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We are actively involved in the issues that are important to our clients, helping to shape the policies, legislation and regulations that affect their interests. Making Relationships Work for Our Clients While the actions of federal, state and local decision makers regularly impact businesses, we help our clients understand government-related challenges and manage public policy change by anticipating it, creating it and making it work for them. The lawyers, lobbyists and other professionals in our practice are strategic thinkers who help clients grow and leverage sound positions that advance their public policy goals. We find unique and often unprecedented solutions by designing advocacy strategies, directing lobbying of elected and appointed officials and orchestrating coalitions of business, labor, not-for-profit entities, community-based organizations and other grassroots groups to support lobbying initiatives. Our team’s sophisticated political experience and leading-edge legal knowledge allow us to work for our clients in the following ways: Assess key political risk and opportunity factors. Engage the interest and support of key federal, state and local officials for clients’ business objectives. Secure international, federal, state or local funding for clients’ projects. Protect clients against adverse regulation, legislation or policy actions that could negatively impact their businesses. Advocate legislative, regulatory or policy actions that can improve the terms on which clients do business. Advise clients regarding anticipated regulatory, legislative, and other important emerging developments, and help them assess and respond to the business impact of these changes. Facilitate clients’ pursuit of competitive government contract and financial assistance opportunities, and guide them through the applicable laws and regulations to ensure compliance. Safeguard clients’ vital interests in key business concerns, such as land use, environmental compliance, tax policy and employer/employee relationships. Establish and maintain strategic partnerships with key public relations professionals, grassroots coalitions, media consultants and community organizations to manage and promote clients’ objectives and their organizations effectively. In the Forefront for Our Clients on the Hill The way we see it, we are on the front line for our clients’ interests. We know government policies, the ever-evolving laws and the political realities—and we effectively use that knowledge to advance our clients’ goals. Our professionals have represented clients on legislation in every major committee of the U.S. House of Representatives and the Senate, successfully working with Republican and Democratic leaders and members in both houses. We have firsthand experience as members of Congress, as senior staff advisors to senators and congressmen, and as counsel to the House and Senate Energy Committees, Senate Government Affairs Committee and other legislative groups on the Hill. Because our professionals have served on both sides of the aisle and have maintained strong relationships in Congress and with key players in the administration, our ability to advance our clients’ interests in Washington is unsurpassed. Additionally, Manatt has a solid record of success in securing legislation and federal funding on behalf of clients, including millions of dollars on a wide variety of transportation, water and housing projects, as well as other areas of concern to business and regional interests. Whether addressing a competitive imbalance (such as our work to strengthen the antipiracy laws against trade counterfeiters), securing regulatory relief through legislation, or advocating new programs for expanding the transportation and housing infrastructure for our clients, we not only have the ears, but also the respect, of members in both houses and both parties of Congress. Advocating for Clients at the State and Local Levels Manatt is one of the few law firms in the country with an extensive state and local government practice dedicated to advocating clients’ positions. Our team includes professionals who have held or currently hold state and local elective or appointive offices in jurisdictions throughout the United States. We use our extensive contacts to stay on top of proposed laws and regulations in municipalities, counties and states, advising clients of those that could have a direct impact on their businesses and helping present testimony as well as other position statements that inform and influence the right centers of authority. Whether the efforts are legislative, administrative, proactive or remedial, our professionals make sure clients understand how to comply with agency decisions, opinions, rules and regulations, providing the proper focus to help balance federal, state and local obligations. Our depth of services at the state and local levels also includes advising on contracting processes, land use and environmental issues. Our team often helps clients by participating directly in the legislative process. We regularly work for the passage, modification or defeat of legislation throughout the country, including the legislatures of our home states (California and New York) as well as many other states through our partnerships with local firms. In addition, we maintain a network of contacts in all 50 states. We are also intimately involved in all aspects of the municipal and regional governmental processes in Los Angeles, New York, San Francisco, the District of Columbia, Baltimore, Philadelphia, as well as numerous other regional and local governmental bodies. Overview Areas of Focus Attorneys & Advisors Contacts Articles By Us

Government Relations

Getting Business Strategies and Government Policies to Work Together
In business and government, relationships matter—even more so when the relationships are between the two entities. Savvy business leaders know that successful interaction with government is vital to implementing their organizations’ strategies and realizing their goals.

