issues . please help improve it or discuss these issues on the talk page . learn how and when to remove these template messages this article relies too much on references to primary sources . please improve this by adding secondary or tertiary sources . february 2013 learn how and when to remove this template message the topic of this article may not meet wikipedia s notability guidelines for companies and organizations . please help to establish notability by citing reliable secondary sources that are independent of the topic and provide significant coverage of it beyond its mere trivial mention . if notability can not be established the article is likely to be merged redirected or deleted . find sources prime policy group news newspapers books scholar jstor free images february 2013 learn how and when to remove this template message learn how and when to remove this template message prime policy group type lobby firm founded 2010 headquarters washington d.c. key people charles r. black jr. r. scott pastrick martin p. paone john s. tanner charles l.merin parent burson marsteller website http prime policy.com prime policy group is a washington dc based government relations firm . the firm was created in 2010 from a merger between timmons & company and bksh & associates . the firm is bipartisan and employs both republicans and democrats . contents 1 history 2 practice areas 3 tax hub 4 legislative activity clients and spending 5 key staff 6 references history edit the merger of timmons & company and bksh & associates worldwide led to the creation of prime policy group in 2010 . prime policy group is a subsidiary of burson marsteller . practice areas edit the firm works in a large number of political and administrative fields that have commercial significance . it also represents foreign governments . 1 tax hub edit prime policy group provides also an online database that allows search for documents legislation and reports related to tax policy and reform . legislative activity clients and spending edit information on the legislation the firm has been tasked to influence by its clients 2 and on its spending 3 can be found via the website of the center for responsive politics an organisation that monitors lobbying activity and campaign funding in the us . the firm s reported clients are published on the lobbying disclosure act database of the us senate . 4 prime policy group has donated money to both parties for federal elections . 5 key staff edit charles r. black jr. is chairman of prime policy group . before prime policy group he was the founder of bksh . 6 r. scott pastrick is the president and ceo of prime policy group . 7 john s. tanner serves as the vice chairman . before becoming a lobbyist he was a member of congress and before that a member of the tennessee state legislature . 8 charles l. merin is executive vice president . he previously worked for bksh . 9 references edit prime policy . prime policy . 2016 01 16 . retrieved 2016 05 05 . lobbying spending database prime policy group 2012 . opensecrets . retrieved 2016 05 05 . lobbying spending database prime policy group 2012 . opensecrets . 2015 04 20 . retrieved 2016 05 05 . query the lobbying disclosure act database . soprweb.senate.gov . retrieved 2016 05 05 . lobbying spending database prime policy group 2016 . opensecrets . retrieved 2016 05 05 . archived copy . archived from the original on march 23 2013 . retrieved february 21 2013 . archived copy . archived from the original on november 6 2012 . retrieved february 21 2013 . archived copy . archived from the original on november 6 2012 . retrieved february 21 2013 . archived copy . archived from the original on november 6 2012 . retrieved february 21 2013 . retrieved from https en.wikipedia.org w index.php title prime policy group & oldid 739413306 categories lobbying firmshidden categories articles lacking reliable references from february 2013all articles lacking reliable referencesarticles with topics of unclear notability from february 2013all articles with topics of unclear notability navigation menu personal tools not logged intalkcontributionscreate accountlog in namespaces article talk variants views read edit view history more search navigation main pagecontentsfeatured contentcurrent eventsrandom articledonate to wikipediawikipedia store interaction helpabout wikipediacommunity portalrecent changescontact page tools what links hererelated changesupload filespecial pagespermanent linkpage informationwikidata itemcite this page print export create a bookdownload as pdfprintable version languages add links this page was last modified on 14 september 2016 at 14 56 . text is available under the creative commons attribution sharealike license ; 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