Successes

Financial Services

When the emerging financial technology industry –FinTech- came under assault from a Justice Department initiative that was cutting off financial services to legal industries known as “Operation Choke Point”, we helped lead a successful bipartisan government relations coalition that eventually led to multiple hearings, bipartisan Congressional letters and legislation introduced to stop these actions in the future.

HealthCare

When a group of freestanding medical facilities faced a $3 billion cut in Medicare reimbursement that would have been unsustainable for many providers, we helped to defeat the cut and achieve a much-needed period of stability for the sector.  The Patient Access and Medicare Protection Act, P.L. 114 – 115, was critical to achieving a multi-year period of stability for the sector as more innovative and stable payment reforms are developed.

Victims of Terror

1n 1983, a suicide bomber drove a truck packed with explosives into the U.S. Marine barracks in Beirut, killing 241 U.S. military personnel.  The victims and their families sued Iran were awarded a $4 billion judgement from Iran and collected $2 billion, Peterson et al. v. Islamic Republic of Iran et al., Case No. 10 Civ. 4518 (BSJ). These same victims of terror identified another $1.6 billion Iranian financial asset at the same Luxembourg financial institution. We were able to add bipartisan and bicameral language that modifies Section 22 U.S.C. § 8772 to the FY2020 National Defense Authorization Act, Public Law 116-92. This language will make it much more difficult for Iran to recover the illicit investments and provides justice to victims of terror.