Corporate and commercial

Qualified Shepherd & Wedderburn WS 1989; partner Maclay Murray & Spens WS 1996; partner Dundas & Wilson CS 1997; partner CMS Cameron McKenna 2014.

Notary public ; WS Society .

Doug has over 25 years' experience in leading and negotiating Scottish, UK wide, and international corporate transactions. He is one of Scotland's most experienced and consistently highly rated corporate lawyers, specialising in mergers and acquisitions, leveraged buy out transactions, and private equity investments.

Doug acts for corporate and individual buyers and sellers, for management teams, and for equity funding institutions in a wide range of corporate and private equity transactions, and is regarded by clients and his peers as one of the country's most commercial and effective corporate lawyers.

University of Edinburgh (1987 LLB, Dip LP); ICAEW (Advanced Dip in Corporate Finance (CF)).