Covington & Burling LLP
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Covington & Burling LLP is a legal and lobbying firm that provides a range of advisory services for media, energy, international trade, finance, and transportation sectors. The firm focuses on areas such as industry and regulatory expertise, taxation, creditor rights, bankruptcy, corporate governance, insurance coverage, intellectual property, and securities law compliance.
Covington & Burling LLP was founded in 1919 and is based in the United States with additional offices England, Belgium, China and South Korea. [1]
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Francis Maude
In October 2016, former government minister Francis Maude was taken on as a senior adviser. A spokesperson for Covington said that Maude 'will be assisting the firm and its clients as they navigate complexities around Brexit'. It is one of many law and financial firms that have begun to set up advisory units on how their commercial interests will be affected by Brexit, and how to understand and shape UK policy outside of the EU.
The appointment was criticised for showing a 'disgraceful' conflict of interest between the public and private sector.
Contact
- Address: 265 Strand, London, Greater London, UK, WC2R 1BH.
- Telephone: (020) 7067 2000
- E-mail: graduate@cov.com
- Website: www.cov.com
Notes
- ↑ Company Overview of Covington & Burling LLP, Bloomberg, accessed 27 October 2016.
