Kevin R. Edgar

Experience

• Serves as counsel to a financial markets trade association organized to advocate and educate policymakers about issues that impact the U.S. equity markets.
• Prepared a witness for their first Congressional testimony before the House Financial Services Committee on issues related to equity market structure, clearance and settlement and market volatility.
• Authored a comment letter for a trade association in response to the Securities and Exchange Commission’s market data infrastructure rulemaking proposal.
• Prepared a witness for two days of Congressional testimony before the House Financial Services Committee and Senate Banking Committee.
• Counseled a broker-dealer through the development, filing, review and submission of its Form ATS.
• Served as co-counsel to a financial institution with regards to its compliance program for consumer finance laws.
• Developed a response to the Securities and Exchange Commission's concept release on the harmonization of public and private offerings.
• Advised multiple clients on legislation that would alter the trading of non-U.S. public companies on U.S. securities exchanges.

Congressional Experience

• Developed and supervised the drafting of the “Small Business Credit Availability Act,” legislation to modernize the Business Development Company regulatory regime, which became law as part of the Consolidated Appropriations Act, 2018.
• Co-wrote the Foreign Investment Risk Review Modernization Act (FIRRMA), reauthorizing and modernizing the Committee on Foreign Investment in the United States (CFIUS). FIRRMA was included as part of the conference report to the National Defense Authorization Act (NDAA) for the 2019 Fiscal Year.
• Supervised the drafting and introduction of the “Financial CHOICE Act of 2017” (H.R. 10, 115th Congress).
• Developed and executed the U.S. House of Representatives Committee on Financial Services ongoing capital formation agenda, resulting in the enactment of the Jumpstart Our Business Startups or “JOBS” Act (P.L. 112-106) and the capital markets provisions contained in the Fixing America’s Surface Transportation or “FAST Act” (P.L. 114-94).
• As Chief Securities Counsel, executed Republican strategy regarding oversight of the U.S. capital markets and SEC, FASB, MSRB, PCAOB, SIPC, FINRA and self-regulatory organizations.
• Managed and executed amendments made to Title VII of the Dodd-Frank Act contained in the FY 2015 and FY 2016 Appropriations Acts and TRIA Reauthorization Act of 2015.
• Drafted the capital markets provisions of the “Financial CHOICE Act of 2016.”
• Organized, developed and crafted legislative alternatives and Republican opposition to the Dodd-Frank Wall Street Reform and Consumer Protection Act (P.L. 111-203) including: advisors to private funds, Volcker Rule and securities (Titles IV, VI and IX); corporate governance (Titles IX and XV); derivatives (Title VII); Financial Market Utility (Title VIII); non-bank systemic designations (Title I); and the SEC’s structure and funding (Title IX).

Memberships

• District of Columbia Bar Association