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Douglas Dunn is a partner of Milbank, Tweed, Hadley & McCloy LLP with emphasis on corporate and project financing. He is also the Co-Chair of the Firm's global energy and power practice.
Prior to joining the Firm in 1985, Mr. Dunn was Senior Vice President and Managing Director, Investment Banking Division of Shearson Lehman Brothers Inc. from 1984 to 1985, and associate, partner and member of the Management Committee of Winthrop, Stimson, Putnam & Roberts from 1970 to 1984. His practice includes the representation of several energy companies and private equity and hedge funds that invest in energy companies. He also serves as designated underwriters' counsel for many utility companies. Special assignments have included representation of private equity investors in the utility sector, cross-border merger and acquisition and reorganization advice in several recent large transactions for electric and gas utility companies, telecom companies or their creditors.
Mr. Dunn currently a member of the Board of Trustees of the Immune Disease Institute affiliated with the Harvard Medical School and a member of the National Council for the Vanderbilt University Law School. He is is a former member of the Board of Governors of the American Bar Association; past chair, Section of Public Utility, Communications and Transportation Law, American Bar Association; former chair, Committee K, International Bar Association; member, Federal Regulation of Securities Committee, Section of Business Law, American Bar Association; former member and chair, Committee on Nuclear Technology and Law, Association of the Bar of the City of New York; Fellow, American Bar Foundation; author of articles, contributor to several books and frequent speaker on securities law. He is listed in The Best Lawyers in America, and highly ranked in the Chambers Global and USA Law Lists.
Mr. Dunn received a B.S.E. from the University of Michigan and a J.D. from Vanderbilt University where he was Associate Editor of the Law Review. He was admitted to the New York Bar in 1971, to the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of New York in 1972, to the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit in 1973 and to the U.S. Supreme Court in 1978. | 