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RNS Number : 3461F  MJ Hudson Group PLC  04 November 2022

4 November 2022

 

MJ Hudson Group plc

(the "Company", "Group" or "MJ Hudson")

 

ESG Business Expansion

MJ Hudson announces expansion of its ESG & Sustainability business into
Spain

 

MJ Hudson Group plc (AIM:MJH), the specialist service provider to the asset
management industry today announces the continued expansion of its successful
ESG & Sustainability business, through the hiring of Maria Merry del Val
and an experienced team from an established Spanish ESG consulting business.

MJ Hudson´s ESG & Sustainability business was founded in Amsterdam, but
now also has established offices in London and New York. The addition of this
Madrid-based team brings the total number of ESG-dedicated staff to more than
70. Services to clients include ESG policy and regulation, due diligence,
performance monitoring, training, investor reporting and carbon and climate
insights, as well as the Company´s award-winning digital ESG platform, ESG
Advantage. The client base includes some of the largest private markets fund
managers and investors, globally.

The new team in Madrid brings particular expertise in the areas of regulation
and ESG due diligence.  It will help support MJ Hudson in continuing to build
its market leading ESG & Sustainability business which has been identified
as a transformative growth area for the Group.

As part of its commitment to the Spanish market, MJ Hudson has applied to join
SPAINCAP the Spanish private equity trade association. The incorporation of
the new team in Spain follows the recent opening of MJ Hudson's new Barcelona
research and development offices.

Emma Bickerstaffe, MD of MJ Hudson ESG & Sustainability, commented:

"We are excited by the prospect of extending our ESG & Sustainability
services to Spanish clients and we are delighted to have found such an
experienced team to help us achieve this. Our newly combined firm is perfectly
set up to deliver the highest quality ESG digital and advisory services to
Spanish fund managers and investors.  Beyond that, Maria and the team bring a
wealth of experience which will help us accelerate our plans for growth
globally."

Maria Merry del Val commented:

"We have been impressed by the professionalism and commitment of Emma and the
team at MJ Hudson. The MJ Hudson brand is a growing force in ESG and there is
a strong common culture between us. I am convinced there is good synergy for
clients and staff going forward in our combined service offer for Spain. This
move therefore feels like a natural combination for us and we look forward
very much to being part of the MJ Hudson international family."

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For further information, please contact:

 

 MJ Hudson Group plc                       +44 203463 3200

 Geoff Miller, Chairman

 Matthew Hudson, CEO

 Cenkos Securities plc (Nomad and Broker)  +44 20 7397 8900

 Giles Balleny

 Stephen Keys

 Callum Davidson

 

 Buchanan (PR Adviser)  +44 20 7466 5000

 Chris Lane

 Stephanie Whitmore

 Jack Devoy

 George Cleary

About MJ Hudson

 

MJ Hudson (AIM:MJH) is the end-to-end solutions provider to the US$100
trillion+ asset management industry, specialising in its fastest growing
segment, private markets (including private equity and venture capital).

 

The Company offers investors access to the growth in private markets as a
tech-enabled 'picks and shovels' play.

 

Founded in 2010, by CEO Matthew Hudson (a private markets lawyer and former
fund manager), MJ Hudson was admitted to the AIM market of the London Stock
Exchange in 2019. The Group has grown to more than 300 professionals, serving
more than 1,000 clients, across the globe, including some of the industry's
largest players and 18 of the FTSE 100.

 

Several factors have contributed to the Group's success, to date, and support
strong growth expectations, for the future:

 

1.   Private markets are growing fast, and MJ Hudson provides the picks and
shovels

 

2.   As private markets grow, so do scrutiny and regulation, increasing the
need for the Group's specialist advice and services, particularly in areas
like ESG, where it has award-winning solutions

 

3.   As it evolves, the sector is increasingly embracing technology, data,
and analytics, where MJ Hudson has market-leading and award-winning tools and
in which it continues to invest

 

4.   The Group's multi-service approach creates multiple client touchpoints,
building stronger, longer-term relationships, and making it easier to sell in
additional MJ Hudson services

 

5.   Performing these services generates vast amounts of data, which MJ
Hudson aggregates and analyses, in order to further support its clients, by
developing next-generation tools and fine-tuning existing services

 

For more information, please visit our website: www.mjhudson.com/investors
(http://www.mjhudson.com/investors)

 

LinkedIn: www.linkedin.com/company/mj-hudson/
(http://www.linkedin.com/company/mj-hudson/)
Twitter: www.twitter.com/MJHudsonCorp (http://www.twitter.com/MJHudsonCorp)

 

About MJ Hudson and ESG Sustainability

MJ Hudson's ESG & Sustainability team have over 12 years' experience
supporting private market investors and managers with a wide range of ESG
digital and advisory services including policy and regulation, due diligence,
performance assessments of companies and managers, carbon and climate
consulting and investor reporting.

The ESG and sustainability team of more than 70 colleagues span London,
Amsterdam, New York and now Madrid and are well positioned to support clients
globally.

 

About Maria Merry del Val

Maria Merry del Val started her career as an Analyst in the Investing Banking
division in Goldman Sachs in London and went on to the Iberdrola M&A
department. She then joined the Private Equity division at The Royal Bank of
Scotland, where she worked for 13 years for both Private Equity and Project
Finance transactions. In 2019, she co founded Attalea Partners, an ESG
consultancy business, in Spain, focused on private markets. Maria currently
serves as a Board Member at Grenergy Renovables, a renewables company quoted
on the Madrid Stock Exchange with a 1bn Euro market capitalisation.

 

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