plain speaking, impact driven communications
Candour IR
We specialise in providing investor relations support for UK listed businesses. What sets us apart is experience and trust.Founded by Zeeshan Maqbool, Fellow Chartered Accountant, Candour IR draws on more than 20 years of senior investor relations and corporate finance experience, including at 3i Group plc, AA Limited, Afren, Elementis plc, Deloitte and PwC.Zeeshan has guided companies through IPO preparation, M&A, restructuring, capital raising, take-private situations and shareholder activist campaigns. This breadth of experience extends across sectors such as oil and gas, chemicals, industrials and financial services.Relationships are at the heart of what we do. Our founder has built a broad network spanning institutional shareholders and bondholders, sell-side equity and credit analysts, banks and advisers. That gives our clients wide reach and coverage. Having sat on the company side of the table, we know how investors think, and we operate a flexible model working alongside boards, senior management and in-house teams.
Candour IR
Promises kept, expectations exceeded
This is both our vision and our approach to communications. Managing expectations and building credibility are key to unlocking long-term value.
Our strategic priorities
1. Being the partner of choice for all investor communication activities
We aim to be our clients' first call for every aspect of investor communication, from routine reporting to their most important corporate moments. Our breadth of experience means we can support you whatever the situation, and we earn that trust one engagement at a time.
2. Delivering customer excellence
Our clients come first. We listen carefully, respond promptly and aim to make every interaction straightforward and useful, so that working with us makes your life easier.
3. Being smarter, driving change through technology
We aim to use modern tools such as AI agents so that you can benefit from faster insights and better-informed decisions.
Candour IR
Our services
With a focus on investor relations, our services cover both day-to-day and event-driven activity, and are available as an ongoing outsourced function or as targeted support for your existing team.
Financial Reporting
We provide proactive support across the reporting calendar, from annual, interim and quarterly results announcements and presentations to Q&A preparation, helping you present clearly and consistently.
Annual report content and design
We can help develop the narrative of your annual report, including the strategic report, business model and key messages, and working with your designers and internal team to produce a report that is clear, consistent and engaging for investors.Our founder has contributed to annual reports that have been shortlisted for, and won, several awards, including the IR Society Award for the Most Effective Overall Annual Report (print and online) in the FTSE 250 category.
Shareholder management and targeting
Planning and delivering a regular programme of engagement with your shareholders and new investors, including roadshows, meetings, investor events and AGM preparation.We have extensive experience of working with shareholder activists and value every conversation.
Equity and credit analyst relations
Building constructive relationships with sell-side equity and credit analysts across a range of sectors including, Oil and Gas, Chemicals, Infrastructure, Industrials, Financial Services and Professional Services, supporting their understanding of the business and helping ensure the investment case is accurately represented.
Analyst consensus management
Collecting, analysing and monitoring analyst forecasts so that management has a clear view of market expectations ahead of key announcements.
Transaction support
Investor communications support around M&A, restructuring, IPO, take-private situations, capital raises and buyback programmes (£20m - £1bn in size), and debt refinancing, working alongside your brokers, banks and legal advisers to keep messaging clear and consistent from announcement to completion.
Crisis communication management
Calm, practical and responsive support when the unexpected happens: preparing holding statements, coordinating messaging and keeping investors and other stakeholders informed through difficult periods.
Candour IR
Communications with a difference
How we work
We aim to provide a consistent, high-quality service on every engagement, combining the breadth of our experience with a genuine commitment to good outcomes for our clients.
Outcome focused. We start by understanding what you want to achieve, shape our support around it and keep you informed of progress throughout.
Experience led. We bring lessons learned across many sectors and corporate situations to every engagement, helping you anticipate issues and respond with confidence.
Consistent. Clear communication, reliable delivery and a steady point of contact, whether we are supporting your reporting calendar or a one-off project.
Flexible. Ongoing retained support, project-based work or interim cover for an in-house IR team. We will agree the arrangement that suits you.
Candour IR
Let's connect
Whether you need support with setting up or running your current investor relations programme or with ad-hoc corporate communications projects, we would love to hear from you. An initial conversation is free and without obligation.Complete the short form below and we will be in touch as soon as possible.
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Privacy PolicyWebsite: www.candourir.comLast updated: 22 October 2026This notice explains how we collect, use and protect your personal information when you visit our website, contact us or use our services. We have tried to keep it clear and simple. If anything is unclear, please get in touch using the details in section 1.1. Who we areThis website is run by Candour IR ("we", "us", "our"). We are a sole trader providing corporate communications and investor relations support to UK listed businesses.We are the "controller" of your personal information, which means we decide how and why it is used. We are responsible for complying with UK data protection law, including the UK GDPR and the Data Protection Act 2018.Our contact details are:- Business name: Candour IR
- Email: [email protected]We have not appointed a Data Protection Officer because we are not required to do so. Our contact details above are the right place for any data protection queries.2. The personal information we collect"Personal information" means any information that identifies you or can be used to identify you. Depending on how you interact with us, we may collect:- Identity and contact details: name, job title, company, email address, telephone number, business address. These come from you, when you contact us, enter into an agreement with us or sign up to updates, and from publicly available business sources such as company websites or LinkedIn.
- Enquiry and correspondence: the content of your messages, emails, call notes and meeting notes. These come from you.
- Client and billing information: contact details of your team, purchase order details, bank details for payment, invoices and payment history. These come from you or your organisation.
