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Jean M. McLoughlin
Partner
Ms. McLoughlin is a member of Davis Polk’s Corporate Department, concentrating in executive compensation and employee benefits matters. She regularly advises corporate and financial clients on the implementation of management equity programs, the negotiation of executive employment arrangements, and the securities and tax implications of such arrangements.
Contact
  • New York
    450 Lexington Avenue
    New York, NY 10017
    P: 212-450-4416
    F: 212-701-5416
Bar Admissions
  • State of New York
  • State of California
Education
  • B.A., Yale College, 1988
    • summa cum laude
  • J.D., Harvard Law School, 1992
    • cum laude
    • Recent Developments Editor, Harvard Civil Rights - Civil Liberties Law Review

Work Highlights
M&A Advice
  • Roche on its acquisitions of Genentech, Ventana Medical Systems, Nimblegen, 454 Life Sciences, Bioveris and Syntex 
  • Pepsi in its acquisitions of Pepsi Bottling Group and Pepsi Americas
  • MSCI in its acquisition of RiskMetrics
  • FBR Capital Markets in connection with the acquisition by Alo Star Bank of substantially all of the assets of Nexity Bank
  • Sodexho Alliance on its:
    • Acquisition of Circle Company Associates
    • Partial acquisition of Marriott International’s food services business pursuant to a reverse Morris Trust transaction
    • Subsequent acquisition of the remaining shares of Sodexho Marriott Services
  • GP Investments in connection with its purchase of full ownership of Fogo de Chão
  • Magnetar Capital in connection with a joint venture with Lehman Brothers
  • Mercantile Bankshares on its sale to PNC Bank
  • Avista Capital Partners on its acquisition of the Minneapolis Star Tribune 
  • Greenhill & Co. in connection with its investment in FCC Holdings
  • Yamanouchi Pharmaceutical on the divestiture of its consumer businesses in the United States
  • Frontpoint on its sale to Morgan Stanley
  • Oracle on its acquisitions of PeopleSoft and Siebel
  • Yahoo! on its acquisition of Inktomi
  • LoudCloud on the sale of its managed services business to EDS
  • HomeGrocer.com on its acquisition by Webvan Group
  • Francisco Partners on its investments in UltraClean Holdings, CMAC MicroTechnology, American Microsystems and Legerity (a spinoff of the communications product division of Advanced Microsystems)
  • Pharmacia & Upjohn on its merger with Monsanto
  • Allegiance on a pooling merger with Cardinal Health
  • Domino’s Pizza on a leveraged recapitalization acquisition by Bain
Capital Markets Transactions
  • Advised on the initial public offerings of MSCI, AMI Holdings, UltraClean Holdings, Callidus Software and NpTest Holding, and the proposed initial public offering of EPAM  
Other Matters
  • Represented Morgan Stanley in creating a transferable stock option program for Google
  • Advised Hewlett Packard in connection with the stock option backdating investigation of its subsidiary, Mercury Interactive, and Barnes & Noble in connection with a stock option investigation
  • Advised Frontier Airlines with respect to employee benefit issues in its bankruptcy proceedings

Among clients Ms. McLoughlin has advised on executive compensation, benefit and stock option issues are Pepsi, NYSE Euronext, MSCI, Chilton, Morgan Stanley, Oracle, Roche, BBVA, Banco Santander, Cadence, Intuit, Novo Nordisk, Affymetrix, Smart Modular and FormFactor.

Professional History
  • Partner, 2001-present
  • Associate, 1994-2001
  • Law Clerk, Hon. J. Spencer Letts, U.S. District Court, C.D. California 1992-1993