Shauna Barnes

About Shauna Barnes

Shauna Barnes provides trusted legal counsel to companies, with a particular emphasis on highly-regulated industries facing tough choices in the marketplace. She has a decade of experience giving legal advice, serving most recently as General Counsel for Dogfish Head Companies. In that capacity, Shauna helped launch a distillery, introduce cans to market, and navigate over a dozen strategic distribution partnership changes. She also has extensive experience counseling executive and management teams on legal, compliance and regulatory risks surrounding day-to-day operations, strategic planning, international expansion, product rollouts, and major promotions and marketing campaigns. Executive teams can also benefit from Shauna\'s experience providing creative solutions to tricky regulatory schemes, including shepherding legislative changes through the statehouse. Shauna has considerable expertise drafting and negotiating commercial agreements, including distribution and supply agreements, project and purchase agreements, and sponsorship and events agreements. She has also worked with lobbyists and trade associations on a continuous basis since 2012, and was a founding member of the Craft Beverage Lawyers Guild.

Experience

1. Founding Partner

   Barnes Beverage Group

   Oct 2022 — Present · Annapolis, MD, US

Education

• Wake Forest University School of Law

  J.D.

• Penn State University

  B.A., Political Science, Broadcast Journalism, History