About Norton Rose Fulbright LLP
Key Specialisms
Brussels Office Since:
1990Firm Description
Norton Rose Fulbright’s Government Relations and Public Policy practice (GRPP) comprises lawyers and government affairs professionals working across our global network. We work with in-house lawyers and government relations teams to help them navigate the complex and sensitive interaction between law, politics and policy. We serve clients in the banking, commodities, digital asset, financial services and technology sectors as well as public authorities and self-regulatory organisations. Offering clients an unmatched mix of policy, process and sectoral expertise, we work with our clients through the entire legislative process from initial objectives to new law, from implementing measures to application. We support our clients across jurisdictions, helping them coordinate and promote appropriate and consistent legislation wherever they do business. Combining deep expertise in the law and regulation and an insider’s understanding of politics and policymaking enables us to offer valuable solutions that work commercially, legally and politically.
Owner Structure
Limited liability partnership.
International Structure
Norton Rose Fulbright is a global law firm with a full business law service. Our Government Relations and Public Policy team works closely with the integrated team of legal, risk advisory and compliance specialists across our global network. Drawing on the experience of lawyers, lobbyists and consultants who have held senior positions within government agencies and departments worldwide, we offer our clients a significant understanding of the trends and political dynamics which shape global, regional and national regulatory and compliance environments.
Key Strengths
Examples of how we support our client’s business include:
- Insight and Intelligence: regular reporting, real-time alerts, legislative and regulatory tracker services with key point summaries, policymaker views and bespoke consultations with our experts
- Strategic engagement: we guide clients throughout the policymaking cycle from defining objectives to devising an advocacy strategy and delivering it successfully through engagement with policy-makers
- Advocacy support: we support clients in formulating policy proposals and communicating them through position papers, responses to government consultations and other submissions to policy-makers, public interventions and press releases.
- Trainings: comprehensive training for senior managers before committee appearances or other regulatory hearings
- Transaction support: advice on political and regulatory matters in the course of transaction support such as planned mergers & acquisitions and joint ventures.
- Investigations and inquiries: combining market-leading legal expertise in investigations with knowledge of the internal workings, political sensitivities and policy dynamics of public authorities to advise clients on how to craft arguments from both a legal and policy perspective to achieve the best outcomes.
Number of Public Affairs Consultants
4Key Clients
Bank for International Settlements (BIS), Citadel, Banco Finantia, World Gold Council.
Testimonials and why clients like to work with us
Our clients prize our strengths and our responsiveness, seek our tailored and reasoned advice and rely upon our probity.
“We have been hugely appreciative of the high quality of work provided by the NRF team. In particular their ability to ensure our concerns are not only heard by policy makers but where possible reflected in the legislation.”
“NRF team has been very helpful in steering us through the complexities of European legislative process and advising on how to best advocate our position with decision-makers. This, combined with their responsiveness and in-depth technical legal knowledge, provides the very kind of support we were looking for.”
