Professional Experience

Mr. O’Loughlin is a partner in Manatt’s Corporate & Finance Division, focusing on securities regulation, capital markets transactions, and mergers and acquisitions.  He also provides general corporate advice and transaction assistance for emerging companies through exchange-traded entities.

Mr. O’Loughlin’s securities experience includes initial public offerings, follow-on offerings, California fairness hearings, and private offerings (including financing transactions for emerging companies).  His mergers and acquisitions experience includes various transaction structures for public and private companies and emerging companies.  Mr. O’Loughlin is co-editor of M&A Law, the newsletter of Manatt’s Mergers & Acquisitions Practice Group.

Prior to joining Manatt, Mr. O’Loughlin worked as corporate counsel for a financial services company in Orange County, California, and as a tax policy analyst for the New Zealand government.

Education

University of California, Berkeley, Boalt Hall School of Law, LL.M.

Massey University, New Zealand, business school diploma, with distinction.

University of Otago, New Zealand, B.A., with first class honors, LL.B.

Memberships & Activities

Admitted to practice in California and New Zealand (inactive). 

Honors & Awards

Recipient of California State Bar’s Wiley W. Manuel Pro Bono Services Award for distinguished public service, 2009.

Named a Rising Star by Southern California Super Lawyers, 2007 and 2008.

Member of transaction team awarded M&A Advisor’s Deal of the Year Award for middle market transactions (2007).

Publications

Co-author, “New Requirements to Consider When Dealing with Fairness Opinions” Business Law Today, September/October 2008.

Co-author, “The Mortgage Meltdown: A Tale of Representations, Warranties and Covenants, and Unintended Consequences,” Business Law Update, Fall 2007.

Speaking Engagements

“What Venture Capitalists Need to Know About Term Sheets and Valuations,” ExecSense Webinars, November 2010.