Media Coverage

Media Coverage

Politico
| Playbook: Biden’s midterm window is closing

Robert Etter and Max Mandich are joining Global Counsel. Etter is an adviser and most recently was associate director for legislative affairs for OMB. Mandich is a senior associate in the financial services practice and most recently was a policy adviser for Rep. Josh Gottheimer (D-N.J.).

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The Straits Times
| A stake in private market investing as it takes off

Mr Nicholas Lee, a senior associate at public policy advisory firm Global Counsel, says: "Historically, investors' access to off-exchange equity or debt products has been limited by high initial investment thresholds, and opaque or administratively burdensome investment processes. Without a centralised platform, investors need to manage multiple intermediaries to make a single transaction."

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TODAY
| Lawrence Wong not being a unanimous pick for top job a 'natural outcome' of more robust, inclusive process: Analysts

Practice Lead for Asia at public policy advisory firm Global Counsel, Mr Andrew Yeo, said: "Some might point to the four nays as being indicative of a divided administration, but I disagree with this notion. Mr Khaw was tasked by the Prime Minister not merely to determine the overall leader, but to do so in a way that forged consensus."

"This explains a departure from the tradition of only consulting within a small circle of ministers, but also signals their desire to secure a more robust and inclusive mandate for Singapore’s next leader, perhaps in acknowledgement of the politically fractured administrations we are seeing globally today." 

Agreeing with Mr Yeo, senior research fellow at the Institute of Policy Studies at the National University of Singapore, Dr Woo Jun Jie, told TODAY that this "points towards a new way of leadership selection that is more formal and allows for more candid sharing of views from stakeholders who were consulted".

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