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Advocate Policy & Public Affairs Consulting Ltd, APPC Register Entry for 1 December 2007 to 29 February 2008

Advocate Policy & Public Affairs Consulting Ltd
APPC Register Entry for 1 December 2007 to 29 February 2008
==Address(es) in UK==
Contact
85-87 Bayham Street
London
NW1 0AG
Name:
Tel:
Fax:
Email:
Jamie Holyer
020 7424 7945
020 7424 7941
Jamie@advocate-consulting.co.uk
Website: www.advocate-consulting.co.uk
===Offices outside UK===
None
==Staff (employed and sub-contracted) providing PA consultancy services this quarter==
Jamie Holyer
Mary Hinks-Edwards
Alex Fellows
==Fee-Paying clients for whom UK PA consultancy services provided this quarter==
• Bayer Schering Pharma
• Medical Defence Union
• Faculty of Public Health
• IDIS
• UCB
==Fee-Paying Clients for whom only UK monitoring services provided this quarter==
None
Category:APPC Register
Advocate Policy & Public Affairs Consulting Ltd, APPC Register Entry for 1 June 2009 to 31 August 2009

Advocate Policy and Public Affairs
:APPC Register Entry for 1 June 2009 to 31 August 2009
==Address(es)==
=== in UK===
:Contact
:1 Queen Anne’s Gate
:London
:SW1H 9BT
:Name: Jamie Holyer
:Tel: 020 7233 3558
:Fax:
:Email: Jamie@advocate-consulting.co.uk
:Website: http://www.advocate-consulting.co.uk
===Offices outside UK===
None
==Staff== 
:(employed and sub-contracted) providing PA consultancy services this quarter
*Jamie Holyer
*Helen Munro
*Scott Walker
*Miles Windsor
==Fee-Paying clients==
:(for whom UK PA consultancy services provided this quarter)
*Medical Defence Union
*Rare Disease UK
*Bayer Schering Pharma
*Astellas Pharmaceuticals Ltd
*Alexion Pharmaceuticals Inc.
*Schering-Plough Ltd
*Idis
==Fee-Paying Clients== 
:(for whom only UK monitoring services provided this quarter)
None
==Pro-Bono Clients== 
:(for whom consultancy and/or monitoring services have been provided this quarter)
None
==Notes==
 Category:APPC Register
Advocate Policy and Public Affairs

right|thumb|250px|Advocate London office, Wren House 
Advocate is a lobbying consultancy specialising in healthcare, which was formed in September 2007.
According to its website, recent lobbying successes have included "helping a major pharmaceutical client secure an ongoing Ministerial commitment to fund an expensive therapy area, and assisting a leading professional body to amend government legislation during its passage through the Houses of Parliament."Advocate website, accessed Jan 2009]
==People==
*Jamie Holyer, managing director and founder. Former Labour Party press officer, Holyer was an account director with lobbying agency Political Intelligence and a senior consultant with Fleishman-Hillard (formerly GPC International). He then went back to Labour to work on the party's third successive General Election victory in 2005.Public affairs agency Advocate launched Pharma Focus, Sept 2007
*Dr Sandra Nestler-Parr, director market access & reimbursement
*Julie Yvin, researcher
*Ed Keyser, researcher
*Douglas Jefferson, researcher Our team Advocate Consulting, accessed 19 October 2014 
===APPC UK===
====June 2015-August 2015====
Harry Farmer | Jamie Hoyler | Edward Keyser | Vashti McDonald-Clink | Jonathan Moore Register 1st June - 31st August 2015APPC, accessed 28 September 2015 
====September 2014-November 2014====
Jamie Holyer | Douglas Jefferson | Edward Keyser | Vashti McDonald-Clink | Dr Sandra Nestler-Parr | Julie Yvin Register 1st September 2014 - 30th November 2014 APPC, accessed 19 January 2015 
====June 2014-August 2014====
Jamie Holyer | Douglas Jefferson | Edward Keyser | Vashti McDonald-Clink | Dr Sandra Nestler-Parr | Julie Yvin Register 1st June 2014 - 31st August 2014 APPC, accessed 19 October 2014 
==Clients==
===June 2015-August 2015===
Aegerion | aHUS Action | Alhpa-1 Alliance | Bayer Pharma | NPS Pharmaceuticals | PNH-Alliance | Transplant 2013 | Vertex Pharmaceuticals Register 1st June-31st August 2015APPC, accessed 28 September 2015
===September 2014-November 2014===
Aegerion | aHUS Action | Alpha-1 Alliance | Bayer Pharma | CSL Behring | PNH-Alliance | Transplant 2013 | Vertex Pharmaceuticals
===June 2014-August 2014===
Aegerion | aHUS Action | Alpha-1 Alliance | Bayer Pharma | CSL Behring | PNH-Alliance | Transplant 2013 | Vertex Pharmaceuticals 
===2008===
Bayer Schering Pharma | IDIS | Alexion Biopharmaceuticals | Medical Defence Union | Astellas | UKCTAAPPC register to November 2008
==Contacts==
One Queen Anne’s Gate, 
London, SW1h 9BT
http://www.advocate-consulting.co.uk
==Resources==
*Advocate Policy & Public Affairs Consulting Ltd, APPC Register Entry for 1 December 2007 to 29 February 2008
*Advocate Policy & Public Affairs Consulting Ltd, APPC Register Entry for 1 June 2009 to 31 August 2009
==Notes==
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Aegis Foundation

