Doug serves as a Managing Member of the Firm and Chair of the Firm’s Real Estate Practice Group.  Doug’s practice focuses primarily on representing tenants, landlords, buyers, sellers, and developers across the United States in connection with a wide variety of commercial real estate transactions, including restaurant, retail, office, industrial and commercial acquisitions, development and leasing.

Doug is detailed-orientated, yet outcome-focused.  He leverages more than 20 years of deep, national retail expertise across all asset classes – mixed-use, shopping center, mall, ground-floor office, street deals, and otherwise – to aid clients in exceeding their national expansion goals.

Beyond retail, Doug also assists clients with the acquisition, disposition, and development of corporate headquarters, office buildings, vacant land, and with real estate administration generally.  Doug has unique experience representing clients in acquiring, selling, and leasing water rights, including Type 2 grandfathered water rights.

As a Managing Member of the Firm, Doug has developed a broad range of business, operational, and financial experience that he deploys as a value-add while representing clients.

Representative Professional Experience

• Negotiates restaurant leases throughout the United States on behalf of multiple national restaurant companies across all asset classes.
• Represents renowned, national restauranteur in connection with mixed-use restaurant and music venues.
• Represented Arizona company in acquiring nearly 300,000sf of Class A office buildings for corporate headquarters expansion, including negotiations with the Arizona State Land Department relating to an underlying state land lease.
• Assist Arizona company with ground-up development of a new corporate headquarters, and real estate administration across approximately 1,500-unit national retail portfolio.
• Support developers of data centers in negotiating and drafting electric service agreements and related matters.
• Represents utility companies and electrical districts in acquiring infrastructure sites and rights-of-way for expansions of electrical grids and agricultural irrigation distribution networks.
• Counseled Fortune 100 mutual insurance company in connection with joint venture, preferred equity, and mezzanine financing transactions across the country to finance the development of Class A multifamily, office, industrial, retail, and hospitality projects.
• Assisted real estate development arm of national insurance company in all aspects relating to the acquisition and assemblage of 250 acres of contiguous property for a future mixed-use development.

Honors & Awards

• The Best Lawyers in America, Real Estate Law (2020, 2021, 2022, 2023, 2024, 2025)
• Listed in Super Lawyers – 2012 Southwest Rising Stars

Professional & Civic Activities

• Men’s Arts Council – Board of Directors
• Bobcats Senior Honorary Alumni Advisory Board

Memberships & Affiliations

• State Bar of Arizona, Real Property Division
• Maricopa County Bar Association, Young Lawyers Division
• American Bar Association
• Real Property, Trust and Estate Law Division
• International Council of Shopping Center (ICSC)