Douglas A. Crosby is a partner in Donahue Gallagher Woods LLP, where he specializes in commercial real estate transactions and copyright law.

Mr. Crosby represents retail businesses both locally and nationally in a broad range of transactions, including purchase and sale agreements for existing retail space and undeveloped properties, leases for office and retail space, agreements governing the use, maintenance, and development of shopping centers, and lender agreements involving major financial institutions. Mr. Crosby also has extensive experience negotiating vendor subleases and contracts, as well as licensing agreements involving a variety of commercial retail uses.

Mr. Crosby also is involved in developing and supervising the firm's software anti-piracy programs for software companies including Autodesk, Inc., and a major nonprofit enforcement organization, the Business Software Alliance (BSA). He has handled several hundred investigations, resulting in the recovery of several million dollars in lost sales and penalties. He regularly reviews software licenses and dealer agreements to ensure that client interests are adequately protected.

His general business practice encompasses small business formations and dissolutions, asset purchases, general corporate and real estate matters, employment agreements and policies and equipment leasing and purchases.

Mr. Crosby earned his law degree in 1987 from Santa Clara University School of Law, where he served as an articles editor for the Santa Clara Law Review. He earned his Bachelor of Arts degree in American Studies at Stanford University in 1983. He is a member of the State Bar of California and the Alameda County Bar Association and a member of the Lake Merritt Breakfast Club, sponsor of Children's Fairyland, U.S.A.