The Aegis Foundation is a UK registered charity associated with Aegis Defence Services Ltd.
==Activities==
The Aegis Foundation according to its website:
:aims to bring immediate relief to communities in post-conflict environments, currently Iraq and Afghanistan, through small, grass roots, community projects which are low cost and high impact – our unique hallmark.
:Since we launched in 2004, we have carried out over 200 projects which include; installing water purification systems in schools; donating generators for hospitals and schools; equiping schools with basic stationery, backpacks, sports equipment, desks and lavatories; supplying hospitals with urgently needed medical supplies; and providing orphanages with basic furniture.
:We pride ourselves on making every single penny count by having a direct relationship with our beneficiaries and listening to what they really need, not just providing what we believe they need.
:We also help a number of charities which support the ex-Service community (e.g. SSAFA and Help for Heroes).
==Affiliations==
Aegis Defence Services
==People==
==Funding==
==Contact==
:Website:http://www.aegisfoundation.org
==Resources==
==Notes==
Category:Defence
Aegis Group

Aegis Group plc is a £1.4bn media and market research group listed on the London Stock Exchange. The company employs almost 14,000 staff in over 80 countries. Aegis Group's market research division is largely represented through Synovate. 
Aegis Media's media and communications services businesses include media agencies Carat and Vizeum, out-of-home specialist Posterscope and leading digital marketing services network, Isobar, including agencies such as de-construct and glue london in the UK. In France, Carat is the leading media agency, and Aegis Media is a leading global independent　media network in Europe meaning that it is not tied to any creative advertising network. 
Carat is Europe's largest full service media specialist, and the #4 media specialist worldwide. According to RECMA, billings were $18.6bn in 2004. The agency's parent is independent media services group Aegis, ranked by Advertising Age as the #7 ad organisation worldwide in 2004 with revenues of $1.4bn. Although Carat remains its best-known brand the group has devoted much of its time recently to the creation of affiliated global networks, such as market research group Synovate, secondary media network Vizeum and interactive brand Isobar. In Autumn 2005, Aegis became the focus of acquisition talks, with rival bidders including Havas, Publicis and WPP Source: Carat
French corporate raider Vincent Bolloré, through his holding company The Bolloré Group, is the single largest shareholder, controlling 29.12% of the issued share capital as at July 19, 2006. He has sought board representation on four separate occasions, but has been repelled. In his attempt in May 2007, he was overwhelmingly voted down by 90% of non-Bolloré shareholders, who voted 76% of eligible sharesKam Patel, Aegis shareholders shun Bollore again, Hemscott, May 25, 2007.
Aegis Group was created out of the break up of the old WCRS Group plc which had been one of the fastest growing marketing services groups of the 1980’s. Simon Marquis, Full service will never be resumed, Guardian, February 19th 2007 
WCRS was led by Peter Scott – the ‘S’ of WCRS Caroline Marshall, Ad hoc: Agency warhorses come charging back for buyout, Daily Telegraph, April 12th 2004 who went on to found Aegis as a separate company based on the original WCRS media buying division which itself was centred around the French media buying group Carat. The old WCRS agency has re-emerged as part of the Engine group Dan Sabbagh, Agency finds new power in Engine, Times, November 18th 2005.
==Affiliations==
*Media CSR Forum
==Notes==
Aegis Group Holdings AG

