Joseph B.Sconyers (Joe)

For 15 years, Joe Sconyers has represented global financial institutions on a broad range of securities matters. Since the credit crisis, his practice has emphasized advising clients concerning disputes, regulatory inquiries, and strategic transactions involving structured financial products. Joe has extensive experience with legacy and post-crisis securitizations backed by various consumer and commercial financial assets. His litigation and advisory work in this area covers well over 1,000 securitization transactions.

In addition to his structured finance experience, Joe has advised boards of directors, board committees, and corporate directors and officers in shareholder disputes, internal and regulatory investigations, and litigation arising from mergers and acquisitions. He also has represented global accounting firms in connection with securities-related regulatory inquiries and client disputes. He has successfully represented clients seeking to enjoin misappropriation of trade secrets and other intellectual property and to enforce nondisclosure and noncompetition agreements through expedited litigation.

Prior to law school, Joe worked for a series of venture-backed high-tech companies, principally in Cambridge, Massachusetts and Washington, D.C.