| Type | Government Relations Law firm |
|---|---|
| Industry | Lobbying |
| Founded | 2007 |
| Headquarters | Brussels, Belgium. Berlin, Germany |
| Key people | Siegbert Alber, Chairman Andreas Geiger, Managing Partner |
| Website | http://www.albergeiger.com |
Alber & Geiger is a political lobbying powerhouse and the leading European government relations law firm. The firm currently has offices in Brussels and Berlin.
Among the firm's partners are the former President of the European Parliament and member of the British House of Lords, Henry Plumb, Baron Plumb, the former Advocate General of the European Court of Justice and Vice President of the European Parliament, Prof Siegbert Alber, the former Secretary General of the European Commission, Carlo Trojan, and the former Director of the European Commission's Legal Service, Prof. Dr. Rolf Wägenbaur.
The firm was founded in 2007 as a spin-off of leading US lobbying firm Cassidy & Associates by its former European CEO, Dr. Andreas Geiger. Before that, Geiger was Head of the EU Law Center of Ernst & Young in Brussels and attorney at the law firm Taylor Wessing. He wrote a handbook on EU lobbying.
Besides lobbying for corporate clients the firm is known for representing foreign governments. Alber & Geiger received a lot of media attention for successfully representing the Bulgarian and the Moroccan governments towards the EU Institutions, winning against Microsoft before the EU Commission in the EU "browser war" and breaking the state monopolies for lotteries and gambling in the EU in 2010. The latter comes basically from the fact that the firm's Chairman, Prof. Alber, represented large parts of the EU gambling industry due to his background as the Advocate General in the European Court of Justice's landmark "Gambelli" case.
Among the firm's lobbying clients are:
For its lobbying work the firm was nominated again in 2010 by The Lawyer, London, as "European Niche Law Firm of the Year", by Legal Week, London, as "European Legal Team of the Year" and by European Public Affairs Awards, Brussels, as "Consultant of the Year".