Aegis Group Holdings AG is the Swiss holding company for Aegis Defence Services.
The Basler Zeitung reported on 9 August 2010, that Aegis had created a Swiss holding company based in Basel. The new company had a capital of 225,000 Swiss Francs, and was headed by Kristian Meier.Britische Privatarmee gründet Holding-Sitz in Basel, Basler Zeitung, 9 August 2010.
The Swiss company had been created on 18 March 2010, and acquired the shares of the British company on 26 July 2010.Commercial register of canton Basel-City Internet full extract, accessed 23 August 2010. 
The Associated Press report that Aegis' seven owners had swapped their stakes in the UK company for shares in the Basel-based vehicle.Associated Press, Report: Security firm Aegis creates Swiss holding, Business Week, 9 August 2010. 
David Isenberg reported for the Huffington Post:
::A source sent me the Share Exchange Agreement detailing the conversion of Aegis Defence Services to Aegis Group Holdings AG, which was signed by all parties,
::This is a straightforward share exchange whereby each of the shareholders has swapped their shares in the UK company for a new Swiss company set up to own the UK company. The SEA is the document which underlies the transfer of Aegis ownership and control "offshore" from the UK to Switzerland, presumably for tax efficiency. Assuming all operations, billings and management now takes place through the holding company, i.e., outside of UK tax jurisdiction and, reportedly, some of the shareholders have relocated to Switzerland for this purpose, then future profits will be subject to Swiss, not Uk taxes.David Isenberg, Making a PSC Profit, Huffington Post, 17 August 2010.
==People==
*Dr Kristian Meier - President of the board of directors
*Dr Marc Bauen - Member of the board of directors
===Shareholders===
David Isenberg reported the following list of shareholders and their holdings in August 2010:
*Dominic Armstrong 125,000
*John Birch 10,000
*Mark Bullough 250,000
*Jeffrey Day 13,800
*James Ellery 10,000
*Peter Inge 20,000
*J Day Group Limited 250,000
*Timothy Spicer 446,200David Isenberg, Making a PSC Profit, Huffington Post, 17 August 2010.
This appears to be identical to the Companies House record of Aegis Defence Services shareholders as at 26 March 2010.Aegis Defence Services Limited, Annual Return, Companies House, 23 April 2010.
==Notes==
Category:SwitzerlandCategory:Private Military CorporationsCategory:Security Industry
Aegis Trust

