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APCO Worldwide has signed on to represent New York-based Global Citizen, the nonprofit dedicated to eradicating extreme poverty by 2030.
The GC platform relies on social action such as events, content, partnerships and grassroots organizing to generate funds.
It's high-profile Global Citizen Festival held last September in Central Park featured performances by The Killers, Steven Wonder, The Lumineers and The Chainsmokers.
The organization claims to have received financial commitments of $35B since 2012, of which $10B of the amount has been disbursed for food/hunger, sanitation, healthcare and educational programs.
APCO's work involves support for maintaining spending on development aid. Jerri Ann Henry leads that effort.
Knob Petroleum, which is based in Panama City, has retained Ballard Partners to explore opportunities in Venezuela.
Brownstein Hyatt Farber Schreck has signed to represent Eastern Air Holdings, which operates deportation flights for Immigration & Customs Enforcement.
Ballard Partners has lined up Australia’s Energy Transition Minerals company, an explorer and developer of rare earths minerals opportunities. It touts its Greenland property as having the potential to become the biggest rare earths producer in the western world.
Abbvie has retained Trump-connected Winston-Salem-based Checkmate Government Relations for healthcare matters and issues related to the life sciences sector.
Netflix has retained Bloom Strategic Counsel for regulatory matters regarding its proposed $83B merger with Warner Bros. Discovery.
