PRACTICE

Government Affairs

Overview

Pierson Ferdinand’s bipartisan Government Affairs Team is comprised of partners and policy advisors with extensive professional experience in federal and state government. Leveraging our collective expertise, we foster productive relationships with key government decision makers. This competitive advantage enables us to craft persuasive arguments and develop legislative and regulatory strategies that consistently deliver positive results for our clients.

  • Full Spectrum of Business Transactions

    Like traditional large law firms, we regularly assist clients in the full spectrum of business transactions and related company matters, a large portion of which involves mergers and acquisitions, capital markets, banking and credit, employment, regulatory, corporate governance and board advisory, intellectual property, and financial restructuring and reorganization, among others.  

  • Leveraging Technology

    Our Corporate team leverages cutting edge technology in all aspects of practice and our diverse all-partner teams focus on what matters most to our clients and stakeholders, delivering outcomes through shared values of strength, diversity, and collaboration.  

  • Forging Close Partnerships

    We believe in forging close partnerships with our clients to better understand their business operations, enabling us to provide more effective counsel and to deliver exceptional value during pivotal moments that often shape profoundly the trajectory and success of our clients’ businesses.

  • Effective Low-Leverage Platform

    Our unique low-leverage platform is not only more cost-effective, it allows us to focus on fewer, targeted engagements than our peers at traditional, elite law firms. This model allows us to get closer to our clients and to know their  businesses, preferences, and cadence, and to ultimately meet our clients where they are.

Capabilities

Our representation spans a spectrum of regulatory and public policy matters, encompassing activities such as monitoring Capitol Hill and executive branch developments, legislative drafting, strategy development, and its implementation. We excel in preparing committee report language and congressional testimony, offering direct advocacy to key congressional and agency leadership and staff. In addition, we excel in creating and supporting coalitions, identifying federal funding sources through appropriations and authorizations, coordinating congressional meetings and fly-ins, and providing guidance on the organization and management of similar constituencies. Our comprehensive practice is further bolstered by the Firm's wide array of legal services, offering direct access to a wealth of knowledge and experience from attorneys across practice groups, delivering precise solutions to meet any challenge.

Our Team experience includes:  Aerospace experience in civil, commercial, and national security space policy, enabling our clients to have a substantial influence on discussions and debates related to industry challenges; Coalition Building, where we undertake a full range of advocacy measures on behalf of trade association clients including submitting written comments, offering testimony at congressional and regulatory hearings, drafting legal and policy white papers, engaging directly with policymakers, and hosting industry events; Congressional Investigations, guiding clients through proceedings on a wide range of topics, including government contracts, healthcare, financial services, and more, developing response strategies that tell our clients’ side of the story effectively to Congress and other stakeholders; Defense, providing creative and effective solutions, advocating on their behalf before relevant congressional committees and assisting in policy formation, public-private partnerships, and appropriations; Financial Services, navigating federal agencies and congressional committees related to financial services issues, representing various clients and assisting insurers and reinsurers in addressing legislation and governmental actions; Privacy and Data Security, we are at the forefront of policy discussions, offering counsel on topics such as location tracking, drone privacy, and autonomous vehicles; Telecommunications, interacting with the government on privacy, cybersecurity, consumer protection, and telemarketing legislation, having actively participated in federal regulation, including FCC rule-makings and mass media issues; and Transportation, developing creative solutions for our transportation industry clients, advocating effectively before legislative and regulatory committees; and Veterans, working on various issues ranging from veterans’ health to veterpreneurship.