Susan Stillings Joins Brunswick Group as a Partner

Brunswick Group LLC, a leading communications consultancy, today announced that Susan T. Stillings has joined the firm’s New York office as a partner. Ms. Stillings will work on a range of financial and corporate communications clients, with a particular focus on investor relations, international crisis work, and mergers and acquisitions.

Steven Lipin, Brunswick’s senior partner in the U.S., commented: “In the current economic environment, our clients need sound strategic communications counsel with a global perspective and deep knowledge of the financial markets more than ever. We are confident that Susan’s international expertise, financial background, and years of global corporate and financial communications experience will be invaluable as we help our clients navigate through these challenging times.”

“Brunswick is in the enviable position of being able to offer its clients truly global financial and corporate agency services, including seamless transaction teams and investor relations programs,” commented Ms. Stillings. “Brunswick’s specialization in crisis and reputation management, along with its reach in Europe, Asia and the Middle East, was attractive to me and I look forward to working with my colleagues to provide our clients with best-in-class counsel on a world-wide basis.”

Ms. Stillings joins Brunswick from Edelman where she was executive vice president and global managing director of its financial communications practice. Prior to her position at Edelman, she was managing director of Ogilvy Financial’s Asia Pacific region. Previously, she was a managing director with Joele Frank, Wilkinson, Brimmer, Katcher. Before moving into agency work, Ms. Stillings managed global corporate communications for technology companies Iomega Corp. and Merisel. Ms. Stillings began her career as a banker and was a vice president with Bankers Trust Company (now Deutsche Bank).

Ms. Stillings’ background includes extensive corporate crisis work, cross-border IPOs, mergers and acquisitions, proxy fights, shareholder activist communications and lawsuits, government investigations, management turnovers, international IP litigation and product recalls.

Ms. Stillings is a Charter Financial Analyst and a member of the National Investor Relations Institute (NIRI). Her MBA and bachelor’s degrees are from the University of Michigan.

About Brunswick Group LLC

Brunswick Group LLC is a private partnership with a growing team of more than 400 people, including over 75 partners. The firm has grown organically over 20 years and now has 15 wholly owned offices in 11 countries. These include Beijing, Berlin, Brussels, Dubai, Frankfurt, Hong Kong, Johannesburg, London, Milan, New York, Paris, San Francisco, Stockholm, Vienna and Washington D.C. The firm’s service offer comprises financial and corporate communications, investor relations, internal communications and opinion research. Brunswick was ranked in first position in the combined Europe & North America league tables for M&A communications advisers for the first nine months of 2008.