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| Lobbyists helping Dubai company to seal $1.8 billion deal - The Carlyle Group involved |
| 2007-06-27 |
| Learning from the mistakes of last year's flubbed Dubai Ports World (DPW) deal, lobbyists and PR consultants are helping to engineer a smooth transaction for another Dubai government majority-owned company. Dubai Aerospace Enterprise (DAE) is leaving nothing to chance on its $1.8 billion purchase of two aviation companies, Standard Aero Holdings Inc. and Landmark Aviation, from investment firm The Carlyle Group. At least four leading firms have registered to advocate on DAE's behalf, both on Capitol Hill and with the administration. Two firms, the Glover Park Group and Quinn Gillespie & Associates, disclosed they each could earn more than $200,000, plus expenses, starting this March, according to contracts filed with the Justice Department. The other firms, the MWW Group and Skadden Arps Slate Meagher & Flom, have not disclosed their potential earnings, according to public records. |
| Posted by:3dc |
| #3 Lipstick on a pig.... However once these lobbyists and PR functionaries throw some money into lawmaker's PACs, those that had previously disparaged the Dubai Ports deal will come around on this one. |
| Posted by: danking_70 2007-06-27 11:14 |
| #2 I wasn't wearing my glasses when I read the headline and thought it said: "Lobbyists helping Dubai company to steal $1.8 billion deal - The Carlyle Group involved." I suppose it could be right either way. |
| Posted by: Glenmore 2007-06-27 08:52 |
| #1 The UAE has adopted a see no evil policy towards those jihadis who direct their terror elsewhere. In any case, their oil fields are projected to run dry in 2015. Post insolvency scenarios don't present the UAE as a country to which we should want to transfer high technology. |
| Posted by: McZoid 2007-06-27 05:03 |