Joel Ephross Bio

Joel N. Ephross, P.C. practices in the area of corporate law with an emphasis on corporate finance, mergers and acquisitions, real estate and energy. He serves as a lead for the Duane Morris Project Development/P3 group. He has structured debt transactions, including project finance; real estate lending; leveraged and non-leveraged lease financings; structured finance; asset securitization; bankruptcies and reorganizations; letters of credit; and credit enhanced transactions. He has worked in all aspects of commercial real estate, including leases, acquisitions and divestitures, mortgages and easements. Mr. Ephross has substantial experience in all aspects of energy and natural resources, including transactions involving mining, upstream, midstream and downstream oil and gas assets; merchant electric generation facilities; and energy commodity trading, and include acquisitions and divestitures of assets and companies, joint venture arrangements, structured finance, leveraged finance, project development and project finance. He has experience in connection with domestic and cross-border transactions, including advising buyers and sellers on CFIUS-related issues. Mr. Ephross is a 1993 magna cum laude graduate of South Texas College of Law, where he was a member of the Law Review and was elected to the Order of the Lytae. He holds an M.B.A. from Rice University, Jones Graduate School of Business, and is a graduate of Yale University.