Aegis Trust was established in 2000 to campaign "to prevent genocide worldwide". It is a spinoff of the The Holocaust Centre (at Beth Shalom Ltd). It works in partnership with several governmental or quasi-governmental bodies dealing with Holocaust education or genocide. From its "About Us" description:
:Today, the Aegis Trust works with a wide range of partners, including governmental, non-governmental, educational and academic institutions around the world.Aegis works closely with several UK government departments on Holocaust and genocide issues. It plays a leading role in the Intergovernmental Task Force for Holocaust Education, Remembrance and Research established by Bill Clinton, Goran Persson and Tony Blair in 1998. As special advisor to the Swedish Prime Minister's Office on genocide issues, Aegis Director Stephen Smith has been involved in the organisation of the Stockholm International Forum since the start.
Aegis Trust is a lobbying group seeking to avert genocide, and acts on several levels. Its activities include visiting and establishing relationships with other groups that have been subjected to genocide, Rwanda in particular. Its main activities since 2005 have been to push for action on Darfur where it claims a genocide is on-going. It placed an ad in the 20 Oct 2006 IHT seeking EU action on Darfur. 
Julian Borger wrote:
:Earlier this month [August], Britain's Advertising Standards Authority (ASA) ruled that two activist pressure groups, the Save Darfur Coalition and the Aegis Trust, lacked solid proof for their claim in an advertising campaign that 400,000 "innocent men, women and children" had been killed in Darfur. The ASA concluded that "there was a division of informed opinion about the accuracy of the figure contained in the ad and it should not have been presented in such a definitive way".…Nevertheless, the Save Darfur Coalition and the Aegis Trust were forced to retreat over the figures. They admit there is no definitive proof for the 400,000 claim, but still believe it reflects reality.Julian Borger, Darfur by numbers, Guardian, 4 Sept. 2007.
The ASA report is available online.ASA Adjudication: Save Darfur Coalition t/a Globe for Darfur (Accessed: 5 Sept. 2007)
==Affiliations==
*Protect Darfur -- website created by Aegis Trust
==Principals==
===Chair of Trustees===
*Stephen D. Smith
===Chief Executive Officer===
*James M. Smith
===Patrons===
*Romeo Dallaire
*Bob Geldof
*Richard Goldstone
*Marcus Storch
*Desmond Tutu
*Elie Wiesel
===Founding Patrons===
*The Pears Family
===Executive Advisory Committee===
*Hubert Locke
*Elisabeth Maxwell (widow of Robert Maxwell)
*Carol Rittner
*John Roth
*Richard Rubenstein
*Hugo Slim
*Jonathan Webber
==Sources of funding==
*Eranda Foundation
*Sigrid Rausing Trust
==References, Resources and Contact==
===Contact===
:Website: www.aegistrust.org
:Campaign Website www.protectdarfur.org
===References===
Aegon UK plc

Aegon UK plc is part of the AEGON Group - one of the world's largest providers of pensions, investments and protection solutions. On Fortune Global 500, the company ranked 133 in 2007 and 103 in 2008.CNN, 2007 Full List, accessed 07 April 2010.CNN, 2008 Full List, accessed 07 April 2010.
==People==
:Arthur W.H. Docters van Leeuwen, a Dutch national, has held various positions at the Dutch Interior Ministry and the Ministry of Finance. He was head of the Dutch Security Service for a number of years and president of the Dutch Council of Attorneys General, before being named chairman of the financial markets supervisory authority AFM in 1999. In 2008 he was appointed a representative of the Dutch state on Aegon’s board.Aegon, Members of Supervisory Board, accessed 07 April 2010.
:In 2004 Brian Mawhinney, then Conservative MP for North West Cambridgeshire, now a Life Peer, declared in the Register of Members’ Interests that he received between £20,001- £25,000 working as a ‘Consultant to Aegon Extraordinary Markets Inc.’UK Parliament, Register of Members' Interests, accessed 07 April 2010. 
:Karla M.H. Peijs, a member of Aegon’s Supervisory Board since 2007 is Queen's Commissioner for the province of Zeeland in the Netherlands. She was a member of the European Parliament from 1989 to 2003 and Minister of Transport, Public Works and Water Management in the Dutch government from 2003 to 2007. In 2008 she was appointed a representative of the Dutch state on Aegon’s board.Aegon, Members of Supervisory Board, accessed 07 April 2010.
:U.K. Life Peer Robert Smith, Lord Smith of Kelvin, is a Director of Aegon UK.UK Parliament, Register of Lords’ Interests, accessed 07 April 2010.
==Contact==
:Website:
:http://www.aegon.co.uk/
==Resources==
*Aegon, Members of Supervisory Board, accessed 07 April 2010.
*CNN, 2007 Full List, accessed 07 April 2010.
*CNN, 2008 Full List, accessed 07 April 2010.
*UK Parliament, Register of Members' Interests, accessed 07 April 2010.
*UK Parliament, Register of Lords’ Interests, accessed 07 April 2010.
==Notes==
Category: Financial Revolving Door
Aeneas Lavinium

