Subject: G&E Update
From: "Joshua Alcorn" <[email-masked]>
To: "Hunter Biden" <[email-masked]>
Date: Mon, 20 Jul 2015 13:28:53 -0400

Hunter - Last week I met with Elise Martin, the marketing director here at the firm. The purpose was to hammer out what exactly I’ll be doing when I’m officially a Marketing Associate beginning after Labor Day. I should say, I prefaced our conversation with the caveat that if the VP runs or does something political (I didn’t say PAC), then I’d likely have to spend a significant portion of my time doing that. She understood. 

What we ended up working out is that I’ll have three lanes to swim:

1. Political relationships: This means DAGA and Dover, occasional work when the firm decides to do fundraisers for candidates.

2. Business Development: AGs. dovetailing with DAGA above, I’ll have a piece of the business development with current AGs. The two business development folks we have now have a pretty firm grip on most of the AGs, but there’s room for me to step in, especially in VA and DE (to the extent that we’ll ever do work here, which is unlikely).

3. Business Development: Hedge Funds and Family Offices. This is what you and I have discussed at length. I think we can to expand our work to some of the larger family offices as well (this was an idea Schwerin and I had a few weeks ago). Elise said the firm investigated getting in to the family office business but never had the bandwidth to execute it fully. I think we can change that. Eric and I will work on a list of the HFs you guys have the best relationships with and review with you. I’ll begin to think about where we go with family offices. We need to be touching more of the HF and FO regularly, so we don’t get shut out of the next appraisal case, as we did with AOL/Verizon.

Elise and I did not discuss the asbestos/Angelos work. I will follow up with Dino again - last week he said he was meeting with Peter to discuss the next steps. Are you in DE this week or next? Perhaps we can meet in Baltimore with Angelos and Dino. If you’d like, I’ll get some dates you’re avail from Joan.

All of this is fine with me. The firm’s political relationships and the business development in DAGA isn’t what I’d like to be doing in 10 years, but it makes sense to do it now, at least until there’s a Biden PAC or campaign to raise money for.

Let’s talk about these things more specifically when your back from Lake Michigan.
/ja

Joshua Alcorn
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