Washington Attorney

Madden & Patton, L.L.C. provides expert legal and lobbying services in the following areas:

Federal Legislative and Lobbying Practice – Our counseling and advocacy covers a full range of congressional and federal agency lobbying services to assist our clients in managing their interactions with the federal government. We have an outstanding record of success representing numerous companies and associations before Congress and federal agencies. We have worked with every major committee in Congress. We can create a federal legislative program for you that includes the following:

Establishes, develops and maintains effective working relationships with members of Congress and their staff, key executive branch and federal agency officials,

Monitors, researches, analyzes, and evaluates proposed and existing federal legislation and regulations for your company,

Prepares letters, talking points, issue summaries and white papers related to relevant legislative and regulatory topics for dissemination to your key company executives,

Prepares written and oral testimony for congressional hearings,

Advises your company on political campaign and contribution laws, and

Creates and manages industry and legislative coalitions to assist your company in accomplishing key objectives and goals.

New U.S. Bank Regulations – Our focus is the Dodd-Frank Wall Street Reform and Consumer Protection Act (“Act”). We can create a comprehensive compliance program for your bank and bank holding companies that minimize risk and maximize revenue. The Act is an extremely broad and complex federal statute that makes massive regulatory changes to the financial services system. A short summary of the Act is as follows:

The Federal bank regulatory agencies, and in particular, the Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve (“Fed”) are given extensive new authorities to impose strict controls on large bank holding companies with total consolidated assets equal to or in excess of $50 billion and systemically significant nonbank financial companies supervised by the Fed to limit the risk they might pose for the economy.

The Act puts in place a new Financial Stability Oversight Council and several other new entities and a statutory liquidation process to deal with systemically risky institutions.

The Act restructures the supervision of holding companies and depository institutions by establishing that capital requirements for holding companies be at least as strict as capital requirements for depository institutions.

The Act directs Federal bank regulators to develop specific capital requirements for holding companies and depository institutions that regulate activities that may pose risk to the financial system, such as significant activities in higher risk areas, or assets where the reported values are based on models.

The Act establishes the Bureau of Consumer Financial Protection, a new independent Federal regulatory body for consumer protection that has broad authority to curb practices it finds to be unfair, deceptive and abusive activities.

The Volcker Rule prohibits banks and their subsidiaries and affiliates from engaging in proprietary trading. There are a few exceptions to the Volcker Rule for certain types of assets and certain categories of transactions.

Sports and Venue Law - We have successfully represented the National Football League, Major League Baseball, the 2002 Salt Lake Winter Olympic Games, and many individual professional clubs and organizations. We can service your company with advice on the following:

Professional Sports Law,

Sports Venue Development,

Sports Venue Financing including Federal Tax Exempt Bonds for Venues,

Naming Rights Negotiation and Contract Preparation, and

Venue Contracts, License Agreements and Patron Ticketing.

Trade and Professional Association Law – We can advise associations on a variety of issues that affect both the day-to-day operations of the organization and the substantive areas in which an association serves its membership. Our counseling and advocacy covers: legislative, lobbying, regulatory, antitrust, transactions, governance, tax exemption, litigation, conventions and trade shows, technology, employment, intellectual property, and the many other areas of law that affect associations and nonprofit organizations.

Federal Court Litigation – We can provide litigation services involving business disputes, commercial contracts in a wide range of areas such as the purchase and sale of businesses, contracts for the sale or development of intellectual property, construction contracts, and partnership disputes, allegations of improper conduct in business transactions, including fraud, negligent misrepresentation, interferences with contractual or economic relations, and bad faith and unfair dealing.

Federal Tax Law – We can represent your company and individuals with federal tax litigation and controversies in federal courts including the U.S. Tax Court.

ADA Law – Our counseling and advocacy also covers the Americans with Disabilities Act including practical compliance programs for businesses, state and local governments and university organizations. We have an outstanding record of success with federal regulators.