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{{Infobox company
| name = Giuliani Partners
| logo = GiulianiPartners.gif
| slogan =
| type = [[Private company|Private]]
| foundation = 2002
| location = [[New York City]], U.S.
| industry = [[Management consulting]] Security consulting [[Real estate]] [[Investment fund]]s
| revenue = $40 million (est. 2007)
| num_employees = About 60 (2007) about 50 (2008)<ref name="nyt020108"/> fewer (2010)<ref name="pol090210"/>
| key_people = [[Rudy Giuliani]] (founder, CEO and chairman)
| products =
| homepage = [https://web.archive.org/web/20020118132708/http://www.giulianipartners.com/ giulianipartners.com]
}}
'''Giuliani Partners LLC''' is a [[management consulting]] and [[Private security|security]] consulting business founded by former [[Mayor of New York City|New York City Mayor]] [[Rudy Giuliani]] in January 2002.<ref name="gpartners">[https://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2007/05/12/AR2007051201270_pf.html "In Private Sector, Giuliani Parlayed Fame Into Wealth"], ''[[The Washington Post]]'', May 13, 2007. Accessed June 8, 2007.</ref> As of 2020, [[Dun & Bradstreet]] estimated that the business had 20 employees and revenues of $6.34 million.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.dnb.com/business-directory/company-profiles.giuliani_partners_llc.b977c80dfcf079c2d62c152d357276e4.html|title=Giuliani Partners LLC|publisher=[[Dun & Bradstreet]]|year=2020|access-date=November 19, 2020}}</ref>

==Structure==
Rudy Giuliani is chairman and CEO of Giuliani Partners.<ref>{{cite web|title=Company Overview of Giuliani Partners LLC|url=https://www.bloomberg.com/research/stocks/private/snapshot.asp?privcapId=5938867|publisher=[[Bloomberg News]]|access-date=12 March 2017}}</ref> Many of the managing partners and executives of Giuliani Partners are former [[New York City]] officials, counsels, or emergency services leaders, and associates from Giuliani's time as mayor.<ref name="execs">{{Cite web |url=http://www.giulianipartners.com/executives.aspx |title=Giuliani Partners - Michael D. Hess |access-date=2007-07-04 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20070627090731/http://www.giulianipartners.com/executives.aspx |archive-date=2007-06-27 |url-status=dead }}</ref> There is a subsidiary of the partnership, Giuliani Security & Safety LLC (before 2005, Giuliani-Kerik), which focuses on security consulting, especially regarding buildings;<ref name="damuro">{{Cite web |url=http://www.giulianipartners.com/damuro.aspx |title=Giuliani Partners - Pasquale J. D'Amuro |access-date=2007-07-04 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20070616052333/http://www.giulianipartners.com/damuro.aspx |archive-date=2007-06-16 |url-status=dead }}</ref> its chairman and CEO is [[Pasquale J. D'Amuro]], a former assistant director in charge at the [[Federal Bureau of Investigation]]'s New York office, and an inspector in charge following the [[September 11 attacks]].<ref name="gpartners"/><ref name="damuro"/> Other subsidiaries include Giuliani Safety & Security Asia and Giuliani Compliance Japan.<ref name="gpartners"/>

Giuliani Partners' stated mission expresses "dedicated to helping leaders solve critical strategic issues, accelerate growth, and enhance the reputation and brand of their organizations in the context of strongly held values ... based on six fundamental principles: Integrity, Optimism, Courage, Preparedness, Communication, Accountability."<ref name="mission">{{Cite web |url=http://www.giulianipartners.com/philosophy.aspx |title=Giuliani Partners - Philosophy |access-date=2007-07-04 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20070814015708/http://www.giulianipartners.com/philosophy.aspx |archive-date=2007-08-14 |url-status=dead }}</ref>
"No client is ever approved or worked on without a full discussion with Rudy ... We're cautious in the right sense of that term, in terms of who we work for. We always want to make sure it is a company that is doing the right thing, that we're proud to represent", according to Giuliani Partners' senior managing partner, Michael D. Hess, former [[corporation counsel]] for New York City.<ref name="gpartners"/>

