Using our Knowledge to your Advantage
Legal Representation
- International Law, Trade and Investment
- Energy and Utility Law
- Contract negotiation and drafting
- Teaming Agreement creation
- MBE/SLMBE/WBE/SDVOSB contracting &compliance
- Regulatory negotiation, writing and review
- Compliance monitoring, reporting, and modifying for corrective actions
- Proposal development
- Nonprofit Law
- Agency and Commission representation and guidance
- Procurement bid preparation and presentation
- Leasing negotiation and drafting
- Zoning, Land Use & Development
Government Relations
Public Policy
Lobbying/Regulatory Oversight
Information Monitoring
Political Awareness
Public Policy
The Avania Group has proven government relations experience working collaboratively among legislative bodies, many organizations and constituents including executive leadership, colleagues, key stakeholders, industry leaders, advocacy groups and government officials to formulate legislative agendas. We use our extensive historical knowledge of relevant government agencies and processes as well as current issues to facilitate advising client managers regarding policy issues related to government matters. At the same time, we focus on those impacting operational and functional responsibilities while relaying client expectations to the government. The result is our client’s ability to develop and adjust their company’s position in a dynamic and fluid environment at varying levels of complexity to include strategy, direction, and time-frames.
Our Team:
- Acts as a liaison to and advocates before federal, state, and local government officials and their staffs
- Reviews the status of pending legislation by tracking bills and fiscal notes
- Briefs and counsels the client on the implications and status of pending legislative, administrative and regulatory matters
- Provides input on amendments and fiscal notes
- Prepares and presents written and oral testimony at work sessions and public hearings
- Uses negotiating skills to discover more workable and less costly alternatives
- Works to identify, create, and coordinate formal and informal issue-based coalitions to include key opinion leaders, community organizations and advocacy groups to assist in promoting the clients’ strategic policy agenda
- Monitors and participates in activities to help shape future political and regulatory agendas and to provide a succinct and timely analysis of emerging issues
- Takes the lead on many esoteric issues
- Enjoys a high level of respect from policymakers and colleagues
Lobbying/Regulatory Oversight
Our team provides awareness of key events, meetings, regulatory decisions, working groups, and other key activities and client participation requirements. We identify legislative and regulatory changes that may impact our client’s operations and long term business strategy and develop positions of influence to ensure client interests are reflected to the best advantage. We provide analysis and background information to develop, recommend and pursue acceptance of client positions through influencing changes to laws and regulations or lobbying for new changes.
Our Team:
- Represents the client before regulatory agencies and commissions
- Guides client’s projects through an agencies’ approval process
- Participates in work sessions to craft new regulations
- Reviews and communicates revisions to promote client compliance
- Interacts with organizational operations to assist in the identification of corrective actions or modifications
Political Awareness
The Avania Group is suited to function as our client’s political strategist and government/industry relations consultant. We are expert at understanding political realities, which are not necessarily obvious. We work with clients to develop position papers and provide executive leadership with analysis, strategic options, and recommendations. Our team compiles, shapes and synthesizes analysis for executive management strategy presentations in tandem with client managers.
Our Team:
- Navigates the political consequences of actions
- Assesses the political environment and potential ramifications when presenting ideas and taking actions
- Manages ideas and actions to effectively navigate the political environment
- Engages others to fully understand the views and positions of stakeholders on key issues
- Establishes support for recommendations and actions before officially presenting ideas or taking action
- Positions recommendations and/or actions to manage reactions
Information Monitoring
Identify legislative and regulatory changes that may impact our clients. We constantly and continuously develop a position of influence to ensure client’s interests are reflected to the best advantage.
Our Team:
- Works with client consistently and proactively to determine which processes or areas throughout its organization needs to be monitored
- Identifies what information needs to be obtained
- Advises in proactively establishing advanced systems to monitor activities or outputs that provide timely and pertinent information with minimal interruption
- Works with client to collect and review data on a regular basis to determine progress, anticipate needs, and make necessary adjustments while maintaining compliance
Public Relations
Public Affairs
Image Advertising
Media Relations
Public Affairs
The Avania Group has a demonstrated track record of developing and executing successful public relations strategies and programs by possessing an entrepreneurial spirit, interest and capability in managing ambiguous situations. We enjoy coordinating the development and approval of messaging and timing to advance client strategies and activities in public relations, media relations, government relations, and employee communications. We believe in contributing efforts to inform and educate audiences about the work of our clients, advance our client’s reputation, and enhance the efficiency and effectiveness of internal and external client communications.
Our Team:
- Facilitates effective communications approaches in internal and external relations
- Pursues a comprehensive and integrated approach to organizational communications, incorporating a variety of communications skills, approaches, channels, and multimedia tools
- Ensures that client and client stakeholders are provided with counsel, facilitation, and assistance in communicating with internal and external audiences.
