Experience 

Douglas Doetsch serves as co-head of the firm’s Latin America Practice and leads the Chicago office’s banking and finance practice.  He advises clients on acquisition and other leveraged lending transactions, structured credit transactions, and project financings, particularly in Latin America and other emerging markets. He is also a leader in cross-border securitization transactions, especially future cash flow securitizations.

In his cross-border work, Doug also regularly advises on emerging market debt restructuring and debt exchange offers.  In addition, his transactional work involves asset and stock acquisitions, real estate investments, and cross-border joint ventures.  Doug also advises emerging market companies on Euro-securities offerings and US equity offerings.

Doug has earned wide recognition for his work in emerging markets since joining the firm in 1988.  According to Chambers Latin America 2009, he has an “unparalleled ability to quickly close complex transactions and make it seem like a walk in the park.”  Chambers USA 2007 calls him "'a simply great attorney' who wins praise for his emerging markets expertise. There can be few lawyers who have the depth of experience that he can boast in South and Central America."

Doug speaks French and Spanish.

Education 

Columbia University Law School, JD, 1986; Editor-in-Chief, Columbia Journal of Transnational Law • Université de Dakar, Dakar, Senegal, 1982-1983; Rotary Graduate Fellowship • Kalamazoo College, BA, magna cum laude, 1979; Phi Beta Kappa

Admitted

• Illinois, 1989
• New York, 1987