Douglas Flaum Bio

Douglas Flaum, a partner in Goodwin’s Complex Business Litigation and Dispute Resolution Department, Head of Goodwin’s National Real Estate Litigation practice, and a leading member of its Financial Services Litigation group, is a nationally recognized litigator of complex financial matters and trial lawyer. He has more than 35 years of experience litigating cases on behalf of domestic and foreign corporations, directors, and special board committees in a diverse range of commercial, securities, and real estate matters. In particular, Douglas has extensive experience advising and litigating highly complex litigation matters in the real estate space on behalf of developers, lenders and REITs spanning the full scope of disputes. He also regularly advises on complex financial and business arrangement matters, including cases under the Securities Act of 1933 and the Securities Exchange Act of 1934, joint venture and partnership disputes, long-term supply arrangements, business tort and contract matters, issues of corporate governance, alleged breaches of fiduciary duties, contests for corporate control, and a variety of enforcement proceedings. He also regularly conducts internal investigations of whistleblower complaints in the real estate, technology, and cannabis sectors and advises corporations and their officers and directors in nonlitigation context. Prior to joining Goodwin in 2019, Douglas was a partner at Paul Hastings LLP, where he co-chaired the Securities Litigation practice. He has also been a partner and litigation department vice chair at Fried Frank Harris Shriver & Jacobson LLP.