Representing Extraordinary Companies.
Byrne & Storm P.C. helps cutting-edge technology companies solve their most difficult legal problems.
Its current managing partner is Preston Byrne.
We quarterback companies’ legal strategies as outside general counsel. The firm handles a wide range of day-to-day commercial law issues, including drafting and negotiating commercial contracts, corporate governance matters, and venture capital raises.
The firm also advises on arbitration and litigation, particularly where frontier technology is involved. The firm has defended Americans against attempts to censor or chill constitutionally protected speech online by public authorities acting under the sovereign authority of numerous countries, and is currently counsel of record in some of the most contentious and high-profile cross-border technology regulatory disputes in the world.
Preston is admitted in England & Wales, New York, Connecticut, and Washington, D.C.
Current clients include companies from around the world, including the United States, Europe, the UAE, and Singapore. The firm’s clients include virtual asset service providers, protocol developers, social networks, artificial intelligence software and services providers, game developers, and B2B SaaS companies, high net worth individuals, and family offices.
Preston is also active in law reform efforts in the ongoing global regulatory dispute over freedom of speech online. This includes drafting the GRANITE Act, a foreign censorship shield law, in October 2025 that went from a blog post, to passing a chamber of the Wyoming state house, to State Department confirmation of federal consideration in under four months. The Wyoming GRANITE Act, introduced last-minute in January, passed the Wyoming House of Representatives 46-12 in February 2026 during a short budget session, has been taken up as a committee bill in the interim and will be back aiming at full passage in the general session in early 2027.
Preston also sits on the Legal Advisory Council of the UK Free Speech Union, is a Senior Fellow of the Adam Smith Institute in London, and is the lead co-author of the Adam Smith Institute’s Freedom of Speech Bill 2026.
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