Giuliani's colleagues at Giuliani Partners have included founding member and vice president Matthew Mahoney, a former deputy director of advance for the mayor's office;<ref>{{cite news|url=http://www.nydailynews.com/blogs/dailypolitics/2008/03/senate-gop-hires-exgiuliani-ai.html|title=Senate GOP Hires Ex-Giuliani Aide|author=Benjamin, Elizabeth | newspaper=[[New York Daily News]] | date=2008-03-20| url-status=dead| archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110604232324/http://www.nydailynews.com/blogs/dailypolitics/2008/03/senate-gop-hires-exgiuliani-ai.html | archive-date=2011-06-04 }}</ref> [[Bernard Kerik]], Giuliani's former police commissioner, who was later accused of having ties to organized crime<ref name="gpartners"/> and resigned from the firm in 2004;<ref>{{cite news|url=https://www.nytimes.com/2007/11/24/nyregion/24kerik.html|title=Kerik Loan Activity Is Brought to Light After Indictment | author=Rashbaum, William K.|newspaper=[[The New York Times]]|date=2007-11-24}}</ref> former FBI investigator D'Amuro, who admitted to taking six non-evidentiary artifacts from [[Ground Zero]] as mementos, but against whom no action was taken by the FBI;<ref name="gfiles">[https://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-srv/politics/special/giuliani/partners.html "The Giuliani Files"], ''[[The Washington Post]]''. Accessed July 5, 2007.</ref> and Monsignor [[Alan Placa]], a high school friend of Giuliani and a former Roman Catholic priest who was accused of [[Roman Catholic sex abuse cases|sexually molesting a teenager and of covering up molestation]] in the church.<ref>Michael Powell, [https://www.nytimes.com/2007/11/03/us/politics/03kerik.html "Loyal to Kerik, Giuliani Missed Warning Signs"], ''The New York Times'', November 3, 2007</ref> Giuliani Partners has stated that Giuliani "believes that Alan Placa has been unjustly accused", and that the firm has no plans to stop representing him.<ref>{{cite news | url=https://www.cbsnews.com/news/giuliani-pressured-to-drop-clergy-pal/ | title=Giuliani Pressured To Drop Clergy Pal | agency=[[Associated Press]] | work=[[CBS News]] | date=2007-06-23 | access-date=2007-11-09}}</ref>

The firm is privately held. Sources have placed Giuliani Partners' earnings at over $100 million in the five years through early 2007.<ref name="gpartners"/> Another estimate shows it with annual revenues of $40 million and 55 employees. After stepping down as CEO and chairman, Giuliani retained a 30 percent equity stake in the partnership,<ref name="nd120507">{{cite news|url=http://www.newsday.com/news/nationworld/ny-usrudy055488144dec05,0,6737667.story|title=Rudy no longer firm CEO | author=Tom Brune | work=[[Newsday]] | date=2007-12-05 | access-date=2007-12-06}}</ref> which paid him $4.1 million in 2006.<ref name="nd120507"/> The firm's fortunes, which had always been dependent upon Giuliani's star power,<ref name="nyt081608"/> diminished due to Giuliani's absence during his campaign, which ended in late January 2008. Its client list and revenues decreased, and staff was reduced from about 60 to about 50 employees.<ref name="nyt020108">{{cite news|url=https://www.nytimes.com/2008/02/01/us/politics/01rudy.html | title=Giuliani Will Return Diminished, but Not Finished, Associates Say|author=Eric Lipton | newspaper=[[The New York Times]]|date=2008-02-01| access-date=2008-07-23}}</ref><ref name="nyt072008"/>

During the 2008 presidential election effort, Peter Powers was chairman and CEO of Giuliani Partners,<ref name="nd120507"/> having replaced Giuliani<ref name="rudy">{{Cite web |url=http://www.giulianipartners.com/giuliani.aspx |title=Giuliani Partners - Rudolph W. Giuliani |access-date=2007-07-04 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20070627103851/http://www.giulianipartners.com/giuliani.aspx |archive-date=2007-06-27 |url-status=dead }}</ref> in June 2007,<ref name="nd120507"/> ahead of the [[Rudy Giuliani presidential campaign, 2008|2008 Rudy Giuliani presidential campaign]]. Peters was formerly a [[Deputy Mayor of New York City|deputy mayor of New York]].<ref name="nd120507"/>

Giuliani subsequently returned to work at the firm, splitting time between it and the law firm [[Bracewell & Giuliani]].<ref name="nyt081608">{{cite news|url=https://www.nytimes.com/2008/08/17/nyregion/17rudy.html|title=How's Life for Giuliani These Days? Quite Busy|author=Santora, Marc|newspaper=[[The New York Times]]|date=2008-08-16 | access-date=2008-12-11}}</ref> The company specialized in consulting on energy-related matters.<ref name="nyt081608"/> In July 2008, Giuliani Partners announced it was diversifying via the creation of a [[real estate]] [[investment fund]] that would target foreign investors seeking to capitalize on the weak dollar and invest in New York and Washington, D.C. real estate.<ref name="nyt072008">{{cite news|url=https://www.nytimes.com/2008/07/20/nyregion/20rudy.html|title=Giuliani Firm Plans Real Estate Investment Fund|author=Santora, Marc|newspaper=[[The New York Times]]|date=2008-07-20| access-date=2008-07-23}}</ref> The fund would be a collaboration with [[Rockville, Maryland]]-based [[Berman Enterprises]].<ref name="nyt072008"/> By mid-2009, Giuliani Partners was still feeling the effects of Giuliani's ongoing political life, including the departure of former Giuliani chief of staff Anthony V. Carbonetti, who was working on possible Giuliani-related aspects of the [[New York gubernatorial election, 2010]].<ref>{{cite news|url=https://www.nytimes.com/2009/08/25/nyregion/25rudy.html|title=Giuliani, Seeing Opening, Mulls a Governor Bid|author=Hakim, Danny|newspaper=[[The New York Times]]|date=2009-08-24 | access-date=2009-08-25}}</ref>

