The Lichfield Group

The Lichfield Group features unrivalled government, media, and business experience. Exemplary is the Group’s high level connections with the Department of Justice, the Department of State, and the Central Intelligence Agency, on the one hand, to The New York Times, The Washington Times, The Wall Street Journal, and nationwide broadcast or cable networks on the other.

The Group’s unsurpassed combination of legal, business, media, political, and government savvy enables it to handle crisis management, tactical, or strategic positioning with unexcelled deftness. Whether a client is a giant corporation handcuffed by ill-conceived United States government policies or a foreign government anxious to influence the decisions of Congress, the President, agencies, the judiciary, or State governments, The Lichfield Group is armed with the skills and contacts indispensable for success. Major sectors of the United States economy are in regulatory flux where crisis management is at a premium, particularly in telecommunications, banking, accounting, and energy.

The crystallizing European Union Constitution, terrorism, religious freedom, telecommunications, information privacy, energy, competition law, and trade disputes with the United States, at present, dominate Western Europe’s landscape.

The Lichfield Group assists Western European corporations in resolving legal, political, or media difficulties in the United States, or in discovering business partners or opportunities there. Its talents include short-term and long-range business planning to develop and to strengthen a thriving presence in the United States. That includes identifying joint venture or subcontracting opportunities and navigating complex government regulatory and legal minefields.

The Group assists West European governments on a sweeping array of constitutional, international law, treaty, human rights, telecommunications, antitrust, freedom of information, national security, defense procurement, and companion issues. The Group has advised in the past on questions ranging from public records and freedom of speech to media, telecommunications, or local autonomy issues. It further facilitates cooperation and coordination with the United States Central Intelligence Agency, the Federal Bureau of Investigation, the Department of Justice, the Department of Homeland Security, the Federal Communications Commission, and other agencies. And the Group facilitates the resolution of WTO clashes with the United States.

The Group provides European Union officials advice on coordinating policies with the United States on matters such as privacy, human rights, antitrust, terrorism, immigration, drug trafficking, or organized crime.

At present, Central and Eastern Europe are preoccupied with European Union and NATO membership, terrorism, privatization, constitutional reform, law enforcement, human rights, and foreign investment. The Lichfield Group commands experience throughout Europe in these areas pivotal to the fortunes of the region.

The Group’s consulting services, for example, reach constitutional reform, oil and gas, NATO and European Union membership, the International Monetary Fund, the World Bank and OPIC, relations with the Hague Tribunal, WTO problems, domestic and international law enforcement, telecommunications, broadcast, and cable regulation, privatization, transparency of government and private business financial affairs, strengthening relations with the United States Congress and the Executive Branch. The Group has advised countries in this region on matters ranging from amending constitutions to conform with international standards to crafting pioneering regulatory codes addressing competition, novel telecommunications services, and the mass media.

South America is chronically convulsed by monetary and financial gyrations, labor disruptions, erratic legal regimes, unstable governments, corruption, and narco-terrorism.

The Group provides consulting on WTO and free trade issues, privatization, human rights and religious freedom, labor reform, constitutional revision, the rule of law and business risks, International Monetary Fund, World Bank, Inter-American Development Bank, and OPIC loans and guarantees, investment opportunities or hazards for multinational corporations, political landscapes and horizons, immigration, customs reform, drug trafficking, money laundering, and thickening ties with the United States Congress, the Executive Branch, and law and regulatory enforcement agencies.

The Group brings to its advice a wealth of experience in natural gas and pipeline regulation, telecommunications, sugar quotas, national security, military aircraft, human rights, and constitutional draftsmanship. Financial institutions regularly need the Group to prepare testimony before Congress or administrative agencies that address frontier issues concerning money laundering or companion wrongdoing. In addition, foreign corporations doing business in South America routinely need the Group to counteract confiscatory monetary or regulatory actions of incumbent governments by orchestrating the reaction of the United States or otherwise.

The region is dominated by concerns over terrorism, oil prices, weapons of mass destruction, government stability, human rights, privatization and free enterprise, religious and ethnic divisions, law enforcement, and influencing the foreign policy of the United States.

The Group offers consulting in areas of major concern to the area: telecommunications and broadcasting; constitutional revision; human rights reform; terrorism; nuclear and missile proliferation money laundering; free trade agreements with the United States; oil and gas exploration, refining, and transportation; privatization; and, agricultural exports to the United States.

Asia’s predominate concerns include terrorism, missile defenses against weapons of mass destruction, the Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty, WTO disputes, trafficking in children and drugs, immigration, human rights, constitutional revision, and currency manipulations.

The Group consults with governments and private businesses on the WTO, missile defense, altering military force structure of the United States, nuclear and missile proliferation, human rights, constitutional revision, terrorism, child or slave labor, law enforcement cooperation with the United States, projecting evolving policies of the United States Congress, Executive Branch, and regulatory agencies, money laundering, legal and political problems with United States banking authorities, Asian Development Bank loans, developing strategies and tactics for strengthening ties with the United States, and preparing testimony, speeches, and presentations to United States or foreign audiences.

Political upheaval, foreign trade and investment, privatization, human rights, constitutional revision, telecommunications, and terrorism will be staples of this region for the indefinite future. No other collection of nations relies as heavily on relations with the United States and the European Union for its prosperity.