This record groups every filed spelling of the registrant's name into one entity, so punctuation variants of the same firm read as one. The grouping is the registrant's normalized name — firms that file under genuinely different names appear separately. Handle: grifols-shared-services-north-america-inc.
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.
Reading this · An LD-2 reports either a fee the registrant charged or expenses it spent, never both on one filing, so the two lists above are different quantities and are ranked separately rather than against each other. The expenses basis is what an organization lobbying on its own behalf files — usually for itself, sometimes for an affiliate under a different name — so a name on the second list is the client the filing names, not necessarily a claim that the registrant lobbied for someone else's account. Across every relationship on file — not just those shown — this registrant reported $0 in fees and $11.5M in expenses.
BUD · 1 client
14 filings
$4.6M on those filings
Immigration
IMM · 1 client
9 filings
$2.5M on those filings
Trade (domestic/foreign)
TRD · 1 client
7 filings
$990K on those filings
Taxation/Internal Revenue Code
TAX · 1 client
7 filings
$740K on those filings
Tariff (miscellaneous tariff bills)
TAR · 1 client
5 filings
$2.2M on those filings
Medical/Disease Research/Clinical Labs
MED · 1 client
5 filings
$720K on those filings
Homeland Security
HOM · 1 client
2 filings
$340K on those filings
Transportation
TRA · 1 client
2 filings
$75K on those filings
Government Issues
GOV · 1 client
1 filing
$240K 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 money 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.
20 filings1 client · through 2023
Brian Stoker19 filings1 client · through 2023
Michael Piersall15 filings1 client · through 2026
Rosemary Garza9 filings1 client · through 2026
Katherine Pajewski8 filings1 client · through 2026
Emanuela BercaCovered position: NA8 filings1 client · through 2012
Jennifer Jones3 filings1 client · through 2023
Karen Glenn1 filing1 client · through 2023
Marcus Moss1 filing1 client · through 2023
Covered positions · 5 of 13 lobbyists named on these filings disclosed a prior government post. A covered official position is the LD-2 field a lobbyist uses to report having held one; the text is reproduced exactly as filed.
1 filing
through 2008
What this discloses · An LD-2 reports foreign entities that hold an interest in, or contribute to, the client — so these are foreign interests behind the organizations this registrant files for, not owners of the registrant itself. Disclosure is a reporting requirement, not an allegation.
