EU PUBLIC POLICY: DESCRIPTION

McKenna Long & Aldridge’s Brussels-based lawyers provide clients with regular reports and briefings on judicial and administrative developments in the EU and in most of the EU Member States. We assist companies and trade associations in developing and implementing strategies designed to influence the European legislative and regulatory process.

Our attorneys offer clients advice on a wide range of issues in the majority of the EU Member States and have a well-established network of correspondent law firms in the other Member States.  This allows us to assist our global clients in their European business activities, such as advising them on the opening, closing, and liquidation of branches and subsidiaries, the purchase or sale of European businesses, and all regulatory and compliance matters related to operating a business or selling products in the various jurisdictions of the EU.

We also provide legislative and regulatory counseling in several substantive areas of law as they relate to doing business in Europe, including competition law, trade remedies, intellectual property, product liability questions, work permit and tax ruling applications, and ancillary legal services required by local and multinational businesses in the conduct of their commercial and administrative activities.

Mirroring the long-established expertise of public and government affairs in the firm’s U.S. offices, our Brussels office has cooperation agreements with several world-class consultancies working on public affairs and public relations within the European Union, its Member States and globally.  On many cases, being able to call upon political expertise is crucial in ensuring that legal arguments are heard, especially where litigation is not an option and where the national government of EU Member States must be convinced of a client’s causes, in particular in technical areas subject to the comitology procedure.

For more information on our European Union public policy and regulatory affairs practice, visit our European Union practice.