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Ruder Finn has agreed to provide strategic communications support for Futurewei Technologies, a wholly owned subsidiary of China’s Huawei Technologies.
The Trump administration slapped trade sanctions on Huawei in 2019, deeming it a risk to national security.
Ruder Finn’s contract with Futurewei went into effect Jan. 5 and runs through March.
The pact calls for strategic counsel, media relations, influential stakeholder mapping, thought leadership, content strategy/development/management, and crisis/issues communications.
RF has a dozen staffers handling Futurewei, including CEO Kathy Bloomgarden and senior VPs Brianna Rabe and Antonia Caamano.
The New York-based shop also represents Huawei Technologies USA, which spent $806K in fees at RF during the 12-month period ended June 30.
Soma Oil and Gas Ltd., a British Virgin Islands company focused on upstream petroleum exploration and development opportunities off the coast of Somalia. is looking for US partners.
Keybridge Communications signs on to pitch Switzerland as America's "quiet ally in prosperity."
Ruder Finn, Inc. has signed on to support China’s Huawei Technologies Co. and its US research arm Futurewei’s communications in the US.
Plus Communications handles Polish billionaire Zygmunt Solorz who is battling his three children for control of two family foundations that own Poland's Cyfrowy Polsat satellite TV/telecommunications platform.
Rubin Turnbull & Assocs. has been hired to provide consulting & communications services to the ad hoc board of Petréleos de Venezuela S.A.
