Douglas M. Fox

Doug regularly represents real estate investment trusts, mutual funds, and other investment funds and companies on matters of corporation and trust law. He advises clients on issues of board responsibilities, change-in-control and proxy contests, mergers and acquisitions, takeover defenses, and governance. More recently, Doug has focused on counseling sponsors and others on the structuring and establishment of Qualified Opportunity Funds, an advent of the Tax Cut and Jobs Act of 2017.

Although his focus for his REIT and mutual fund clients often focuses on matters of the corporation laws of Maryland, where many of these entities are domiciled, his broad-ranging experience as a corporate and securities lawyer for clients in other industry groups enables him to bring an added perspective to the transactions with which he is involved. He and his colleagues at Ballard Spahr have acted as counsel for literally hundreds of equity and debt offerings and other financing transactions, as well as for dozens of mergers, acquisitions, divestitures, liquidations, and other similar types of transactions. Doug represents licensors and licensees in complex licensing and co-promotion transactions.