Douglas Park

Douglas Park is the founder of Park Legal, PC. He advises innovative companies that operate in challenging business and legal environments. Doug applies his business and legal acumen to help companies and individuals tackle issues in blockchain, cryptocurrency, decentralization, sustainability, investments and startups.

His expertise is in corporate and securities law, corporate governance, complex financing and business transactions, and business strategy. Using his unique combination of academic, business and legal experience, Doug delivers uncommon, high value ideas and solutions.

Before becoming an attorney, Doug was an Assistant Professor of Management at the School of Business and Management, Hong Kong University of Science and Technology (HKUST). He has taught Starting Startups, Mergers and Acquisitions, Strategy and Organization, and Using the Law for Competitive Advantage at HKUST and Stanford University. Doug is regularly invited to talk about starting startups, corporate and securities law, venture capital investment trends, and blockchain and cryptocurrency. Doug was also the Director of Legal Policy and Outreach at the Sustainability Standards Board (SASB, now part of the Value Reporting Foundation), where he led SASB’s efforts to socialize regulators such as the SEC, boards of directors, in-house counsel, accountants, and non-governmental organizations to support SASB’s standardized sustainability accounting and reporting approach.

Doug has been named a Rising Star in Corporate Governance, selected several times to the Super Lawyers list in Business/Corporate, and chosen to America’s Top 100 Bet-The-Company Litigators.

He is the past President of the Harvard Club of Silicon Valley, the club’s General Counsel, and an interviewer of applicants to Harvard College, and a member of the Stanford Graduate School of Business Asian Alumni Association. Doug serves as pro bono counsel to non-profit organizations.

Doug received his A.B. magna cum laude with highest honors in Sociology from Harvard College, where he was awarded the Albert M. Fulton, Class of 1891, Prize for outstanding senior thesis in Sociology, his Ph.D. in Organizational Behavior from Stanford Graduate School of Business, where he received a National Science Foundation Graduate Fellowship and an AACSB Portable Fellowship (one of twenty recipients), and his J.D. from the University of Michigan Law School.