Doug Praw, an associate in the firm’s Business Law Department and a member of the Real Estate Practice, has extensive experience in a wide range of real estate transactional law. He joined Goodwin Procter in 2006.

Work for Clients

Mr. Praw’s practice has involved numerous real estate transactional law matters, including: representing buyers and sellers in the negotiation and documentation of acquisitions and dispositions of office and industrial real property; representing developers of master planned community projects in negotiating land use, planning, governmental approvals and arrangements with public authorities and governmental agencies; and representing lenders and borrowers in real estate financings.

Mr. Praw also has experience in public and finance projects, including public infrastructure, utilities, multi-family housing projects, single-family master-planned communities and industrial projects. He has provided counsel to developers, underwriters and municipalities, special districts and other governmental agencies in the State of California.

Professional Activities

Mr. Praw is a member of the American Bar Association, Urban Land Institute and the National Association of Bond Lawyers. He also serves on the Alumni and Parents Association for Washington University in St. Louis.

Publications/Presentations

Mr. Praw’s publishing credits include “Going Private with Public Projects,” Western Real Estate Business (cover story, October 2007), “The Muddy Waters of Wetlands,” featured in the fall 2007 issue of REsource: A Goodwin Procter Publication for the Real Estate Industry with a circulation of approximately 16,000, and “When a Lender Becomes an Owner,” Builder and Developer magazine (February 2006). Mr. Praw was also recently quoted in “Late to the Party; Trendsetting Los Angeles Makes a Fashionably Late Entrance to the Green Movement,” Commercial Property News, (November 2007).

While attending law school, Mr. Praw was the Managing Editor of the Journal of Law and Trade in the Americas in which he published “Venezuela v. Ford Motor Company: The Trend of Dismissing Mass Tort Cases on Grounds of Forum Non Conveniens” (8 Sw. J. L. & Trade Am. 374).

Professional Experience

Prior to joining Goodwin Procter, Mr. Praw was an associate in the Century City office of Pillsbury Winthrop Shaw Pittman.

Bar and Court Admissions

Mr. Praw is admitted to practice in California.

Honors and Awards

In 2006 and 2007, Mr. Praw was recognized as a Southern California Super Lawyer “Rising Star” by Law & Politics and Los Angeles magazine, and was also selected by Real Estate Southern California magazine as one of the top “40 Under 40” most successful and youngest stars of the Southern California real estate industry. In 2005, the Los Angeles Business Journal profiled him as one of a handful of young professionals in its “Who’s Who in Real Estate” compendium.

Education

J.D., Southwestern University, 2002
B.S., Washington University, 1998