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The Guardian - UK
The Guardian - UK
Politics
Simon Goodley

Mandelson’s lobbying firm Global Counsel went bust owing £4.6m, report says

Peter Mandelson
Peter Mandelson resigned from Global Counsel’s board in 2024 but continued to hold shares in the company. Photograph: James Manning/PA

Peter Mandelson’s former consultancy firm Global Counsel went bust owing £4.6m – including more than £600,000 to the taxman – a report by the group’s administrators has revealed.

The company, which provided advice to high-profile clients including Chinese-owned TikTok, US tech firm Palantir and UK pharmaceutical firm GSK, collapsed in February, after it lost a series of accounts over the peer’s relationship with the convicted child sex offender Jeffrey Epstein.

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