Doug Mandell

Practice Areas

Doug leads the founder practice and is a senior partner at Withers Bergman LLP. As head of our founder practice, a niche practice focused on personal general counsel services for company founders, chief executive officers, venture capitalists, senior executives and wealthy families, Doug's core practice is a combination of corporate, employment and executive compensation where he advises clients personally on M&A transactions and complex employment law and corporate issues. Doug leverages the firm's strengths in litigation, trust and estates, tax, family law, real estate, crypto and digital assets and charitable giving to meet a wide spectrum of needs of individual private clients.

Doug has extensive experience advising emerging growth companies, often as outside general counsel in the areas of corporate law, privacy, data security and technology transactions. Doug has been general counsel of three startups, including the first GC at LinkedIn and the first lawyer to represent LinkedIn when the company was founded and Nauto, Inc., a big data/AI company in the autonomous vehicle space funded by Greylock Partners and Softbank (Doug also represented this company since it was founded). Doug often draws on his experience as general counsel to tech companies when serving as personal general counsel to founders.