JOE 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. 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. Columbia University School of Law, LL.B., 1965 Columbia College, A.B., 1962