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Douglas A. "Doug" Neary
The Calfee Building, 1405 East Sixth Street Cleveland, Ohio 44114-1607
Firm:
Calfee, Halter & Griswold LLP
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Overview
Doug Neary is Chairman of the firm and serves as a Senior Partner in the firm’s Corporate and Capital Markets group. His practice has focused for decades on mergers and acquisitions, corporate governance, capital raising, public disclosure, corporate finance and compliance for a stable of public and private companies and financial sponsors and lenders.
Doug advises clients on mergers, acquisitions and divestitures; corporate governance, SEC, capital formation (including private and public offerings); NYSE and NASDAQ listing requirements; corporate finance; venture capital; and general corporate matters. He is knowledgeable on general contracting issues, commercial transactions, joint ventures and strategic alliances, and provides counsel with respect to organizational and structuring matters for corporate clients.As Chairman, Doug helps to manage and support many of the Firm’s most significant clients. He helps to oversee major projects so as to ensure that all appropriate resources are dedicated to addressing the client’s needs and to provide clear communication and reporting. He also helps lead the Firm’s efforts in developing new and expanded client relationships.For more than 30 years, Doug's practice has been focused around clients buying and selling privately held and publicly traded companies, working closely with the private equity and investment banking community in those endeavors.
In addition to his experience with hundreds of business transactions, Doug helps clients with public disclosures, securities filings, and Securities Act and Exchange Act compliance work.Quite frequently, Doug counsels clients on corporate governance matters, as well as Sarbanes-Oxley Act and listing standards issues.Doug also handles equity and debt private placements, including the necessary securities law compliance, and has significant experience negotiating and consummating venture capital financings. With an active private equity practice, Doug has represented numerous private equity, venture capital and mezzanine financing sources in making their purchases, sales, loans or investments, dealing regularly with issues of valuation, governance, management and exit strategies.Having served as corporate secretary of Invacare Corporation (NYSE), Doug also is on the board of directors, or serves as secretary of, several privately held corporations, family trusts and foundations in the Greater Cleveland area.
A frequent lecturer at corporate and securities law seminars, Doug is also a member of the American, Ohio and Cleveland Bar Associations, having served on the Corporate and Securities Law Sections. In addition, for many years, Doug has served as the Ohio Co-Chair of the KPMG Audit Committee Institute, focusing on topical matters of interest to public company directors and officers.
Since 2013, Doug has been recognized as a "Leading Lawyer in Ohio" in Corporate/M&A by Chambers USA. Chambers noted that Doug "combines his position as the firm's chairman with an active corporate practice, where he advises a range of private and publicly held businesses on M&A, financing matters and wider advisory issues. One client says, 'He is very insightful, smart and personable and has become a trusted adviser to me.'"
In 2018, Chambers USA researchers reported that Doug is regarded as an "excellent negotiator and strategist by clients, who commend his very pragmatic counsel and his superlative client service. He has a wide-ranging transactional and governance practice, earning particular praise for his abilities in securities work and is reported as outstanding in compliance work."
Doug has been selected for inclusion in The Best Lawyers in America© (2010-2022) in the areas of Corporate Compliance Law, Corporate Governance Law, Corporate Law, International Mergers and Acquisitions Law, Mergers and Acquisitions Law, and Securities/Capital Markets Law in Cleveland. Doug is recognized as the 2022 Best Lawyers "Lawyer of the Year" in Mergers and Acquisitions Law in Cleveland. He was recognized as the Best Lawyers Corporate Governance Law "Lawyer of the Year" in Cleveland (2020 and 2014), as the Corporate Law "Lawyer of the Year" in Cleveland (2019), and as the Corporate Compliance Law “Lawyer of the Year” in Cleveland (2015).
Doug has been selected for inclusion to the Ohio Super Lawyers list from 2007-2021. He is AV rated by Martindale-Hubbell.
Doug currently is Chairman of the Board of the Greater Cleveland Sports Commission, the non-profit coordinating entity that helped Cleveland to become host to the MLB All-Star Game (2019), the NFL Draft (2021), the NBA All-Star Game (2022) and the Women’s Final Four (2024). He also serves on the Executive Committee and previously was Chairman of the Governance/Nominating Committee for many years. He also has been a multi-year Team Captain for the United Way Campaigns, and was a long-time board and executive committee member of United Cerebral Palsy.
Doug joined Calfee in 1985, becoming a partner in 1993. He has served as a member of the firm’s Executive Committee since 2002 and as a member of the Management Committee since 2009. Doug was elected as Vice Chairman of the firm in 2017 and as Chairman in 2019.
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Awards
Mergers and Acquisitions Law, Cleveland (2022)
Corporate Governance Law, Cleveland (2020)
Corporate Law, Cleveland (2019)
Corporate Compliance Law, Cleveland (2015)
Corporate Governance Law, Cleveland (2014)
- Chambers USA, Corporate/M&A, Eminent Practitioner in Ohio (2013-2022)
- Martindale-Hubbell, AV rated
- The Best Lawyers in America©, Corporate Compliance Law, Corporate Governance Law, Corporate Law, International Mergers and Acquisitions Law, Mergers and Acquisitions Law, Securities/Capital Markets Law (2010-2023)
- The Best Lawyers in America©, Mergers and Acquisitions "Lawyer of the Year" in Cleveland (2022), Corporate Governance Law “Lawyer of the Year" in Cleveland (2020 and 2014), the Corporate Law "Lawyer of the Year in Cleveland (2019), and the Corporate Compliance Law “Lawyer of the Year" in Cleveland (2015)
- Ohio Super Lawyers (2007-2022)
Education
Boston University, J.D.
Graduated 1985
University of Michigan, B.A.
Graduated 1982
Contact Details and Office Locations
Other: (216) 622-8200
Office: (216) 622-8285
The Calfee Building, 1405 East Sixth Street
Cleveland, Ohio 44114-1607
Cleveland, Ohio 44114-1607
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