Douglas Y. Park helps executives achieve their strategic, financial and operational objectives. His broad experiences in business transactions and dispute resolution, coupled with his background in strategy and organization, make him uniquely suited to add substantial value in his business representation. Douglas specializes in strategy, corporate transactional law, securities law, and corporate governance.
Before forming DYP Advisors, Douglas was a corporate and securities attorney at Orrick and a litigator at Cotchett, Pitre & McCarthy. He has experience in corporate law, intellectual property, securities regulation, finance, corporate governance, international transactions, and mergers and acquisitions. Having litigated complex commercial matters, including intellectual property, securities, contracts, and antitrust, Douglas brings an added layer of experience and insight to his advice.
Formerly an assistant professor of management at the Hong Kong University of Science and Technology, Douglas has taught Strategy, Entrepreneurship, Organization Theory, Venture Capital, and Electronic Commerce to students and executives from around the world. In the fall of 2010, Douglas will teach Starting and Growing Technology Ventures through the Stanford Continuing Studies Program.
He has published articles on competitive dynamics and organizational change in leading academic journals. Douglas has consulted to private and public companies on strategy, organization, business planning, and corporate governance in Silicon Valley and China.
Douglas received his J.D. from the University of Michigan Law School, his Ph.D. in Strategy and Organization from the Stanford Graduate School of Business, and his A.B. magna cum laude with highest honors in Sociology from Harvard College. He has received numerous honors, including the Albert M. Fulton, Class of 1891, Prize at Harvard, a National Science Foundation Graduate Fellowship, a Portable Fellowship from the Association for the Advancement of Collegiate Schools of Business, and several Citations for Teaching Excellence from the School of Business and Management, Hong Kong University of Science and Technology.
He has worked with and represented a broad range of clients, including iVillage, Sina Corporation, China Macro Finance, Dorado Corporation, Pacific Gas & Electric, Smart Patents, and Stephen Slesinger, Inc.
Douglas is admitted to the State Bar of California and the Northern and Central District Courts of California.