Sentences with phrase «large lobbying firm»

James Gurling is a senior PR and public affairs man who previously worked alongside John Major's former press secretary at Hanover Communcations and is now a director at MHP Communications, the UK's largest lobbying firm.

Wilson Elser Moskowitz Edeleman & Dicker LLP, Albany's largest lobbying firm, wrote that the proposal «is not in - line with the purpose of the lobbying act» and warned that «it may have a chilling effect on consultant work.»

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One of the premier's most vocal right - wing backers has registered to lobby the government about its carbon capture and storage laws on behalf of the province's largest greenhouse gas producing firm.

Whiteman Osterman & Hanna is one of New York's largest and most prominent legal and lobbying firms.

The governor received large sums from three hedge fund managers, two other individuals involved in finance, a lobby firm and a technology company's CEO.

Empire Government Strategies took in $ 284,500, a minuscule amount when compared with the largest New York lobbying firms but enough to land it third on a list of fastest - growing firms, according to the New York Public Interest Research Group report.

McLaughlin's largest contribution was $ 1,300 from State & Broadway State PAC, a lobbying firm, however most of the money raised has come from small, individual donors.

The candidates» largest contributions came from engineering and lobbying firms as well as an Amsterdam business and its affiliates.

A top executive at an «incubator» office - space firm bundled the largest contribution to de Blasio's re-election bid from her bosses and others — while the company was lobbying the city over a Financial District conversion project.

Skelos (R - Nassau), an attorney with Ruskin Moscou Faltischek, a large Long Island firm that represents health - care industry clients before state agencies and has a subsidiary that lobbies the Legislature, has in the past backed legislation requiring the disclosure of outside income.

In 2007, the latest figures available, Lynch's lobbying firm was the state's second largest, taking in $ 6.7 million in client fees and expenses.

«Physicians Reciprocal, like other large companies in New York, contracts with a number of heavy - hitting lobby firms, including two that are tied to the environmental firm in the Skelos probe.

Howe then worked for Andrew Cuomo at the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development before going in to the private sector, eventually landing with Whiteman Osterman Hanna, one of the largest and most politically connected lobbying and law firms in Albany.

The trial lawyers, who had a close relationship with former Assembly Speaker Sheldon Silver, employ their own small army of top lobbying firms and spent a combined $ 687,700 on campaign contributions in 2015, making their organization, the New York State Trial Lawyers Association, the second largest donor in the state.

In 2006 Yankees ownership paid over $ 300,000 to a lobbying firm run by former Bronx Assemblyman Roberto Ramirez — the largest lobbying fee reported that year — as well as other influential lawmakers including former state senator Joseph Bruno, in an apparent effort to secure funding for the stadium.

Howe, who grew up in Troy, had served as president of WOH Government Solutions, the Washington, D.C., lobbying subsidiary of the region's largest law firm, Whiteman Osterman & Hanna of Albany.

The Connecticut Coalition for Achievement Now, Inc. (ConnCAN), the charter school advocacy group that was created by the founders of Achievement First, the state's largest charter school management company, has signed a two - year, $ 200,000 lobbying contract with Connecticut government relations firm, Gaffney, Bennett and Associates.

Before joining PetSmart in October 2016, Kathy served as the Director of US Government Relations for Zoetis, the world's largest animal health company, and held various positions at lobbying firms, trade associations, nonprofit organizations, and in the Executive and Legislative branches of the federal government.

Today, Deutsche Bank boasts the largest corporate art collection in the world, with more than 57,000 paintings, photographs, prints and drawings, including Gerhard Richter's Abstract Painting (Faust), which hangs in the firm's lobby on Wall Street.

(04/26/2012) Wilmar International, the world's largest palm oil processor and trader, has hired a major lobbying firm to overturn the Environmental Protection Agency's ruling that palm oil - based biodiesel will not meet greenhouse gas emissions standards under America's Renewable Fuels Standard, reports The Hill.

The move comes after Wilmar International, the world's largest palm oil producer and trader, hired lobbying firm Van Ness Feldman on the same issue.

Facing criticism, biofuels industry forms new lobby group to influence lawmakers (7/25/2008) Under attack by politicians, aid groups, and environmentalists for driving up food prices and fueling destruction of ecologically sensitive habitats, some of the world's largest agroindustrial firms have formed a lobby group to influence consumers and lawmakers to support continued subsidies for biofuel production, reports Reuters.

And because many clients do not want their interest in an issue publicly known, law firms — which have the skills to perform intelligence gathering work — will continue to attract large clients and generate lobbying revenue.