Leader: Martin P. Honigberg

Sulloway & Hollis' Government Relations Group is a flexible and creative team of lawyers and non-lawyers. We facilitate contact and communications with policy makers and officials at every level of government. Our approach reflects long experience with formal and informal presentations to the New Hampshire legislature, executive branch and administrative agencies, as well as municipal boards. If you need regulatory approvals to go forward with a project, we'll help you develop a plan to get you to "yes." If you've received a request for information or a subpoena from some part of the government, we'll be with you to make sure your business won't have any more trouble than is necessary. If, after looking at all of the options, you need the legislature to act, we'll help you get a bill introduced and work through the legislative process right through the signing ceremony with the Governor.

Areas of Expertise:

• Health care
• Banking
• State and local taxation
• Public utility matters
• Insurance
• Land use and planning
• Environmental issues
• Hospitality

Our strength is our people, lawyers who have experience in state and municipal government service, including a former mayor of Concord who served as counsel to two governors, a former Concord School Board member who served as special counsel to another governor, and current or former members of a variety of state and municipal boards and commissions.

Our clients include individuals, local businesses, multi-national corporations, professional associations, and others. Some of our notable clients have included the New Hampshire Medical Society, the New Hampshire Hospital Association, Public Service Company of New Hampshire, The New Hampshire Retirement System, Hertz Corporation, Jefferson Pilot Financial, Segway LLC, the New Hampshire Lodging and Restaurant Association, State Street Bank of New Hampshire, and the Greater Concord Chamber of Commerce.

Our successes include:

• Led a coalition advocating medical injury panel legislation, RSA ch. 519-B, enacted in 2005 after a three-year study and legislative process.
• Worked closely on numerous major projects and multiple issues with the Secretary of State's Office, the Bureau of Securities Regulation, the Banking Department, and the Insurance Department, among others.
• Helped international financial resources conglomerate resolve a business tax dispute with the State Department of Revenue Administration resulting in a 90% reduction in the company's tax liability.
• Negotiated for one of the world's leading providers of services to institutional investors a no-tax-due settlement of a highly-complex business tax problem that had arisen for the institution's investment trusts.
• Successful representation of acquirers in New Hampshire administrative proceedings authorizing acquisition of major NH domestic insurance companies