Phillips Lytle LLP

Managing Partner

As Phillips Lytle’s Managing Partner, Doug provides vision and leadership to a preeminent law firm that is recognized nationally for its legal excellence.

Doug manages day-to-day operations of the firm and leads its administrative departments, practice group leaders and office leaders. As Managing Partner, Doug also leads the Governing Committee in setting the firm’s strategic goals and initiatives. His role focuses on implementing plans to accomplish the Firm’s objectives to assure Phillips Lytle’s position as a premier source of sophisticated legal counsel, a trusted business and legal advisor to its clients, and a destination for exceptional, diverse legal talent in its markets.

In addition to his role of Managing Partner, Doug’s areas of focus includes telecommunications law and commercial real estate, with extensive expertise in public-private partnerships. He represents leading telecommunications carriers, infrastructure providers and numerous other clients involved in the telecommunications industry. His representation has included transactional and litigation matters, such as permitting for wireless telecommunication carriers, tower owners and developers; and site leasing work, site development and asset sales and purchases throughout the U.S. He has particular expertise in distributed antenna system (DAS) and other small cell networks, where he is involved with both business and regulatory aspects.

Doug’s public-private partnership and commercial real estate expertise consists of his experience representing a broad range of clients on office, industrial, retail and mixed-use projects. In addition, he represents developers and investors in commercial real estate financing, including construction lending and loan restructurings. He has been instrumental in numerous projects by providing creative solutions, overcoming project challenges, engaging critical partners and identifying incentives to ensure effectiveness in moving projects forward.

During his time at the firm, Doug has been a Practice Group Leader, a Practice Team Leader and a Governing Committee member.

American Bar Association Business Law Section Real Property, Trust and Estate Law Section Bar Association of Erie County Banking Law Committee Real Property Law Committee Federal Communications Bar Association Greater Niagara Chamber of Commerce National Association of Women Lawyers (NAWL) New York State Bar Association Business Law Section Real Property Law Section New York State Economic Development Council Waterloo Region Law Association Wireless Infrastructure Association

State University of New York at Buffalo Law School, J.D., cum laude, 1989 University of Rochester, B.A., 1984