Doug Burton

Doug Burton, the Chair of WilmerHale’s Real Estate Practice Group, has nearly three decades of experience in the most complex private equity investment and joint ventures, development, acquisitions, dispositions, leasing and financing transactions. His clients include real estate investment trusts, top pension fund advisors, Fortune 50 corporations, developers and nonprofit institutions, with a broad range of asset classes, including lab and life sciences, hospitality, multi-family, seniors housing, office, industrial and retail.

Since 2001, Mr. Burton has been a frequent lecturer and guest lecturer at the MIT Center for Real Estate, both conducting full-day professional development seminars and teaching graduate level courses. Most recently, he was a guest lecturer speaking about distressed loans and capital arrangements in April 2024. Mr. Burton co-taught professional development seminars and spoke as a guest lecturer for various graduate level courses at the New York University Schack Institute of Real Estate from 2009 to 2011, and from 2009 through 2020, he was a regular guest lecturer at Columbia University's MSRED Program, speaking about joint ventures and capital arrangements.

JD, Cornell Law School, 1996

magna cum laude

Order of the Coif

BA, Amherst College, 1992

magna cum laude