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Morgan Lewis
practice areas
Tax
Tax-Exempt Organizations
Tax Controversy & Litigation
Anti-Money Laundering
Business & Finance
Life Sciences
Healthcare
Washington Strategic Government
Relations and Counseling
Life Sciences and Healthcare
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Celia Roady
partner
Email:
Washington. D.C.
1111 Pennsylvania Ave.. NW
Washington. DC 20004-2541
Celia Roady is a partner in Morgan Lewis's Tax Practice. Ms. Roady
focuses her practice on tax and governance issues affecting tax-exempt
organizations, including charities, foundations, colleges and universities,
museums, and other nonprofit organizations. She was appointed by the
Internal Revenue Service to be a member of its Advisory Committee on Tax-
Exempt and Government Entities for 2010-2013. She has also been named
by Legal Times as one of Washington, D.C.'s leading lawyers" in the tax
field and is listed in Chambers USA: America's Leading Lawyers for
Business (2005-2014) and The Best Lawyers in America (2007-2014).
Ms. Roady has published extensively in various journals on exempt
organizations. She chairs the annual conference on Representing and
Managing Tax-Exempt Organizations," sponsored by the Georgetown
University Law Center. She also is a frequent speaker for the American Bar
Association (ABA), American Law Institute, and other nonprofit conferences
and symposia. In 2004-2005, Ms. Roady served on the Governance Work
Group of the Panel on the Nonprofit Sector, which was convened by
Independent Sector to provide comments to the Senate Finance Committee.
Active in professional organizations. Ms. Roady is a fellow with the
American College of Tax Counsel. She has served a two-year term as vice
chair of communications for the ABA Section on Taxation and is a former
ABA Tax Section council member and former chair of the Exempt
Organizations Committee. Ms. Roady has also served as chair of the
Exempt Organizations Committee of the District of Columbia Bar
Association Tax Section, chair of the D.C. Bar's Council on Sections. and
member of the Steering Committee of the D.C. Bar Tax Section.
Ms. Roady is admitted to practice in the District of Columbia.
honors + affiliations
Listed, Washington, D.C.'s Leading Lawyers for Tax, The Legal Times (2005)
Listed. Chambers USA: America's Leading Lawyers for Business (2005-2014)
Listed. Washingtonian magazine 'Best Lawyers" (2013-2014)
Listed. Legal 500 Leading Not-for-Profit Lawyers (2012-2013)
Listed. The Best Lawyers in America (2007-2014)
Listed. Washington. D.C. Super Lawyers (2006-2014)
Listed. "Top 50 Women Lawyers in Washington. D.C." by Super Lawyers (2007
- 2008)
Fellow. American College of Tax Counsel; Member, Board of Regents, American
College of Tax Counsel (2008-2013)
Member, IRS Advisory Committee on Tax-Exempt and Government Entities (2010
- 2013)
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Member, Governance Work Group, Panel on the Nonprofit Sector (2004-2005)
Former Vice Chair • Communications. American Bar Association Taxation Section
Former Council Member, American Bar Association Taxation Section
Former Chair, Exempt Organizations Committee, American Bar Association
Taxation Section
Former Chair, Council on Sections, District of Columbia Bar Association
Former Chair, Exempt Organizations Committee, District of Columbia Bar
Association Tax Section
education
Georgetown University LAW Center. 1979, LL.M.
Duke University School of Law, 1976, J.D.
Duke University, 1973, A.B.
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Morgan Lewis
practice areas
Business 8 Finance
Securities Industry
Going Private Transactions
Public Companies
Private Offerings
Public Offerings
Securities Regulation
Corporate Governance
Latin America
Washington Strategic Government
Relations and Counseling
Financial Services
Broker-Dealers
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New York
David A. Sirignano
panne;
Email:
Washington. D.C.
1111 Pennsylvania Ave.. NW
Washington. DC 20004-2541
United States of America
David A. Sirignano is a partner in Morgan Lewis's Securities Practice.
Mr. Sirignano focuses on international and domestic corporate finance,
structured finance, mergers and acquisitions, and SEC regulation. He is co-
head of the firm's Securities Practice. Before joining the firm in Washington,
he was Associate Director for International Corporate Finance in the SEC's
Division of Corporation Finance. In that position, he developed SEC policy
on cross-border offerings, acquisitions and listings, including offshore
Internet offerings, international disclosure and accounting standards, as well
as international corporate governance guidelines. He also advised the SEC
and its Division of Enforcement on financial fraud cases and cross-border
offering abuses.
