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CALIFORNIA GOVERNMENT AFFAIRS PRACTICE

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Premier government affairs teamOur California Government Affairs team in Sacramento is committed to an innovative, proactive, and multidisciplinary approach to solving whatever problems, in whatever forum, a client faces in the State of California. We combine our substantive knowledge of complicated policy areas with our deep understanding of California’s political landscape to provide strategic lobbying services to companies and organizations before the California Legislature, the Governor’s Office, and regulatory agencies. We are also uniquely positioned to provide clients with advice regarding the legal implications of legislative and regulatory proposals, with the support of more than 1,000 attorneys specializing in dozens of practice areas across the globe.

Deep ties with members of the California Legislature and their staffOur California Government Affairs team advances its clients’ policy interests before the California Legislature by utilizing its close working relationships with members of the California Legislature and their staff, testifying regularly before legislative policy and fiscal committees, drafting legislation and legislative

amendments, preparing position letters, and working with other companies and organizations to build coalitions around key policy issues.

Specialty in lobbying key regulatory agencies on complex environmental, energy and chemical issuesIn addition to providing clients with strategic lobbying services before the California Legislature, we frequently lobby key regulatory agencies on complex environmental, energy, and chemical issues, including the California Protection Agency (CalEPA), the California Department of Toxic Substances Control (DTSC), the Office of Environmental Health Hazard Assessment (OEHHA), the California Air Resources Board (CARB), the California Department of Resources Recycling and Recovery (CalRecycle), the Water Resources Control Board (WRCB), the California Department of Pesticide Regulation (DPR), the California Natural Resources Agency, the California Department of Conservation (DOC), the Department of Water Resources (DWR), the California Department of Food and Agriculture (CDFA), the California Public Utilities Commission (CPUC), the California Energy Commission (CEC), and others.

With the largest economy in the country and one of the largest in the world, California is home to an extraordinarily active state legislature that routinely passes laws with significant and far-reaching impact in California and beyond. Arnold & Porter’s California Government Affairs team in Sacramento is on the forefront of these legislative developments.

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Renowned legal team to support regulatory practiceOur California regulatory lobbying practice collaborates extensively with the firm’s premier Environmental, Chemicals, Energy, and Proposition 65 practice groups. The Environmental practice group, named Law360’s “Environment Practice Group of the Year” in 2015, serves as primary or national environmental counsel to leading companies such as Honeywell, BP/ARCO, Whirlpool, Mosaic, and PPL, and serves as special outside counsel to many others such as General Electric, Chrysler Group, Texas Pacific, Western Digital, Solutia/Eastman Chemical, Clean Harbors, CSX, and SAIC.

Representative Highlights• Procter & Gamble in advancing the company’s

legislative agenda on a broad array of issues before the California State Legislature.

• Southern California Public Power Authority, a joint powers agency providing electricity to over two million customers in Southern California, in advancing its legislative agenda on energy and environmental issues before the California Legislature.

• California Chamber of Commerce in advancing the organization’s legislative and regulatory

agendas on environmental and consumer product issues before the California State Legislature, the California Air Resources Board, the California Office of Environmental Health Hazard Assessment, and the California Department of Toxic Substances Control.

• Daikin Americas, Inc. in providing counsel before the California Legislature regarding legislation that would require the regulation of per fluorinated chemicals in food packaging.

• Art and Creative Materials Institute in providing counsel before the California Air Resources Board on issues related to the Consumer Products Regulatory Program.

• Alliance of Automobile Manufacturers, National Confectioners Association, Council for Responsible Nutrition, American Herbal Products Association, and the Grocery Manufacturers Association in providing advocacy support before the Office of Environmental Health Hazard Assessment on Proposition 65 issues.

• Coalition of more than 250 trade associations and companies in substantially revising proposed overhaul of Proposition 65 warning regulations.

Breadth of experience Our team helps clients navigate California’s complex legislative process on virtually every major sector including:

“Clients also highlight the team’s ‘deep bench of experience and resources that are always available to our company, whether it is legal advice and representation or help with public relations matters.’” — Chambers USA 2017

• Environment and Energy• Health Care and Life Sciences• Consumer Products, Labeling and Chemicals• Labor and Employment• Food and Agriculture• Privacy and Data Security

• Water• Tax• Hazardous Waste Management• Litigation• Housing and Land Use• Transportation

Recognition• Chambers USA for Government Relations (2018)

• The Legal 500 US for Government Relations (2018)

• U.S. News & World Report and Best Lawyers’ “Best Law Firms” 2018 for Government Relations

• Bloomberg Government ranked firm Top Three “Top Performing Lobbying/Firm” of 2016

• Arnold & Porter named to BTI’s 2017 ‘Law Firms with the Best Associates’ List

Anthony J. SamsonSenior Attorney and Policy Advisor Sacramento [email protected]

+1 916.210.7999

Key Contact

Anthony Samson is a registered lobbyist located in Sacramento, where he has years of experience successfully advocating for clients before the California Legislature, the Governor’s Office, and regulatory agencies on a broad range of policy issues. Mr. Samson’s legislative and regulatory advocacy capabilities have been recognized by some of California’s most well-respected policy experts. According to Allan Zaremberg, President and CEO of the California Chamber of Commerce, “Anthony’s sharp political mind combined with his deep knowledge of California’s complex laws make him an expertly qualified lobbyist in both the legislative and regulatory arenas.” Mr. Samson was previously the environmental lobbyist at the California Chamber of Commerce, where he became known for his ability to assemble large industry-wide coalitions to achieve positive outcomes on dozens of legislative and regulatory proposals.

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