John Harrington represents clients in connection with capital markets and business combination transactions, and provides ongoing advice with respect to corporate and compliance matters. His transactional experience includes many registered and exempt offerings of equity and debt securities; tender offers; and public and private mergers, acquisitions, and joint ventures. In John's representation of public companies, he provides day-to-day advice on securities reporting and disclosure issues, compliance with SEC and stock exchange requirements, corporate governance, investor relations and activist matters.
John's securities and public company practice is informed by the experience and insights he gained during five years in the SEC's Division of Corporation Finance, most recently as special counsel in the Office of Capital Market Trends. In this position, he analyzed trends and developments in the capital markets, evaluated novel and complex securities and transaction structures, and implemented regulatory and policy initiatives arising from financial industry reform legislation. While on the SEC staff, John also served in the division's Office of Rulemaking, where he developed various new regulations applicable to public companies.