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Joe Hoffman is a partner in the firm's Washington, D.C. office. His commercial practice focuses on business transactions cutting across a wide range of industries.
Mr. Hoffman's experience includes the purchase and sale of assets and companies as well as venture capital, equipment leasing and institutional financing transactions. He represents telecommunications companies, real estate developers, lenders, venture capital funds, emerging growth companies, thoroughbred horse industry interests and high-net-worth individuals. |
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Representative Experience:
Counseled a software company in its sale to a NYSE-listed company.
Served as company counsel for a services and software venture in a recapitalization funded by a private equity fund.
Counseled a Fortune 10 company in a multi-state real estate disposition program involving hundreds of sites and related operating businesses.
Counseled publicly traded and privately held telecommunications concerns in merger and private placement transactions.
Represented the purchaser of a seven-property shopping center portfolio from a national publicly traded REIT involving two joint ventures, four loan assumptions and three new loans.
Served as counsel for the sellers of interests in a closely held wholesale jewelry business.
Handled senior secured, asset-based debt financings and subordinated registered debt offerings.
Represented venture funds and portfolio companies in the software, professional services, hardware, telecommunications and other industries in connection with venture capital investments.
Represented an international telecommunications company in multiple, staged sales of interests to a venture capital concern.
Represented a telecommunications company in asset acquisitions.
Counseled clients on various telecommunications contracts involving carriers, end-users, agents and equipment financing.
Served as bank counsel in various loan transactions.
Served as borrower's and lender's counsel in real estate financings, including conduit loan transactions.
Counseled the majority stockholders of a racetrack venture in the sale of the business to a NASDAQ-listed company.
Counseled a closely held thoroughbred racetrack venture in the sale of an ownership interest to a NYSE-listed company.
Served as Maryland corporate counsel for one of the largest complexes of investment companies sponsored by a Fortune 100 company in connection with securities registrations and issuances, corporate and shareholder governance, capital transactions and other corporate matters.
Handled real estate assemblages, acquisitions, dispositions, related financings, like-kind exchanges and leases.
Handled purchase of industrial equipment assets and related operations.
Counseled a closely held printing company in the sale of assets to a NASDAQ-listed company in a "pooling" transaction, as well as the sale of real estate held by a related joint venture. Transaction involved minority stockholder litigation and buy-out of minority partners in real estate.
Structured and negotiated an investment manager's carried interest and employment relationship with a Far East investment fund.
Represented a closely held clinical research organization in the sale of stock to a NASDAQ-listed company in a "pooling" transaction.
Handled the sale of a minority interest's stock in a telecommunications hardware company.
Represented a NYSE-listed company in the purchase of an infomercial business together with the related manufacturing element and intellectual property.
Represented a Korean conglomerate in a venture capital investment in a strategically situated, high-tech Silicon Valley company.
Represented a NYSE-listed company in the sale of an airline fleet.
Handled employment and severance agreements for executives and employers.
Represented real estate concerns and other operating businesses in financing transactions involving related borrowers and cross-collateralized security.
Represented a master franchisee for Israel in contract negotiations with respect to a NASDAQ-listed company's educational learning center and computer-based testing franchise. |
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Honors and Awards:
Ranked in the 2008 and 2009 editions of Chambers USA as a leading practitioner in the corporate/M&A area.
Honored as one of Washington's leading lawyers, SmartCEO magazine, 2006 and 2008. |
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Community Activities:
Hebrew Home of Greater Washington, secretary and board member |
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Professional Activities:
Telecom Hub, general counsel |
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Bar Admissions:
District of Columbia, 1982
Virginia, 2001
Maryland, 1994
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Courts:
U.S. Tax Court |
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| Education:
George Washington University Law School, J.D., with honors, 1982
University of Maryland, B.S., cum laude, 1979
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Office Location:
Washington Harbour, Suite 400
3050 K Street, NW
Washington, D.C. 20007-5108
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