European Equity Research Partners launches as EU creates issuer-sponsored research framework

MADRID, June 17th, 2026.— European Equity Research Partners S.L. (EERP) has launched as the European Union builds its first framework for issuer-sponsored research, positioning the firm to be among the first to work under the new regime.

EERP makes its analysis open to the whole market and covers listed companies across Europe, the Middle East and Central Asia.

Equity research is the bridge between companies seeking capital and the investors weighing where to put it, giving the market the analysis to discover a company and judge its prospects. Without coverage, a company can stay invisible regardless of its quality, and liquidity and price discovery suffer.

EERP's founders have run exchanges, sell-side research, investor-relations teams and institutional sales across European, emerging, frontier and Gulf markets. Its partners are based in Madrid, New York, London and Almaty.

It is led by Chief Executive Ramon Pedrosa, a former foreign correspondent with background in capital markets and investor relations. Jason Paltrowitz, as executive vice president of OTC Markets in New York, oversaw the dual-listing of 5,000 companies from 48 countries, and earlier worked at JP Morgan, Citibank and BNY Mellon.

The head of research is Simon Powell, former global head of thematic research at Jefferies and former head of sustainable research at CLSA Asia-Pacific, where he ranked first in Asiamoney's analyst survey. He earlier worked at UBS.

Chairman Chingiz Kanapyanov founded and was CEO of International Trading Systems (ITS), an Astana-based MTF that handled more than 36 billion dollars in trading, and has served as a regulator, a diplomat and a board member of Asian financial institutions. Carlos Pedrosa Lopez, a professor of financial law at the University of Valencia, leads the firm's regulatory and academic work.

“Going from zero to one analyst is the most valuable step a listed company can take. We built EERP to make that step for companies the market has stopped seeing, and to keep the research open to everyone.” — Simon Powell, Head of Research

Research coverage of European companies has thinned for years. The European Union's MiFID II rules, in force since 2018, required investors to pay for research separately from trading, and the European Commission has tied a fall in coverage of small and mid-sized issuers, along with lower research budgets, to the period that followed.

The European Union has responded through the Listing Act. It rolled back part of the 2018 unbundling rules for smaller companies and directed regulators to draw up a code of conduct for issuer-sponsored research, which the European Commission adopted on May 21, 2026, and which will introduce a protected EU label once it is published in the EU Official Journal, expected later in 2026. EERP is ready to be among the first to carry that label once it takes effect.

About EERP

European Equity Research Partners S.L. (EERP) is incorporated in Spain, European Union. EERP research is issuer-sponsored: issuers pay for coverage. EERP is not paid in the shares or securities of the companies it covers, its fees are not linked to its conclusions, ratings or price targets, and issuers do not approve or change those conclusions before publication. Full conflict-of-interest disclosures and methodology are published at www.europeanequityresearch.com/research-methodology.

EERP publishes non-personalised research to the entire market and does not provide personal investment advice or investment services. This document is informational and does not constitute investment advice, an offer to buy or sell securities, or a recommendation to any particular investor. Past performance is not indicative of any future results.