McNees Adds New Member to Firm Leadership Team
November 28, 2023
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HARRISBURG, Pa. — (November 28, 2023) McNees Wallace & Nurick is pleased to announce the election of its 2024 leadership team.
Nicole Stezar Kaylor was elected firm Vice Chair, joining returning leadership team members Brian F. Jackson, McNees Chair, and Vice Chair Robert A. Weishaar, Jr.
Donna L. Kreiser, who had served on the McNees leadership team since 2015, advised the Executive Committee and Members in the fall of 2022 that she did not intend to seek another term. She continues to lead the firm’s Lancaster office while practicing in the firm’s public finance, government services and government solutions groups.
“On behalf of everyone at McNees, we thank Donna for nine years of service on our Executive Committee,” Jackson said. “We celebrate her invaluable contributions to McNees and welcome Nicole, who will bring her tremendous leadership and expertise to our team.”
Jackson is the ninth person to serve as managing partner and chair since McNees’ inception in 1935. During his five-year tenure, the firm has pursued a path of geographic and service expansion, opening new offices in York, Devon and Pittsburgh, Pa., and Towson, Md.; and launching multiple complementary professional businesses.
Weishaar, an energy attorney, focuses primarily on matters involving the state and federal regulation of electricity supply and delivery, natural gas supply and delivery and petroleum products pipelines. He has appeared before numerous state regulatory commissions – including those in Pennsylvania, Connecticut, Georgia, Kentucky, Maryland, New Jersey, New York, Oklahoma, West Virginia, Virginia and Ohio – as well as before the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission and various state and federal appellate courts.
Stezar Kaylor has assisted a broad range of companies, from family businesses to publicly traded organizations, to successfully achieve their business objectives. She counsels clients throughout the healthcare, transportation, manufacturing, service and financial services industries in structuring, negotiating and implementing a wide variety of merger and acquisition transactions and related regulatory and securities issues. Stezar Kaylor also regularly represents her clients in corporate governance matters and capital-raising efforts.
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McNees is a multidisciplinary law firm founded in 1935 with more than 150 attorneys representing businesses, associations, institutions, municipalities and individuals. The firm serves clients worldwide from offices in Devon, Harrisburg, Lancaster, Pittsburgh, Scranton, State College and York, Pa.; Columbus, Ohio; Frederick and Towson, Md.; and Washington, D.C. McNees is a member of the ALFA International Global Legal Network.
