Douglas Allan Barnes

Since founding Barnes Legal in 2015, I’ve focused on providing practical, business-oriented legal counsel to early-stage startups and growing companies. My goal is to help clients achieve good legal outcomes by identifying key issues early and negotiating terms that truly matter from a business perspective.

Things my firm can help with: company formation and governance; fundraising and investment rounds; standard customer terms; commercial agreements; employment and equity compensation matters; trademark filings and prosecution; acquisitions and sales of businesses; and resolving governance, shareholder, collections and commercial disputes, including through litigation when necessary.

Admitted in New York, California, and Connecticut, as well as the federal courts of the Southern and Eastern Districts of New York, the Northern and Central Districts of California, and the District of Connecticut.