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

Doug has published articles on topics in transactional and entertainment law and has lectured on various elements of his practice. While in law school, he was a Managing Editor of the Emory Law Journal and was the recipient of the American Society of Composers, Authors & Publishers’ Nathan Burkan Memorial Prize in Copyright Law at Emory.

Doug is a two-time Tony Award-nominated theater producer and has produced extensively both on and off Broadway. He is a member of the Board of Directors of Primary Stages and an associate member of the Broadway League. In addition, he is a member of the Young Leaders Council of the New York City Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual and Transgender Community Center.

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

Doug’s representative experience includes:

• Counsel to a UK digital media firm in connection with the management buyout of its U.S. subsidiary
• Counsel to a German buyer of a private U.S. manufacturing concern via a reverse subsidiary merger
• Counsel to a French corporation specializing in 3D and Product Lifecycle Management in connection with various acquisitions
• Counsel to a private financial services firm in connection with a credit refinancing
• Counsel to a renewable energy services company in connection with various acquisitions and its operational matters
• Talent representation of artists in connection with the commision of new dramatic works 
• Counsel to a publicly traded U.S. corporation in connection with the sale of its well-known intellectual property catalogue
• Counsel to a management company specializing in the provision of social networking services
• Member of BakerHostetler team serving as 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 numerous international joint ventures
• Pro bono outside counsel to WITNESS, Inc., a human rights organization that provides video equipment for the purpose of documenting human rights abuses in an effort to effect social change 
• 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
• 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, services and commercial agreements