Neither Mr. Berman nor his public relations firm would be interviewed for the report, and the firm criticized the report's veracity.
An official at one firm criticized in the report, who spoke anonymously, blamed the poor investments on middlemen and denied that the firm had received high fees.
Matthew Howett, an analyst at Ovum, a telecommunications consulting firm, criticized the report for lacking details on how its goals might be achieved.
One of the dozens of stories published by the firm criticized Apple CEO Tim Cook over his comment in an MSNBC interview, where he damned Facebook for being a service that traffics "in your personal life".
Some financial firms criticized Woodbine's calculations and said the cost to investors was overblown, but did not dispute that the potential for a conflict of interest exists.
A report by the Institute of International Finance, which represents more than 400 of the largest financial firms, criticized incentives provided to banks and insurers under different sets of international regulatory plans to place more emphasis on holding sovereign debt in their capital buffers.
Kasich took a firm stance criticizing Cruz and Trump for their policies towards Muslims in the United States.
And in the spring, the billionaire Carl C. Icahn and the asset management firm Southeastern Asset Management, criticized the takeover bid as too low and mounted an increasingly bitter fight to derail the deal.
The company had ordered an "independent" investigation by Sonsini's firm, which criticized her for not bringing in outside counsel for Kona I but otherwise concluded that she had acted properly.
After his longtime client Tom Clancy recently dropped William Morris in favor of Michael Ovitz's new talent management firm, Mr. Gottlieb criticized Mr. Ovitz for blurring the lines between agent and manager or producer.
She posted a message on another Web site associated with her husband calling on the public to stand firm while criticizing the government for acting "as if martial law has been imposed on the streets".
