Business Continuity Plan
Fairmount
Partners has developed a Business Continuity Plan on how we will
respond to events that significantly disrupt our business. Since
the timing and impact of disasters and disruptions is
unpredictable, we will have to be flexible in responding to
actual events as they occur. With that in mind, we are providing
you with this information on our business continuity plan.
Contacting Us
If after a significant business
disruption you cannot contact us as you usually do by calling
the Fairmount Partners professionals working on your engagement
on their office phones, you should email them and/or call them
on their private home or cellular phones. The Corporate
Development Plan that we provided to you at the beginning of the
engagement contains both office and home contact information for
those individuals.
Our Business Continuity Plan
We plan to quickly recover and resume business operations
after a significant business disruption and respond by
safeguarding our employees and property, making a financial and
operational assessment, protecting the firm’s books and records,
and allowing our clients to proceed with their contemplated
transactions. In short, our business continuity plan is designed
to permit our firm to resume operations as quickly as possible,
given the scope and severity of the significant business
disruption.
Our business continuity plan addresses: data back-up and
recovery; all mission critical systems; financial and
operational assessments; alternative communications with
clients, employees, and regulators; alternative physical
location of employees; critical supplier, contractor, and bank
contact; and regulatory reporting.
We recognize that significant business disruptions can vary
in their scope, such as impacting only our firm, or the building
housing our firm, or the business district, the city, or the
whole region in which the firm is located. Within each of these
areas, the severity of the disruption can also vary from minimal
to severe. In an internal disruption affecting our firm or the
building housing our firm, our employees will work remotely from
their homes until we can secure temporary office space or return
to our headquarters. In an external disruption affecting our
business district, city, or region, we will again have our
employees work from their homes as in the case of an internal
disruption. However, we may have to rely more heavily on other
organizations and systems. In either situation, we plan to
continue in business with as little disruption as possible and
notify you through our website (www.fairmountpartners.com)
or through private phones on how to contact us.
For More Information
If you have questions about
our business continuity planning, you can contact us at
610-260-6200.
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