Latham & Watkins LLP

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Registration as it was on 10 Jul 2019
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Overview

Lobbying Costs

150,000€

Financial year: Jan 2018 - Dec 2018

Lobbyists (Full time equivalent)

0.75 Fte (3)

Lobbyists with EP accreditation

0

High-level Commission meetings

5

Lobbying Costs over the years

  • Info

    Latham & Watkins LLP

    EU Transparency Register

    817067819413-17 First registered on 06 Nov 2015

    Goals / Remit

    Latham & Watkins LLP is dedicated to working with clients to help them achieve their business goals and overcome legal challenges anywhere in the world. From a global platform of offices in the world's major financial, business and regulatory centers, the firm's lawyers help clients succeed. We provide advice to clients in a full range of practice areas, including antitrust and competition; corporate governance; data privacy, security and cybercrime; environment, land and resources; healthcare and life sciences; intellectual property; litigation; mergers and acquisitions; private equity; real estate; restructuring; tax; and white collar defense and investigations.

    Latham & Watkins’ Brussels office is the hub for the firm's European competition practice, which consists of more than 50 lawyers in the major jurisdictions in Europe. The firm’s European competition team handles complex and cutting-edge matters before the European Commission, Member State authorities, and EU and national courts, offering clients a pragmatic and business-oriented approach to their competition law concerns. The Brussels office and the broader EU law team also advise on European and national regulatory issues concerning data protection, environmental law, energy, life sciences, taxation, trade/customs law, and transportation.

    Main EU files targeted

    The EU activities most relevant to the firm relate to the competition law issues regarding which we frequently represent clients: abuse of dominance; cartel defense; clearance of mergers; compliance and counseling; distribution issues; intellectual property-competition law interface; sector inquiries; and state aid. The firm also advises on other EU regulatory issues in the fields of data protection, environmental law, energy, life sciences, taxation, trade/customs law and transportation. We do not have a dedicated public policy or lobbying practice; most of our regular activities on behalf of clients in these areas do not fall within the scope of the Register.

    Address

    Head Office
    Latham & Watkins LLP
    Boulevard du Regent, 43-44
    Brussels B-1000
    BELGIUM
  • People

    Total lobbyists declared

    3

    Employment timeLobbyists
    25%3

    Lobbyists (Full time equivalent)

    0.75

    Lobbyists with EP accreditation

    No lobbyists with EP accreditations

    Complementary Information

    We do not have full-time personnel whose dedicated responsibilities involve covered activities. We have three individuals involved in monitoring EU law developments, which may from time to time include covered activities. This work comprises well less than 25% of each of their time. On a case-by-case basis, work by our partners, associates, and other staff involved in monitoring EU law developments, discrete matters for our clients, or firm events, may involve activities or outreach covered by the Register. In such situations, these individuals would spend a small fraction of their time (<10%) on covered activities, and are reflected in the aggregate .8 FTE.

    Person in charge of EU relations

    Mr Jean Paul Poitras (Partner)

    Person with legal responsibility

    Mr Jean Paul Poitras (Partner)

  • Categories

    Category

    I - Professional consultancies/law firms/self-employed consultants

    Subcategory

    Law firms

  • Networking

    Affiliation

    Latham & Watkins’ Brussels office is member of AmCham EU and the British Chamber of Commerce.

    Member organisations

    None declared

  • Financial Data

    Closed financial year

    Jan 2018 - Dec 2018

    Lobbying costs for closed financial year

    150,000€

    Other financial info

    Latham & Watkins provides legal advice to its clients and is generally not engaged in specific lobbying mandates for which we are compensated by our clients. Any covered activity would be ancillary to legal representation or on our own account and would not be tied to our compensation from such clients, unless otherwise agreed and disclosed. To the extent in the future that Latham & Watkins is engaged for additional client mandates covered by the Register, we will update our Registration.

    The expense statement above pertains to our EU law monitoring activities and the events we organize from time to time. Expenses include salaries of individuals who may be involved in monitoring developments in the EU; however, as a law firm, most of work is legal representation and not activity that would be considered covered conduct under the Guidelines. As a result, our turnover figures are lower than our expenses.

    Declared lobby clients

  • EU Structures

    Groups (European Commission)

    none

    Groups (European Parliament)

    None

    Communication activities

    We monitor developments in EU law relevant to our clients, offering seminars and publications. From time to time we may respond to public consultations and sponsor or host events to which EU officials may be invited.

    Other activities

    None declared

  • Meetings

    Meetings

    5 meetings found. Download meetings

    The list below only covers meetings held since November 2014 with commissioners, their cabinet members or directors-general at the European Commission; other lobby meetings with lower-level staff may have taken place, but the European Commission doesn't proactively publish information about these meetings. For more information about which commissioner is responsible for which portfolio, check out this link: https://commissioners.ec.europa.eu/index_en All information below comes from European Commission web pages.

    • Date 09 Nov 2023 Location Brussels
      Subject American Airlines, EU-US Relations, sustainable transport
      Cabinet Cabinet of Commissioner Adina Vălean
      Portfolio Transport
      Attending
      • Rachel Smit (Cabinet member)
    • Date 11 Jan 2023 Location Brussels
      Subject Introductory meeting, DMA.
      Cabinet Cabinet of Executive Vice-President Margrethe Vestager
      Portfolio Europe Fit for Digital Age
      Attending
      • Michele Piergiovanni (Cabinet member)
      • Pierre-Arnaud Proux (Cabinet member)
      • Penelope Papandropoulos (Cabinet member)
      • Stina Soewarta (Cabinet member)
      Other Lobbyists
    • Date 28 Nov 2018 Location Brussels
      Subject Meeting with American Airlines
      Cabinet Cabinet of Commissioner Violeta Bulc
      Portfolio Transport
      Attending
      • Joshua Salsby (Cabinet member)
    • Date 11 Oct 2018 Location Brussels
      Subject Mobility topics
      Cabinet Cabinet of Commissioner Violeta Bulc
      Portfolio Transport
      Attending
      • Silke Obst (Cabinet member)
    • Date 01 Feb 2018 Location Brussels
      Subject State of Play of Energy and Climate Policy
      Cabinet Cabinet of Vice-President Miguel Arias Cañete
      Portfolio Climate Action &amp; Energy
      Attending
      • Miguel Arias Cañete (Commissioner)
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