Manatt’s Government Relations group helps business and government work together. With hands-on political experience and more than 40 professionals located in key business centers and state capitals throughout the United States, our team enjoys access to every level of government.

Manatt does more than open doors. It provides an opportunity to have an impact on the regulatory and legislative landscape in a rapidly changing marketplace. We are actively involved in the issues that are important to our clients, helping to shape the policies, legislation and regulations that affect their interests.

Making Relationships Work for Our Clients
While the actions of federal, state and local decision makers regularly impact businesses, we help our clients understand government-related challenges and manage public policy change by anticipating it, creating it and making it work for them. The lawyers, lobbyists and other professionals in our practice are strategic thinkers who help clients grow and leverage sound positions that advance their public policy goals.

We find unique and often unprecedented solutions by designing advocacy strategies, directing lobbying of elected and appointed officials and orchestrating coalitions of business, labor, not-for-profit entities, community-based organizations and other grassroots groups to support lobbying initiatives.

Our team’s sophisticated political experience and leading-edge legal knowledge allow us to work for our clients in the following ways:

Assess key political risk and opportunity factors.
Engage the interest and support of key federal, state and local officials for clients’ business objectives.
Secure international, federal, state or local funding for clients’ projects.
Protect clients against adverse regulation, legislation or policy actions that could negatively impact their businesses.
Advocate legislative, regulatory or policy actions that can improve the terms on which clients do business.
Advise clients regarding anticipated regulatory, legislative, and other important emerging developments, and help them assess and respond to the business impact of these changes.
Facilitate clients’ pursuit of competitive government contract and financial assistance opportunities, and guide them through the applicable laws and regulations to ensure compliance.
Safeguard clients’ vital interests in key business concerns, such as land use, environmental compliance, tax policy and employer/employee relationships.
Establish and maintain strategic partnerships with key public relations professionals, grassroots coalitions, media consultants and community organizations to manage and promote clients’ objectives and their organizations effectively.

In the Forefront for Our Clients on the Hill
The way we see it, we are on the front line for our clients’ interests. We know government policies, the ever-evolving laws and the political realities—and we effectively use that knowledge to advance our clients’ goals.

Our professionals have represented clients on legislation in every major committee of the U.S. House of Representatives and the Senate, successfully working with Republican and Democratic leaders and members in both houses. We have firsthand experience as members of Congress, as senior staff advisors to senators and congressmen, and as counsel to the House and Senate Energy Committees, Senate Government Affairs Committee and other legislative groups on the Hill. Because our professionals have served on both sides of the aisle and have maintained strong relationships in Congress and with key players in the administration, our ability to advance our clients’ interests in Washington is unsurpassed.

Additionally, Manatt has a solid record of success in securing legislation and federal funding on behalf of clients, including millions of dollars on a wide variety of transportation, water and housing projects, as well as other areas of concern to business and regional interests. Whether addressing a competitive imbalance (such as our work to strengthen the antipiracy laws against trade counterfeiters), securing regulatory relief through legislation, or advocating new programs for expanding the transportation and housing infrastructure for our clients, we not only have the ears, but also the respect, of members in both houses and both parties of Congress.

Advocating for Clients at the State and Local Levels
Manatt is one of the few law firms in the country with an extensive state and local government practice dedicated to advocating clients’ positions. Our team includes professionals who have held or currently hold state and local elective or appointive offices in jurisdictions throughout the United States. We use our extensive contacts to stay on top of proposed laws and regulations in municipalities, counties and states, advising clients of those that could have a direct impact on their businesses and helping present testimony as well as other position statements that inform and influence the right centers of authority.

Whether the efforts are legislative, administrative, proactive or remedial, our professionals make sure clients understand how to comply with agency decisions, opinions, rules and regulations, providing the proper focus to help balance federal, state and local obligations. Our depth of services at the state and local levels also includes advising on contracting processes, land use and environmental issues.

Our team often helps clients by participating directly in the legislative process. We regularly work for the passage, modification or defeat of legislation throughout the country, including the legislatures of our home states (California and New York) as well as many other states through our partnerships with local firms. In addition, we maintain a network of contacts in all 50 states. We are also intimately involved in all aspects of the municipal and regional governmental processes in Los Angeles, New York, San Francisco, the District of Columbia, Baltimore, Philadelphia, as well as numerous other regional and local governmental bodies.

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