Client Services
Ridge Path Strategies is a full-service advocacy and strategic advisory firm. We work across a wide variety of government agencies and congressional offices and committees. We learn our clients’ issues and the unique background and politics surrounding them. We always tailor our work toward the specific needs, culture, and personality of the clients we work with. We really enjoy a challenge and love the confidence our clients put in us to get results.
While we can work across a wide variety of issue areas, some of our strongest work so far has been done in the areas below.
International Trade and Supply Chains
The politics of trade policy have shifted more quickly than virtually any other policy area in Washington. What used to be a general consensus about the need to expand markets for U.S. companies and their workers has given way to something new and rapidly-changing, with few clear partisan boundaries. The emerging consensus in Washington involves industrial policies that seek to support domestic production and both rivals and allies are on notice that the U.S. will no longer play a leading role in the expansion of international trade. Other policies like export controls and outbound investment restrictions have taken on new importance. There is a broad consensus that the United States must play a leading role in “confronting China” on trade policy, but that effort takes many forms. Companies caught in the middle of this rapidly-shifting trade environment will need help navigating this critical transition in U.S. policy, ensuring that policies don’t adversely affect them or their competitive position, and identifying opportunities to gain advantage through possible carve-outs or add-ons, based on specific fact patterns.
Corporate and Energy Tax Policy
2025 has been called a lot of funny things, like “Taxmegeddon,” due to the expiration of enormous portions of the 2017 tax law, the Tax Cuts and Jobs Act (TCJA). While the corporate rate was made permanent in 2017, major changes in tax law are scheduled to occur automatically by the end of 2026, including increases to individual tax rates (which affect many small businesses), as well as changes to tax policy affecting companies that operate abroad. Some tax policy changes, such as reductions to bonus depreciation, changes to the interest expense limitation, and shifts in the timing of R&D expensing have already taken effect and had a dramatic impact on many companies. In 2025 Congress will be forced to attempt to recalibrate the tax code and everything will be on the table as it seeks new revenue sources. Companies need to prepare for this major legislative blitz by building relationships with tax-writers on Capitol Hill and officials in the Treasury Department who will play a key role in drafting bills and regulations.
Tax policy and energy policy are also increasingly tied together. The clean energy tax credit regime that was created by the Investment Reduction Act in 2022 gives enormous subsidies to certain kinds of sustainable energy production, but those laws and the rules surrounding them are constantly subject to change based on the politics of the moment. These issues will all be examined in the current Congress.
Defense and National Security
Defending America is serious business. Each year the House and Senate Armed Services Committees pass legislation to authorize the nation’s $800 billion-plus defense budget. This is one of the few guaranteed legislative outcomes each year and authorizers know it. If it has a security angle, we can get things done on the National Defense Authorization Act.
And the intersections between domestic policy and national security policy are nearly everywhere. Adversaries overseas are finding ways to infiltrate the U.S. economy and technology that Americans use every day. Congress has set up an ad hoc committee to confront the influence of China in the United States and is pursuing industrial policies designed to avoid reliance on overseas competitors, particularly in cutting edge technology. Ensuring that products and supply chains are protected from overreliance on foreign influence is a major priority of regulators and legislators, and Ridge Path can help find solutions.
Telecommunications, Technology, and Energy
Innovation is happening in America faster than the government can keep up with it. Regulators and legislators frequently grapple with emerging technologies, but lack understanding of these systems or the bandwidth to figure it out. In the next several years, the government will be forced to create or upgrade rules surrounding artificial intelligence, spectrum allocation, and satellite and GPS systems. The supply chains surrounding the production of ever-evolving microchips are vulnerable and require constant vigilance. Huge quantities of new and sustainable American energy production will be required to harness artificial intelligence advances. These are all major areas of policy that will be considered in just the next several years. Companies and organizations that are involved in the production or use of major new technologies simply can’t afford to ignore or take for granted what the government is going to do.
