Headquartered in Montreal, RES PUBLICA Consulting Group is a holding and management company of leading professional services firms offering a wide array of communications services to a full range of businesses. RES PUBLICA’s business administration and management services for public relations firms include consultation with respect to mergers and acquisitions, human resources management and public relations consulting. RES PUBLICA owns AVENIR GLOBAL, one of the top 25 communication firms in the world. In Canada, AVENIR GLOBAL owns NATIONAL Public Relations, the country’s leading public relations firm, servicing clients across a wide range of sectors, which includes NATIONAL Capital Markets, the industry’s foremost investor relations and financial services practice. In the United States, AVENIR GLOBAL owns SHIFT Communications, a data-driven integrated communication agency; and the public relations and communication company Padilla, which includes the brand consultancy Joe Smith, the food and nutrition experts at FoodMinds and the research authorities at SMSResearch Advisors. The AVENIR GLOBAL network also includes healthcare specialists AXON Communications, with offices in Toronto, the U.S, the U.K. and Europe and Madano, a strategic communication consultancy based in London. AVENIR GLOBAL is affiliated internationally with public relations firm Burson‐Marsteller, a WPP company. RES PUBLICA also owns Cohn & Wolfe | Canada, another industry leader with offices in Toronto, Montreal, Calgary and Vancouver, and affiliated with the worldwide Cohn & Wolfe network. Cohn & Wolfe | Canada has provided expert communications services for over 25 years to all sectors of the Canadian economy.