For Immediate Release: August 18, 2020
Contact: Nancy Jackson (213) 978-1960
Entities registered to lobby City agencies reported receiving payments totaling over $18 million in the second quarter of 2020, according to a summary presented to the Ethics Commission today.
Lobbying entities reported that their clients paid a total of $18,077,174 to lobby the City during the second quarter. Of the 1,981 clients registered for the second quarter, the ten who made the largest aggregated payments for lobbying services are listed in the Top 10 Highest Paying Clients table to the right.
Payments from the top 10 clients totaled $2,154,875 and represented 11.9 percent of all payments by lobbying clients for the quarter.
The ten lobbying firms that reported receiving the most client payments in the second quarter of 2020 are listed in the Top 10 Highest Paid Lobbying Firms table below. Together, the top 10 firms received a total of $7,985,338, representing 44 percent of all client payments reported for the second quarter.
| Top 10 Highest Paying Clients | Total Payments Made in Q1 | |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | Harridge Development Group, LLC | $290,317 |
| 2 | Holland Partner Group | $257,591 |
| 3 | Champion Real Estate Company | $237,867 |
| 4 | Westfield, LLC | $234,289 |
| 5 | 9712 Oak Pass Road LLC | $219,546 |
| 6 | Clear Channel Outdoor, Inc. | $219,049 |
| 7 | LLJ Adler Warner Ventures LLC | $188,831 |
| 8 | Watermark Westwood Village LLC | $180,118 |
| 9 | Hollywood International Regional Center | $168,065 |
| 10 | Flexible PSH Solutions | $159,202 |
| Top 10 Highest Paid Lobbying Firms | Total Payments Received in Q2 | |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | Sheppard, Mullin, Richter & Hampton LLP | $1,333,329 |
| 2 | DLA Piper LLP (US) | $1,328,401 |
| 3 | Englander Knabe and Allen | $1,049,825 |
| 4 | Armbruster Goldsmith & Delvac LLP | $900,950 |
| 5 | Craig Lawson & Co., LLC | $834,155 |
| 6 | MAX DEVELOPMENT LLC dba three6ixty | $590,854 |
| 7 | M Strategic Communications | $549,500 |
| 8 | Michael Bai and Associates | $511,250 |
| 9 | Glaser, Weil, Fink, Howard, Avchen & Shapiro, LLP | $490,185 |
| 10 | Kindel Gagan | $396,889 |
Of the 747 second-quarter lobbying entities, 12 reported fundraising activity totaling $69,049 for City campaigns, officeholders, and committees.
In addition to the lobbying entities, three major filers reported activity totaling $268,134 in the second quarter of 2020.
The full summary of lobbying and major filer activities reported for the second quarter is available on the Ethics Commission’s website. Information reported about lobbying entities and their clients can be searched through the Ethics Commission’s Public Data Portal.
The Ethics Commission was created by Los Angeles voters in 1990 to impartially administer and enforce the City’s governmental ethics, campaign financing, and lobbying laws.
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