Jonathan D. Joseph
Jonathan Joseph is the firm’s Managing Partner and an AV® peer review rated attorney with more than thirty-three years of experience representing banks and other financial institutions, including in mergers, acquisitions and regulatory and enforcement matters, e-commerce, internet, emerging companies, investment bankers, healthcare practices, money transmitters, private equity firms, public companies and venture capital firms. Mr. Joseph often acts as lead counsel in connection with complex contractual and strategic negotiations, mergers and acquisitions, cross-border transactions, public offerings, private placements, securities and disclosure issues, as well as federal and state bank regulatory and enforcement matters involving all of the federal banking agencies and California Department of Financial Institutions. He also specializes in representing directors and executive officers of troubled and failed banks and litigation related to claims brought by federal banking agencies.
Mr. Joseph is a member of the Financial Institutions Committee of the State Bar of California’s Business Law Section (2009 – present) and currently serves as its Co-Chair. He was also a member of the Financial Institutions Committee from 1988 to 1991. He was a trustee of the American Conservatory Theater Foundation (A.C.T.) for six years and served on its executive committee. Mr. Joseph has been a frequent lecturer and writer on subjects relating to banking, financial institutions, corporate law, Dodd-Frank Act, mergers and acquisitions and venture capital. He was also an art dealer in San Francisco for five years specializing in postmodern art and photography.
Mr. Joseph’s past law firm experience includes K & L Gates LLP (previously known as Kirkpatrick & Lockhart Nicholson Graham LLP), where he was a partner in the Corporate and Investment Management Group in San Francisco (2003-2006), Pillsbury Winthrop Shaw Pittman LLP (previously known as Pillsbury Madison & Sutro LLP), where he was a partner in the Corporate Securities and Financial Institutions Group in San Francisco (1990-2003) and Rosen Wachtell & Gilbert, P.C., where he was an associate and then a partner in Los Angeles and San Francisco (1979-1990).
Mr. Joseph was awarded his Juris Doctor degree from the Washington University School of Law in St. Louis, Missouri in 1979. While attending Washington University School of Law, Mr. Joseph was an intern for F. Hodge O’Neal, the George Alexander Madill Professor of Corporate Law, and was a contributing writer of the 1979 Supplement to Professor O’Neal’s seminal work: “Squeeze-Outs” of Minority Shareholders: Expulsion or Oppression of Business Associates, Chicago : Callaghan, c1975.
He is a member of the State Bar of California, the District of Columbia Bar, State Bar of New York and theAmerican Bar Association.