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Vision Americas International has filed a $1.3M contract to provide communications and PA support to Vinson & Elkins to backstop its legal work on behalf of the ad hoc board of Petroleos de Venezuela, the US recognized representative of the state-owned energy giant.
The Vienna, VA-based shop is to get involved with data analysis, relationship strategy development & execution, and advocacy work targeted at key decision makers, according to its April 30 engagement letter.
VAI also will provide support before, during and after meetings with American public figures. It will monitor those meetings, and, if necessary, hold meetings directly with the stakeholders to continue these conversations.
The firm’s fees cover work through Sept. 10.
CEO Marcela Prieto-Botero heads VAI’s V&E team.
She’s joined by Maria Camila Reina (head of strategic communications & PR), Jose Vicente Carraquero (political strategist), and Ana Maria Reyes (general assistant manager).
To shape public opinion about corporate legal cases, communicators need to be prepared from the filing forward, according to a new study from H/Advisors Abernathy.
Longacre Square Partners has formalized its litigation & complex disputes practice under COO Rebecca Kral.
FGS Global handles Albertsons Co. as it sues former merger partner Kroger for failing to fight for approval of the deal after it was blocked by a federal judge.
Michael Frishberg, who was global COO at Kroll financial and risk advisory, has signed on as a senior advisor at C Street Advisory Group.
A 30-year industry vet gives a look inside the Land of the Law from a PR person's perspective.
