Logan Beirne

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Logan Beirne
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OccupationCEO, Writer, Historian
NationalityAmerican
Education Fairfield University (BS)
Queen's University at Kingston
Yale University (JD)
Subject George Washington
Notable workBlood of Tyrants: George Washington, the Forging of the Presidency
Notable awards2014 William E. Colby Award, Edgar M. Cullen Prize

Logan Beirne is an American entrepreneur, businessman, writer, and attorney. He currently serves as Chief Legal Officer of Strive Asset Management [1] and teaches at Yale Law School. [2] His bestselling book, Blood of Tyrants: George Washington and the Forging of the Presidency, won the Colby Award for best military history. [3]

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Beirne founded a multinational legal technology company called Matterhorn Transactions, Inc. with Mark Gerson in 2011 [4] and sold it to DealPulse, Inc in 2023. [5] He has invested in and co-founded additional successful companies, including Artusi Music, Inc. [6] [7]

Early life and education

Beirne married Yale College dean Hannah Peck in 2019 in Dublin, Ireland. [8] He was born in Bronxville, New York and grew up in Milford, Connecticut. His parents, Sheila (former fashion buyer) and Thomas (former businessman and politician), were interested in American history, and would often take young Beirne to history and war reenactments. [9] Beirne is a descendant of US President James Madison, the “Father of the Constitution”. [10]

Beirne was a Fulbright Scholar at Queen's University, where he studied economics. [4] He earned his J.D. degree from Yale Law School, where he received the Edgar M. Cullen Prize for his constitutional scholarship and was awarded an Olin Fellowship to write on presidential power. [9] He studied international business transactions under the direction of Amy Chua and Bill Eskridge. [11] [12] In 2009, Beirne was admitted as an attorney to both the New York and Connecticut bars. [13]

Career

Beirne is Chief Legal Officer of Strive Asset Management. He formerly served as Chief Executive Officer of Matterhorn Transactions, [4] which provided data analytics to thousands of law firms across the US, Canada, and UK. Beirne successfully sold the company to DealPulse, Inc., an artificial intelligence company, in 2023. [14] [15]

Beirne is a faculty fellow at Yale Law School. He teaches Ethics in Markets, Financial Markets and Corporate Law at Yale. [16] He teaches a legal clinic with Jonathan R. Macey and Greg Fleming (businessman). Beirne has invested in and co-founded a museum systems company called Collection Harbor and a music software business called Artusi. [6] [7]

After his Fulbright Fellowship at Queen's University, Beirne worked for the private equity arm of GE Capital before entering Yale Law School. [16] While Beirne was still attending law school, he was a summer associate at the law firm Sullivan and Cromwell, [17] and subsequently worked as an attorney there after graduation. [13] He was also an investment banker at J.P. Morgan & Co. [4]

Beirne is a professional public speaker who has given speeches across the U.S. and appeared on numerous news programs. [18] [14] [19] [20] [21] [22]

His debut book, Blood of Tyrants: George Washington, the Forging of the Presidency, began as his thesis at Yale Law School. [9] He is represented by literary agents Writers Reps. [23] While doing research for the book, he discovered letters written by Washington in his ancestors' house. [23]

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References

  1. "Team | Strive Asset Management". strive.com. Retrieved 2025-02-24.
  2. "Logan Beirne - Yale Law School". law.yale.edu. Retrieved 2019-01-06.
  3. "Logan Beirne '08 Named Washington Historian Winner of 2014 William E. Colby Award". law.yale.edu. 5 February 2014. Retrieved 2019-01-06.
  4. 1 2 3 4 "Executive Team | Matterhorn Transactions" . Retrieved 2019-01-06.
  5. "Intelligent Document Revolution: DealPulse Acquires Matterhorn". lawstreetmedia.com. 14 December 2023. Retrieved 2025-02-24.
  6. 1 2 "Artusi: About Us". www.artusimusic.com. Retrieved 2025-02-24.
  7. 1 2 "Our Team". collectionharbor.com. Retrieved 2019-01-06.
  8. "Hannah Peck, Logan Beirne". www.nytimes.com. Retrieved 2025-02-24.
  9. 1 2 3 Dion, Jill (11 July 2013). "'Blood of Tyrants' author reflects on moral constants". Milford. Retrieved 1 April 2015.
  10. "BOOK REVIEW: 'Blood of Tyrants'". The Washington Times. Retrieved 2019-01-06.
  11. Weaver, Robin (18 December 2012). "Man around town: Logan Beirne and the lessons of George Washington". Woman Around Town. Retrieved 1 April 2015.
  12. "BTV: Logan Beirne, "Blood of Tyrants"" . Retrieved 2025-02-24.
  13. 1 2 "Logan Beirne | The National Law Review". www.natlawreview.com. Retrieved 2019-01-07.
  14. 1 2 ""Adventures in Building & Selling a Business": Lunch Conversation with Logan Beirne '08" . Retrieved 2025-02-24.
  15. "DealPulse to Acquire Matterhorn Transactions" . Retrieved 2025-02-24.
  16. 1 2 "Logan Beirne - Yale Law School". law.yale.edu. Retrieved 2019-01-07.
  17. Kinetz, Erika (23 July 2006). "For top law students, a sidebar with the arts". The New York Times. New York. Retrieved 1 April 2015.
  18. "Contributors | The Federalist Society". fedsoc.org. Retrieved 2025-02-24.
  19. "SIU School of Law Simonds lecture to focus on presidential power". news.siu.edu. Retrieved 2025-02-24.
  20. "A Conversation on Originalism with Professor Logan Beirne". www.law.nyu.edu. Retrieved 2025-02-24.
  21. "Authors & Experts". dennisprager.com. Retrieved 2025-02-24.
  22. "NSA Leaker: What would George Washington Do?" . Retrieved 2025-02-24.
  23. 1 2 "Logan Beirne". www.writersreps.com. Retrieved 2019-01-07.