A boutique strategic advisory practice led by a nationally recognized lawyer that connects the right people, navigates complexity, and helps organizations reach what they came to achieve — in Washington and beyond.
Philip Beshara is a Washington strategist and lawyer who has spent his career at the intersection of business, technology, and government. He spent over a decade in Big Law, including the defense, national security, and government contracts practice of one of the nation’s most prestigious law firms. At the center of his practice is government contracts law, where he has negotiated and litigated federal contracts throughout his career, winning bid protests for leading defense and technology contractors and helping author the American Bar Association’s treatise on the subject, while advising companies through high‑stakes crises, investigations, and hearings, both nationwide and around the world. That work includes leading hearing‑testimony preparation, murder boards, and oversight strategy for Fortune 500 companies, and preparing executives for highly charged, televised hearings before Congress.
Recognized by Chambers USA for Federal Government Relations, he has counseled C‑suites and boards, in the United States and abroad, on navigating Washington and the institutions that shape their future. He founded Washington Bridge Advisory to bring that experience to clients as a strategic advisor — close to the client, focused on durable outcomes. He is an active member of the District of Columbia and Virginia bars, admitted to practice before the Supreme Court of the United States, the U.S. Courts of Appeals for the Fourth and Federal Circuits, the U.S. Court of Federal Claims, the U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Virginia, and the highest courts of Virginia and the District of Columbia.
Government relations and corporate affairs as advisor; congressional investigations and government contracts as counsel — one principal, and the judgment to know which the moment calls for.
The center of the practice, and the work Chambers USA ranks nationally: turning a client’s priorities into strategy, legislative text, and the right conversations in the right offices — across the Executive Branch and on Capitol Hill. Today that work runs from defense and homeland‑security companies positioning for programs, procurements, and appropriations, to industry coalitions pressing regulatory change at the agencies and the White House, to nonprofits and trade associations carrying legislative priorities to the Hill. Washington Bridge Advisory brings bipartisan relationships at both ends of Pennsylvania Avenue and a lawyer’s discipline to established players and new entrants to the federal space alike — particularly in defense, homeland security, and health care.
Washington Bridge Advisory draws on more than a decade in government contracts law — negotiating the terms that protect a company’s technology and litigating the bid protests that protect an award or challenge a lost one. For clients, that means counsel on federal contracts, other transaction agreements, cooperative and prototype arrangements, and teaming and subcontract terms — as well as the regulatory, compliance, and market‑entry questions that come with them — with the critical eye of a government contracts lawyer who knows how today’s Washington actually works.
For technology companies selling to the defense and national security agencies, the practice pays particular attention to data rights and intellectual property: how deliverables are marked, how clauses are negotiated up front, and how a company performs on a federal contract without giving away what it built. That work complements a company’s existing corporate and IP counsel rather than replacing it — it is the piece those teams typically do not cover.
Much of that work is for companies from allied nations entering the U.S. defense market — the ownership, control, and security questions that come with selling to the U.S. government, and the national security review that comes with investing here. Most recently, that included securing approval from the Committee on Foreign Investment in the United States (CFIUS) for a European firm’s acquisition of a U.S. contractor.
Backed by years of experience in one of the nation’s premier white‑shoe law firms and on Capitol Hill, Washington Bridge Advisory guides clients through high‑stakes federal investigations and congressional hearings. That work has spanned issues of national importance on behalf of leading technology, social media, and infrastructure companies, and has included leading hearing‑testimony preparation, murder boards, and oversight strategy for Fortune 500 companies — readying executives for highly charged, televised hearings before Congress.
The practice brings that experience to companies, executives, and trade associations as a senior, single‑point resource for the strategy and the hearing room — independently, or as a senior strategist added to an existing team as co‑counsel.
From emerging technology companies to established businesses entering new markets, Washington Bridge Advisory opens doors to customers, channel partners, and strategic relationships, and advises founders and boards on positioning, the investor‑ready story, and the structures that turn relationships into opportunities.
Noted for his representation of clients in the defense and technology spaces,
providing government affairs and public policy counsel.
Recognized for litigation wins, including $82 billion defense logistics program, $650 million NASA asteroid‑detection contract.