Logan Beirne

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

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

Early life and education Beirne married Yale College dean Hannah Peck in 2019 in Dublin, Ireland. 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. Beirne is a descendant of US President James Madison, the “Father of the Constitution”.

Beirne was a Fulbright Scholar at Queen's University, where he studied economics. In 2009, Beirne was admitted as an attorney to both the New York and Connecticut bars.

Career

Beirne is Chief Legal Officer of Strive Asset Management. He formerly served as Chief Executive Officer of Matterhorn Transactions,

Beirne is a faculty fellow at Yale Law School. He teaches Ethics in Markets, Financial Markets and Corporate Law at Yale. 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. and subsequently worked as an attorney there after graduation.

His debut book, Blood of Tyrants: George Washington, the Forging of the Presidency, began as his thesis at Yale Law School. While doing research for the book, he discovered letters written by Washington in his ancestors' house.

Publications Blood of Tyrants: George Washington & the Forging of the Presidency. Encounter Books. Snowden’s Benedict Arnold Path at USA Today American Amazons at New York Post Military Commissions are American Justice at USA Today What would George Washington say about the US now? at Fox News The Brit who stole Independence Day at National Review When to Pull the Trigger – And When Not To at The Washington Times The George Washington you never knew at Fox News Tsarnaev: What would Washington have done? at Reuters