Strategic Vision
Public Policy and Regulated Industries
Allen, Pinnix & Nichols, P.A.’s practice reaches across a wide variety of government and private enterprise areas. The common threads running through this multi-disciplinary fabric are the development of realistic public policy and the resulting beneficial social and economic effects on clients, including governmental units as well as private enterprises, regulated and unregulated.
The complexities of 21st Century life dictate that effective public policy and successful private enterprise became increasingly interrelated. This new world requires professionals who can operate in a many-faceted, public and private environment; professionals who can expertly reconcile management cultures, coordinate joint projects, and integrate ongoing operations when public and private sectors intersect.
The attorneys of Allen, Pinnix & Nichols, P.A. are highly qualified, experienced and prepared to effectively address this challenge and achieve marketplace success and leadership for their clients.
International, National, State and Local Dynamics
Raleigh and the Research Triangle
Raleigh, as the capital city of the 10th largest state in the nation, is at the center of public and private policy ventures of all kinds. The Research Triangle region of Raleigh, Durham, and Chapel Hill, anchored by Raleigh and Wake County, attracts dynamic businesses, new and old, because of its busy lifestyle of arts, music, sports, and entertainment. The famed Research Triangle Park, founded in 1954, and strategically located between UNC-Chapel Hill, Duke University, and North Carolina State University, exemplifies the state’s innovative and long-standing role in public-private economic development. The unique, 25-year-old 1,334-acre Centennial Campus at North Carolina State University has continued this tradition of public-private partnerships. The Research Triangle region, now home to over 1.5 million people, is among the strongest areas of economic growth in the country. Its population is projected to increase by 65 percent by 2020, thus surpassing in size other regions such as Charlotte, San Antonio, and Nashville. Raleigh has been named the best place to live and work by Forbes, FORTUNE, Money, and Employment Review magazines. Software entrepreneurs such as SAS Institute and Red Hat and two of the best medical centers in the country at Duke University and UNC-Chapel Hill make the Triangle market a vigorous player in national and international research and business. In addition, the Research Triangle region is the home of leading international pharmaceutical giants such as GSK and Quintiles and is the operating U.S. base for four major, international financial institutions: CSFB, Fidelity Investments, Royal Bank of Canada, and First Citizens Bank Corp. Allen, Pinnix & Nichols, P.A. is a part of the heart of this pulsing community.
The Wake County Public School System, the largest in the state and the 19th largest in the country with over 134,000 pupils, has been featured in The New York Times as one of the best in the country. The Triangle takes its name from the three, nationally recognized research institutions: UNC-Chapel Hill, Duke, and NCSU. Corporate growth has seen international and national companies such as ABB and Progress Energy locate headquarters here along with home-grown institutions.
Public-Private Government and Business Needs
The capital city is the center for the state’s regulatory agencies and the practice of law related to regulated industries and public regulation of private enterprise. The state has over 40 licensing and regulatory boards and commissions; Allen, Pinnix & Nichols, P.A. serves the counsel to a number of these agencies. In addition, many of the firm’s private clients, including large financial and non-governmental organizations (NGOs), are heavily regulated by state and federal agencies; thus, the firm’s practice focuses on the workings of state and federal government.
Professional and Economic Dynamics
Allen, Pinnix & Nichols, P.A. has responded to this sophisticated and rapid demographic and economic growth. Over the last 30 years, its law practice has grown to include areas such as regulated industries, state and federal government, antitrust, immigration, and international law, as well as complementary work in corporate governance and finance.
Allen, Pinnix & Nichols, P.A.’s partners have walked and worked the halls of Congress as well as the North Carolina general assembly and local government. They have worked closely with federal regulatory agencies, and they have worked with past and present members of Congress and their respective staffs as well as a succession of seven North Carolina governors and their cabinets.
