Bio

Joseph Silver is a private equity and corporate lawyer with an international practice focused on representing private equity firms, venture capital firms and other business owners with structuring and negotiating mergers and acquisitions, leveraged buyouts, equity investments and other general corporate matters. He regularly represents nationally known private equity firms and sellers selling to such firms in corporate matters, including serving as lead counsel in connection with hundreds of M&A and investment transactions in the last ten years. Joey's broad transactional experience spans several industries, including technology, telecommunications, business software and services, consumer products, manufacturing, healthcare, financial services and staffing, among others. In addition to managing complex transactions, he serves as outside general counsel to numerous private-equity backed portfolio companies and other private companies advising on various legal and business matters, including add-on acquisitions, corporate governance, equity compensation, capital raising, joint ventures, customer contracts and general corporate matters. Joey is a member of the firm's Policy Committee and is the co-chair of the US Private Equity practice.