Previously, Mr. Sirignano served as the SEC Senior Legal Advisor to the
Director of the Division of Corporation Finance, and as Staff Director of the
Advisory Committee on Capital Formation and Regulatory Processes. He
also was Chief of the Division's Office of Tender Offers, administering rules
on mergers and acquisitions, going private transactions and proxy contests.
Mr. Sirignano is vice-chair of the ABA Federal Regulation of Securities
Committee and a former chair of the ABA Subcommittee on Corporate
Disclosure. He has also served as a member of the FINRA Corporate
Financing Committee. Mr. Sirignano is a frequent speaker at seminars,
conferences and continuing legal education programs on international
finance, Internet securities issues, corporate governance, mergers,
acquisitions. restructurings and proxy contests. Mr. Sirignano was an
adjunct professor at Georgetown University Law Center, where he taught a
course on mergers and acquisitions.
Mr. Sirignano is admitted to practice in the District of Columbia and New
York.
honors + affiliations
Former Chair, Subcommittee on Public Company Disclosure and Continuous
Reporting, Federal Regulation of Securities Committee (2001-2006)
Member, American Bar Association
Listed, The Best Lawyers in America (2006-2011)
Thompson Reuters DC Super Lawyer for Securities and Corporate Finance (2013
-2014)
education
Union University, Albany Law School, 1978, J.D.
Manhattan College, 1975, BA.
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practice areas
Investment Management
Securities Industry
Broker-Dealers
Compliance & Investment
Management
Registered Investment Companies
Wrap Fee Sponsors
Investment Advisers
Broker-Dealer & Capital Markets
Regulation
Private Investment Funds
Exchange Traded Funds
Privacy
Financial Services
Advertising, Consumer Protection. &
Privacy
Collective Investment Trusts
Bank & Financial Services Regulatory
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Steven W. Stone
partner
Email:
Washington. D.C.
1111 Pennsylvania Ave., NW
Washington, DC 20004-2541
Steven W. Stone is the leader of Morgan Lewis's Investment
Management Practice Group. He is a member of the firm's Advisory Board
and has also served as the Managing Partner of the firm's Washington, D.C.
office. Mr. Stones practice focuses on broker-dealer and investment
manager regulation and enforcement defense and regulation of the capital
markets. Mr. Stone has a broad background in broker-dealer and
investment management regulation, representing major investment banks,
broker-dealers and investment managers in a wide range of matters.
Mr. Stone counsels clients on a wide variety of regulatory and transactional
matters, including development of innovative products and services;
regulation and operation of separately managed account (or wrap fee)
programs and hedge funds; trading issues affecting both broker-dealers and
investment advisers; soft dollar arrangements; SEC, FINRA and state
investigations, and enforcement actions; mergers and acquisitions and joint
ventures involving broker-dealers and investment advisers; interpretive and
"no-action" letter requests; insider trading issues; and related matters.
Mr. Stone is listed in The US Legal 500 and Chambers USA: America's
Leading Lawyers for Business. Mr. Stone has been named by Chambers as
one of the leading U.S. lawyers for investment management and broker-
dealer law and was recognized as "one of the best in the field."
Mr. Stone is admitted to practice in the District of Columbia.
practice accolades
Investment Management
Ranked. National Tier 1: Securities/Capital Markets Law. U.S. News and Best
Lawyers (2013)
Ranked. Band 2: Investment Fund Formation and Management: Mutual/Registered
Funds in The U.S. Legal 500 (2013)
Ranked, Band 2: Financial Services Regulation: Broker-Dealer Regulation in
Chambers USA (2013)
Ranked, Band 3: Investment Funds: Registered Funds in Chambers USA (2013)
Private Investment Funds
Ranked 'WI Most Active Law Firm* globally, based on the number of private equity
funds worked on for limited and general partners, by Dow Jones Private Equity
Analyst (2013)
Ranked, National Tier 1: Private Funds/Hedge Funds Law. U.S. News and Best
Lawyers (2013)
honors + affiliations
Listed. Chambers USA: America's Leading Lawyers for Business (2005-2014)
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Listed. Investment Fund Formation and Management: Mutual Funds in The US
Legal 500 (2009-2014)
Listed. "Guide to the World's Leading Investment Funds Lawyers," International
Financial Law Review/Expert Guides (2008)
Listed. Washington, D.C. Super Lawyers (2008)
Member, American Bar Association, Business Lew Section
Editorial Board Member, Practical Compliance 8 Risk Management
Advisory Board Member, Wall Street Lawyer 8 Journal of Performance
Measurement
Former Managing Editor, The George Washington Law Review
Former Associate Editor. Consumer Protection Reporting Service
education
George Washington University National Law Center, 1988, J.D.
Bates College, 1983, B.A.
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