With hands-on operating experience and unique legal insight into the practical and strategic needs facing businesses, Joe is an especially formidable client advocate and trusted advisor.
Joe maintains a broad transactional and outside general counsel practice. Businesses come to Joe for strategic, holistic advice as they consider how best to structure complex transactions including mergers, acquisitions, dispositions, developments, financings, and investments, succession planning, crisis management, and general commercial needs. Joe fulfills an outside general counsel role for clients across industries—including real estate development and investment; private equity; transportation, manufacturing, and technology; food; and healthcare and life sciences—functioning as an extension of their businesses and assisting in-house legal and management teams on a daily basis with any matters that arise.
Clients value Joe’s diverse legal background and experiences. Before joining the firm, he served as General Counsel of a leading national real estate investment company where he was a member of the senior management team and oversaw all legal matters for the company. Clients also appreciate that Joe began his legal career handling sophisticated civil litigation matters, giving him the unique ability to help clients anticipate issues, identify solutions, and make sound legal and business decisions to mitigate risk.