Hannah Dunning
Partner
Life at FGS Global
Provides strategic communications counsel and support to clients across various industries on special situations including M&A, proxy contests, crises and IPOs, and ongoing corporate positioning and reputation management.
Life Pre-FGS Global
Has worked in strategic communications for nearly a decade, both in London and in the U.S.
Life Beyond FGS Global
Wimbledon native that has bounced between London, Spain, Malaysia and the U.S. Enjoys cycling and running (sometimes with a swim), but otherwise can be found watching or playing tennis or agonizing over Liverpool FC matches.
Hannah Dunning is a Partner in the San Francisco office.
She advises clients on complex situation and transformative events, including public offerings, mergers and acquisitions, proxy contests, crises, leadership changes, among other situations. Her clients have spanned sectors including technology, financial services, retail/consumer, transportation, energy, among others.
Hannah's notable assignments include advising Tesla on its shareholder vote to reinstate the CEO compensation plan in 2024 and to approve a new compensation plan in 2025; EA on its acquisition by a consortium comprised of PIF, Silver Lake and Affinity; Arm on its public listing on the NASDAQ; Nano Dimension on its defense against Murchinson; SoftBank on ongoing corporate positioning and transactions, including leadership changes, its strategic partnership and equity share swap with Deutsche Telekom, the launch of the $100B SoftBank Vision Fund and its early investments, the launch of the SoftBank Latin America Funds and its investments in WeWork, Uber, Arm, and others; Uber on its public listing on the NYSE; Sprint on its merger with T-Mobile; Planet on its public listing via a SPAC on the NYSE and registration as a public benefit corp.; Toshiba on its response to activist shareholders over a multi-year period; Qualcomm on its hostile defense against Broadcom; eBay on its settlement with Elliott Management; Yelp on its defense against SQN Investors; Alibaba Group on its public listing on the NYSE; Leslie's on its public listing on the NASDAQ; and LINE on its public listing on the NYSE.
Hannah graduated from University College London with a Master's in Management, and previously from the University of Leeds with a B.A. in Communications.