McLarty Associates
The Scowcroft Group and McLarty Associates have deepened their cooperation by partnering together in key emerging markets worldwide.
In China, companies and policymakers have long benefited from the insights and strategic thinking of Brent Scowcroft and his colleagues. McLarty and Scowcroft have worked together in China on several client matters. The Scowcroft Group, with its unparalleled experience and insights into China, has joined with McLarty’s senior leadership and in-country team to offer clients an even deeper capacity and depth of knowledge in a market where challenges are growing as fast as opportunities. Clients of the firms now have full access to the combined China resources of the two firms.
In Latin America, McLarty’s mastery of the business environment has been the foundation for the firm’s reputation and current business reach. Scowcroft Group clients now have direct access to the McLarty network in Latin America that, for over a decade, has made McLarty the leader in delivering global business and regulatory solutions to clients who demand the very best strategic and corporate growth strategies in this key region.
McLarty Associates is headed by former Clinton White House Chief of Staff Thomas “Mack” McLarty, President George W. Bush’s first Director of National Intelligence and onetime Deputy Secretary of State John Negroponte, and Nelson Cunningham, a former Senate and White House aide. An international strategic advisory firm, McLarty Associates counsels corporations and non-profits on strategic planning, government relations issues and advocacy, market access, mergers and acquisitions, corporate communication, crisis management, and political and economic risk issues worldwide. The firm’s financial markets practice advises leading global financial institutions while its film and entertainment practice assists Hollywood studios and filmmakers on internationally-themed movie productions and script development. McLarty Associates’ principals are former diplomats, trade negotiators, intelligence officers, journalists, and business people; most are based in Washington, D.C. and New York, with overseas associates in Mexico, Brazil, Colombia, Japan, Philippines, United Arab Emirates, Egypt, China, Hong Kong and India.