Profile: Joseph McLaughlin

Capital Markets

Biography: Capital Markets

Joseph McLaughlin is a partner in Sidley's New York office. His practice includes: public and private US and international securities offerings; US disclosure obligations of public companies; US broker-dealer regulation, including SEC and SRO rules relating to electronic communication, research, financial responsibility, securities credit, short sales, manipulation, misuse of non-public information, compliance and supervisory obligations, and activities of offshore broker-dealers.

Mr McLaughlin is a frequent speaker and writer on securities law topics. He is a member of the American Bar Association, section of business law, the Federal Regulation of Securities Committee, the subcommittees on broker-dealer matters, civil litigation and SEC enforcement matters, and the committee on law and accounting; and the American Law Institute. He served as co-chair of the Task Force on Sellers' Due Diligence and Similar Defenses Under the Federal Securities Laws from 1989 to 1992 (report published in 48 The Business Lawyer 1185, 1993), and as chair of the Task Force on Rule 10b-6 from 1995 to 1997. He also served as chair of the Task Force on Manipulation. He was a member of the New York Stock Exchange's legal advisory committee to the board of governors from 1985 to 1988, and subsequently a member of its subcommittee on market structure. He was a member of the Securities Industry Association's Federal Regulation Committee from 1978 to 1988 and chair of that group from 1982 to 1984.

Mr McLaughlin is the co-author (with Charles J Johnson, Jr) of Corporate Finance and the Securities Laws (4th edition, 2006, Aspen Law & Business).