Doug Leary, a partner in Sutherland’s Corporate Practice Group, represents publicly traded and privately held companies in a broad range of corporate and transactional matters, including stock and asset acquisitions, mergers, tender offers, consolidations, joint ventures, private equity and venture capital transactions, recapitalizations, debt financing and general corporate and contract matters. Doug also represents clients in structuring and negotiating the terms of LLCs, partnerships, investment funds, “stable value” contracts and other complex financial arrangements.

Doug has represented business development companies (BDCs), insurance and financial services companies, energy companies, private equity funds, consumer products companies and publishers, among others, in a wide range of transactions, with a particular focus on transactions involving the purchase and sale of broker-dealers, investment advisers, CLO and CDO collateral managers, insurance companies, and blocks of life, health and annuity business.

In addition to his general transactional practice, during the recent financial crisis Doug was extensively involved in the U.S. government’s efforts to provide financial assistance, in the form of loss-sharing on a $309 billion pool of potentially troubled assets, to one of the nation’s largest banks, and helped develop a sale transaction structure designed to assist banks in removing troubled assets from their balance sheets.

Doug has been an adjunct professor at a nationally ranked law school and has participated on a number of panels, published various articles and been quoted in the financial press regarding merger and acquisition-related topics.