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A Decade of Federal Partnerships
A Decade of Federal Partnerships
Cassidy & Associates was retained by a midwestern community college that was seeking to recreate itself and its community.
Access to Recreation
Access to Recreation
Cassidy & Associates was retained by a coalition of recreational product manufacturers after the Department of Interior announced a ban on the use of their products in all national parks.
Bolstering International Ties
Bolstering International Ties
Cassidy & Associates successfully represented this coastal African Republic before the U.S. Congress and the Executive Branch.
BRAC and Military Base Enhancement
BRAC and Military Base Enhancement
As states and communities started preparing for future BRAC rounds, Barry was recommended as a knowledgeable resource and advocate. Using his trial lawyer background, Barry achieved an unprecedented degree of success in facilitating the removal of bases from the closure list.
Building Bridges
Building Bridges
A Midwestern county retained Cassidy & Associates to safeguard the reallocation of federal funding and to secure the balance of funding required to complete a $166 million bridge project.
Comprehensive Representation
Comprehensive Representation
For over 35 years, Cassidy & Associates has provided general representation services to a major continental agriculture cooperative. These services have covered a wide array of issues ranging from appropriations to regulatory reform, trade issues and federal policy initiatives.
Corporate Tax Package
Corporate Tax Package
Cassidy & Associates was retained by one of the world’s largest home appliance makers whose products are marketed in nearly every country of the world.
Crafting a Counter Strategy
Crafting a Counter Strategy
We worked with a large retail company to help them assess and plan for the many challenges they faced based on misinformation about the company and its practices.
Creating New Opportunities
Creating New Opportunities
As a result of our engagement, the Association of Industrial Metalizers, Coaters and Laminators (AIMCAL) and the International Window Film Association (IWFA) created a significant new market for its products and a more secure environment for government employees.
Cyber Sector Results
Cyber Sector Results
In the cyber sector, our team helped a successful commercial company bring its expertise to the U.S. federal government.
Dairy and Agriculture
Dairy and Agriculture
Cassidy & Associates was engaged by one of the nation’s largest dairy cooperatives to assist them on a number of issues impacting dairy farmers as well as cooperative issues.
Damage Control
Damage Control
As the result of an E-coli outbreak, Cassidy & Associates was retained on behalf of a large agribusiness to assist with immediate damage control of the situation as well as address legislation and other efforts in the pipeline.
Defense Partnership
Defense Partnership
A small start-up specialty chemical company approached Cassidy & Associates in order to help position them as a resource to the Department of Defense.
Distance Learning
Distance Learning
Cassidy & Associates was retained by a small college in the state of Florida to assist in developing a relationship with and securing funding from the Department of Defense for the implementation of a distance learning program.
Diversifying Markets
Diversifying Markets
Cassidy & Associates worked with a worldwide leader in the telecom industry to successfully retain the procurement contract for telephone systems to the federal government. We also helped to develop a strategy regarding an important business merger.
FEMA Eligibility
FEMA Eligibility
Cassidy & Associates was retained by a small U.S. company specializing in safety products for fire and rescue nationwide that was faced with a potential disadvantage when the Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) changed its grant guidance rules.
Fighter Sales
Fighter Sales
Cassidy & Associates was approached by a major U.S. aerospace corporation in the development and implementation of marketing efforts to secure an order for U.S. jet fighters by an Asian ally.
Foreign Government Representation
Foreign Government Representation
Cassidy & Associates represented this African Republic for over seven years. During our engagement we achieved many government relations and public relations victories on its behalf.
Fuel Economy Standards
Fuel Economy Standards
Cassidy & Associates was retained by an automotive industry client as Congress was about to conclude consideration of increasing fuel economy standards for automobiles and light-duty trucks.
Fueling Growth
Fueling Growth
Cassidy & Associates was retained for federal marketing consulting services by a company that provides the software, equipment and servicing of power and cooling systems.
Funding BioSecurity and Health
Funding BioSecurity and Health
A southern California medical center approached Cassidy & Associates to establish a public-private partnership with the federal government after having been built and operated for nearly 30 years with only privately-raised dollars.
Funding Public Education
Funding Public Education
A non-profit organization that helps public school districts transform failing high schools into academically rigorous college prep high schools sought funding to supplement its work, done largely through private foundation support.
Health IT Telemedicine Service Provider
Health IT Telemedicine Service Provider
Cassidy & Associates was initially retained by this client to develop a line of business within the Department of Veterans Affairs and Department of Defense for their innovative health IT telemedicine service.
