The IMS Group scoops award as "Best Advisory Firm - Regulation and Compliance" at the HFM Week Awards

The IMS Group (‘IMS’), a market leading provider of global regulatory compliance consulting and integrated business support to the asset management and securities industry, has been recognised as the compliance consultancy of the year at the annual HFMWeek's European Hedge Fund Services Awards last week.

The awards are designed to recognise companies that have outperformed their peer group over the course of 2010. Finalists were judged both quantitatively and qualitatively, producing shortlists of candidates who demonstrated financial progress, growth and genuine innovation.

This is the fourth time this year that IMS has been recognised for its services to the global hedge fund industry. In March, IMS was voted as the “Best North American Regulatory Advisory Firm” and “Best European Regulatory Advisory Firm,” at the second annual Hedge Week awards. IMS was also named as the “Leading Compliance Consultancy,” at the annual Hedge Fund Journal awards in the same month.

Alan Leale-Green, group director at IMS, who collected the award last week, said: “At IMS we are proud to have built a strong and growing business on clear founding principles of excellence in product knowledge and client delivery. Our achievements are recognised in the industry in many ways, such as regularly being invited to sit on industry committees and in the form of awards, with this being our fourth in 2011 alone.”

Michel van Leeuwen, chief executive of IMS, said: “The whole team at IMS has worked hard to provide the best quality service and advice to all of our clients and it is a great compliment to see their efforts being rewarded and recognised this way. Compliance remains our core service and we are constantly striving to ensure that our high client standards will remain our priority while we continue to grow.”