- Marketing preferences: whether you have asked to receive (or stop receiving) updates from us. These come from you.
- Technical and usage data: IP address, browser type, device type, pages visited, time spent on pages, referring website. These are collected automatically through cookies and similar technologies (see our Cookie Policy).We do not intentionally collect "special category" personal information (such as health, ethnicity, religious beliefs or political opinions) or information about criminal convictions. Please do not send us this kind of information. Our website is aimed at businesses and is not intended for children.Where you give us personal information about someone else (for example a colleague's contact details), please make sure you are entitled to do so and that they are aware of this notice.3. How we use your information and our legal basisWe can only use your personal information if we have a valid legal reason (a "lawful basis"). The list below sets out what we use your information for and the lawful basis we rely on.- Responding to your enquiries and discussing possible work. Lawful basis: legitimate interests, or taking steps at your request before entering into an agreement. We have a legitimate interest in replying to people who contact us about our services.
- Providing our services, managing our relationship with you and communicating with you about the work. Lawful basis: performance of an agreement with you (or your organisation). This is needed to deliver what we have agreed.
- Invoicing, accounting, tax and keeping records. Lawful basis: legal obligation, and legitimate interests in running our business. We must keep certain financial records by law.
- Running, securing and improving our website, including analytics. Lawful basis: consent for non-essential cookies, and legitimate interests for essential security and functionality. See our Cookie Policy.
- Establishing, exercising or defending legal claims, and complying with legal or regulatory requests. Lawful basis: legal obligation, and legitimate interests. We do this only where necessary.What "legitimate interests" means. Where we rely on legitimate interests, we have considered whether our use of your information is necessary for our business purposes and whether it could unfairly affect your rights. You can ask us for more information about this assessment at any time.Consent. Where we rely on your consent, you can withdraw it at any time. Withdrawing consent does not affect the lawfulness of anything we did before you withdrew it.We do not use your personal information for automated decision-making or profiling that has a legal or similarly significant effect on you.4. Who we share your information withWe do not sell your personal information. We only share it where necessary, with:- Service providers who help us run our business and website, acting on our instructions, such as CloudFlare and Google Analytics.
- Professional advisers, such as accountants, insurers and lawyers, where needed.
- Authorities, regulators or courts, where we are required to do so by law or to protect our legal rights.
- A buyer or successor, if our business were ever sold or transferred, subject to appropriate protections for your information.We require our service providers to keep your information secure and to use it only for the purposes we specify.5. Transfers outside the UKWe do not transfer your personal information outside the UK.6. How long we keep your informationWe only keep personal information for as long as we need it for the purposes described above. Our usual periods are:- Website enquiries that do not lead to work: 12 months from the last contact.
- Client and engagement records: 6 years after the end of the engagement.
- Invoices and financial records: 6 years from the end of the relevant tax year (a legal requirement).
- Marketing subscriber details: until you unsubscribe or ask us to delete them, plus a minimal record that you opted out so we do not contact you again.
- Website analytics data: 26 months, or as set out in our Cookie Policy.When we no longer need your information, we will delete or anonymise it securely.7. How we keep your information secureWe take appropriate technical and organisational steps to protect your personal information from loss, misuse or unauthorised access. These include password protection, two-factor authentication, device encryption and restricting access to information on a need-to-know basis. No method of transmission over the internet is completely secure, so we cannot guarantee absolute security. If there is a personal data breach that is likely to put your rights at risk, we will notify you and the ICO where the law requires.8. Your rightsUnder UK data protection law you have the following rights:- Access: to ask for a copy of the personal information we hold about you.
- Rectification: to ask us to correct information that is inaccurate or incomplete.
- Erasure: to ask us to delete your information in certain circumstances.
- Restriction: to ask us to pause our use of your information in certain circumstances.
- Portability: to ask for information you gave us to be provided to you, or another organisation, in a commonly used electronic format, where we use it on the basis of consent or an agreement.
- Objection: to object to our use of your information where we rely on legitimate interests, and to object at any time to direct marketing.
- Withdraw consent: where we rely on your consent, to withdraw it at any time.These rights are not absolute and some only apply in certain circumstances. To exercise any of them, email us at [email protected]. We may need to ask you for proof of identity to protect your information. We will normally respond within one month, and there is usually no charge. If your request is complex or you have made several requests, we may extend this by up to two further months and will tell you if so.9. ComplaintsWe would like the chance to put things right, so please contact us first at [email protected] if you have a concern about how we have handled your personal information. We will acknowledge your complaint within 30 days and respond without undue delay.You also have the right to complain at any time to the Information Commissioner's Office (ICO), the UK data protection regulator: website ico.org.uk/make-a-complaint, telephone 0303 123 1113, or post to Information Commissioner's Office, Wycliffe House, Water Lane, Wilmslow, Cheshire SK9 5AF.10. Providing your informationYou are not obliged to give us your personal information. However, if you do not, we may not be able to respond to your enquiry or provide our services. Where we need information to meet a legal or contractual requirement (for example to issue an invoice), we will tell you.11. Links to other websitesOur website may contain links to other websites, such as LinkedIn or client and market information sources. We are not responsible for their privacy practices, and we encourage you to read their privacy notices.12. Changes to this noticeWe may update this notice from time to time. The latest version will always be on this website, with the "Last updated" date at the top. If we make significant changes, we will tell you where appropriate.13. Contact usIf you have any questions about this notice or how we use your personal information, please contact: Zeeshan Maqbool, Candour IR, [email protected].