{"id":75218,"date":"2025-09-20T12:01:07","date_gmt":"2025-09-20T12:01:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/75218\/"},"modified":"2025-09-20T12:01:07","modified_gmt":"2025-09-20T12:01:07","slug":"phil-hogans-consultancy-firm-earned-e1m-last-year-for-brussels-work-filings-show-the-irish-times","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/75218\/","title":{"rendered":"Phil Hogan\u2019s consultancy firm earned \u20ac1m last year for Brussels work, filings show \u2013 The Irish Times"},"content":{"rendered":"

Former European commissioner<\/a> Phil Hogan\u2019s<\/a> consultancy firm earned at least \u20ac1 million last year, with banking giant JP Morgan Chase<\/a>, Enfer labs and law firm DLA Piper<\/a> among his larger clients, according to new filings. <\/p>\n

The former Fine Gael<\/a> minister started a consultancy business after he resigned as EU trade commissioner in the fallout from the \u201cGolfgate\u201d controversy during the Covid-19 pandemic<\/a>. <\/p>\n

European Union (EU) transparency rules require lobbying firms to declare revenue from their work in Brussels and records show Hogan Strategic Advisory Services was paid in the region of \u20ac1 million last year for declared work.<\/p>\n

The firm said it carried out work on behalf of telecoms firm Vodafone<\/a>, Dutch semiconductor manufacturer Nexperia, and Velico Medical, a company founded by Irish entrepreneur Richard Meehan. <\/p>\n

Mr Hogan splits his time between Ireland and Brussels. His firm was incorporated in Ireland as an unlimited company, meaning it is not required to publish annual accounts of its profits or other financial information. <\/p>\n

Therefore, filings submitted to the EU\u2019s transparency register provide the only insight into how much the former minister for the environment\u2019s business is bringing in. <\/p>\n

The latest filing states DLA Piper was Mr Hogan\u2019s top client last year, paying his consultancy firm between \u20ac200,000 and \u20ac300,000. The company reported receiving revenues of between \u20ac100,000 and \u20ac200,000 from Enfer Labs, a Co Kildare firm involved in veterinary diagnostics. <\/p>\n

Mr Hogan received between \u20ac100,000 and \u20ac200,000 for his role sitting on US banking giant JP Morgan Chase\u2019s \u201cadvisory council\u201d, providing insights on developments in Europe. <\/p>\n

[\u00a0European Commission queried Hogan\u2019s consultancy work with further clientsOpens in new window<\/a>\u00a0]<\/p>\n

The former Carlow-Kilkenny<\/a> TD resigned as EU trade commissioner in August 2020 under political pressure for attending a dinner organised by the Oireachtas golf society at a time when Covid-19 restrictions on large gatherings were in place. <\/p>\n

He was subject to a two-year \u201ccooling off\u201d period, which prevented him from lobbying or doing other work that overlapped with his old trade and agriculture portfolios in the commission, the EU\u2019s executive arm that proposes laws. <\/p>\n

The Irish Times previously reported that Mr Hogan had to temporarily stop his consultancy work for DLA Piper after the commission\u2019s ethics watchdog felt he could be breaching those rules<\/a>. <\/p>\n

Since those limits on his consultancy work were lifted, his firm has reported revenues of at least \u20ac1 million a year, according to EU filings. <\/p>\n

The latest filing, covering 2024, states his company was paid between \u20ac100,000 and \u20ac200,000 by Velico Medical, a US-based company that develops blood transfusion products.<\/p>\n

His firm declared receiving up to \u20ac50,000 for work on behalf of Vodafone, between \u20ac50,000 and \u20ac100,000 for consultancy work for card payments giant Visa<\/a>, and an amount in the same range from Nexperia. <\/p>\n

Mr Hogan, who served as a minister in Enda Kenny\u2019s coalition government, is the sole owner of the company.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Former European commissioner Phil Hogan\u2019s consultancy firm earned at least \u20ac1 million last year, with banking giant JP…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":75219,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[73],"tags":[79,51181,51179,18,4893,5766,553,19,17,47458,37857,5030,51180],"class_list":{"0":"post-75218","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-business","8":"tag-business","9":"tag-carlow-kilkenny-constituency","10":"tag-dla-piper","11":"tag-eire","12":"tag-eu","13":"tag-european-commission","14":"tag-fine-gael","15":"tag-ie","16":"tag-ireland","17":"tag-jp-morgan-chase","18":"tag-phil-hogan","19":"tag-visa","20":"tag-vodafone"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/75218","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=75218"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/75218\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/75219"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=75218"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=75218"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=75218"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}