RELATED SERVICES
Barry Bendes concentrates his practice on U.S.-based and cross-border corporate, commercial and real estate transactions, including sales, financings, manufacturing and distribution of consumer products, privacy/data protection, internet, software and computer-related law matters. He is frequently called upon as counsel to negotiate:
- Mergers and acquisitions
- Public and private debt and equity financings
- Joint ventures
- Sales
- Secured and asset-based lending transactions
- Licensing
- Computer, internet-related and high-technology transactions
Barry Bendes concentrates his practice on U.S.-based and cross-border corporate, commercial and real estate transactions, including sales, financings, manufacturing and distribution of consumer products, privacy/data protection, internet, software and computer-related law matters. He is frequently called upon as counsel to negotiate:
- Mergers and acquisitions
- Public and private debt and equity financings
- Joint ventures
- Sales
- Secured and asset-based lending transactions
- Licensing
- Computer, internet-related and high-technology transactions
Additionally, he advises private and public companies and their owners, officers and inside and outside directors, and venture capital and angel investors.
Barry represents and has represented public and private U.S. and international companies involved in the manufacture and distribution of consumer electronics and other consumer products in the Americas, fashion products, computer hardware, computer software as well as companies involved in telephony, voice recognition, financing, and build out and sale of cellular radio sites and networks. He has handled public and private securities offerings involving medical device companies, computer equipment manufacturers and retailers, telecommunications and telephone interconnect companies, robotics and electronics companies and consumer products as well as representing founders, inventors, issuers and investors in startups, private placements and pipes involved in such diverse areas as fiber optics, robotics, voice recognition, chemicals, pharmaceuticals, and consumer and durable goods. Barry has represented indenture trustees and successor trustees in numerous public debt financings, workouts and insolvencies.
Barry serves as a member of the Firm's Opinions Committee. He continues to serve as a bar association delegate to the Working Group on Legal Opinions (WGLO) (since 2006), Co-Chair of its corporate and alternate entity affinity group and as a speaker and reporter at WGLO sessions on various issues involving third-party legal opinions. He has served as the Chair of the Legal Opinions Committee of the Greater New York Chapter of the Association of Corporate Counsel (formerly the American Corporate Counsel Association) and as Chair of the Board of the Business Law Section of the New Jersey State Bar Association.
CREDENTIALS
- J.D., New York University School of Law
- B.A., cum laude with honors in Economics, Queens College
- New York University
Certificate in Real Property Law
- New York
- New Jersey
- Massachusetts
- U.S. Supreme Court
- U.S. Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit
- U.S. Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit
- U.S. Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit
- U.S. District Court for the Southern District of New York
- U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of New York
- U.S. District Court for the District of New Jersey
- U.S. Tax Court
- U.S. Court of International Trade
- Association of the Bar of City of New York 1975-Present
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- Computer Law Committee 1986-1989, Chair, Commercial Liability Subcommittee 1987-1989
- Uniform State Laws Committee 1991-1994, 1997-2001, Secretary 1993-1994
- Commercial Law and Uniform State Laws Committee 2013-2016
- Taskforce on New York Limited Liability Company Act 1994-1995, 2013-2016
- American Bar Association 1975-Present
- Business Law Section (Developments in Business Financing Committee, PEVC Committee, Subcommittee on Transactional Issues and Documents, Ad Hoc Committee on Audit Responses, Third Party Legal Opinions Committee)
- Science and Technology Section (Computer Law Committee 1979-1995, Contracting for Computers Subcommittee 1980-1982)
- New Jersey State Bar Association 1988-Present
- Section Chair 2006-2008, Secretary 2003-2006, Vice Chair-Legislation 2000-2003 and Member, Board of Directors, Business Law Section 1998-Present
- Chair, Business Law Section Committee on Third-Party Legal Opinions 1998-2006, 2008-Present; member, 1989-Present
- Member, Internet and Computer Law Committee, 1993-Present
- Member, Franchise Law Committee, 2009-Present
- Association of Corporate Counsel (formerly American Corporate Counsel Association)
- Greater New York Chapter, 1989-2003; Director Emeritus 2003-Present; Director, 1992-2003; VP and Secretary 1997-2002
- Chair, Committee on Third-Party Legal Opinions, Greater NY Chapter 1992-1997
- Moderator, Corporate Counsel Roundtable, 1993-2002
- Society for Corporate Governance (formerly, American Society of Corporate Secretaries and Governance Professionals)
- Corporate Practices Committee 1989-Present
- International Association of Privacy Professionals 2015-Present
- New York State Bar Association, Business Law and Real Property Sections, Committee on Real Property Leasing 1977-Present
- Named, The Best Lawyers in America®, Corporate Law (2023-2024)
- Named, New Jersey's Top Rated Lawyers, Business & Commercial Law, Inside Jersey Magazine (2012-2020)
- Partner, Locke Lord LLP
- Former Secretary and General Counsel, Emerson Radio Corp., then a NYSE-listed company with offices in New Jersey, California and Hong Kong
- Former Senior Vice President-Administration, Emerson Radio Corp.'s computer and technology subsidiaries