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Douglas M. Nevin

Doug Nevin assists clients with a wide variety of corporate matters, including formation, organization and maintenance; acquisition and disposition of assets, intellectual property and real property; sale of assets under Section 363 of the U.S. Bankruptcy Code; mergers, consolidations, joint ventures and reorganizations; motion picture financing; licensing transactions; financial restructuring and secured debt transactions; and the negotiation of numerous employment, consulting, program licensing and services agreements and other business contracts. Mr. Nevin primarily provides counsel to clients, both public and private, in the media, entertainment, technology, energy, manufacturing, retail and financial services industries.

In addition to his corporate practice, Mr. Nevin provides pro bono counsel to WITNESS, Inc., a human rights organization which provides video equipment for the purpose of documenting human rights abuses in an effort to effect social change.

Mr. Nevin has published articles on topics in corporate law and has lectured on various elements of his practice. While in law school, Mr. Nevin was a Managing Editor of the Emory Law Journal. He also received the American Society of Composers, Authors & Publishers’ Nathan Burkan Memorial Prize in Copyright Law for his published Note, “No Business Like Show Business: Copyright Law, the Theatre Industry and the Dilemma of Rewarding Collaboration,” at Emory.

In addition to his legal practice, Mr. Nevin produces theater on and off-Broadway, where his productions have received numerous honors and have twice been nominated for the Tony Award for Best Play. He is a member of the Board of Directors of Primary Stages, an associate member of the Broadway League and has lectured on producing theater in the current economic climate. Mr. Nevin is a member of the Young Leaders Council of the Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual and Transgender Community Center.

Mr. Nevin is a member of the New York State Bar Association and the Bar of the City of New York.

Mr. Nevin’s representative experience includes:

• Counsel to a private financial services firm in connection with a credit refinancing
• Counsel to a publicly traded U.S. corporation in connection with the sale of its intellectual property catalogue
• Counsel to the Trustee for the Substantively Consolidated Liquidation of Bernard L. Madoff Investment Securities LLC (BLMIS) and Bernard L. Madoff in connection with the sale of the market making business of BLMIS
• Counsel to a large publicly traded U.S.-based media company in connection with an international joint venture
• Counsel to a private financial services firm in connection with a management buyout
• Counsel to U.S. subsidiaries of international companies in connection with multiple acquisitions of manufacturing assets
• U.S. co-counsel to a U.S. subsidiary of an international glass manufacturing company in connection with a financial restructuring
• Counsel to musical artists in connection with general corporate governance and negotiation of agreements
• Counsel to a private start-up in the sportswear sector in connection with its acquisition of assets and initial public offering
• Counsel to a high profile Internet television platform application with respect to its arrangements with content providers
• Counsel to a private equity firm in connection with motion picture investment and productions
• Negotiated various other industry-specific joint venture, acquisition and commercial agreements