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Ballard Partners has signed on Jeff Bezos-backed Blue Origin rocket company to handle issues related to commercial spaceflight.
The company, which competes with Elon Musk’s SpaceX, is in the midst of a restructuring to focus more on launches rather than research and development.
That revamp is expected to result in a cut of 1,000 employees from its 11,000-member workforce, according to a Bloomberg report.
Blue Origin CEO Dave Lamp says Blue Origin will make the second launch of its New Glenn rocket in the Spring. A launch last month resulted in the loss of New Glenn’s booster.
He also expects Blue Origin’s Blue Moon lunar lander to reach the Moon later this year.
Brian Ballard, a top Trump fundraiser, heads his firm’s Blue Origin team, which includes Dan McFaul, ex-aide to Florida Republican Congressmen Joe Scarborough and Matt Gaetz; and Mat Forrest, former events supervisor for West Palm Beach.
The firm is the former home of attorney general Pam Bondi and Trump chief of staff Susie Wiles.
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.
