Douglas S. Carr

dcarr@perkinsthompson.com
Douglas Carr brings his more than thirty five years of experience and familiarity with Maine's political and business worlds to bear on his integrated practice of administrative law, business transactions, exempt organizations, retail and health care, and government relations. Mr. Carr advises Maine-based companies in connection with their daily business activities and is often called upon to assist businesses in developing their long term strategic growth and development plans. He has been involved in major national undertakings including a reverse triangular merger with a Canadian fabless chip manufacturing company and advising a national retailer in connection with national and state antitrust issues and a Maine-based company on commercial free speech and Lanham Act litigation. He serves as Maine legal counsel for a large national retailer in the health care and specialty retail fields. Mr. Carr also serves as General Counsel to a number of small Maine businesses and several not for profit foundations in the education, environmental and business research areas. He is a shareholder and director of Perkins Thompson and has previously served on the Firm's Executive Committee.

Mr. Carr was appointed in 1998 to the Maine Blue Ribbon Commission to Study the Effects of Government Regulation and Health Care Costs on Small Businesses. In 2004, he was appointed to the Maine Drug Return Implementation Group, and in 2005 he was appointed to the Governor's Committee to Study the Feasibility of Reimportation of Prescription Drugs. Mr. Carr is also Counsel to the Southern Maine Wetlands Conservancy. He is Counsel and Clerk to a U.S. subsidiary of a Canadian fabless semiconductor company and a national retail pharmacy company. He is also President and Clerk for the Maine Cancer Foundation and a Board Member of Maine Citizens Against Handgun Violence (2005). Mr. Carr is a member and counsel to Maine Economic Research Institute (MERI) 2004; Board Member, Maine Center for Enterprise Development (MCED) (2007); past Board Member and Officer, Portland Symphony Orchestra; past Member and Chairman of Yarmouth School Board; past Member, Maine School Board Association; past Board Member and President of Center for Educational Services; past Board Member, Maine Coalition Excellence in Education; past Member and Chair, Yarmouth Planning Board; past President, Portland Club; founding Member and counsel to Casco Bay Education Alliance; past Board Member, Shalom House.

Mr. Carr was a presenter of a seminar on Governance of Non-Profit Organizations under the Sarbanes-Oxley Bill (2007); and a presenter of a Seminar on Legal and Financial Aspects of Tax-Exempt Organizations (2007).

Mr. Carr is a Fellow of the Maine Bar Foundation. He is AV Peer Review Rated for Ethical Standards and Legal Ability by Martindale-Hubbell.

He is married to Deidre O. Carr, a teacher at Freeport High School. Doug and Deidre continue to live in Yarmouth and are enjoying "empty nester" status as their two daughters are now both out of college; one is in doctoral studies in the U.K. and Mexico and the other, married, lives and works while an MBA candidate, in the Washington, DC area. Doug and Deidre recently became first time grandparents of a little girl. Doug enjoys reading, art, golf, downhill skiing, travel, and antiquing.