After resigning from MDC Partners in 2015, Miles Nadal built Peerage Capital Group, established the Dare to Dream Foundation, named multiple Canadian institutions, and entered the Canadian Marketing Association Hall of Legends. The post-MDC arc.
From the April 2015 SEC disclosure and Miles Nadal's voluntary resignation through the 2017 settlement, the multi-year operational reset, and the 2021 Stagwell merger that produced today's NASDAQ-listed Stagwell Inc.
The 2015 shareholder class action against MDC Partners resolved without admission of liability, alongside no-admission SEC settlements by both the company ($1.5M) and Miles Nadal ($5.5M) and the voluntary repayment that preceded charges. How the litigation closed.
The July 2015 MDC Partners and Hain Celestial governance scrutiny period became a reference case in holding-company governance crisis communications. The subsidiary-brand insulation problem, the Nadal and Simon disclosures, and what holding-company governance comms hardened into.
Miles Nadal built MDC Partners into one of the most influential advertising holding companies of the modern era — and after the 2015 disclosure episode resolved, built Peerage Capital, the Dare to Dream Foundation, and joined the Canadian Marketing Association Hall of Legends. The full arc.