For Immediate Release: August 21, 2024
Contact: Nancy Jackson (213) 978-1960
Entities registered to lobby City agencies reported receiving payments totaling over $18.3 million in the second quarter of 2024, according to a summary published today by the Ethics Commission. Reports filed by lobbying entities disclosed that, during the second quarter, clients paid a total of $18,344,206 to lobby the City, marking an increase of less than one percent in payments compared to the previous quarter.
Of the 2,208 clients registered for the second quarter, the ten who made the largest aggregated payments for lobbying services are listed in the Top 10 Highest Paying Clients table to the right. Payments from these clients totaled $3,351,160 and represented 18 percent of all payments by lobbying clients for the quarter.
The ten lobbying firms receiving the most client payments in the first quarter of 2024 are listed in the Top 10 Highest Paid Lobbying Firms table below. Together, these lobbying firms received a total of $6,846,999, representing 37 percent of all client payments received in the second quarter.
| Top 10 Highest Paying Clients | Total Payments Made in Q2 | |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | Englander Knabe & Allen* | $670,341 |
| 2 | DZLA, LLC | $410,973 |
| 3 | Fox Corporation / Fox Studio Lot LLC / Foxcorp Holdings LLC ** | $391,730 |
| 4 | Topa Equities / Topa Property Group, Inc | $383,152 |
| 5 | Treetop Development LLC | $330,958 |
| 6 | Chick-Fil-A | $295,245 |
| 7 | S&R Partners / San Antonio Winery dba Riboli Family Wine Estates and its affiliate S&R Partners** | $259,912 |
| 8 | BARDAS Investment Group | $251,981 |
| 9 | Hackman Capital / Radford Studio Center / Television City Studios, LLC** | $206,868 |
| 10 | Flying Food, Inc. | $150,000 |
* This client made payments to lobbying firms on behalf of other clients, and those payments were aggregated.
** Entities with a known parent-subsidiary relationship are aggregated.
| Top 10 Highest Paid Lobbying Firms | Total Payments Received in Q2 | |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | Englander Knabe and Allen | $1,474,032 |
| 2 | TChoi and Associates | $907,017 |
| 3 | M Strategic Communications | $903,500 |
| 4 | Jeffer Mangels Butler & Mitchell LLP | $634,407 |
| 5 | Rand Paster & Nelson, LLP | $578,576 |
| 6 | MAX DEVELOPMENT LLC dba three6ixty | $567,329 |
| 7 | Craig Lawson & Co., LLC | $535,543 |
| 8 | Kindel Gagan | $441,408 |
| 9 | Mayer Brown LLP | $418,826 |
| 10 | Armbruster Goldsmith & Delvac LLP | $386,361 |
Of the 879 second-quarter lobbying entities, 13 also reported fundraising activity totaling $112,350 for City campaigns, officeholders, and committees. The graph at the top of the next page shows fundraising and contribution activity reported since Q2-2022.
In addition to the lobbying entities, seven major filers reported activity totaling $418,085 in the second quarter of 2024. The second graph on the next page tracks major filer activity reported since Q2-2023.
The full summary of second-quarter lobbying and major filer activities is available on the Ethics Commission’s website. Disclosed information about lobbying entities and their clients can be searched through the Lobbying Dashboard and the Public Data Portal on the Ethics Commission’s website.
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The Ethics Commission was created by Los Angeles voters in 1990 to impartially administer and enforce the City’s governmental ethics, campaign financing, and lobbying laws.