As the United States continues negotiations on the Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP) and Trans-Atlantic Trade and Investment Partnership (TTIP), tobacco giant Philip Morris International Management SA has turned to former Rep. Bill Paxon, R-N.Y., and other Akin Gump Strauss Hauer & Feld lobbyists for help.
PMI Global Services Inc., a subsidiary of the Marlboro cigarette maker, enlisted the Akin Gump team in Washington, D.C., to assist it with advocacy work concerning the “[t]reatment of tobacco in Trans-Pacific Partnership and Trans-Atlantic Trade and Investment Partnership negotiations; combatting illicit trade in tobacco,” according to lobbying registration paperwork filed with Congress on Friday.
