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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.
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.
Anthropic, developer of the Claude chatbot, hires Democratic-connected Avenue Solutions for DC representation.
