Marketo, the Silicon Valley marketing software which scored a hit IPO May 17, worked with The Blueshirt Group for financial communications support through the offering. Continue »
Semiconductor packaging technology developer Tessera Technologies is working with Abernathy MacGregor in a proxy fight with activist hedge fund Starboard Value. Continue »
The SEC said May 15 that final settlements have been approved in the "golden goose" insider trading case in which a former Lehman Brothers trader passed along inside info from his PR executive wife, who was not charged in the scheme. Continue »
Vermont, the unofficial U.S. capital for captive insurance companies, is reviewing its PR account promoting the state for that key economic sector with an RFP process this month. Continue »
Marketwired took the pulse on an investor community increasingly leaning on social media for data, finding a emerging demographic which relies on SM while skepticism abounds in the elder ranks.
Houston-based Crest Financial has brought in Washington PR support as the firm urges fellow shareholders of Clearwire Corp. to reject a merger with Sprint Nextel Corp.
FTI Consulting reported first quarter strategic communications revenues ticked up one percent to $45.5M as higher project revenue offset fewer M&A deals in Asia and a dip in Latin America.
The Depository Trust & Clearing Corp., a Wall Street utility owned by banks and the New York Stock Exchange, is working with outside PR counsel as it sues the top derivatives regulator, the Commodity Futures Trading Commission. Continue »
Kekst and Company is advising Highfields Capital Management, which wants Canada's doughnut/coffee king Tim Hortons Inc., to reconsider its costly expansion in the U.S. market that Highland believes is saturated with Dunkin' Doughnuts and Starbucks outlets. Continue »
MacKenzie Partners, the well-known proxy solicitation and shareholder communications firm, has opened a Washington office, noting the continued convergence of Wall Street and the capital. Continue »
Trendy hotel owner Morgans Hotel Group and a large shareholder group have engaged PR and IR counsel in a showdown over a recapitalization plan with Yucaipa Companies, the firm of supermarket titan Ron Burkle and a creditor of Morgans.
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Life sciences shop Bioscribe works the PR beat for NanoString, the Seattle genomics company slating an initial public offering. 
Vermont, the unofficial U.S. capital for captive insurance companies, is reviewing its PR account promoting the state for that key economic sector with an RFP process this month. 
Marketwired took the pulse on an investor community increasingly leaning on social media for data, finding a emerging demographic which relies on SM while skepticism abounds in the elder ranks.
Houston-based Crest Financial has brought in Washington PR support as the firm urges fellow shareholders of Clearwire Corp. to reject a merger with Sprint Nextel Corp.
Principal at Sard Verbinnen & Co moves to MSLGroup in Chicago as a senior VP in its corporate practice. 
The Depository Trust & Clearing Corp., a Wall Street utility owned by banks and the New York Stock Exchange, is working with outside PR counsel as it sues the top derivatives regulator, the Commodity Futures Trading Commission. 
MacKenzie Partners, the well-known proxy solicitation and shareholder communications firm, has opened a Washington office, noting the continued convergence of Wall Street and the capital. 
Brunswick Group partner and federal Washington player Michele Davis has joined Moran Stanley as corporate communications chief. 
Trendy hotel owner Morgans Hotel Group and a large shareholder group have engaged PR and IR counsel in a showdown over a recapitalization plan with Yucaipa Companies, the firm of supermarket titan Ron Burkle and a creditor of Morgans.
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