Dugan P. Kelley co-founded Kelley Clarke, PC, with the mission to deliver big firm expertise and experience to our local community. Kelley Clarke currently serves clients throughout the UnitedStates with its principal offices in Prosper, Texas, and Santa Barbara, CA. Mr. Kelley chairs the firm’s securities and real estate practice groups, assisting clients in all phases of multi-family, commercial, and residential acquisitions or sales. Mr. Kelley’s real estate expertise includes transactional services for clients ranging from commercial loan closings, real estate private equity capital raises, joint venture agreements, commercial leasing, business acquisitions and general commercial real estate services for multi-family syndicators, investors, and developers. In the last couple of years, he has handled combined transactions over 3+ Billion Dollars.
Throughout Mr. Kelley’s 20+ years of experience, he has also tried numerous cases in state and federal courts, administrative courts, and arbitration. With over $70 million in verdicts, settlements, workouts, and millions in settlements prior to trial, Mr. Kelley understands that there isn’t a one-solution fits all for every case. Mr. Kelley routinely advises real estate investors and other entrepreneurs about entity selection, corporate formation, risk assessment, and other related transactional needs. Mr. Kelley also represents a number of companies and family businesses in providing advice and counsel in the capacity as outside general counsel.
Mr. Kelley was previously a partner with Cappello & Noel, one of the nation’s foremost complex commercial litigation firms, in Santa Barbara, California. While at Cappello, Mr. Kelley successfully prosecuted and defended major commercial litigation involving a variety of commercial matters including Iender Iiability, contract and transactional disputes, and fraud.
Mr. Kelley and his wife Michelle currently live in the Dallas area actively raising their 3 boys.
