Mr. Crowley represents financial services clients across a broad range of policy issues including accounting & financial reporting, broker-dealer & securities trading, commodities & futures, corporate governance, depository institutions, derivatives & securitization, hedge funds, insurance, investment management, and mortgage banking & consumer finance. He leads the firm's Capital Markets Reform Group which facilitates coordination across these practice areas on behalf of the firm's policy clients. Prior to joining K&L Gates, for five years Mr. Crowley was chief government affairs officer at the Investment Company Institute, the national association of the mutual fund industry. Previously, Mr. Crowley was vice president and managing director, Office of Government Relations, the Nasdaq Stock Market, Inc. (NASDAQ). He joined NASDAQ after managing government relations during the spin-off of NASDAQ from its former parent, the National Association of Securities Dealers, Inc. (NASD). Before joining NASD as vice president, Governmental Affairs, Mr. Crowley served for eight years in the U.S. House of Representatives in increasingly senior staff positions, including: general counsel, Office of the Speaker; general counsel, Committee on House Oversight; and minority counsel, Committee on House Administration. Bar Admissions * Bar of District of Columbia * Bar of Maryland Education * J.D., University of Maryland School of Law (1990) * M.P.M., University of Maryland (1990) * B.S., University of Maryland (1986)