Lobbying Relationship

Client

Anheuser-Busch Companies, Inc

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Lobbying firm

COVINGTON & BURLING LLP

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  • Proposed merger between Anheuser-Busch InBev and SABMiller

Duration: to

General Issues: Beverage Industry, Labor Issues/Antitrust/Workplace

Spending: about $110,000 (But it's complicated. Here's why.)

Agencies lobbied since 2015: U.S. Senate, House of Representatives

Related Foreign Entities: Anheuser-Busch InBev SA/NV (3000 Leuven, BEL); contribution to lobbying: $0; ownership 100%; InBev Services B.V. (4811 CA Breda, NED); contribution to lobbying: $0; ownership 100%

Lobbyists

Lobbyists named here were listed on a filing related to this lobbying engagement. They may not be working on it now. Occasionally, a single lobbyist whose name is spelled two different ways on filings may be represented twice here.

Lobbyist Covered positions?
Daniel Spiegel US Ambassador to UN (Geneva)
Aaron Cooper Chief Counsel IP/Antitrust Law, Senate Judiciary Committee; ​Counsel, Senator Sarbanes; Leg. Correspondent,​ Senator Lautenberg; Leg. Asst. Representative Andrews.
Richard Hertling ​Staff Dir. & Chief Counsel, House Judiciary Cmte.; ​Acting Asst. AG, Office of Leg. Affairs, DoJ; Dep. Asst. AG, ​Office of Legal Policy, DoJ; Dep. CoS & Leg. Dir., Senator Lamar Alexander; Min. Staff Dir., Sen. Gov. Affairs Cmte
Jon Kyl US Senator (1995-2013); US House Member (1987-1995)
Howard Berman ​Member, U.S. House of Representatives
William Wichterman Special Assistant to President Bush (2008-2009); Sr. Policy Advisor, Senate Majority Leader Frist (2003-2005); Chief of Staff, Rep. Joseph Pitts (1997-2002); Chief of Staff, Rep. Bill Baker (1994 -1997)

Disclosures Filed

Once a lobbying engagement begins, the lobbyist or firm is required to file updates four times a year. Those updates sometimes change which lobbyists are involved or add new issues being discussed. When lobbyists stop working for a client, the firm is also supposed to file a report disclosing the end of the relationship.

Termination
Q1 Report
Q4 Report
Q3 Report
Q2 Report
Q1 Report
Q4 Report
Registration

Source: Clerk of the U.S. House of Representatives and Secretary of the Senate

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