WASHINGTON — Argyle, which has been operating in Canada for 40-plus years, has expanded into the US with the opening of a Washington office.

Robert Gemmill, a Washington-based specialist in reputation management and crisis and litigations communications, will lead the new operation as senior VP.

Gemmill joins from Edelman, where he was a senior VP and director of litigation communications. Before that, he held senior communications roles at law firm Hogan Lovells and Levick.

In announcing the move, Argyle said the expansion was precipitated by the firm having a growing number of US based clients, and a desire to be well positioned to serve all clients across the US and Canada.

“After 40 years of increasingly international work, and a growing US client list, it’s exciting for the Argyle team to put down roots in the US capital,” said Argyle CEO Daniel Tisch. “With so much uncertainty in today’s marketplace, clients need the right advisors — both to protect their reputations and market value in times of crisis, and to build their businesses at moments of opportunity. Argyle aims to do both.”