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Squire Patton Boggs - Wikipedia

As a result of the merger, Patton Boggs closed its Anchorage, Alaska office, and a number of high-profile attorneys left the firm, including Benjamin Ginsberg and two other prominent Republican lawyers who joined Jones Day en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Squire_Pa…

In 2004, Ginsberg gave legal advice to the controversial 527 Group Swift Boat Veterans for Truth. Though his simultaneous activities with the "Swifties" and the 2004 Bush Campaign

Ginsberg served as National Counsel to Mitt Romney's Presidential campaign in 2008[3] and in 2012.[

He also commented on the tight presidential primary race between Hillary Clinton and Barack Obama in 2008, and compared the two candidates to "Walmart and Kmart – they're occupying the same space."

ESL Investments is managed by Edward Lampert, who found it in April 1988 and named it after his initials. His clients have included David Geffen (1988 - 2007), Michael Dell, the Tisch family (owners of Loews Corporation), and the Ziff family (owners of Ziff Davis) (1988 - 2013)

Vulcan Inc. is a privately held company founded by the Microsoft co-founder Paul Allen and his sister Jody Allen[2] in 1986 to establish and oversee the family's diverse business activities and philanthropic endeavors. It is currently controlled by the estate of Paul Allen.

Vulcan Inc. is headquartered in Seattle, Washington. Formed in 2003, Vulcan Capital is the multibillion-dollar investment arm of Vulcan and is headquartered in Seattle with an additional office in Palo Alto.[15] Vulcan Capital invests in both private and public companies with a

focus on making investments of $10 million to $100 million or more in companies mirroring the philanthropic approach of Paul Allen and Vulcan Inc. 4INFO, Alibaba Group, Charter Communications, DreamWorks, Magic Leap, Redfin and Tri Alpha Energy, Inc. are among the companies

Vulcan Capital has invested in.[16][17] Vulcan Capital's CEO is Jo Allen Patton.[Both the Allen Institute for Brain Science and the Allen Institute for Artificial Intelligence were incubated at Vulcan Inc. Started at Vulcan Inc. in 2001, the Allen Brain Atlas project sought to

understand the connections between genes and brain functioning. From the project's research, Paul Allen created the Allen Institute for Brain Science in 2003 with a $100 million donation.[25]
Project Halo came next. The project ran from 2002 to 2013, with the goal of creating

a "digital Aristotle" that can correctly answer queries about scientific information, using artificial intelligence. In February 2016, Allen announced that Vulcan would donate $2 million in grants to stop the spread of the Zika virus.