Overview
Lobbying Costs
70,000€
Financial year: Jan 2023 - Dec 2023
Lobbyists (Full time equivalent)
0.3 Fte (3)
Lobbyists with EP accreditation
0
High-level Commission meetings
5
Lobbying Costs over the years
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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 n (...)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 LLPBoulevard du Régent, 43-44
Brussels B-1000
BELGIUMEU Office
Latham & Watkins LLPBoulevard du Régent, 43-44
Brussels B-1000
BELGIUMWebsite
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People
Total lobbyists declared
3
Employment time Lobbyists 10% 3 Lobbyists (Full time equivalent)
0.3
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 10% 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 .3 FTE.
Person in charge of EU relations
Data not provided by Register Secretariat due to GDPR
Person with legal responsibility
Data not provided by Register Secretariat due to GDPR
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Categories
Category
Law firms
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Networking
Affiliation
None declared
Member organisations
None declared
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Financial Data
Interests represented
Advances interests of their clients
Closed financial year
Jan 2023 - Dec 2023
Lobbying costs for closed financial year
70,000€
Major contributions in closed year
None declared
Clients for closed financial year
Clients list
Name Proposal Amount Amazon Europe Core SARL Commission Implementing Regulation (EU) 2023/1441 of 10 July 2023 on detailed arrangements for the conduct of proceedings by the Commission pursuant to Regulation (EU) 2022/2560 of the European Parliament and of the Council on foreign subsidies distorting the internal market. 50,000€ - 99,999€ American Airlines Group Assistance regarding the European Commission review of Regulation 80/2009 on a Code of Conduct for Computer Reservation Systems. 10,000€ - 24,999€ German Direct Marketing Association / Deutscher Dialogmarketing Verband e.V. Various issues related to European data protection rules 10,000€ - 24,999€ Clients for current financial year
Clients list
Name American Airlines Group 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.
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EU Structures
Groups (European Commission)
None declared
Groups (European Parliament)
N/A
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.
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 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)
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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 - Pierre-Arnaud Proux (Cabinet member)
- Penelope Papandropoulos (Cabinet member)
- Stina Soewarta (Cabinet member)
- Michele Piergiovanni (Cabinet member)
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Date 28 Nov 2018 Location Brussels Subject Meeting with American Airlines Cabinet Cabinet of Commissioner Violeta Bulc Portfolio Transport Attending - Joshua Salsby (Cabinet member)
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Date 11 Oct 2018 Location Brussels Subject Mobility topics Cabinet Cabinet of Commissioner Violeta Bulc Portfolio Transport Attending - Silke Obst (Cabinet member)
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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 & Energy Attending - Miguel Arias Cañete (Commissioner)