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  • ‘It’s a feeding frenzy’: US consultancy scoops up dozens of senior Global Counsel staff

    Business

    A little-known American advisory firm is poised to hire up to a quarter of Global Counsel’s senior leadership team, amid a “feeding frenzy” that has broken out for top staff left jobless by the ignominious collapse of the Peter Mandelson-founded lobbying group. Washington-headquartered Capstone expects to confirm as many as 20 senior hires in the [...]

    Peter Mandelson speaking at a Global Counsel event on international relations and economic policy, addressing a business a...
  • WPP sells majority stake in FGS Global to KKR as group growth flounders

    Media

    WPP also reported its interim results in a separate announcement. Despite flat revenue at £7.2bn, there was a 2.6 per cent drop on a like-for-like basis.

    Read departs after more a 30-year stint at the London-listed advertising group, of which seven were in the top job.
  • Alastair Campbell’s PR agency holds back bonuses after Qatar’s late payment

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    A top London PR agency that counts Alastair Campbell as a senior consultant was forced to delay its staff bonuses after the Qatari government was late paying millions of pounds of fees.

    Portland counts Alastair Campbell among its senior consultants.

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