Duane McLaughlin is a partner based in the New York office. Mr. McLaughlin’s practice focuses on financing transactions and mergers and acquisitions. He regularly represents private equity funds and their portfolio companies, focusing on bank financings, high-yield debt issuances and initial public offerings. He advises a number of NYSE and Nasdaq-listed U.S. and non-U.S. companies on corporate governance and disclosure matters. He has been involved in a number of transactions in Latin America.

Mr. McLaughlin joined the firm in 1999 and became a partner in 2007. From 1998 to 1999, he served as law clerk to the Honorable Denise Cote of the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of New York.

Mr. McLaughlin is fluent in Spanish.

Mr. McLaughlin is a member of the Bar in New York.

Mr. McLaughlin received a J.D. degree from Columbia University School of Law in 1998, where he was the Book Review and Essay Editor of the Columbia Law Review, a James Kent Scholar and a Harlan Fiske Stone Scholar. He previously received a bachelor’s of arts degree from the University of Wisconsin.