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Douglas brings to his clients a broad range of experience in the practice of corporate law, concentrating in the areas of mergers and acquisitions, corporate governance, strategic alliances, and commercial ventures. In addition, he enjoys an active collaborations practice, centered on negotiating licensing, joint venture and development agreements relating to intellectual property rights.

Douglas' work in acquisitions, dispositions, joint ventures and other transactions involves representation of individual investors, management teams, corporate buyers and sellers, and private equity firms. This varied representation provides him with a unique understanding of the likely concerns of each party in a sophisticated transaction so that he is well-suited to assist clients in planning and implementing their strategies as well as crafting creative, but cost-effective, solutions to their concerns.

Douglas has been listed in the Rhode Island Corporate/M&A Section of Chambers USA: America's Leading Lawyers for Business for 2007 and 2008.

• Douglas acts as general outside counsel to a number of businesses ranging in size from a NYSE manufacturer to privately held companies, in matters varying from acquisitions and dispositions to joint ventures and collaborations.
  
  
• Douglas assisted a publicly-traded client by negotiating and drafting a complex strategic alliance with another publicly-traded company to jointly produce products by using each company's underutilized assets.
  
  
• Douglas works closely with management on general corporate counseling matters, including issues related to contracting, licensing, corporate governance and risk management.
  
  
• Douglas has helped management teams and boards of directors with strategic planning, acquisitions, dispositions and litigation management.

• "Closing the Deal: Bringing a Business Transaction to a Successful Conclusion," speaker, Rhode Island Bar Association Annual Meeting, 2008.
  
  
• "Ethical Considerations When Negotiating Business Transactions," speaker, Rhode Island Bar Association Annual Meeting, 2005.
  
  
• "Letters of Intent: Negotiation and Litigation," speaker, Rhode Island Bar Association Annual Meeting, 2002.

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Douglas attended Yale University in New Haven, Connecticut and worked for a trade finance bank in Istanbul, Turkey following graduation from Yale.  Douglas was also Executive Articles Editor for the Journal of Legislation at the University of Notre Dame School of Law.

Douglas has been involved with a number of nonprofit and charitable organizations, including The Haitian Project which runs a co-ed Catholic boarding school outside of Port Au Prince, Haiti for underprivileged children.  Douglas is also involved in the Urban Collaborative, a task-based middle school for at risk teens in Providence, Rhode Island.  He also enjoys golf, hockey, photography and his new role as father to Eliza and Liam.