Doug Mandell
Global Head of the Founder Practice
Doug leads our founder practice and is a senior partner.
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. Doug also leverages the firm’s strengths in litigation, trust and estates, tax, family law, real estate and charities 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, technology transactions, and employment law and representing founders, CEOs and senior executives personally in the areas of employment law, M&A, corporate and executive compensation. Doug also regularly coaches and advises CEOs and general counsel of fast scaling companies on building a legal department and has been responsible for hiring some of the top general counsels in Silicon Valley.
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. He served as outside general counsel to technology companies as well as General Counsel and member of the executive teams of companies including: LinkedIn (where he was the company’s lawyer when it was founded and served as GC in 2007 and 2008); 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); and ememories (one of the first online photo-sharing companies).
Doug is a frequent speaker on personal legal issues for founders and executives and features videos for founders and executives and students on his YouTube Channel on this topic. Since leaving LinkedIn as its first General Counsel, Doug also regularly gives back to students by speaking at colleges and law schools on how to develop a professional brand management strategy and execute it online and offline to get a job. He writes about legal and business issues for entrepreneurs and CEOs at www.personalgc.com.
往绩记录
执业资格
Publications
Videos
公开活动
Represented founders and all key executive in sale of this software company to a global public software company.
Represented founder in sale of big data software company in a sale to one of the largest public agriculture companies.
Represented founders of data analytics company in sale to large public software company.
California, 1994
‘Starbucks Ties D&I to Comp. Will Others Follow?’ Agenda - November 2, 2020, featured and quoted
‘Doug Mandell joins Withers in San Francisco to form dedicated international practice for founders and senior executives,’ Withers Insight - April 3, 2020, featured and quoted
‘Withers Hires New Founder Practice Leader,’ Daily Journal - April 2, 2020, featured and quoted
Presenter, ‘When your founder, CEO (or you) are the client: Protecting you and your team when things get personal,’ TechGC Global Summit, November 4, 2021
Moderator, ‘Withers talks: founders counsel | Episode 5 - Keeping founders and families secure: Issues with cyber and physical security’ Withers podcast, June 3, 2021
Presenter, ‘Senior Executive Contracts - What New Protections, Powers and Provisions should Executives and Founders be Seeking,’ International Forum of Senior Executive Advisors Conference (IFSEA) Second Annual Conference: Risk, Reward & Reputation Management Issues for Senior Executives & Founders, February 16, 2021
个人简介
Many of my clients consider me to be a combination of a life coach, therapist and lawyer.
学历背景
语言
- English