Retired Partner
CurrentJOE McLAUGHLIN’s practice includes: public and private U.S. and international securities offerings; U.S. disclosure obligations of public companies; U.S. broker-dealer regulation, including SEC and SRO rules relating to electronic communication, research, financial responsibility, securities credit, short sales, manipulation, misuse of nonpublic information, compliance and supervisory obligations, and activities of offshore broker-dealers. Joe speaks fluent German and has advised on numerous capital markets transactions involving German companies.Joe has been a speaker at, and contributor of written materials to, programs sponsored by Practising Law Institute, the University of Zurich, The Federalist Society, ALI-ABA, Securities Industry and Financial Markets Association and University of California at San Diego (Securities Regulation Institute). He is the co-author (with the late Charles J. Johnson, Jr. and Sidley partner Eric S. Haueter) of Corporate Finance and the Securities Laws (5th ed. 2015, supplemented 2018) (Wolters Kluwer). Joe is also a frequent contributor to online and print publications of articles on current securities law topics. He is recognized in Securities/Capital Markets and Securities Regulation in both Chambers USA and The Best Lawyers in America. Joe is also recognized in the 2016 edition of Who’s Who Legal: Capital Markets.In 2013, Joe received the “Lifetime Achievement Award (Americas)” from the International Financial Law Review. While at Columbia University School of Law, Joe received the Robert Noxon Toppan Prize in Constitutional Law. He subsequently studied law in Germany as a Jervey Fellow of Columbia’s Parker School of Foreign and Comparative Law. From 1988 to 1992, he was an Adjunct Professor of Law at New York University School of Law.
