Stradley Ronon partners Michael O’Hare and Gregory DiMeglio presented on SEC developments affecting mutual funds at the U.S. Bancorp Fund Services Client Conference, held June 17-19, 2009 in Lake Geneva, Wisconsin. O’Hare and DiMeglio discussed the SEC response to the financial crisis, the effect of recent political and regulatory changes on the SEC’s Inspection and Examination program and key regulatory developments. The three day event attracted financial services firms from around the country and included presentations by mutual fund industry participants as well as U.S. Bancorp Fund Services business leaders.

A partner in Stradley Ronon’s nationally recognized Investment Management/Mutual Funds practice group, O’Hare represents and advises investment companies, independent trustees, investment advisers, broker dealers and financial services organizations with regard to securities and corporate laws and regulations, compliance and transactional matters.

As chair of Stradley Ronon’s Securities Enforcement practice group, Greg DiMeglio represents and counsels public companies, investment companies, investment advisers, broker-dealers and individuals in connection with inquiries, investigations and enforcement actions by the SEC, grand juries, state regulators and industry self-regulatory organizations. The group has extensive experience in conducting internal investigations designed to assist companies, boards of directors and board committees in preventing and addressing governmental and self-regulatory agency action.

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Counseling clients since 1926, Stradley Ronon has helped private and public companies – from small businesses to Fortune 500 corporations – achieve their goals. With six offices and more than 195 attorneys located throughout the mid-Atlantic region, Stradley Ronon is the only eastern Pennsylvania member of Meritas, the world’s largest affiliation of independent commercial law firms.