Alber & Geiger

Alber & Geiger

Alber & Geiger is a European lobbying law firm. The firm currently has offices in Brussels and Berlin.

Among the firm's partners are the former President of the European Parliament and member of the British House of Lords, Henry Plumb, Baron Plumb, the former Advocate General of the European Court of Justice and Vice President of the European Parliament, Prof Siegbert Alber, and the former Director of the European Commission's Legal Service Prof. Dr. Rolf Wägenbaur.

The firm was founded in 2007 as a spin-off of leading US lobbying firm Cassidy & Associates by its former European CEO, Dr. Andreas Geiger. Before that, Geiger was Head of the EU Law Center of Ernst & Young in Brussels and attorney at the law firm Taylor Wessing. He wrote a handbook on EU lobbying. The firm has a bi-monthly column in Washington's newspaper The Hill.

The firm is known for its past lobbying activity in the following cases:
*EU tobacco advertising directive and trademark products
*EU health claims regulations and advertising
*EU driver licence directive and tourism
*Monopoly abuse in the pharma sector
*EU freedom of establishment and taxes
*Taxation in car leasing
*Deregulation of the telecom sector
*Merger communication in the aviation sector
*State aid in Eastern Germany
*Anti-dumping measures against China
*EU gambling market liberalization
*Bulgaria's EU membership
*Iran politics

In 2008 the firm was nominated for its lobbying activity as "European Consultancy of the Year"Fact|date=July 2008.

Sources

* [http://www.legalweek.com/Navigation/20/Articles/1074249/EU+lobbying+firm+Alber++Geiger+opens+in+Berlin.html EU lobbying firm Alber & Geiger opens in Berlin]
* [http://www.thelawyer.com/cgi-bin/item.cgi?id=125252&d=122&h=24&f=46 Cassidy splits to form Brussels lobby firm]
* [http://www.publicaffairsnews.com/issues/articleview.asp?article_id=385 Cassidy in EU limbo]
* [http://www.ft.com/cms/s/0/fd19c986-40ba-11dd-bd48-0000779fd2ac.html?nclick_check=1 Lawyers highlight risks in Brussels lobbying register]
* [http://thehill.com/business--lobby/abramoff-prompts-reforms-in-european-union-too-2008-03-12.html Abramoff prompts reforms in European Union, too]

External links

* [http://www.albergeiger.com Alber & Geiger] Web site


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