Joe Sconyers has helped global financial institutions identify and resolve complex and evolving legal risk for more than 15 years. Joe's practice emphasizes providing strategic counseling to clients concerning disputes and regulatory inquiries involving banking and other commercial and consumer financial services businesses.
Joe has extensive experience with structured finance transactions backed by various consumer and commercial assets. His work in this area involves risk-mitigation counseling with respect to thousands of complex financings, responding to regulatory inquiries, and representing banks in affirmative and defensive litigation in federal and state courts.
Joe also regularly advises major financial institutions on cutting-edge litigation and risk issues in connection with emerging environmental, social, and governance (ESG)-related laws and regulations. He also counsels clients concerning potential legal exposure and financial risks in connection with climate transition-related matters.
Beyond his work with financial institutions, Joe has advised boards of directors, board committees, and corporate directors and officers in shareholder disputes and in internal and regulatory investigations. He also has represented global accounting firms in connection with securities-related regulatory inquiries and client disputes. Joe has successfully represented clients seeking to enjoin misappropriation of trade secrets and to enforce nondisclosure and noncompetition agreements through expedited litigation.
Joe has an active pro bono practice focused on representing children and families in immigration removal proceedings, including through the Firm's Border Project, and advocating for military veterans through the Firm's VetLex initiative.
经验
演讲
- January 29, 2013
Litigating and Winning Against the SEC in a Financial-Crisis-Era Complex Case, panel moderator, Boston Bar Association - January 25, 2012
Strategies for Securing an Entry-Level Attorney Position in 2012, Boston Bar Association
- University of Connecticut (J.D. with high honors 2006; Associate Editor, Connecticut Law Review; Moot Court Board); Boston College (B.A. 2001)
- Massachusetts; New York; U.S. Courts of Appeals for the First, Third, and Ninth Circuits; U.S. District Courts for the District of Massachusetts and the Southern and Eastern Districts of New York
"Up & Coming Lawyer," 2013 Excellence in the Law recipient, Massachusetts Lawyers Weekly
Named a "Massachusetts Rising Star" in the areas of securities litigation, business litigation, and banking by Super Lawyers (2013-2018)
- Intern to Magistrate Judge Viktor V. Pohorelsky, U.S. District Court, Eastern District of New York (Summer 2004)
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