Robert E. McLaughlin

Partner

• rmclaughlin@steptoe.com
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• Washington Office

Bob McLaughlin is a senior partner in the Washington office of Steptoe & Johnson LLP, where he is a member of the Corporate, Securities and Finance practice group. He has significant experience under the Federal Securities laws and as a general corporate lawyer.  He regularly advises clients in connection with public offerings, private placements, proxy statements, tender offers, and other public company periodic reporting issues.  He assists clients in structuring and restructuring business entities as corporations, partnerships, limited partnerships, limited liability companies, and limited liability partnerships.  Mr. McLaughlin represents both buyers and sellers in merger and/or acquisition transactions and in buying and selling assets, including real estate.  He advises venture capital companies in connection with portfolio investments and represents other businesses in need of financing.  Mr. McLaughlin also counsels directors, officers and other fiduciaries concerning the duties and obligations of their respective offices.

Before coming to Steptoe & Johnson LLP, Mr. McLaughlin served first as a financial analyst, and later as an Attorney Advisor and Assistant Branch Chief, Division of Corporation Finance, Securities and Exchange Commission.  He is a member of both the Federal Regulation of Securities and Small Business Committees of the American Bar Association's Section of Business Law and is a past Chair of the Small Business Committee's  Subcommittee on Financing (1990-95).  He is a member of the National Lawyers Association.  He lectures on the federal securities laws, recently having participated on several expert panels discussing the requirements of the Sarbanes-Oxley Act.  He also acts as a Public Arbitrator for the National Association of Securities Dealers, Inc.  Mr. McLaughlin is a Director of Attorneys' Liability Assurance Society (Bermuda), Ltd. ("ALAS Ltd.") and Attorneys' Liability Assurance Society, Inc., respectively a member-owned Bermuda based lawyers professional liability  insurance company and its Vermont Risk Retention Group subsidiary.  He serves on, and is a past Chair of the Board of Directors of ALAS Investment Services Limited, the investment subsidiary of ALAS Ltd. 

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