Legislative & Public Policy

Experience Highlights

• Advised life sciences companies and private equity investment firms concerning COVID-19 Congressional inquiries.

• Advised and successfully advocated for the inclusion of $3 billion for aviation worker relief under the CARES Act on behalf of an airlines ground support services client.

• Advocated for the creation of a multibillion stabilization fund to support the early care and learning industry affected by the COVID-19 national emergency.

• Secured Medicare coverage for a client's breakthrough medical device through a coordinated congressional and agency effort.

• Represented pharmaceutical manufacturers through congressional investigations and oversight hearings related to pricing, patents, and innovation in current and prior Congresses.

• Advised multiple clients on legal and regulatory issues associated with Section 230 of the Communications Decency Act.

• Represented a broad-based business coalition of 85 major trade and professional associations, following September 11 in fashioning and securing enactment of a federal terrorism insurance backstop to the Terrorism Risk Insurance Act of 2002 (TRIA) and in subsequent TRIA reauthorization campaigns; most recently the successful 2019 reauthorization.

• Provided a large US distributor with comprehensive support for tariff exclusion requests, including developing more than 35 Section 301 exclusion requests, combined with congressional bipartisan, bicameral letters of support complimenting such requests.

• Represented the world's largest electric vehicle charging network operator on policy issues impacting the deployment of alternative fuel vehicles, and led a coalition that successfully advocated for inclusion of a billion dollar multiyear grant program in House and Senate surface transportation legislation pending in the 116th Congress.

• Secured language in the FY 2020 National Defense Authorization Act to increase funding for DOD 5G research and development programs by $270 million, including a specific directive to build a 5G R&D facility.