The firm's headquarters had been in [[5 Times Square]], at the south end of New York City's [[Times Square]], since its founding.<ref name="gpartners"/> In 2010, the firm relocated to Manhattan to share office space with the New York office of Giuliani's other law partnership, Texas law firm [[Bracewell & Giuliani]].<ref name="pol090210">{{cite news|url=https://www.politico.com/blogs/maggiehaberman/0910/Giuliani_Partners_closes_Times_Square_office_.html | title=Giuliani Partners closes Times Square office|author=Haberman, Maggie|newspaper=[[Politico]]|date=2010-09-02| access-date=2010-09-12}}</ref> The firm had further reduced its number of employees, and Bracewell & Giuliani became the former mayor's primary public business activity.<ref name="pol090210"/>

==Client base==
Giuliani Partners has been categorized by various media outlets as a [[lobbying]] entity capitalizing on Giuliani's name recognition.<ref>{{cite news|url=http://www.nydailynews.com/01-07-2007/news/story/486423p-409552c.html |location=New York|work=[[New York Daily News]]|title=New York News, Traffic, Sports, Weather, Photos, Entertainment, and Gossip - NY Daily News|url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20070211063741/http://www.nydailynews.com/01-07-2007/news/story/486423p-409552c.html|archive-date=February 11, 2007}}</ref><ref>[https://nymag.com/news/articles/wtc/1year/giuliani3.htm American Idol]</ref>
Clients of Giuliani Partners are required to sign [[confidentiality agreement]]s that preclude commentary about the work the firm's work and fees.<ref name="gpartners"/> Giuliani has refused to talk about his clients, services rendered, compensation received, or any details about the company.<ref name="gpartners"/>

One of Giuliani Partners' clients during this time was [[Hank Asher]], an admitted [[Illegal drug trade|drug smuggler]] and millionaire founder of companies that perform electronic information gathering ([[datamining]]) on individuals. According to a shareholder in the company, Asher hired Giuliani for his "influence with the federal government to enable Mr. Asher to take an active role in [[Seisint]] as a chief executive officer despite the allegations about his drug dealing". Giuliani helped Asher's company obtain $12 million in government grants.<ref name="gpartners"/> After Asher's past was publicly revealed, he resigned from the company; Giuliani defended him to newspapers without mentioning that Asher was a paying client.<ref name="gpartners"/> After Asher's resignation, investors in Seisint reported that Giuliani was paid US$2 million a year in fees, a commission on sales of Seisint products, and 800,000 warrants for Seisint stock, which would prove valuable when Seisent was sold to [[LexisNexis]] for $775 million. One investor sued the board, claiming that Giuliani's contributions had not been worth the large amount paid.<ref name="gpartners"/><ref>[https://web.archive.org/web/20070602164225/http://www.rollingstone.com/politics/story/14952564/giuliani_worse_than_bush Giuliani: Worse Than Bush : Rolling Stone]</ref> The Seisent database product that Giuliani Partners was to help market the Multistate Anti-Terrorism Information Exchange, and was criticized on [[civil liberties]] grounds; within two years the program was disbanded.<ref>{{cite magazine|url=http://www.time.com/time/nation/article/0,8599,1694093-1,00.html|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20071221105017/http://www.time.com/time/nation/article/0,8599,1694093-1,00.html|url-status=dead|archive-date=December 21, 2007|title=Rudy: All Business|author=Michael Weisskopf, Massimo Calabresi|magazine=[[Time (magazine)|Time]]|date=2007-12-13 | access-date=2007-12-13}}</ref>

In representing [[Purdue Pharma]], maker of [[OxyContin]], in a case against the [[Drug Enforcement Administration]], Giuliani Partners negotiated a $2 million fine and no further penalty for what the DEA called "lax security" at plants that produced the drug, which the DEA said was being used as a recreational drug. The lead DEA investigator later said that Purdue Pharma escaped harsher penalties in the case because of Giuliani's connections to government officials.<ref name="gpartners"/> Giuliani later represented Purdue Pharma in a recently settled case in which the DEA accused the company of marketing OxyContin by playing down its level of addictive properties. Giuliani met with government lawyers six times to help negotiate a settlement in the case.<ref name="gpartners"/> Giuliani reached a deal to avoid a bar on Purdue Pharma doing business with the federal government.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2018/may/22/rudy-giuliani-opioid-epidemic-oxycontin-purdue-pharma |title=Rudy Giuliani won deal for OxyContin maker to continue sales of drug behind opioid deaths |author=Chris McGreal|date=22 May 2018|website=[[The Guardian]] |access-date=22 May 2018}}</ref>

