Reading
610.478.2160
New York
212.774.5930
610.371.8500 fax
jmh@stevenslee.com

Joe is our Chairman and is largely
responsible for the firm’s vision, mission and growth strategies over the past 15 years, including our vertical integration strategy. Today, he is responsible for the overall strategic direction of our consolidated group of businesses and spends substantially all of his time as the CEO and as a Senior Managing Director of Griffin Financial Group, our investment bank.

Joe is a licensed General Securities Principal (FINRA Series 24 and Series 7).

Joe was an adjunct professor of law at The Dickinson School of Law of the Pennsylvania State University from 1981 to 1986 where he taught an advanced course in Securities Regulation.

Education:
Temple University School of Law, LL.M. in Taxation, 1976
The Dickinson School of Law, J.D., 1971
Marshall University and Western Michigan University, A.B., 1967

Bar Admissions:
Pennsylvania

Representative Transactions:

• Advised in connection with over 100 M&A transactions in the financial institutions and commercial and industrial sectors
   
• Advised in capital raises totaling more than $100 billion in the past 10 years
   
• Advised Sovereign Bank in its $3.6 billion acquisition of Independence Community Bancorp and the $2.4 billion private placement with Banco Santander Central Hispano, S.A., and net proceeds from other capital markets transactions to fund the transaction
   
• Advised Sovereign Bank in its acquisition of $12 billion of assets and liabilities from Fleet/Bank Boston and related $2 billion of public and private financing required to support the acquisition
   
• Advised The Dickinson School of Law with its affiliation and merger with The Pennsylvania State University