Our Regulatory and Public Affairs Practice helps business to understand, anticipate and influence government policy, regulation and decision making. This enables business to prevent or reduce the impact of Government action that would be adverse to its interests, or to support action that would be beneficial to it. It also allows clients to improve their strategic planning.
Our objective is to help our clients to achieve a competitive advantage and minimize regulatory risk. The provision of public affairs advice is an integral part of the comprehensive legal service offered by Lovells. We believe that with proper forewarning business may be able to influence government decision taking and avoid future costs. With a full understanding of the impact of government decisions, business can plan for the future more effectively.
The practice, while focused on London and Brussels, works seamlessly with colleagues across the firm, thereby combining deep legal expertise in a wide range of areas with political strategic advice to service the individual regulatory and governmental affairs needs of our clients.
We have extensive experience of providing tailored support services to clients' in-house legal and governmental affairs teams.
We exploit our drafting and advocacy skills as well as our knowledge of government processes. Government circles welcome well argued cases backed by an appreciation of the legal background. Our regulatory and public affairs practice is a natural extension of our core legal skills.