Anntal Silver

Anntal advises publicly traded and privately held companies on complex and high-profile corporate and financial public relations matters, helping them to capitalize on strategic positioning opportunities and to address communications challenges. As part of this work, she supports clients on a range of special situations through the development and implementation of tailored communications strategies to effectively reach key audiences, including the investment community, employees, and customers, among others.

Over more than a decade at Kekst CNC, she has developed significant experience in the areas of mergers & acquisition, shareholder activism and corporate governance, change management, and crisis communications.

Prior to joining Kekst CNC, Anntal was a member of the Alternative Capital Markets team within Goldman Sachs’ Investment Management Division, where she was responsible for marketing the firm’s alternative investments to institutions and high net worth individuals.

She was named one of the top 10 “PR Rising Stars, and All Stars” by the New York Observer in 2015.

Anntal holds a B.S.F.S. in International Politics from Georgetown University’s School of Foreign Service. She is fluent in French.

Experience

Transactions

• Represented companies in numerous transactions, spanning mergers, acquisitions, divestitures, and spin-offs; and has worked on deals across a range of sectors, including retail, technology, healthcare, industrials, media, airlines, energy, and agriculture.
• Supported communications activities at all stages of the deal process – including announcement, regulatory approvals and other milestones to closing, transaction close, and subsequent integration or transition periods.

Corporate Governance and Shareholder Activism

• Worked with companies across industries on activism and takeover preparedness planning.
• Represented numerous companies privately engaging with, or publicly targeted by, high-profile activist shareholders.

 Crisis and Issues Management

• Advised clients in various sectors on a range of special situations spanning reputational crises, litigation, regulatory inquiries, cybersecurity and data breaches, targeted NGO campaigns, and consumer-related social media matters, among other issues.
• Supported comprehensive change management programs, including around leadership successions, workforce reductions, business integrations and consolidations, and operational wind-downs.
• Assisted clients in establishing customized crisis communications plans and processes within their organizations – including outlining detailed crisis communications protocols, developing materials for specific scenarios tailored to each company’s industry and vulnerabilities, and facilitating bespoke crisis simulations.