Legislative Wrap Up

Rocky Finseth is the President and CEO of the Carrara Group, a government affairs and lobbying firm in Nevada. In existence for over two decades, the company provides lobbying expertise at a state and local level for all of its clients. Rocky leads the organization from a strategic and policy point of view. He regularly works alongside his talented team with most of the company’s clients, including helping to build the Nevada REALTORS into a political powerhouse in the state, and working to expand the political presence of our other array of clientele like the Hospital Corporation of America, the Nevada Bankers Association, PhRMA and Anheuser-Busch. His depth and breadth of policy experience in Nevada has been of huge assistance to many of our working partners – the Henderson Chamber of Commerce, Altria, Bank of America, Amgen, GlaxoSmithKline, Greenwich Biopharmaceuticals, Mallinckrodt Pharmaceuticals, the Las Vegas Global Economic Alliance, the Comprehensive Cancer Centers of Nevada, the US Oncology Network, AIG, Assurant, We Work for Health Nevada, the Nevada Land Title Association, Touro University, the Mechanical Contractors Association, and the Southern Nevada Chapter of the National Electrical Contractors Association and Roseman University. All in all, this diverse portfolio of clients ensures that Rocky and the rest of his team are involved in many of the most critical decisions made in Carson City and at the local level of government across the state.

Connor Cain is a Vice President at Carrara Nevada, serving as one of the firm’s lead lobbyists at the state and local levels. He utilizes his legal and political background to represent and provide counsel to Carrara Nevada and its clients in legislative and other governmental arenas. Connor has campaign and political experience, which is state of the art with respect to Nevada elections and their analysis. Connor’s political experience has afforded him the ability to build strong relationships, which, combined with his reputation as a diligent worker have helped make him a very effective lobbyist. Notably, he has served as the industry point person on several complex pieces of proactive legislation, including an interchangeable biosimilar bill, a depository institution rate-parity bill and rate increases for pediatric and neonatal intensive care unit services. Connor is admitted to practice law in Nevada, focusing his practice on government affairs and has been named to the Super Lawyers Mountain States Rising Stars in consecutive years.