''[[Forbes]]'' reported in November 2006 that Giuliani Partners accepted fees from [[penny stock]] firms, made alliances that have gone nowhere, and formed pacts with businesses and individuals that have come under scrutiny by regulators and law enforcement officers.<ref>{{cite news| url=http://members.forbes.com/forbes/2006/1113/138.html| work=[[Forbes]]| title=The Company He Keeps| date=2006-11-13| access-date=2007-11-07| archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20071115133955/http://members.forbes.com/forbes/2006/1113/138.html| archive-date=2007-11-15| url-status=dead}}</ref> For instance, Giuliani Capital Advisors accepted 1.6 million warrants from Lighting Science Group at 60 cents, a fee of $150,000 and a promise to raise cash. The company went bankrupt, losing $412,000 on sales of $137,000 in the first part of 2006. A venture with [[CamelBak]] started out under Giuliani's consulting arrangement with $31 million in sales, but was run into the ground with various missteps, including having the disgraced [[Bernard Kerik]] sit on its board. ''Forbes'' said Giuliani's most controversial deal was throwing in with a 2004 project with Applied DNA Sciences. Its backer, Richard Langley Jr., had previously pleaded guilty to conspiracy to commit [[wire fraud]] and [[commercial bribery]] in another penny stock scam; another, Jeffrey Salzwedel, had been fined for making "unsuitable" stock recommendations to clients; and the brokerage firm Vertical Capital Partners, a third backer, had been penalized repeatedly for various securities violations.<ref>{{cite news| url=https://www.usatoday.com/money/companies/management/2005-03-17-dna-usat_x.htm | work=[[USA Today]] | title=Giuliani firm's deal to advise company raises questions | first1=Edward | last1=Iwata | date=2005-03-18| access-date=2010-05-03}}</ref><ref>{{cite news|url=https://money.cnn.com/2005/03/18/news/newsmakers/giuliani_deal/| work=[[CNN]]| title=Giuliani firm deal questioned|date=2005-03-18| access-date=2010-05-03}}</ref>

[[Mexico City]] hired Giuliani Partners to consult on its crime rate, hoping for a drop in crime like that which New York City had experienced in the 1990s. Giuliani toured the city for a day and Giuliani Partners produced a report analyzing ways in which crime could be reduced. However, in the year after the plan was implemented, crime dropped by only 1% and some city officials expressed regret at hiring Giuliani for a $4.3 million fee. Some called it a "$4 million publicity stunt".<ref name="gpartners"/> Some of the recommendations that were put into place included using [[breathalyzer]]s on drunk drivers and targeting "[[squeegee man|squeegee men]]".<ref name="mexcity">[http://www.nysun.com/article/11973 "In Mexico City, Few Cheers for Giuliani"], [[nysun.com]], April 11, 2005. Accessed June 8, 2007.</ref>

Giuliani Partners has had contracts since 2005 with [[Qatar]]'s Ministry of the Interior, for security advice and consulting services.<ref name="abc112907">{{cite news | url=http://blogs.abcnews.com/theblotter/2007/11/giulianis-ties.html | title=Giuliani's Ties to Qatar Raise Questions for Mr. 9/ll | author=Marcus Baram | work=[[ABC News (United States)|ABC News]] | date=2007-11-29 | access-date=2007-12-09 | archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20071201174612/http://blogs.abcnews.com/theblotter/2007/11/giulianis-ties.html | archive-date=2007-12-01 | url-status=dead }}</ref> These contracts were overseen by Minister [[Abdullah bin Khalifah Al Thani]], a member of Qatar's royal family.<ref name="abc112907"/>

==Giuliani Capital Advisors==
On December 1, 2004 his consulting firm announced it purchased accounting firm [[Ernst & Young]]'s investment banking unit. The new investment bank would be known as Giuliani Capital Advisors LLC and would advise companies on acquisitions, restructurings, and other strategic issues.{{cn|date=November 2020}}

On March 5, 2007, due to his presidential campaign, Giuliani Capital Advisors was sold to [[Macquarie Group]], an Australian financial group, for an amount that analysts said may approach $100 million.<ref>[https://web.archive.org/web/20070307073426/http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/17469454/ "Giuliani sells bank in presidential campaign move"], [[FT.com]], March 5, 2007. Accessed March 5, 2007.</ref>

==References==
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==External links==
* [https://web.archive.org/web/20081120142605/http://www.giulianipartners.com/ Giuliani Partners LLC website]

{{Rudy Giuliani}}

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