Issue areas declared on the filings, ranked by how many filings name each one.
Copyright/Patent/Trademark
CPT · 10 clients
347 filings
$10.6M on those filings
Telecommunications
TEC · 6 clients
277 filings
$8.3M on those filings
Taxation/Internal Revenue Code
Who does the lobbying
Every lobbyist named on this registrant's filings.
Joseph H GibsonCovered position: Counsel for Legislative & Intergovernmental Affairs Anti-Trust Division, DOJ 2001-2002; Chief Antitrust Counsel, House Judiciary Committee 1997-2001; Counsel, House Judiciary Committee 1995-1997494 filings19 clients · through 2026
Covered positions · 1 of 1 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.
Foreign interests disclosed
Every foreign entity named on this registrant's filings.
Open Wealth Investments Limited
Hong Kong
1 filing
through 2021
Tch Gold Limited
Virgin Islands (U.S.)
1 filing
through 2021
Tch Scarlet Limited
The filings
The 20 most recent of 473 filings. Every figure above is built from these records.
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: the-gibson-group-llc.
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 $14.7M in fees and $0 in expenses.
TAX · 9 clients
200 filings
$5.9M on those filings
Trade (domestic/foreign)
TRD · 5 clients
154 filings
$4.7M on those filings
Immigration
IMM · 4 clients
144 filings
$4.3M on those filings
Computer Industry
CPI · 3 clients
140 filings
$4.5M on those filings
Labor Issues/Antitrust/Workplace
LBR · 12 clients
138 filings
$4.7M on those filings
Health Issues
HCR · 6 clients
116 filings
$3.3M on those filings
Communications/Broadcasting/Radio/TV
COM · 2 clients
61 filings
$1.7M on those filings
Postal
POS · 2 clients
54 filings
$1.6M on those filings
Homeland Security
HOM · 1 client
15 filings
$450K on those filings
Aviation/Airlines/Airports
AVI · 1 client
15 filings
$450K 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.
Ireland
1 filing
through 2021
Tencent Holdings Limited
Hong Kong
1 filing
through 2021
Fresenius Medical Care Ag & Co. Kgaa
Germany
1 filing
through 2017
Spotify Ab
Sweden
1 filing
through 2015
Endo International PLC
Ireland
1 filing
through 2014
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.
