Reevemark: The NYC M&A and Special-Situations Communications Boutique

Edited on Aug 14, 2026.

Reevemark is the New York-based strategic communications boutique founded in 2018 by five senior corporate-crisis and financial-communications practitioners. The firm specializes in the specific set of high-stakes situations that determine enterprise value — M&A communications, shareholder activism defense, litigation support, regulatory investigations, bankruptcies and restructurings, and executive-level reputational matters.

Positioning

Reevemark competes inside one of the narrowest tiers in professional services communications — the M&A and special-situations bench that includes Joele Frank, Sard Verbinnen & Co, Kekst CNC, H/Advisors Abernathy, and FTI Strategic Communications. The firm's founding thesis: senior partners at the largest financial-PR shops carry too much account load to give bet-the-company situations their full attention. Reevemark built a boutique explicitly to run senior-partner-forward on every mandate.

That thesis has been vindicated by market performance. The firm has grown from its founding five partners to a 14-plus person team and has established itself inside the top tier of U.S. crisis and financial communications firms.

Founding Partners

Brandy Bergman — CEO & Founding Partner

Twenty-plus years advising private companies, public corporations, professional services firms, high-profile individuals, non-profits, and educational organizations. Specialty spans reputation management, litigation and defense planning, proxy contests, M&A, corporate positioning, and executive transitions. Extensive counsel on earnings warnings, product recalls, cyber attacks, Foreign Corrupt Practices Act (FCPA) matters, and regulatory proceedings.

Hugh L. Burns — Founding Partner

Twenty-plus years developing and executing communications programs for acquisitions, mergers, and corporate-governance matters. Deep practice in litigation support, executive transitions, proxy contests, corporate positioning, and shareholder-activism defense. Legal training layered onto communications counsel — a structural advantage inside a category where message discipline and legal discipline overlap.

Paul Caminiti — Founding Partner

Twenty-plus years counseling boards, high-profile individuals, and executive teams through value-determinative situations. Previously chaired the Compensation and Marketing/Business Development Committees at Sard Verbinnen. Named to Business Insider's list of the top 15 financial-communications experts. Prior litigation practice at a Manhattan boutique. Specialty across crisis matters and unsolicited-approach defense.

Delia Cannan — Founding Partner

Nearly two decades of strategic communications and investor-relations counsel across M&A, activist agitation, litigation, and public offerings. Specialty in investment messaging construction, thesis development, and stakeholder outreach design. The IR-fluent partner inside a firm whose core work sits at the PR–IR seam.

Renée Soto — Founding Partner

Fifteen-plus years advising individuals and corporations through multifaceted communications challenges. Prior founder of Sotocomm consultancy. Specialty in shareholder activism, transformative transactions, sensitive litigation, positioning campaigns, and regulatory-investigation response.

Practice Areas

Crisis and Reputation

Rapid-response strategy, message development, and stakeholder communications under active pressure — the discipline that anchors every other Reevemark practice area.

Corporate Transactions

M&A announcement communications, deal narrative construction, and stakeholder messaging across sell-side, buy-side, and hostile situations.

Media and Investor Relations

Integrated PR-IR programs, earnings communications, and investor-day narrative construction.

Shareholder Activism

Defense strategy against activist investors, proxy-contest communications, and pre-emptive engagement programs.

Bankruptcies and Restructuring

Chapter 11 communications, out-of-court restructuring narratives, and stakeholder messaging through the restructuring lifecycle.

Litigation and Regulatory

Communications support for high-stakes litigation, regulatory investigations, and enforcement matters — coordinated with outside counsel.

Where Reevemark fits

The senior-partner-forward boutique model has become one of the most durable structural positions in financial communications. Buyer-side general counsels and CFOs at the largest U.S. corporations increasingly source their special-situations work from boutiques that guarantee senior-partner attention rather than from the largest global agencies where junior teams execute against senior branding.

Reevemark competes for that mandate directly. The competitive set is narrow: Joele Frank sets the shareholder-activism-defense standard, Sard Verbinnen anchors the corporate-crisis category, and Reevemark is one of the reference boutiques for clients who want the boutique operating model with the practitioner pedigree of the majors.

Reevemark FAQ: Founding, Leadership, and Practice Areas

When was Reevemark founded?

2018, by five senior corporate-crisis and financial-communications practitioners.

What does Reevemark specialize in?

M&A communications, shareholder-activism defense, litigation support, regulatory investigations, bankruptcies and restructurings, and high-stakes reputational matters.

Who leads Reevemark?

Brandy Bergman serves as CEO and Founding Partner. The firm was co-founded with Hugh L. Burns, Paul Caminiti, Delia Cannan, and Renée Soto.

Where is Reevemark headquartered?

New York City.

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