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Aeneas Lavinium is the pseudonym of British-based Counterjihad blogger Aeneas, blogger.com, accessed 29 June 2010 Chris Knowles. Knowles was suspended from his post in the children's services department of Leeds City Council in 2011 after Unite Against Fascism exposed him as a director of the well funded US-based Centre for Vigilant Freedom. Tash Shifrin, EDL strategist ‘Alan Lake’ suspended from manager job in City, Unite Against Fascism, 31 January 2012 
==Background==
In a YouTube interview with Politically Incorrect, Aeneas stated "I come from a small town just outside Leeds. It's not very Islamised. There are certain parts of Leeds that are Islamised.""Malarich", Interview mit Aeneas aus England bei der Wilders-Demo in Berlin, Youtube, 30 April 201, accessed 1 September 2011.
==Center for Vigilant Freedom==
In an 8 July 2007 blog comment at the Lionheart blog, Aeneas invited Paul Ray to join the Center for Vigilant Freedom's blog network, stating:
::I am a member of the Center for Vigilant Freedom (CVF)/910 Group. I listened to your excellent interview on the Gathering Storm Blog Talk Radio show and wanted to make you aware of an alternative media network that was highlighted on the show. 
::We are in the very early stages of developing a 24-7 media nework. Would you be interested in becoming involved.Online Radio interview, Lionheart, 6 July 2007.
Aeneas was listed as the CVF's UK country co-ordinator, with the first name Chris, in its July 2007 newsletter:
::United Kingdom - Chris - aeneas@vigilantfreedom.com -
::http://beernsandwiches.blogspot.com/Vigilant Freedom Newsletter, 21 July 2007, archived at the Internet Archive.
 
==Affiliations==
*Center for Vigilant Freedom/International Civil Liberties Alliance - Knowles is a director, also runs the Alliance website and coordinates its European work from his West Yorkshire base.
===Conferences===
*UK and Scandinavia Counterjihad summit
*CounterJihad Brussels 2007
*Counterjihad Vienna 2008
*Counterjihad Copenhagen 2009
*Counterjihad Zurich 2010
==Contact==
*Blogger Beer N Sandwiches
*4Freedoms Aeneas Lavinium's Page
*Facebook Aeneas Lavinium
*YouTube AeneasEuropa's Channel
==Notes==
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Aetna

Aetna is an American health insurance company and "worldwide commissioner of health management services". It commissions services for approximately 37.2 million people worldwide through a broad range of health management services and health insurance products.Aetna press release, Aetna Appointed by Department of Health to the PBC Development Framework, 2 Dec 2008Aetna claims "relationships and contracts with 783,000 healthcare professionals" in the US and 90 facilities in the UK.British Medical Journal, New kids on the block, 24 August 2010
==Aetna moves into the UK==
Aetna UK was established in early 2007 to offer dedicated commissioning support services to Primary Care Trusts (PCTs). It is part of an ongoing expansion of Aetna’s international businesses, with London serving as the operations centre for both commissioning services and Aetna’s UK, Europe, Middle East and Africa expatriate business.Alternative Primary Care, Aetna UK, 11 November 2009
The UK is proving very hospitable to companies like Aetna. Head of Aetna UK, Vincent Sai said: “The National Health Service is being reorganized with some significant structural changes. The primary care trusts are focused on population health management and they are seeking assistance with collection and data management that will help them predict demand and contract with providers for required services.”MANAGED CARE MAG, U.S. Health Insurers Find Opportunities Overseas, December 2007
Aetna UK offers help with commissioning, including data management and decision support, disease management, service design, quality improvement strategies, contracting, performance management, training, and education. It does not provide clinical services.
==Lobbying==
===United States lobbying===
Aetna's total lobbying expenditure in the US for 2010: $3,847,744. It also employs the following lobbying firms in the US:Aetna Inc, Open Secrets, accessed Nov 2010 
*Avenue Solutions
*Ernst & Young
*Alston & Bird
*Akin, Gump et al	
==People==
*Vincent Sai
==Contacts==
8 Eastcheap - 2nd floor
London, EC3M 1AE
Global website: http://www.aetna.com
==References==
Category:Healthcare Industry
Africa Direct

