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Amsterdam & Partners will receive a $4M flat fee to push for the removal of US sanctions on Venezuela. The US does not recognize the government of Venezuela.
A&P assumed the work of Foley & Lardner, which resigned the account last month after Florida Senator Rick Scott blasted it for representing the "brutal regime" of Nicolas Maduro.
F&L was in line for a $12.5M flat fee for devising a "narrative and strategy" to help Venezuela remove the sanctions.
The US on March 26 charged Maduro and his associates with narco-terrorism, alleging they have "deployed cocaine as a weapon" to undermine the US, according to attorney general Bill Barr.
The Trump administration is offering a $15K reward for the capture or conviction of Maduro.
In a TV address, Maduro blasted Trump as a "racist cowboy" who "manages international relations like a New York mafia extortion artist you once were as a real estate boss.”
A&P's contract, which runs through December, is with Venezuela's attorney general Reinaldo Munoz Pedroza, who was not named in the US indictment.
Alexander Strategy Group has inked a three-month contact with the National Security Bureau of Taiwan, which is the principal intelligence service of the island nation.
Orchid Advisors has signed on to provide public policy and advocacy work for the Islamic Republic of Pakistan regarding its relationship with the US.
Ballard Partners has inked a $900K contract to provide strategic consulting and advocacy services for Iraq’s Taqadum political party.
Qatar’s Washington embassy has hired the firm of former New York Police Commissioner Bernie Kerik for counsel on how to advance bilateral ties between Qatar and the US.
Invest Hong Kong has hired Edelman to handle the Hong Kong FinTech Week and StartmeupHK Festival slated for Nov. 3-7.
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