People in the News—April 15, 2020—Conrad O'Brien
Mark Schoeller joined Conrad O'Brien as of counsel.
April 15, 2020 at 11:00 AM
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Additions
Mark Schoeller joined Conrad O'Brien as of counsel.
Schoeller joins the commercial litigation group at the firm.
He has experience in a range of commercial litigation and business matters, including contract disputes, unfair trade practices, antitrust claims and compliance, joint ventures and mergers, shareholder, dissenters' rights and securities claims, director and officer liability, consumer fraud, franchising and business opportunity issues, restrictive covenants, intellectual property, insurance claims and coverage, False Claims Act and qui tam actions, and class actions.
He practices at all levels of state and federal courts, as well as in administrative matters, private arbitrations and government investigations.
Schoeller is admitted to practice in Pennsylvania and New Jersey.
He received his Juris Doctor from the University of Pennsylvania Law School in 1989.
He served as a clerk for U.S. District Chief Judge John F. Gerry of the District of New Jersey.
Speakers
Stradley Ronon Stevens & Young attorney Nicole Kalajian served as a panelist on a Washington, D.C. Compliance Roundtable webinar.
The webinar, "Coronavirus Considerations for SEC and CFTC Registrants," addressed the importance of documenting the implementation of compliance policies and procedures brought on by COVID-19.
The Securities and Exchange Commission and Commodity Futures Trading Commission will be judging the effectiveness of policies during the crisis as part of the next examination period.
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.
She provides legal and compliance guidance concerning the launch of securities token offerings such as compliant initial coin offerings.
She also serves as counsel to boards, mutual funds and exchange-traded funds. Kalajian drafts and develops offering documents, compliance manuals, policies and procedures, corporate materials, business contracts, investment agreements and advertising materials.
She also provides legal and structuring guidance concerning master-feeder structures, domestic and foreign funds, international offerings, separately managed accounts and robo-adviser platforms.
She is a founder of the Investment Network and the Digital Assets Working Group.
Kalajian graduated from the Chicago-Kent College of Law at Illinois Institute of Technology.
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