Health System Initiatives
Health System Initiatives
Cassidy & Associates was retained by a private, non-profit health system in the Northeast serving a population of 7.3 million people and receiving 3.6 million patient visits each year.
ImpactingTax Policy
ImpactingTax Policy
Cassidy & Associates delivered victories for a coalition of non-profit community foundations at a time when the sector was facing significant reform that would have potentially crippled many such foundations.
Increasing Healthcare Profiles
Increasing Healthcare Profiles
Cassidy & Associates was retained by one of the nations largest non-profit health care organizations to increase its profile with Congress.
International Business Promotion
International Business Promotion
Cassidy & Associates works with a South Korean Government trade promotion agency to help small Korean businesses break into the U.S. federal market.
International Energy
International Energy
Cassidy & Associates for many years assisted a leading international development firm to promote energy development in a Central Asian country.
Investment Tax Credit
Investment Tax Credit
Cassidy & Associates represents a small energy producer that uniquely generates power for commercial and industrial companies as well as governments and utilities.
Legacy Aerospace Case
Legacy Aerospace Case
A Department of Defense review of a large aircraft acquisition program for Air Force supply and transport operations was threatening the programs viability.
Legacy Navy Case
Legacy Navy Case
In 1992, the White House budget request terminated a major Navy acquisition project that was already underway.
Life Sciences Research
Life Sciences Research
Over several years of engagement, Cassidy & Associates assisted a nationally recognized research and engineering university in identifying federal funding sources and developing strategies to establish a research park dedicated to the advancement of Life Sciences.
Major Telecom Acquisition
Major Telecom Acquisition
Cassidy & Associates worked on behalf of a major foreign telecommunications company to assist them in their effort to acquire a majority stake in another company going through bankruptcy proceedings.
Making A Difference In The Community
Making A Difference In The Community
A pacific northwest university engaged the services of Cassidy & Associates to establish its first partnership with the federal government in more than 40 years.
Military to Military Cooperation
Military to Military Cooperation
The General staff of a NATO ally sought out Cassidy & Associates to assist in their quest to secure U.S. manufactured helicopters to replace those damaged during a severe storm and a training accident.
Multinational Visibility
Multinational Visibility
We were engaged by a large multinational computer processor manufacturing firm to raise its visibility on a number of fronts in the Legislative and Executive Branches of government.
Next Generation Technology
Next Generation Technology
Cassidy & Associates was retained by a high tech firm that sought to augment aging-programmed funding with additional congressionally-directed funding.
Presidential Library
Presidential Library
The privately run Richard M. Nixon Library & Birthplace in Yorba Linda, CA was referred to Cassidy & Associates to help lay the groundwork for transferring the Library into the federally run Presidential Library System.
Protecting Life and Property
Protecting Life and Property

Cassidy & Associates was retained to develop and coordinate a federal government relations strategy for this western city and to secure congressional and agency support for their initiatives.

Protecting Reputations
Protecting Reputations
Collaborating with a law firm, Cassidy & Associates was retained a decade ago to serve as liaison between officials of a key organization in the sports industry and Members of Congress, Senators, House and Senate leadership, and the Administration.
Spanish Language Media
Spanish Language Media
Cassidy & Associates was retained by a Spanish language media company to serve as an advocate and facilitator in Washington, D.C.
Spurring Economic Growth
Spurring Economic Growth
Cassidy & Associates was retained by a partnership of companies who established a 501c3 to spur economic and community development in their region.
Supporting Woman-Owned Companies
Supporting Woman-Owned Companies
Cassidy & Associates was retained by a small-woman owned business to assist in securing funding to develop and field next generation non-lethal weapons and crowd control devices.
Taiwan Studies Institute
Taiwan Studies Institute
Cassidy & Associates served as the Taiwan Studies Institute’s general representative in Washington for more than fifteen years, helping to promote the government of Taiwan’s interests on trade, tariffs, military issues and other areas of interest.
Taking Flight
Taking Flight
Cassidy & Associates was retained by one of the world’s largest aircraft manufacturers to promote their interests in Washington.
Taxing Entertainment
Taxing Entertainment
Cassidy & Associates was retained by a large, international entertainment and media based association to help it achieve critically important tax policy goals.
Wireless Merger
Wireless Merger
When two large wireless carriers announced their proposed merger, Cassidy & Associates was retained to advocate for all necessary U.S. government regulatory approvals for the merger, while mitigating harmful legislation that was introduced prior to the announcement of the merger.
Zone Defense
Zone Defense
It was Friday, the last few hours of a congressional session before adjourning for a month when the call came. A coalition of communications clients had recieved a tip that a problematic legislative item might be introduced later that night prior to adjournment.
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