What’s next for Global Counsel?

Mace | 10th February 2026 | Lobbying, Moves, Politics

With both founders resigning and Rebecca Park as the new CEO, William Cash looks at how the leading global lobbying firm might turn a crisis into opportunity

With Benjamin Wegg-Prosser stepping down as co-founder – alongside Peter Mandelson – the geo-political and corporate lobby firm has entrusted Rebecca Park to steer the firm into safe reputational public affairs waters following the toxic Epstein association with the former UK ambassador to the USA. Park was named as one of The Mace’s top 100 lobbyists in our 2026 special report on the New Political Influencers. Global Counsel is a ‘market leading strategic advisory business’ – ie lobby firm – that thrives off uncertainty and ‘significant market opportunity arising from increasing geo-politcal uncertainty’. In its company reports it says it ‘helps companies and investors across a wide range of geographies and sectors anticipate the way in which politics, regulation and public policymaking create both risk and opportunity. The firm operates from offices in the UK, Europe, Asia, the Middle East and the USA. Its core belief is that the more geo-political uncertainty there is in the world –...

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