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Lobbyists Report Earnings
Lobby firms have filed their final compensation reports for 2024, capping a year in which the state’s top-tier firms broke revenue records.
It was a tight race for the top spot in Florida Politics’ lobby firm rankings, with The Southern Group and Ballard Partners rotating as No. 1 in the quarterly rankings.
In a photo finish, Paul Bradshaw and the team at The Southern Group topped the Q4 and annual revenue charts. TSG’s 2024 total: $35.46 million.
Still, No. 2 isn’t a bad spot for Brian Ballard & Co., which managed to reel in $35.32 million, just $138,000 less than TSG, at the state level while expanding the firm’s global footprint — Ballard Partners most recently entered the Italian market via a partnership with MAIM Group.
Capital City Consulting came in at No. 3, collecting just shy of $7 million in Q4 to finish the year at $26.83 million. That’s a seven-figure improvement from CCC’s 2023 haul for the firm co-founded by Ron LaFace and Nick Iarossi, the latter of whom is also celebrating a recent knighthood.
Rubin Turnbull & Associates is the most recent addition to the Top 5, and it climbed a rung last quarter, landing at No. 4 with nearly $3 million in revenue. Still, the full-year chart GrayRobinson in the No. 4 spot — the Dean Cannon-led firm posted a $2.9 million haul in Q4, making for a $12.8 million year.
Ron Book rounded out the Top 5 on both charts with $2.38 million in Q4 and an annual total of $11.64 million. The Top 5 finish bookends (sorry) a year that saw the longtime lobbyist land a Nobel Peace Prize nomination in recognition of his decades of advocacy and nonprofit work.
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