Subject: Re: Press Call from TIME on Burisma
From: "Alan Apter" <[email-masked]>
To: "Toohey, Ryan" <[email-masked]>
Cc: "Heather King" <[email-masked]>, "Spanjich, Georgette" <[email-masked]>, <[email-masked]>, <[email-masked]>, <[email-masked]>, <[email-masked]>, "Stegman, Lindsay" <[email-masked]>, "Leiter, David" <[email-masked]>, "Pacheco, Lawrence" <[email-masked]>, "McInerney, Jamie" <[email-masked]>
Date: Mon, 7 Jul 2014 18:36:15 +0100

looks great Ryan

would you be kind enough to send the web piece around once it is available

Thanks and best,
Alan

On Mon, Jul 7, 2014 at 6:29 PM, Toohey, Ryan <[email-masked]>
wrote:

>  Team –
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>
> Everyone has now gotten the call from Time, including me. I just spoke to
> Michael. He noted the statement Burisma put on its website advocating US
> support for Ukrainian energy independence/transparency as well as the
> recent lobbying filing last week.
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>
> His angle is that Burisma, a company that has never done much outside of
> Ukraine, has now, in the last few months: 1) put two high profile Americans
> on its board; 2) engaged a well-known and well-connected lobbyist and; 3)
> put a statement on its website supporting US engagement with Ukraine.
>
>
>
> Michael is looking to write a story tonight and file it for the web. Then
> it could run as a smaller piece in next week’s magazine.   I have outline
> his questions below as well as suggested responses that we will convey.
> Given the time sensitivity here, let’s try to avoid too much line editing
> and if you are ok with the spirit of the answers one us from FTI will get
> back to Michael shortly.
>
>
>
> -          Who owns Burisma?  *Mr. Nikolayi Zlochevskyi.*
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> -          As part of his role with Burisma, is Hunter Biden engaged with
> US officials or members of Congress? *Mr. Biden has not and will not be
> engaged with the U.S. government or any government related to Burisma. His
> role, like all board members, is to provide strategic guidance to Burisma. *
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> -          Does Hunter Biden support the Markey bill to increase energy
> aid to Ukraine? *Burisma, and Hunter Biden in his role as a director, is
> not taking on a stance on any particular piece of legislation. Instead, as
> a leading independent oil and gas producer in Ukraine, Burisma welcomes the
> continued engagement of US lawmakers on these important matters. *
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>
>
> -          What is the company trying to accomplish by engaging with the
> West/Western governments? *As part of its commitment to enhanced
> transparency and good governance, Burisma created a Board of Directors in
> 2013 to help expand the company’s international reach, increase investment
> opportunities and ensure best practices in compliance and good governance.* *Burisma
> supports energy independence, economic growth, national sovereignty and
> regional stability and will engage as needed to encourage efforts to
> further these goals. *
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> *Ryan F Toohey*
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> *From:* Heather King [mailto:[email-masked] <[email-masked]>]
> *Sent:* Monday, July 07, 2014 12:13 PM
> *To:* 'Spanjich, Georgette'
> *Cc:* 'Stegman, Lindsay'; 'Leiter, David'; Toohey, Ryan
> *Subject:* RE: Press Call from TIME on Burisma
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> Ryan?
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>
> Heather King, Esq.
> Partner
> BOIES, SCHILLER & FLEXNER LLP
> 5301 Wisconsin Avenue, N.W.
> Washington, D.C. 20015
> 202-274-1129 (Phone)
> 202-237-6131 (Fax)
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> -----Original Message-----
> *From: *Spanjich, Georgette [[email-masked]]
> *Sent: *Monday, July 07, 2014 12:02 PM Eastern Standard Time
> *To: *Heather King
> *Cc: *Stegman, Lindsay; Leiter, David
> *Subject: *Press Call from TIME on Burisma
>
>
>  Heather,
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>
>
> Hope you enjoyed the holiday weekend in the mountains!
>
>
>
> David and I wanted to make you aware of this voicemail that David received
> this morning from Michael Scherer at TIME magazine. Michael had left David
> a voicemail late on Thursday as well, but at that time did not indicate why
> he was calling and said it would be okay for David to respond after the
> holiday weekend. As you know, David has been out of the office in Nantucket.
>
>
> As it turns out, Michael is writing a story on Burisma, which he said will
> go to print this evening. Since the start of our engagement, we know that
> you mentioned that you and the PR team would be handling all press
> inquiries, so we wanted to get your thoughts on how we should proceed.
> David has been in back-to-back meetings all of this morning and will
> continue to be in back-to-back meetings until about 3PM today.
>
>
>
> David is aware of this voicemail, and would be happy to step out of a
> meeting to give you a call today to discuss. Our thought was that we might
> have David’s assistant, Lindsay, return Michael’s call to let him know that
> David has been out of the office. We would hope this would result in the
> article stating that David was unavailable to comment, as opposed to some
> sort of statement that made it seem like we were unwilling or refusing to
> engage with the reporter.
>
>
>
> Again, we are happy to schedule a quick call on this today. Please let us
> know how you would like to proceed.
>
>
>
> Best,
>
> Georgette
>
>
>
> *From:* Stegman, Lindsay
> *Sent:* Monday, July 07, 2014 11:50 AM
> *To:* Spanjich, Georgette
> *Subject:* FW: Voice Mail from 2028614000 (27 seconds)
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> Hi Georgette, Michael Scherer just left me a vm saying that they are doing
> a story on Burisma and are interested in our work with them.
>
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> *To:* Stegman, Lindsay
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