Lobbying client · LD-2 disclosures
Akin Gump Strauss Hauer & Feld (on Behalf of Nippon Steel Corporation)
District of Columbia
8 filings from 2 registrants · 2024–2025 · latest filed Jul 21, 2025
Reported on its behalf
$540K
every LD-2 on file
Its own filed spend
$0
lobbying for itself
Fees to outside firms
$540K
across every firm on file
Spend over time
Every filing period on record, as reported. One column per filed period — a period with no column is a period with no filing, not a zero.
Basis · Amendments and terminations supersede the original report for the same registrant, client and period, so a revised quarter is counted once at its latest filed value. Registration-only filings carry no activity money and are excluded from these totals.
Who lobbies for them
Every outside firm that has filed on this client's behalf, by fees reported.
What they lobby on
Issue areas declared on the filings, ranked by how many filings name each one.
Trade (domestic/foreign)
TRD
7 filings
$540K on those filings
Note · A filing names one to several issue areas and reports a single dollar figure for the period, so the same money appears beside every issue that filing declares. The dollar column is therefore spend on filings that named this issue — it is not a split of the total, and these figures sum above it. Filing counts do not double-count.
Who did the lobbying
Every lobbyist named on this client's filings.
- Daniel Mcfaul Ballard PartnersCovered position: Legislative Director to U.S. Representative Joe Scarborough; Chief of Staff to U.S. Representatives Jeff Miller and Matt Gaetz.7 filingsthrough 2025
- Hunter Morgen Ballard PartnersCovered position: Policy Advisor, Office of Policy Planning, U.S. State Dept. (2017); Deputy Director, Office of Trade & Manufacturing Policy, WH (2017-2018); Special Assistant to the President, Office of the Senior Advisor for Policy, WH (2018-2020)7 filingsthrough 2025
- Brian Ballard Ballard Partners6 filingsthrough 2025
- Tola Thompson Ballard Partners Communications Director and Senior Legislative Assistant to U.S. Representative Carrie Meek (1993-2002); Chief of Staff to U.S. Representative Al Lawson (2017-2021)
The filings
Every filing on record. Each row links to its full disclosure.
This record groups every filed spelling of the client's name into one entity, so "MERCK & CO., INC." and "MERCK & CO INC" read as the same company. The grouping is the client's normalized name — organizations that file under genuinely different names appear separately. Handle: akin-gump-strauss-hauer-feld-on-behalf-of-nippon-steel-corporation.