Top 10 firms profiting from financial reform

Following is the Center for Public Integrity’s list of lobbying firms who hired them to address financial reform. The dollar amounts below reflect how much firms collected for all issues they were hired to represent.

Clark Lytle & Geduldig

• Twenty clients, billed $1.26 million
• Firm partner Sam Geduldig is a former political director for House Minority Leader John Boehner.
• Clients included American Bankers Association, PricewaterhouseCoopers and Ernst & Young.

Brownstein Hyatt Farber Schreck LLP

• Nineteen clients, billed $3.42 million
• Policy director Michael Levy was senior aide to former Treasury Secretary Robert Rubin.
• Clients included Electronic Payments Association, Western Union, Ace Cash Express.

Ogilvy Government Relations

• Eighteen clients, billed $6.78 million
• Firm’s Dean Aguillen was a senior adviser to House Speaker Nancy Pelosi.
• Clients included Constellation Energy, American Petroleum Institute and Electric Power Supply Association.

Peck, Madigan, Jones & Stewart Inc.

• Seventeen clients, billed $4.50 million
• Firm partner Jonathon Jones served as chief of staff to Democratic Sen. Tom Carper of Delaware since 2000.
• Clients included U.S. Chamber of Commerce, Harley-Davidson Financial Services, and the International Swaps and Derivatives Association.

Rich Feuer Group

• Seventeen clients, billed clients $3.85 million
• Firm’s Mitchell Feuer served as counsel to the Senate Banking Committee from 1991 to 1999.
• Clients included Goldman Sachs Group Inc., Barclays and Citigroup Management Corporation.

Williams & Jensen PLLC

• Fifteen clients, billed $2.46 million
• Principal Joel Oswald is former Republican staffer on Senate Banking, Housing and Urban Affairs Committee’s securities and investment subcommittee.
• Clients included Managed Funds Association, TD Ameritrade and The Vanguard Group.

Quinn Gillespie & Associates LLC

• Fifteen clients, billed $3.75 million
• Co-founder, chairman and chief strategist Jack Quinn served as White House counsel to President Bill Clinton from 1995 to 1997. He later won a pardon for financial fugitive Marc Rich, the Center writes.
• Clients included BlackRock, Inc., Royal Caribbean Cruises Ltd and MetLife.

Elmendorf Strategies LLC

• Fifteen clients, billed $1.49 million
• Steve Elmendorf served as a senior advisor to former House Democratic Leader Dick Gephardt.
• Clients included Ford Motor Co., Ernst & Young LLP and TIAA-CREF.

Venable LLP

• Fourteen clients, billed $1.50 million
• Firm’s William Donovan is former chief lobbyist for National Association of Federal Credit Unions, according to the Center, and has lobbied on financial issues since 1976.
• Clients included ING Bank, FSB, Hilton and Direct Marketing Association.

Smith-Free Group

• Thirteen clients, billed $1.61 million
• Firm’s Andrew Barbour was a lobbyist for Financial Services Roundtable from 2001 to 2008, and was an aide to Rep. Bart Stupak, D-Mich.
• Clients included Financial Services Roundtable, MasterCard Worldwide and Bank of America.