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Knob Petroleum has retained Ballard Partners to explore opportunities in Venezuela.
Panama City-based Knob provides services and parts to oil refineries, rigs and offshore platforms.
Ballard, which has close ties to the Trump administration, established a Venezuela working group within its western hemisphere affairs practice in January
Partner Scott Wagner, a member of the western hemisphere unit, is a lawyer with decades of cross-border transaction in Latin America, and reps Knob. He has handled issues in Venezuela, Cuba, Colombia and Panama.
Brian Ballard, a Trump fund-raiser, also handles Knob.
Ballard Partners has signed to a represent the US unit of Rheinmetall, Germany’s biggest defense contractor, on Army procurement issues.
BGR Group signs on to provide lobbying and PR services for Terzo, an AI financial intelligence platform. Douglas Lute, chair of BGR’s international and defense practices, will join Terzo’s board of directors.
Avoq has landed Palantir Technologies, the controversial surveillance company founded by right-wing billionaire Peter Thiel, as a client.
Anne Kierig, who was senior manager of public policy at Amazon, has joined the American Advertising Federation as VP-government affairs. She takes over for Clark Rector, who is retiring after a 37-year run at AAF.
TikTok USDS Joint Venture LLC, which was established in compliance with the executive order signed by President Trump, has hired Valcour LLC, which has close ties with his administration.
