• Issues related to the implementation of the Dodd-Frank Wall Street Reform and Consumer Protection Act; private equity, derivatives legislation, energy issues, SEC/CFTC regulations, FDIC Financial Institution Regulatory issues, Place Agency Regulatory issues and regulatory reform; issues pertaining to business holdings; issues related to tax reform initiatives; and the taxation of carried interest and publicly traded partnership.

Duration: August 15, 2012 to July 1, 2015

General Issues: Financial Institutions/Investments/Securities, Taxation/Internal Revenue Code

Spending: about $1,960,000 (But it's complicated. Here's why.)

It can be tricky to figure out how much an organization spent on a particular lobbying engagement. The law only requires lobbyists to report the amount they were paid for federal lobbying each quarter rounded to the nearest $10,000—and if it's less than $3,000 in a given quarter (or less than $13,000 for organizations with in-house lobbyists), they don't have to disclose it at all. Plus, some organizations include spending that doesn’t belong in the report—for instance, money spent lobbying state governments or other legal work.

Agencies lobbied since 2012: U.S. Senate, House of Representatives, Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC), Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation (FDIC), Securities & Exchange Commission (SEC), Federal Deposit Insurance Commission (FDIC)