Qorvis, a shop with around 80 executives, is best known for taking on controversial foreign government clients such as the Royal Embassy of Saudia Arabia, the Kingdom of Bahrain, the Republic of Yemen (through UK-based PR agency Bell Pottinger) and the Kurdistan Regional Government of Iraq. Other clients Publicis listed in a release about the acquisition include Cisco Systems, The Mayo Clinic, The United States Institute for Peace and the American Pharmacists Association.