Mayer Brown’s experienced legislative strategy and advocacy team combines a wealth of policy knowledge with keen political instincts to solve challenging legislative and policy issues both internationally and at the federal, state and local levels. We have successfully represented clients across a range of industries, including telecommunications, energy, financial services, transportation and health care, among others. Anchored by our seasoned federal team in Washington, Mayer Brown’s practice is unique in its breadth, also drawing from deep reservoirs of talent and experience in Los Angeles, Chicago, Singapore and Brussels.

Legal Reform 
Mayer Brown has led successful legal reform movements involving securities litigation and class action reform, and has pursued reform efforts in areas such as transportation, communications, labor, tax, international trade, natural resources and regulated industries.

Financial Services
In conjunction with the firm's Financial Service Regulatory and Enforcement (FSRE) Group, we advise clients on emerging legal trends, regulatory compliance, potential enforcement proceedings, legislative initiatives and other areas of strategic risk. We help large, globally active financial services firms, as well as domestically focused companies, to anticipate and manage the ways that changing legal and regulatory standards affect their business opportunities, operational costs and risk exposure. Mayer Brown has been at the center of the most significant financial services governance initiatives in recent years. We have been involved in the development and implementation of the Basel Committee capital standards, the USA PATRIOT Act, the Sarbanes-Oxley Act, the Terrorism Risk Insurance Act and sanctions/embargo legislation. More recently, we have helped shape initiatives targeted to the regulation of private equity and hedge funds, the subprime mortgage crisis and the regulation of such international transactions as “cover” payments.

Communications
Mayer Brown is helping to shape technology and communications policy through our representation of clients before the US Congress, the Federal Communications Commission, the National Telecommunications and Information Administration, the Department of Homeland Security, the Office of the US Trade Representative and various state public utility commissions. Internet, wireline and wireless service providers, manufacturers and trade associations rely on us to protect their interests with regard to Internet regulation, spectrum policy, the digital television transition, wireline competition, communications-related homeland security and privacy. In Europe, where telecommunications policy authority is divided between the European Union and its Member States, our team helps clients navigate the complex interplay between EU and national regulation. We have long worked to reform the EU telecom and Internet regulatory framework by preparing policy statements, public consultation papers, EU review submissions and legislative amendment language.