Buxton Helmsley
Financial ServicesNew York, United States2-10 Employees
Buxton Helmsley is a New York City-based investment firm built on forensic accounting, corporate governance expertise, and deep financial statement analysis. The firm identifies accounting irregularities, disclosure deficiencies, and securities law compliance failures at public companies—and works to resolve them, whether through constructive engagement or, when necessary, activist campaigns. The Buxton Helmsley name has been associated with more than $20 billion in identified financial misstatements and securities law violations—effectively admitted, whether in the bankruptcy court or corrective SEC filings. When the firm raised allegations publicly at Mallinckrodt Pharmaceuticals, the SEC brought enforcement action on the same issues. At watchmaker Fossil Group, the firm's work preceded a +365% shareholder return within two years of securing board representation, along with the resignation of its Chairman and CEO—the founder's brother—after twenty years, and a CFO departure. Bloomberg ranks the Buxton Helmsley name in the top 15% of global activist investors by engagement volume. The firm's work has been covered in The Wall Street Journal, Bloomberg, Reuters, MarketWatch, Axios, and The Irish Times, and published in the Harvard Law School Forum on Corporate Governance. Buxton Helmsley’s board includes a former Managing Director at Citadel and Director of Business Development at BlackRock, the former President of the New York State Society of CPAs and current AICPA board member, and a former senior compliance and legal executive at Guggenheim, Brown Brothers Harriman, and AXA. Institutional allocators, family offices, and accredited investors: ir@buxtonhelmsley.com Speaking requests and press inquiries: press@buxtonhelmsley.com
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