The Harbour Group, LLC is a

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lobbying and public relations firm.

History

Harbour Group was founded in 2001 by former Clinton administration senior advisor for policy and communications Joel Johnson, who left in 2005 to join the Glover Park Group, and Richard Marcus, who continued to lead it . Harbour Group formerly worked with the

Alexander Strategy Group Alexander Strategy Group was an American lobbying firm involved in the K Street Project, founded by Ed Buckham and his wife Wendy. Buckham is a former chief of staff of House Majority Leader Tom DeLay, and the firm openly promoted its access to D ...

to provide access to

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decision makers, according to ASG's website, before ASG was dissolved in late 2005. The Harbour Group was associated with

Swidler Berlin Shereff Friedman Swidler Berlin Shereff Friedman LLP was a Washington, D.C.-based law firm, itself a product of the merger between D.C. law firm Swidler & Berlin and New York City's Shereff, Friedman, Hoffman & Goodman LLP in 1998. The firm merged with Bingham Mc ...

LLP, a Washington, D.C.-based law firm, until February 28, 2006, when that firm merged with

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LLP. On September 27, 2001,

Belle Haven Consultants Belle Haven Consultants was a for-profit organization founded in 1997 by former Heritage Foundation president Edwin Feulner and Heritage Foundation Asia policy expert Ken Sheffer. Feulner's wife, Linda Feulner, later took her husband's place as a p ...

, a

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consulting firm run by principals at

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, hired the Alexander Strategy Group to represent

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interests. According to

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lobbying records, Belle Haven paid ASG

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620,000 over two years "on behalf of unspecified Malaysian business interests seeking to present a positive image of their country in the United States". Belle Haven also paid the Harbour Group, the Western Strategy Group, and a third lobbying firm another $640,000 to represent Malaysian interests at the same time. In 2021, the public affairs company Finsbury Glover Hering announced that it would be acquiring Harbour Group.{{cite news , last1=Oprysko , first1=Caitlin , title=King of Jordan brings on some PR help , url=https://www.politico.com/newsletters/politico-influence/2021/10/06/king-of-jordan-brings-on-some-pr-help-798076 , access-date=21 August 2023 , work=

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, date=6 October 2021 , language=en

References

External links

Official website
American companies established in 2001 Lobbying firms based in Washington, D.C. Public relations companies based in Washington, D.C.