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Ms Lisa Ellman
Work Department
Global Regulatory
Position
Partner
Career
Widely recognized as one of the “world’s foremost authorities on drones and law,” Lisa Ellman offers a unique perspective and vast experience to clients, helping them push policy boundaries forward and get ahead in the fast-changing regulatory environment.
Lisa is a leader in Hogan Lovells’ Transportation practice and chairs the firm’s Unmanned Aircraft Systems (UAS) practice, a group dedicated to helping businesses succeed in the dynamic drone marketplace. As co-founder and executive director of the independent non-profit Commercial Drone Alliance, Lisa focuses on expanding the commercial drone industry and enabling Advanced Air Mobility. She also focuses on UAS security efforts. Lisa regularly brings industry together with policymakers to tackle and solve complex emerging technology policy issues, including around safety, security, and privacy.
Throughout her career, Lisa has worked to bridge government policymaking and business innovation (a combination that has become known as “polivation”). Lisa has held a variety of positions at top levels of the executive branch at the White House and the U.S. Department of Justice (DOJ). Most recently, she led the DOJ’s effort to develop UAS policy in the United States, and participated in the federal interagency process considering UAS-related policy issues.
Education
J.D./M.P.P., The University of Chicago Law School and Harris School of Public Policy, 2005; B.A. History, University of Michigan, 2000
Lawyer Rankings
United States > Transport > Aviation and air travel: litigation and regulation
(Leading lawyers)Hogan Lovells US LLP fields ‘an amazing team that knows Department of Transportation, aviation and regulatory work better than anyone out there‘. The Washington DC-based practice advises on traditional aviation issues involving a range of large and small airlines, airports and manufacturers. Examples of the group’s expertise include its representation of GE Aerospace in the aviation regulatory issues surrounding the certification of its products; and recent ground-breaking work includes assisting Matternet with obtaining the first-ever standard type certificate issued by the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) for a drone. Senior counsel Robert Cohn
has longstanding experience in assisting aviation clients with regulatory issues, transactions, litigation, and government relations; and co-founder of the independent non-profit Commercial Drone Alliance, Lisa Ellman, chairs the firm’s global uncrewed aircraft systems practice. Also highly rated are former FAA chief counsel Arjun Garg; counsel Patrick Rizzi, who regularly acts before the US Department of Transportation and the FAA; and Matthew Clark, who is a particularly active senior associate within the firm’s UAS/drones group. In July 2022, former senior counsel Ted Ellett retired from the firm.
Lawyer Rankings
- Aviation and air travel: litigation and regulation United States > Transport
- Leading lawyers United States > Transport > Aviation and air travel: litigation and regulation
Top Tier Firm Rankings
- Transport > Aviation and air travel: litigation and regulation
- Antitrust > Cartel
- M&A/corporate and commercial > Corporate governance
- Media, technology and telecoms > Cyber law (including data privacy and data protection)
- Industry focus > Education
- Government > Government relations
- Dispute resolution > Appellate: courts of appeals / Appellate: supreme courts (states and federal)
- Dispute resolution > Product liability, mass tort and class action - defense: consumer products (including tobacco)
- Transport > Rail and road: litigation and regulation
- Real estate > Real estate investment trusts (REITs)
- Media, technology and telecoms > Telecoms and broadcast: regulatory
- Media, technology and telecoms > Telecoms and broadcast: transactions
- International Trade > Trade remedies and trade policy
Firm Rankings
- Dispute resolution > Appellate: courts of appeals / Appellate: supreme courts (states and federal)
- International Trade > CFIUS
- International Trade > Customs, export controls and economic sanctions
- Labor and employment > Employee benefits, executive compensation and retirement plans: transactional
- Energy > Energy regulation: oil and gas
- Environment > Environment: litigation
- Environment > Environment: regulatory
- Government > Government contracts
- Healthcare > Health insurers
- Healthcare > Life sciences
- Healthcare > Service providers
- Tax > US taxes: non-contentious
- Insurance > Advice to insurers
- Dispute resolution > Appellate: courts of appeals / Appellate: supreme courts (states and federal)
- Finance > Capital markets: debt offerings
- Finance > Capital markets: equity offerings
- Finance > Capital markets: global offerings
- Energy > Energy regulation: electric power
- Finance > Fintech
- Labor and employment > Immigration
- Dispute resolution > International litigation
- Tax > International tax
- M&A/corporate and commercial > M&A: large deals ($1bn+)
- Antitrust > Merger control
- M&A/corporate and commercial > Shareholder activism
- Finance > Structured finance: derivatives and structured products
- Media, technology and telecoms > Technology transactions
- M&A/corporate and commercial > Venture capital and emerging companies
- Antitrust > Civil litigation/class actions: defense
- Energy > Energy litigation: oil and gas
- Finance > Project finance
- Energy > Renewable/alternative power
- Finance > Restructuring (including bankruptcy): corporate
- Finance > Project finance
- Dispute resolution > International arbitration
- Finance > Financial services regulation
- Investment fund formation and management > Private equity funds (including venture capital)