Doug is an experienced trial attorney and litigator focusing primarily on securities litigation, global investigations, and white-collar defense.
A veteran trial lawyer with experience at both the Securities and Exchange Commission and as an Assistant U.S. Attorney for the Central District of California, Doug brings deep experience handling regulatory investigations, federal civil litigation and white-collar criminal prosecutions. He most recently served as head of the SEC’s Los Angeles Regional Office, overseeing all securities litigation for that office — covering primarily Southern California, Nevada, Arizona, Hawaii, and Guam — where he supervised a team of trial attorneys and managed a litigation docket involving claims of insider trading, market manipulation, fraudulent offerings, unregistered offerings, unregistered broker-dealers, false financial reporting and investment adviser fraud.
He first joined the SEC in 2016 after spending more than a decade as a federal prosecutor in the United States Attorney's Office in Los Angeles, where he tried several trials while working in the Public Corruption and Civil Rights Section. Doug also obtained guilty pleas in several high-profile public corruption cases, including against former California State Senator Ronald Calderon for accepting bribes from a local businessman and Troy Ellerman, a prominent defense attorney who leaked the grand jury testimony of Barry Bonds in the BALCO investigation. At the SEC, Doug tried the insider‑trading case SEC v. Bradley Davis at trial and supervised a string of trial victories for the SEC’s Los Angeles office.
Doug's public service career began in the U.S. Air Force Judge Advocate General’s Corps, where he last served as chief of military justice at Los Angeles Air Force Base.