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FGS Global acquires Longview Communications and Public Affairs
Longview is Canada’s leading corporate communications and public affairs firm, advising clients on corporate and financial communications, issues and crisis management, special situations, government relations, regulatory affairs and foreign direct investment approvals. Longview has been renamed FGS Longview. FGS Longview has offices in Toronto, Vancouver and Calgary, as well as team members in Ottawa, Winnipeg, Montreal and Victoria.
FGS Global, backed by WPP Plc and KKR & Co. Inc. and headquartered in New York, is a leading global strategic communications consultancy, with approximately 1,300 professionals around the world, advising clients in navigating complex situations and reputational challenges. In addition to New York, the company has offices in: Abu Dhabi, Amsterdam, Beijing, Berlin, Boston, Brussels, Chicago, Dubai, Dublin, Düsseldorf, Frankfurt, Hong Kong, Houston, Kingston, London, Los Angeles, Munich, Paris, Riyadh, San Francisco, Shanghai, Singapore, Tokyo, Washington, D.C., South Florida and Zurich.
Gowling WLG advised FGS Global with respect to this acquisition with a team led by David Campbell and which also included Tiffany Lee Bianchi and Natalia Castro (corporate/M&A), Carl Hinzmann (tax), Jordan Epstein (employment), Natalia Rizkalla-Kamel (IP), Elad Gafni and Ian Macdonald (competition), Daniel Hayhurst (pensions) and Aleksandra Finelli (real estate), assisted by student-at-law Ursula Kenkel.
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