For companies, founders, investors — and their lawyers
Corporate, securities, and technology counsel, from formation to exit.
Barry J. Bendes is a New York and New Jersey business lawyer in independent practice, concentrating on domestic and international corporate, securities, and technology transactions — mergers and acquisitions, debt and equity financings, software, AI, and licensing — and the third-party legal opinions that close them. A former public-company general counsel and law-firm managing partner, he also serves as an arbitrator.
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Counsel who has also run the business
He has been a law-firm managing partner, the general counsel and secretary of a public, NYSE-listed company, and a senior corporate partner at leading New York and New Jersey firms. He advises companies the way someone who has operated one does.
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A lawyer other lawyers rely on
For more than twenty-five years he has chaired third-party legal-opinion committees of the New Jersey State Bar and the in-house bar, and serves as a delegate to the national Working Group on Legal Opinions — helping define the customary practice that closing opinions follow.
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Current on the law that just changed
He is among the fastest interpreters of new federal regulation, writing on the Corporate Transparency Act, FinCEN beneficial-ownership rules, and FTC advertising and privacy law — frequently within days of a ruling.
What he does
A full-spectrum business practice, built over a career spent at the technical center of transactions.
Corporate & M&A
Mergers and acquisitions, joint ventures, formation, governance, and the sale of businesses.
Securities & Capital Markets
Debt and equity financings, private placements, venture capital, and broker-dealer questions.
Technology, Software & AI
Software, SaaS, data, AI, and internet transactions; licensing, outsourcing, and IT agreements.
Commercial & Cross-Border
Domestic and international sale of goods, distribution, agency, and secured lending.
Third-Party Legal Opinions
Giving and reviewing closing opinions — enforceability, entity power, and authority.
Arbitration & ADR
Serving as a neutral in commercial, securities, and international disputes.
Now in independent practice
Barry J. Bendes is accepting select engagements — as counsel on corporate, securities, and technology matters, as a giver or reviewer of legal opinions, and as an arbitrator.
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