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M Group Strategic Communications handles FTX Ventures as the cryptocurrency firm takes a 30 percent stake in former Trump counselor Anthony Scaramucci’s SkyBridge Capital alternative investment firm.
FTX, which is headed by billionaire Sam Bankman-Fried, and SkyBridge have a history of working together.
It has signed a multi-year sponsorship of SkyBridge’s SALT conferences in North America, Asia and the Middle East.
Bankman-Fried will be among the speakers at the upcoming SALT season in New York.
He said FTX looks “forward to collaborating closely with SkyBridge on its crypto investment activity and also working alongside them on promising non-crypto-related investments.”
Scaramucci did a ten-day stint as Donald Trump’s White House communications director but then became a top critic of the former president.
M Group’s Jay Morakis handles FTX, while Prosek Partners represents SkyBridge.
Josh Hochberg, COO and global head of special situations and investor relations at Edelman Smithfield, has joined ICR as president, communications.
Juleanna Glover’s Ridgely Walsh handles Lupa Systems as James Murdoch’s media & technology investment company acquires New York Magazine, Vox Media Podcast and various digital properties of Vox Media.
Publicis Groupe has acquired LiveRamp, the San Francisco-based data collaboration platform, for $2.2B.
Joele Frank is working the media for Atlanta’s Bitcoin Depot as the country’s largest operator of bitcoin ATMs files for Chapter 11 to begin the wind-down of its business.
Catalyst IR handles Mobix Labs as it signs a “non-binding letter of intent” to acquire Special Project Delivery LLC, a privately-owned platform with positions in US rare earth properties.
