P.C. Koch BioP. C. Koch

For over 45 years, P. C. Koch has counseled Fortune 500 companies, small businesses, start-ups, entrepreneurs, trade associations, non-profits, individuals, foreign governments, and foreign corporations on matters including advocacy and public relations campaigns; media relations; coalition building and management; relationships with the federal government and Administration, the U. S. Congress; relationships with Governors and state and local governments; mergers and acquisitions; facility and plant locations; matching investors and projects of interest; government grants, government appropriations and government loans;Congressional and Administrative agency investigations; web presence, social media and Artificial Intelligence campaigns; digital media campaigns, grassroots programs, net roots campaigns, relationships with consumer, environmental, advocacy and public interest groups; convention planning and implementation; and minority and coalition outreach.

Specialties unique to Mr. Koch’s practice are the creation and management of coalitions to address specific issues, both urgent and long term; and the siting, negotiating and completion of plants, manufacturing facilities and other fixed assets for domestic and foreign corporations. 

Mr. Koch's areas of concentration include energy, defense and armed services, tariffs, homeland security, cybersecurity,  A.I., technology, 

telecommunications, healthcare, 

agriculture, federal appropriations, grants, and loans;  a veterans advocacy, cybersecurity, finance, fintech, tax, crypto and emerging alternative currencies, block chain, environment, climate change, all matters "green," trade, education, international relations, international investment, foreign aid, and plant and facility location. 

Prior to beginning his private practice in 1989, Mr. Koch was the Executive Director of the United States Telephone Association from 1985-1989, where he developed a government relations program to address federal, state and local legislative and regulatory issues for the telephone industry after the divestiture of AT&T, as well as managing the entry of the seven Regional Bell Operating Companies into the Association's advocacy program, the policy elements of the industry's entry into wireless, internet and video services, the first licensing of wireless and cellular technology, rural development,

and program planning for one of the largest conventions in the telecommunications industry.

From 1982-1985, Mr. Koch was the Director of Government Relations for the National Cable Television Association during the passage of the 1984 Cable Deregulation Act, the first major rewrite of U.S. telecommunications laws since 1934, the reform of U. S. Copyright law, cable's initial entry into data and telephony, pole attachment access policies and the coordination of the policy agenda for the industry's trade show.

Subject matter areas of expertise include energy, defense, homeland security, cybersecurity, agriculture, federal appropriations, technology, telecommunications, broadband, Artificial Intelligence, health care, Telehealth, rural health care, transportation issues, environment, green and clean tech, veterans affairs, mass media, digital media, finance, financial services, block chain, fintech, trade, privacy, security, government investigations, energy, appropriations, tax policy, government contracts, mergers and acquisitions, international relations, international investment, foreign governments, homeland security, and plant and facility location and construction.

Mr. Koch's charitable endeavors include pro bono work on behalf of veterans, pro bono pursuit of federal funds for deserving start-up and established, large and small non-profit organizations, a national coalition to provide rural health care, plus volunteer fundraising, pro bono work for the underserved of Appalachia, and involvement with other charitable organizations. These include Stand Up To Cancer, the First Tee of Silicon Valley, the Monumental Scholars Fund, the annual Boehner-Paul Ryan-Feinstein-Williams Catholic Scholarship Dinner, Miracles For Melanie (funding important opportunities for disabled war veterans and their families), the On Course Foundation (training disabled veterans for a career in the golf industry and hosting a Ryder Cup style event), Path To Greatness (for disadvantaged youth), and the Congressional Country Club Foundation (employee assistance fund).

Mr. Koch received his Juris Doctor degree from the George Washington University National Law Center and his Bachelor of Science degree from the University of Maryland.