Commercial counsel for extraordinary technology companies.

The Internet is global, and so is regulation of Internet business.

Byrne & Storm’s clients include consumer tech businesses with millions of users. The firm focuses on companies in crypto, social media, and AI.

The firm advises on every part of the legal attack surface – application design, compliance programs, infrastructure, payments, software selection, law enforcement investigations, litigation posture, and communications strategy – to help businesses understand their regulatory obligations and, where relevant, elect the choice of U.S. law to govern their affairs.

The firm focuses on advising clients who operate in areas of legal uncertainty, where new technologies collide with unsettled law and competing rules in different jurisdictions.

The problems we help clients solve are often completely novel, with no easy answers, no standard playbook, and no template documentation – but our clients still need to ship.

The firm has significant experience advising companies launching novel fintech applications and advising on related regulation and compliance programs in the United States.

The firm also advises publishers and social media companies, and has significant experience defending First Amendment-protected speech from foreign regulation. The firm has faced down regulators and public bodies from the United States, United Kingdom, Ireland, France, Germany, the European Union, Russia, Australia, New Zealand, Singapore, and Brazil seeking to control our clients’ websites.

Where the firm’s social media clients elect to be governed by American law, foreign sovereigns and Internet regulators have chalked up a 0% success rate at forcing Byrne & Storm’s American clients to obey unconstitutional foreign edicts.

The firm handles international commercial litigation and arbitration across the United States, Europe, and Asia. Preston has managed complex cross-border disputes as both outside and in-house general counsel, directing arbitration and litigation strategy, managing local counsel across multiple jurisdictions, and resolving high-stakes commercial conflicts for technology companies operating internationally.

Preston has acted as counsel on several high profile technology disputes, including as a member of the legal team in Granath v. Wright and as lead counsel in 4chan Community Support LLC v. UK Office of Communications.

Preston is a Senior Fellow of the Adam Smith Institute in London, and an advisor to the UK Free Speech Union. His policy work is exclusively focused on technology regulation.

Preston is the architect of the GRANITE Act, a foreign censorship shield law concept that has informed legislative drafting across the United States. The Wyoming GRANITE Act passed the Wyoming House of Representatives 46-12 in February 2026 before running out of legislative time; it is being reintroduced as a committee bill in the 2027 general session. Versions of the GRANITE Act are under consideration by lawmakers in at least three other U.S. states, and its defensive provisions were unanimously adopted as national model policy by the American Legislative Exchange Council (ALEC) in July of 2026.

Two federal bills following the GRANITE Act’s architecture – the GRANITE Act of 2026, H.R. 10174, and the HOMEFRONT Act of 2026, H.R. 10309 – have been introduced in the U.S. House of Representatives.

Preston is also the lead author of the Adam Smith Institute’s Freedom of Speech Bill 2026, a law reform proposal to restore the ancient liberty of freedom of speech in the United Kingdom.