About The Principal

With over fifteen years advocating for clients at the highest levels of government, Michael Cinquanti brings a wide range of insights and relationships to Genium.  Michael puts that experience to work, unwinding the legal intricacies surrounding law and regulation-making in New York as well as providing strategic advice, guidance, and planning to help clients arrive at solutions and achieve results.
 
While Michael provides advice and counsel to all clients, he also manages the government relations program of the New York State Building and Construction Trades Council.  In addition to previously consulting at two top tier lobbying firms in Albany, he has served as Director of Policy & Planning for the North Atlantic States Regional Council of Carpenters where he managed the legislative agenda of the union in New York, New Jersey, Pennsylvania, Delaware, and Maryland. He has advised various clients in a broad range of activities including procurement, infrastructure, casinos, health & pharmaceuticals, business regulations, and tax law.

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Michael’s successes include the expansion of various New York prevailing wage laws, the NYS Fair Play Act, the National Popular Vote interstate compact and multiple states’ wage theft laws which were designed to help exploited workers throughout the construction industry.  He spearheaded the successful lobbying effort to establish numerous national leading labor and procurement standards for the renewable energy industry in New York.  He has also assisted in moving significantly large-scale onshore and offshore wind projects through the State’s procurement and regulatory processes.

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Recognized as both a Trailblazer in Clean Energy and one of Labor’s Rising Stars by City & State, respectively, Michael is a graduate of Ithaca College and Albany Law School.  Since 2019, he has served as a Commissioner for the Albany Port District Commission and since 2022, has served on the Board of Directors of the Advance Albany County Alliance.