Douglas J. Gorman

Douglas J. Gorman concentrates his practice on corporate, commercial, and business matters. 

Doug provides counsel to businesses at all stages of development. He assists startup companies and emerging businesses with formation, choice of entity, structuring and financing, including equity crowdfunding. He counsels all businesses, including family businesses, professional entities, and not-for-profit organizations, on corporate governance, shareholder and member relations, fiduciary duty, and shareholder and member disputes. He also advises companies, their owners and executives on exit strategies and succession planning.

In his commercial practice, Doug drafts and negotiates domestic and international commercial contracts for both consumer and business-to-business transactions, including distributorship and representative agreements, leasing agreements, warranties, licensing agreements, non-competition covenants, management, and independent contractor agreements. He also counsels clients on compliance with the Uniform Commercial Code, Magnuson-Moss Act and Convention for the International Sale of Goods, as well as matters involving United States Free Trade Agreements, import and export issues, and Harmonized Tariff Schedules.

Doug’s corporate practice involves structuring and negotiating numerous types of asset and stock acquisitions and mergers of all sizes and complexities, leveraged acquisitions, stock-for-stock transactions, private placements, stock issuances, financing transactions, and recapitalizations.

Doug is a popular author and lecturer on various business matters.

Prior to co-founding the firm, Doug practiced in the Corporate, Banking and Finance departments of a large Upstate New York law firm and in the Mergers and Acquisitions group in the Wilmington, Delaware office of Skadden, Arps, Slate, Meagher & Flom LLP.