Douglas V. Brown

Associate

Douglas V. Brown is an associate in Morgan Lewis's Business and Finance Practice. Mr. Brown focuses his practice on a wide range of corporate and securities law matters, with an emphasis on advising public companies with respect to disclosure and securities law compliance issues, corporate governance matters, and transactions, including mergers and acquisitions and public and private offerings of securities.

Mr. Brown counsels public companies with respect to annual and periodic securities filings, proxy statements, and beneficial ownership reporting. He also advises companies regarding governance and other corporate matters.

Prior to joining Morgan Lewis, Mr. Brown served for three years as an attorney-adviser with the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) in the Division of Corporation Finance. While at the SEC, he worked on a number of transactional and securities compliance matters, with an emphasis on the oil and gas, mining, and food industries. Mr. Brown has experience with securities disclosure issues affecting initial public offerings, registered and exempt debt and equity offerings, and mergers and acquisitions, as well as issuer reporting obligations under the Securities Exchange Act of 1934.

Mr. Brown received his LL.M., with distinction, in securities and financial regulation from Georgetown University Law Center in 2008. He received his J.D., cum laude, from Widener University School of Law in 2007, where he was a staff member of The Delaware Journal of Corporate Law and earned a certificate in business organizations law, with honors. While in law school, Mr. Brown interned in the Office of the Director in the Division of Enforcement at the SEC. He received his B.S. in business management, with an emphasis in finance and economics, from Brigham Young University–Idaho in 2003.

Mr. Brown is admitted to practice in Pennsylvania.