Douglas Urquhart is co-head of the US Banking & Finance practice, where he specializes in bank debt financings and restructurings. He represents lenders, financial sponsors and borrowers on all types of bank financing transactions, including asset-based loans, domestic and cross-border acquisition and working capital facilities, bridge loans, and subordinated and second lien financings.
He is the co-author of chapters in Reorganizing Failing Businesses (American Bar Association) and The Law and Practice of Restructuring the UK and US (Oxford University Press), and is a frequent speaker on bank finance and intercreditor issues. He is regularly ranked as a leading lawyer in Banking & Finance by Chambers USA and IFLR1000 and was ranked for Restructuring and Insolvency in Euromoney Legal Media Group’s Guide to the World’s Leading Insolvency and Restructuring Lawyers (2009).
Mr. Urquhart is active in pro bono matters and sits on the Board of Directors of ACCION USA, the largest provider of microfinance in the United States.
Educated in the United Kingdom, Mr. Urquhart moved to the United States in 1992, spending four years with the New York office of an international law firm before joining Weil in 1996 and becoming a partner in January 2000.
Mr. Urquhart was admitted as solicitor of the Supreme Court of England and Wales in 1989 and admitted to the New York Bar in 1990.