Attorneys

Grant H. Dowd

Summary

Mr. Dowd has experience handling a broad range of litigation matters and corporate transactions. His litigation practice emphasizes general banking law, FDCPA and FCRA actions, contract and partnership disputes, residential mortgage lending and commercial real estate matters, and securities litigation, including representing brokers and dealers in FINRA arbitrations and inquiries. He also has experience in debt restructurings and workouts. Mr. Dowd is admitted to practice before all of the State Courts and United States District Courts of California.

Mr. Dowd’s corporate practice involves primarily transactional work, including mergers and acquisitions, private equity fund formation and all aspects of corporate finance – leveraged financings, debt capital markets transactions, securitization transactions, and other secured and unsecured mezzanine and subordinated financings and preferred stock financings. He also counsels clients in connection with general regulatory compliance and entity structuring and formation issues.

Mr. Dowd’s clients include public and private companies, national banks, equity investors, and landlords and tenants.

Prior to joining Palmer, Lombardi & Donohue LLP, Mr. Dowd practiced at a preeminent international law firm in Los Angeles.

Education

Mr. Dowd received his Bachelor of Arts degree in finance, graduating with highest distinction, from the Carlson School of Management at the University of Minnesota. He obtained his Juris Doctorate degree from Columbia Law School, where he was recognized as a Harlan Fiske Stone Scholar.

Professional Activities

Mr. Dowd is a member of the California State Bar and the Los Angeles Federalist Society.

Representative Matters:

  • Preparing a mortgage lender’s appellate brief in a case before the Ninth Circuit involving predatory lending claims.
  • Defending a prominent brokerage firm against a Hollywood producer’s $6 million investment suitability and defamation claims in a FINRA arbitration.
  • Assisting a large national bank with multiple actions relating to FDCPA claims.
  • Representing a private equity sponsor in a $120 million international acquisition financing, consisting of $60 million in senior secured debt and $60 million in subordinated notes.
  • Advising a private telecommunications company in connection with its acquisition of a $200 million publicly traded company.
  • Creating a private equity fund’s $230 million investment vehicle.