Joseph Silvia Bio

Joseph E. Silvia knows banks. Mr. Silvia represents financial institutions in a variety of corporate and regulatory matters, including mergers, acquisitions, strategic transactions, structured and subordinated finance, loan sales and participations, corporate governance, payments, anti-money laundering and OFAC/sanctions compliance, and private equity and venture capital investments – in short, everything but litigation. Mr. Silvia’s clients include international, national, regional, community, retail and commercial banks, fintech companies, credit unions and corporations. Mr. Silvia is a member of the Duane Morris Digital Assets and Blockchain Group, a multidisciplinary group of Duane Morris partners providing a full suite of services to clients in the cryptocurrency, digital asset, and blockchain industries, both domestically and internationally. Mr. Silvia previously served as counsel to the Federal Reserve Bank of Chicago, where he focused on the supervision and regulation of banks, bank holding companies, and savings and loan holding companies, as well as consumer finance and compliance matters. He is Chair of the American Bar Association’s Banking Law Committee, a faculty member of the bi-annual seminar, Fundamentals of Banking Law and an adjunct professor of law at the IIT Chicago-Kent College of Law. Mr. Silvia is a graduate of the George Washington University Law School (LL.M., 2010), Chicago-Kent College of Law (LL.M., J.D., 2007) and Miami University (B.A., 2004).