Parliamentary Information List", accessed 07.09.10
- ↑ Edmund Lakin, LinkedIn, accessed 27 April 2012
- ↑ APPC register, 1 September 2011 to 30 November 2011
- ↑ UK Public Affairs Council "Register", accessed March 2011
- ↑ Cicero website (accessed November 2008) [2]
