Taylor English Atlanta HQ. Photo: John Disney/ALM

Additions

Taylor English Duma announced its expansion into the Pennsylvania market with the additions of partners Timothy B. Anderson and Chad Kaffer to the firm's corporate and business department.

Anderson joins the firm in Philadelphia and Kaffer joins in Pittsburgh.

Anderson brings more than 20 years of experience to Taylor English, where his practice focuses on public finance and other economic development matters, including tax-exempt and taxable bond issues in both public and private placements.

Throughout his career, he served as bond counsel, underwriter and placement agent counsel, issuer counsel and developer counsel.

He represents school districts, townships and other municipalities throughout Pennsylvania, in addition to health care facilities, manufacturing and commercial facilities, broadband entities, private education entities and universities in both public and private placements and public-private partnerships throughout the United States.

Anderson also has experience counseling Native American tribes on economic development issues, including issues relating to sovereignty.

Anderson earned his law degree from Vermont Law School and Master of Law degree in tax from Villanova University Charles Widger School of Law.

Kaffer brings 17 years of legal experience to Taylor English, with a focus on business, real estate and commercial law.

With experience in general civil litigation, appellate litigation and transactional law, Kaffer develops strategies to protect his clients' businesses in several different legal fields, guiding businesses from their initial formation to hiring, employee management, drafting and negotiating agreements and leases, handling land acquisition, and solving disputes both through negotiation and aggressive civil litigation.

Kaffer has experience working with commercial businesses, lenders, real estate brokerages, investors, developers and construction companies.

He also has administrative law experience and appeared before the Industrial Commission, labor board, registrar of contractors and department of real estate and board of appraisal. In addition to his work in court, Kaffer is trained in alternative dispute resolution and regularly mediates or arbitrates disputes.

Kaffer earned his law degree from Washington University School of Law.

Speakers

Stradley Ronon Stevens & Young partner Steve Feinour served as a panelist on a Nasdaq webinar.

The webinar, "The Next Gen ETF Landscape: Navigating the ETF Rule," provided an analysis of the ETF Rule (Rule 6c-11), how the rule changes future listing requirements, the way issuers were involved in the rule and its impact on the overall ETF business, and how to ensure a firm is staying compliant.

Feinour is a partner in Stradley Ronon's investment management group and counsels investment companies and investment advisers in connection with various regulatory, compliance and transactional issues.

He regularly advises clients on matters such as the formation, registration and ongoing regulation of investment companies, including index-based and actively managed ETFs.