The Faegre Baker Daniels government team collaborates with decision makers to accomplish our clients' goals on legislative, regulatory and development matters. For decades, we have represented regional and national clients on numerous public issues in Indiana and Minnesota. As experienced advocates, our professionals know how to craft strategic approaches that respond to the challenges and opportunities state and local governments create and face.

Services

We assist businesses and nonprofits in all of their interactions with government, including legislative and executive branch lobbying, procurement of government contracts, campaign finance and ethics compliance, issues monitoring and public policy research, economic development initiatives and formation of public-private partnerships. We guide state and local government entities in project financing and development transactions.

Experience

Our approach to government matters is shaped by our professionals' significant experience in public positions. Team members have previously served as state legislators, assistant U.S. attorneys, city attorneys, deputy mayors, administrative law judges, economic development directors, state public finance directors, policy and legal advisors to governors and other state officials, judicial clerks, and campaign managers for gubernatorial candidates, as well as on legislators' staffs. Our group has experience and relationships on both ends of the political spectrum and has led the enactment of numerous state laws. Several of our professionals also have experience as leaders of businesses and industry advocacy groups and as corporate counsel.

Multistate and Federal Capabilities

When clients' issues cross state lines, we manage their multistate initiatives by coordinating lobbying or development efforts and maintaining a consistent approach to achieving clients' goals. When a matter requires an integrated state-federal approach, we collaborate with our colleagues at FaegreBD Consulting, our federal affairs division in Washington, D.C. As a leading advocacy firm, FaegreBD Consulting provides federal government services, including legislative drafting, lobbying and strategic issue management.