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Elected and Appointed

Barley Snyder announced that partner John Reed was named the chair of the board of the Lancaster City Revitalization and Improvement Zone Authority.

The authority oversees the implementation of the city-created Lancaster CRIZ Program, which provides financial assistance to development projects that occur within the 130-acre CRIZ district from eligible state and local tax revenues generated by the project.

The district includes the downtown and other selected areas throughout the city.

The financial assistance comes from eligible state and local tax revenues generated by the project, according to the authority's website.

The program focuses on development of vacant or underutilized properties.

Reed is a partner in the Barley Snyder business practice group and the family business law group where he works with closely held and family-owned businesses.

He also assists with buying and selling businesses and often acts as a general counselor for the business on an ongoing basis after the transaction is completed.

Reed has experience with specific family-related matters such as succession planning, developing both advisory boards and boards of directors with outside directors, developing family councils, facilitating family meetings, navigating owner disputes, and negotiating and implementing shareholder agreements (buy-sell agreements).

Reed also advises on general business issues such as contract review and negotiation, real estate purchases or sales, employment issues, strategic planning and general business strategy.

He is one of the founding members and a current corporate sponsor of the S. Dale High Family Business Center at Elizabethtown College.

He served on the boards of other community improvement groups, such as the Lancaster City Alliance and the Lancaster Safety Coalition.

Speakers

Stradley Ronon Stevens & Young attorney Nicole Kalajian served as the moderator on a Washington, D.C., Compliance Roundtable open call, "Cybersecurity During the COVID-19 Pandemic," with Matthew J. DeSarno, special agent in charge of the Federal Bureau of Investigation.

The open event provided information on the most recent developments related to heightened concerns around cybersecurity during the COVID-19 pandemic.

Kalajian represents securities and commodities professionals in a variety of complex regulatory, compliance and corporate matters.

She has experience launching and advising various investment vehicles, such as hedge funds, private equity funds, venture capital funds, real estate funds, commodity pools, fund of funds and socially responsible investment vehicles.

Kalajian provides legal and compliance guidance to registered and exempt investment advisers, commodity pool operators, commodity trading advisers, futures commission merchants, introducing brokers, forex firms, proprietary trading firms and broker dealers.

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