Africa Direct is associated with the libertarian anti-environmental LM network. Africa Direct was launched in 1995 in response to the mass killings of the previous year "You may as well kill me now", rrojasdatabank.info website, accessed 5 Nov 2010 and has shown no obvious signs of activity since 1997. "Africa direct Conference", Scribd website, accessed 5 Nov 2010
Africa Direct questioned the orthodox view of the Rwandan genocide. It submitted a document to the United Nations Tribunal on Rwanda called "Why the Rwandan war was not genocide".SUBMISSION TO THE UNITED NATIONS TRIBUNAL ON RWANDA: Why the Rwandan war was not genocide, version placed in web archive 19 Aug 1999, accessed in web archive 27 Apr 2010
Associates included LM network associates John PenderJohn Pender, Recent demonstrations in Ghana show that there is no future for Africans under structural adjustment. John Pender of Africa Direct reports, October 1995, The Robinson Rojas Archive, accessed 27 Apr 2010 and Barrie Collins, who wrote the revisionist view of the Rwanda genocide, Obedience in Rwanda (Perpetuity Press, 30 Nov 1998).Obedience in Rwanda, Amazon.co.uk, acc 27 Apr 2010
==Contact==
:Africa Direct BM Box 8109
:London
:WC1N 3XX011
:United Kingdom
:Telephone: +44 0973 326302
:Fax: +44 171 691 7063
:Email: africadirect AT easynet.co.uk
==Notes==
Category:LM network
African-American Labor Center

The African-American Labor Center was founded in 1964 as a counterpart to the American Institute for Free Labor Development.Hugh Wilford, The Mighty Wurlitzer, How the CIA played America, Harvard, 2008, p.306n86.
==People==
*Irving Brown - Executive Director 1965-1973.
*Maida Springer
*Patrick J. O'Farrell
==External resources==
*NameBase AFRICAN AMERICAN LABOR CENTER
*John Stoner, How Likely Was Pan-African Labor Solidarity? AATUF and Unfulfilled Promise, H-Net, August 2004.
==Notes==
Category:Africa
African Coalition for Trade

The African Coalition for Trade, Incorporation (ACT) is, according to its website, "a non-profit, member-supported trade association dedicated to enhancing the opportunities for mutually beneficial trade between the countries of Sub-Saharan Africa and the United States." African Coalition For Trade , access 17/03/2007 ACT has a range of individual conmpanies that are registered members that specialise in private sector interests throughout many African countries, including: Botswana, Malawi, Cote d'Ivoire (Ivory Coast), Mauritius, Tanzania, Kenya and South Africa. A majority of ACT's members come from the textile, clothing and agriculture sectors. 
==Notes==
African Growth and Opportunity Act

The African Growth and Opportunity Act (AGOA) was signed into law on the 18th of May, 2000. According to the official website the Act "offers tangible incentives for African countries to continue their efforts to open their economies and build free markets." AGOA website , accessed 12/03/2008 AGOA works at improving trade relations between Africa and the United States and by aiding African families find opportunities to build prosperity. It does this with a long term perspective. Their basis of prosperity is based around the enforcement of reform efforts, through providing access to U.S. technical expertise and by creating a high level dialogue on trade and invetsment.
== Notes ==