Douglas G Gruener

Practice Areas

Doug is a partner in the Corporate Group at Levenfeld Pearlstein. His practice focuses on complex transactional matters, including mergers and acquisitions, equity and debt financings, restructurings and joint ventures. Doug has extensive experience representing clients in the financial sector, including private equity funds, hedge fund managers and non-traditional asset managers. Within non-traditional asset classes, Doug has developed a specialty in litigation finance, representing both providers and recipients of capital with regard to their transactional needs.

Prior to joining LP, Doug was a partner at Katten Muchin Rosenman LLP, and thereafter served as in-house counsel for leading companies in the litigation finance industry, including as General Counsel of Gerchen Keller Capital, LLC.

Doug graduated summa cum laude from Case Western Reserve University with a B.S. in Accounting, and earned his J.D., magna cum laude, from the University of Pittsburgh School of Law, where he was the Business Manager of the University of Pittsburgh Law Review. Prior to entering law school, Doug was awarded a Fulbright Fellowship to research Japanese corporate governance at Kobe University.