Douglas S. Rohrer

I enjoy working with a distinguished group of longstanding clients and select new clients typically via personal referrals on a limited number of engagements so that ALG can provide focused, high-touch, personalized service.

I adhere to a “client first” philosophy drawing on my extensive professional experience as not just an attorney but also having developed practical business side knowledge as a finance professional, founder of consumer products sector start-ups and as a hospitality industry executive.  This legal, finance and business background generates thoughtful and often novel solutions for our firm’s clients they would be unlikely to find at a traditional law firm. 

Foremost at ALG is delivering best-in-class legal counsel on a fair value basis – I work with my clients on each engagement to maximize value while providing thoughtful legal solutions.  ALG is not bound by the hourly rate structures typical to most law firms which allows unique flexibility in tailoring client engagements.

Mr. Rohrer provides a multi-disciplinary set of competencies and professional experience spanning start-ups in the CBD and liquor sectors, hospitality operating companies, lodging + food & beverage contract representation, commercial real estate investment transactions, distressed debt workout & restructuring, and joint venture formation along with a broad range of general corporate matters having served in the various roles as General Counsel for a 3 Michelin star hospitality company for 10+ years, as a founder and CFO/General Counsel for a Mexican liquor start-up, Chief Business Officer for publicly traded CBD & supplements manufacturer, as CFO/CIO & General Counsel for Plan Do See a global diversified hospitality investor & operator, as a structured finance banker/debt trader at hedge fund Citadel Investment Group, as founder of  workout/restructuring & capital markets advisory firm ARHospitality Capital LLC (ARH), as a commercial real estate banker at investment bank Credit Suisse (now UBS) and as a real estate finance attorney with global law firms Sidley Austin LLP and SquirePattonBoggs LLP. Throughout each role, Mr. Rohrer’s primary focus was serving clients in the start-up, hospitality, finance and commercial real estate sectors.

Mr. Rohrer has extensive legal and capital markets experience in the real estate & hospitality sector. At Credit Suisse, Mr. Rohrer led the origination and closing of over $1.2 billion and was integrally involved in over $3 billion in financing at all levels of the capital structure for projects and acquisitions across all asset classes with a specific focus on the lodging sector nationally. At Citadel Investment Group Mr. Rohrer was Managing Director and Co-Head of Real Estate Finance Strategies and led Citadel’s entry into commercial real estate finance developing a lending platform with $1B in balance sheet capacity. Notably, Mr. Rohrer was featured in a February 2012 Wall Street Journal article discussing ARH being appointed as Directing Holder and sole advisor to a foreign fund on its acquisition of a B-Note and subsequent FMV option exercise on a $150M A-Note out of a floating rate CMBS trust and successful resolution of the inter-creditor battle over the debt on a notable Las Vegas casino and resort property.

Mr. Rohrer is admitted to practice law in California and New York, obtained several FINRA Securities Industry Licenses including the 24, 7 and 63, and holds a New York State Real Estate License. Mr. Rohrer has also completed the post graduate program in Hotel Real Estate Investment & Asset Management at Cornell University’s School of Hotel Administration and attained the CHIA designation from the American Hotel & Lodging Educational Institute in hospitality industry analytics. Mr. Rohrer obtained his undergraduate Bachelor of Arts in Philosophy from University of California, Santa Barbara with Dean’s Honors and Juris Doctor – International Business Law degree from the University of California Hastings College of the Law. Mr. Rohrer has been a guest lecturer at New York University Tisch Center for Hospitality & Tourism and has published several articles in industry law journals.