Sheila Ennis
Managing Director, Head of Investor Relations
Sheila Ennis counsels clients on all aspects of media and investor relations strategy development, with a particular focus on ever-changing disclosure expectations, regulatory compliance, litigation risk and evolving employee concerns. Sheila has broad transaction expertise, including M&A and IPOs. She provides sophisticated counsel in activism defense, business model transformations, major internal and external crises, management changes and other high-stakes moments.
Sheila brings to her strategic communications practice more than 20 years of equity capital markets experience as a sell side analyst and investment banker at technology-focused investment banks. In her 30-year career, she has advised on hundreds of IPOs and follow-on offerings, as well as dozens of M&A assignments as a sell-side research analyst, senior banker and strategic communications advisor.
Representative Experience
• Seagen in its $43 billion sale to Pfizer
• Shopify on periodic investor relations advisory
• Centuri in IPO-related investor relations benchmarking
• Stratus Properties in activism defense
• Dynex Capital in investor relations and corporate profile raising
• GitLab in crisis preparation and response
• Several deSPACs in initial listing day preparation and execution
Education
• Brown University, B.A. in Law and Society
Memberships and Affiliations
• National Investor Relations Institute – San Francisco and Silicon Valley Chapters