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Overview
Lobbying Costs
325,000€
Financial year: Apr 2023 - Mar 2024
Lobbyists (Full time equivalent)
3.5 Fte (4)
Lobbyists with EP accreditation
1
High-level Commission meetings
3
Lobbying Costs over the years
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Info
Bird & Bird LLP Belgium
EU Transparency Register
594629632551-37 First registered on 21 Sep 2018
Goals / Remit
Bird & Bird is an international law firm with a focus on helping organisations being changed by technology and the digital world. With over 1600 lawyers in 31 offices across Europe, the Middle East and Asia-Pacific, we're ready to help companies wherever they are in the world.
- We create innovative solutions that solve problems and streamline processes to help companies be more efficient.
- We constantly seek new and creative ways to deliver services that help companies reduce costs, manage risks and open up new opportunities to grow their business.
- To provide a smarter service, we automate legal processes.
- To manage the legal workload of clients, we collaborate with them to create bespoke platforms that deliver the insight they need.
- To help businesses thrive in a digital world, we partner with like-minded professionals who share our commitment.Main EU files targeted
Our Brussels office, which brings together over 40 lawyers from a range of different countries, offers expert advice across a broad range of areas including commercial, corporate, competition, employment, privacy and data protection, intellectual property, regulatory and tax.
Our team in Brussels has strong expertise in the information technology, communications, intellectual property, life sciences, electronics, aviation and aerospace, automotive, energy and food and beverage sectors.
The Brussels office is also the hub of Bird & Bird's international Competition & EU practice. The team has a proven track record in all areas of EU and national competition law, including merger control, cartel, abuse and state aid investigations, the competition law aspects of cooperation, distribution and licensing agreements and issues at the intersection of IP and competition law. The group also has vast experience in the field of EU litigation.
Specific EU policies Bird & Bird is following include initiatives in the field of digital and data-related regulation, trade policy developments and the area of sustainability.Address
Head Office
Avenue Louise 235235 box 1
Brussels 1050
BELGIUMEU Office
Avenue Louise 235235 box 1
Brussels 1050
BELGIUMWebsite
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People
Total lobbyists declared
4
Employment time Lobbyists 100% 3 50% 1 Lobbyists (Full time equivalent)
3.5
Lobbyists with EP accreditation
All Lobbyists with EP accreditation over time
1 accreditations were / are live (in bold) for the selected state of 24 Nov 2024
Name Start date End Date Paula ALEXE 30 Oct 2024 29 Oct 2025 Paolo SASDELLI 09 Dec 2023 04 Oct 2024 Paula ALEXE 31 Aug 2023 01 Sep 2024 Francine CUNNINGHAM 07 Dec 2023 04 Oct 2024 Paolo SASDELLI 13 Dec 2022 09 Dec 2023 Francine CUNNINGHAM 10 Dec 2022 07 Dec 2023 Francine CUNNINGHAM 09 Dec 2021 09 Dec 2022 Francine CUNNINGHAM 30 Oct 2020 30 Oct 2021 Francine CUNNINGHAM 05 Nov 2019 30 Oct 2020 Francine CUNNINGHAM 06 Nov 2018 05 Nov 2019 Complementary Information
Bird & Bird has a worldwide team consisting of lawyers who also have a regulatory aspect to their work. Above, only the dedicated public affairs professionals are listed.
Person in charge of EU relations
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Person with legal responsibility
Data not provided by Register Secretariat due to GDPR
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Categories
Category
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Networking
Affiliation
International Trademark Association (INTA)
L'Association Litteraire et Artistique Internationale (ALAI)
International Association for Protection of Intellectual Property (AIPPI)
American Chamber of Commerce in Belgium
Brussels Bar Association & National Bar Associations
International Institute of Communications (IIC)Member organisations
None declared
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Financial Data
Interests represented
Advances interests of their clients
Closed financial year
Apr 2023 - Mar 2024
Lobbying costs for closed financial year
325,000€
Major contributions in closed year
None declared
Clients for closed financial year
Clients list
Name Proposal Amount harbour investment gmbh Sustainability and EU trade policy 100,000€ - 199,999€ international olympic committee Monitoring regulatory developments in the field of intellectual property, broadcasting regulation and sports rights 100,000€ - 199,999€ cohere EU Artificial Intelligence Act 25,000€ - 49,999€ infosys limited EU Artificial Intelligence Act 25,000€ - 49,999€ honeywell europe nv EU Data Act 25,000€ - 49,999€ polpharma pharmaceutical works s.a. Pharmaceutical policy and access to generic medicines 10,000€ - 24,999€ zentiva pharma gmbh Pharmaceutical policy and access to generic medicines 10,000€ - 24,999€ neuraxpharm pharmaceuticals s.l. Pharmaceutical policy and access to generic medicines 10,000€ - 24,999€ Mastercard Research and advice concerning EU regulation. 10,000€ - 24,999€ european thermal paper association Advice on decision-making process regarding trade issues 10,000€ - 24,999€ Clients for current financial year
Clients list
Name cohere Mastercard european thermal paper association international olympic committee harbour investment gmbh felix schoeller munksjö paper Mastercard Europe koehler holding se & co. kg infosys limited malta decor association of genuine alaska pollock producers (gapp) Other financial info
None declared
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EU Structures
Groups (European Commission)
None declared
Groups (European Parliament)
N/A
Communication activities
Since July 2018, Bird & Bird publishes a Regulatory & Public Affairs monthly newsletter entitled 'Connected' and prepares regular social media posts with updates regarding regulatory developments.
The firm also publishes a number of trackers showing the progress of national implementation of certain EU legislation.
We organise webinars and podcasts several times a year on topical EU regulatory issues as well as regularly posting updates on social media.Other activities
None declared
Meetings
Meetings
3 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.
1 July 2024: We have noted that some meetings are appearing in duplicate, ie. some meetings seem to be listed twice. This seems to be because the Commission changes some element of a meeting data after the meeting has first been listed, which causes LobbyFacts to register it as a new meeting. We are investigating further.
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Date 24 Oct 2024 Location Brussels Subject At the initiative of two décor paper producers a meeting was called with the CAB Dombrovskis to discuss the situation of the décor paper industry and the ongoing anti-dumping investigation into titanium dioxide imports from China. Cabinet Cabinet of Executive Vice-President Valdis Dombrovskis Attending - Sofja Ribkina (Cabinet member)
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Date 07 May 2019 Location Brussels Belgium Subject Glassfiber sectors in Trade Defense measures Cabinet Cabinet of Vice-President Cecilia Malmström Portfolio Trade Attending - Pedro Velasco Martins (Cabinet member)
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Date 07 May 2019 Location Brussels Subject Industrial policy in the EU Cabinet Cabinet of Vice-President Jyrki Katainen Portfolio Jobs, Growth, Investment and Competitiveness Attending - Risto Artjoki (Cabinet member)