First Republic Bank — lobbying record — Receipts Report
Client
Lobbying client · LD-2 disclosures
First Republic Bank
California
62 filings from 3 registrants · 2017–2024 · latest filed Mar 28, 2024
Reported on its behalf
$945K
every LD-2 on file
Its own filed spend
$0
lobbying for itself
Fees to outside firms
$945K
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.
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: first-republic-bank.
Reading this · LD-2 reports a hired firm's fee and a registrant's reported expenses on separate lines and never both on one filing, so the two lists above are different quantities and are ranked separately rather than against each other. Firm names link to their own record as the firms chapter lands.
13 filings
$160K on those filings
Bankruptcy
BNK
13 filings
$160K on those filings
Education
EDU
12 filings
$360K on those filings
Environment/Superfund
ENV
12 filings
$275K on those filings
Budget/Appropriations
BUD
12 filings
$275K 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.
116th Congress
Employer Participation in Repayment Act of 2019
5 filingsthrough 2019
S. 2155115th CongressEconomic Growth, Regulatory Relief, and Consumer Protection Act5 filingsthrough 2018
How these are found · Bill references are extracted from the free-text activity description each filing writes, then matched to the Congress in session that filing year. A reference we can't match to a bill on file is still shown, unlinked — we cite what the filing said rather than guess at what it meant. Naming a bill is not a position on it: LD-2 records that a client lobbied on the bill, never which side.
Lawrence F O'Brien, IiiThe Ob-C Group, LLC
14 filingsthrough 2019
Daniel KideraThe Ob-C Group, LLC14 filingsthrough 2019
David HeilThe Ob-C Group, LLCCovered position: Chief of Staff, Sam Johnson TX14 filingsthrough 2019
Michael S JohnsonThe Ob-C Group, LLC7 filingsthrough 2018
Alexis Maria AppleRichard F. Hohlt5 filingsthrough 2020
PAUL A HOWARD iiArnold & Porter Kaye Scholer LLPCovered position: ​Legislative Assistant, U.S. Senator Susan M. Collins5 filingsthrough 2018
L Charles LandgrafArnold & Porter Kaye Scholer LLP4 filingsthrough 2018
Covered positions · 2 of 12 lobbyists named on these filings disclosed a prior government post. The text is reproduced exactly as filed.
