Allen Nelson has been advising the boards of directors and senior management of public companies in the United States and Canada on shareholder communications and corporate governance issues including proxy solicitation, takeover defense and battles for corporate control (proxy contests and hostile takeovers) since 1970. Allen Nelson & Co. also provided investor relations counsel to dozens of public companies in the Pacific Northwest in the 1970s and 1980s. For the past twenty years Allen Nelson & Co. has focused on providing its WorldProxy services to public companies throughout the United States and Western Canada.