Meet Tristan

Tristan Snell | Founder, Managing Partner

Tristan’s work includes successes in some of the most high-profile legal matters of the century – including the prosecution of Trump University (leading to a $25 million settlement), the Broadcom v. Qualcomm patent litigation (the largest in US history at the time, with a $1.2 billion victory for Broadcom), and landmark deals with Chase, Wells Fargo, and Walmart, among others.

He has also started four businesses of his own and served as a startup CEO, COO, General Counsel, and Product Manager.  He has represented hundreds of startups, as well as early-stage venture funds, in addition to larger companies like Johnson & Johnson, Broadcom, Yahoo, and Smith & Nephew, giving him a deep understanding of the special challenges facing high-growth and high-innovation businesses.

Tristan graduated from Princeton University, where he was elected to Phi Beta Kappa.  He received his law degree from the University of Virginia, where he was an editor of the Virginia Law Review.  Tristan worked in the renowned intellectual property, appellate, and venture practices at WilmerHale, where he also worked on the Boumediene v. Bush team that won the first habeas writs for detainees at Guantanamo Bay.  He served as a law clerk to the Hon. Eric N. Vitaliano, U.S. District Court Judge for the Eastern District of New York, and as Assistant Attorney General for the State of New York as a civil prosecutor and investigator in consumer protection.

Tristan is also a nationally recognized legal commentator, featured on MSNBC and NPR and in the Washington Post and Wall Street Journal, among dozens of other outlets.

Education | A.B., Princeton, J.D., University of Virginia

Admissions | New York, Massachusetts, New Jersey, U.S. Federal District of New Jersey

Practice Areas | business law, contracts, intellectual property, corporate, litigation