For Immediate Release: June 23, 2020
Contact: Nancy Jackson (213) 978-1960
Entities registered to lobby City agencies reported receiving payments totaling over $19 million in the first quarter of 2020, according to a summary presented to the Ethics Commission today.
Reports filed by lobbying entities disclosed that clients paid a total of $19,079,134 to lobby the City during the first quarter. Of the 1,766 clients registered for the first 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 these clients totaled $2,526,753 and represented 13.2 percent of all payments by lobbying clients for the quarter.
The ten lobbying firms receiving the most client payments in the first quarter of 2020 are listed in the Top 10 Highest Paid Lobbying Firms table below. Together, these lobbying firms received a total of $8,598,085, representing 45 percent of all client payments received in the first quarter.
| Top 10 Highest Paying Clients | Total Payments Made in Q1 | |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | CRE-HAR Crossroads SPV, LLC | $497,353 |
| 2 | Atlas Capital Group, LLC (and Atlas Capital Group and ATLAS/COLLEGE STATION) | $469,193 |
| 3 | Champion Real Estate Company | $292,448 |
| 4 | Tribune Media Company (and Tribune Real Estate Holdings, LLC) | $243,669 |
| 5 | Hollywood International Regional Center | $228,615 |
| 6 | Harridge Development Group, LLC | $224,937 |
| 7 | SOCAL San Pedro SPV1, LLC | $173,357 |
| 8 | Sandstone Properties (and Sandstone Properties, Inc.) | $134,032 |
| 9 | Watermark Westwood Village LLC | $132,743 |
| 10 | Jamison Properties LP (and Jamison Properties, LP and Jamison Services, Inc.) | $130,406 |
| Top 10 Highest Paid Lobbying Firms | Total Payments Received in Q1 | |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | DLA Piper LLP (US) | $2,407,209 |
| 2 | Englander Knabe and Allen | $1,099,451 |
| 3 | Sheppard, Mullin, Richter & Hampton LLP | $833,123 |
| 4 | Craig Lawson & Co., LLC | $825,800 |
| 5 | Armbruster Goldsmith & Delvac LLP | $688,627 |
| 6 | Michael Bai and Associates | $635,750 |
| 7 | Psomas | $625,570 |
| 8 | M Strategic Communications | $533,666 |
| 9 | MAX DEVELOPMENT LLC dba three6ixty | $488,440 |
| 10 | Kindel Gagan | $460,449 |
Of the 722 first-quarter lobbying entities, 16 reported fundraising activity totaling $105,400 for City campaigns, officeholders, and committees.
In addition to the lobbying entities, one major filer, Ad Zero, reported activity totaling $24,250 in the first quarter of 2020.
The full summary on first-quarter lobbying and major filer activities is available on the Ethics Commission’s website. Disclosed information about lobbying entities and their clients can be searched through the Public Data Portal on the Ethics Commission’s website.
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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