Stradley Ronon Attorney to Present at Super Bowl of Indexing Conference

21 November 2011

Citybizlist

Press Release

PHILADELPHIA - Stradley Ronon partner Michael Mundt will participate in a panel discussion at the Super Bowl of Indexing Conference on Dec. 4 - 7 in Phoenix, Ariz. The panel, "Meeting Qualitative and Regulatory Requirements and Goals," will discuss strategies for successfully launching new exchange-traded funds (ETFs), as well as current regulatory issues for ETFs. The conference focuses on hot topics in the indexing, exchange-traded funds and investment management community.

Mundt assists clients with complex legal issues under federal securities laws, with a particular focus on exchange-traded funds. He has worked on a wide array of exemptive and interpretive issues under the Investment Company Act of 1940, including exemptive orders to permit the operations of index-based and actively managed ETFs. Mundt also has worked extensively on fund-of-funds issues and on relief for various types of affiliated transactions. Prior to his work at Stradley Ronon, Mundt was in charge of one of the exemptive application offices in the Division of Investment Management at the SEC.

Stradley Ronon is nationally recognized for having one of the premier investment management practices in the United States, representing investment company clients with more than 700 separate mutual funds and assets under management exceeding $1 trillion. With 48 professionals, the group is exclusively dedicated to representing registered investment companies, investment advisers, independent directors/trustees and other investment management industry clients.

About Stradley Ronon Stevens & Young - www.stradley.com

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 200 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.