- Formulates and executes legislative and community affairs strategies to further enhance reputation, credibility and image
- Supports engaging policy-makers, influencers and key opinion leaders who can work to resolve and advance clients’ policy issues
- Improves communication and works to establish and maintain relationships with representatives of community, consumer, public interest, industry, coalition, and chamber groups
- Establishes and continuously seeks to improve opportunities to gather, report, and disseminate clients’ agenda to government agencies, corporate entities and the general public
- Identifies potential partnerships to collaborate on outreach and education
- Organizes and mobilizes grass root support to promote objectives
- Participates in various functions with legislators, policymakers, associations, non-profits, and industry leaders to promote and sustain key relationships, build networks, generate goodwill, and influence opinion and behavior
Image Advertising
- Helps coordinate the activities of image advertising to include corporate identity, crisis communication, and press releases
- Participates in developing and implementing an image advertising program and promotional campaign that is sensitive to cultural differences
- Seeks to continuously improve client image and positioning before the public at large, customers, suppliers, government, media, competitors, shareholders, employees and others
Media Relations
- Works to assist the formulation and execution of a media relations strategy before television, social media, radio, print media, and other external audiences
- Identifies media opportunities/angles that advance advocacy an business goals
- Assess client issues and develops alternative media relations plans and approaches for image protection in crisis situations
- Provides guidance in the development of press releases and responses to media inquiries
Finance
Financial & Economic Analysis
Our experts take pride in staying abreast of financial and economic developments that lead to successful client operations and investment. We are skillful at tracking and analyzing market trends and predicting market changes to increase efficiency and profit for our clients.
Our Team and Partner relationship:
- Conducts fiscal and economic research work for private development projects, assessment of proposed legislation and creation of budgets
- Creates measurable, quality, timely and usable financial plans for operational, programmatic and administrative support
- Conducts independent studies, develops proposals and makes recommendations on when to sustain an established position and when to evolve or abandon it
- Represents the client at financial meetings and testifies before legislative, administrative and regulatory bodies
- Provides quarterly estimates of revenues
- Offers points of integration in marketing that may not exist in current plans
- Researches and recommends investments
- Advises client managers on financial decisions
- Monitor financial details to make sure legal requirements are met
- Reviews company reports and suggest efficiencies
Business & Economic Development
With an abundance of confidence and drive, our team identifies key thought leaders in the industry with whom our clients should explore and establish long-term partnerships and relationships nationally and internationally. Tooled with superior project management and strategic planning skills, each of us is able to work with a client’s business units to provide strong economic, management, financial, operational, and strategic planning advice to assist a client in increasing existing new business and capturing new opportunities. The positive outcome promotes the growth of clients’ business by fostering partnerships, identifying winning positions, and providing competitive intelligence.
Business Development
Our Team:
- Leverages relationships to achieve client growth goals in public and private sector
- Asses risk by using financial, statistical and economic data, to create manageable solutions
- Leads a client to predict and manage change through innovation
- Assists in discovering procurement opportunities and procurement vehicles
- Maintains relationships with procurement officials and contracting officers per client industry
- Assists with bid preparation from development through implementation
- Facilitates the inclusion of minority, small, women and veteran owned companies in bids
- Identifies strategic alliances that lead to teaming agreements
Economic Development
Our Team:
- Forges relationships with enabling government\agencies conducive to economic growth
- Researches collaborative initiatives that have achieved impact on international, national or industry sector-wide scales
- Sews the seeds of entrepreneurship and innovation by engaging in progressive public policy dialogue
- Promotes market expansion by developing and involving entrepreneurs, suppliers, distributors, retailers, customers, and sources of innovation from nontraditional participants for the global marketplace
International Business Development
Our highly motivated professionals help fuel the growth and success of multinational corporations. Their intuition, industry knowledge and resourcefulness facilitate deals and transactions while still balancing cultural sensitivity globally. Our team is compelling, …while engaging with global and cultural business issues such as imports/exports, international management consulting, multinational manufacturers, international nongovernmental organizations (NGOs), finance, agriculture and transportation industries, to name a few.
Our Team:
- Researches opportunities for imports and exports for multinational corporations
- Drafts trade agreements and contracts for a variety of industry sectors
- Travels abroad to facilitate business deals
- Prepares clients for foreign travel and business dealings
- Studies, counsels and advises ethical behavior and standards
- Practices cultural sensitivity in business to facilitate deals and transactions
- Represents clients internationally as its representative or consultant
- Focuses on sustainable international business & economic development
Marketing & Promotion
Our team of creative and strategic thinkers collaborates with our clients to develop key marketing communication strategies and messages to promote client position and industry value. We often facilitate and pair the development of marketing plans by incorporating opportunities garnered by positive government relations and public affairs. We are well versed in making recommendations concerning business opportunities, market impediments, as well as risks and rewards.
Our Team:
- Meets with clients to provide marketing or technical advice, present campaigns and strategies
- Initiates market research and analyzes findings
- Plans advertising campaigns and ensures deadlines are met
- Prepares and discusses contracts products to be promoted
- Develops with client pricing strategies for marketing plans and meets their goals and budgets
- Negotiates contracts, advertising media, or products to be advertised
- Advises which media to advertise in, such as radio, television, print, and online creative elements and layouts