Jeff Joyce
Partner

Jeff Joyce is a founding member of the firm and has more than 20 years of professional legal experience. Prior to founding JTK&L, Jeff practiced with one of Georgia’s largest law firms and served as in-house counsel for the RTC and AMRESCO during which time Jeff managed structured finance transactions valued in excess of $35 billion involving most every major Wall Street investment bank including Lehman Brothers, Morgan Stanley, Salomon, Nomura, CSFB, and Merrill Lynch.

Jeff has extensive experience representing clients in commercial and complex business litigation including shareholder disputes, directors’ and officers’ liability, breach of contract, breach of fiduciary duty, and business torts and handling corporate finance and private equity finance transactions and investments. Jeff’s corporate finance practice focuses on transactions with small and mid-sized growing companies with special emphasis on the complexities of growing and financing start-up companies, including corporate governance matters, mergers and acquisitions, information technology transactions, strategic alliances and employment matters.

For more than two decades, Jeff has been working and litigating in Georgia’s state and federal courts. He has represented companies in a broad array of industries, including the financial services, insurance, telecom, private equity, banking, hospitality, construction, and small business. Jeff is recognized as an expert and innovator in corporate finance. He frequently speaks and writes on topics in technology and finance and has lectured in university programs on topics including structured finance, litigation and capital raising for small businesses.

Experience

• Represented officers and directors in complex business tort litigation.
• Represented several international companies in complex securities fraud and civil RICO suit.
• Represents several hedge funds in corporate finance transactions.
• Successfully represented numerous companies during their angel and venture financing rounds.
• Represented numerous executives’ employment and compensation negotiations.
• Successfully litigated numerous commercial disputes.
• Represented expert in Attorney/Professional liability litigation

Education

Georgia State University, M.B.A. 1997
Mercer University, J.D., 1988
Georgia Southern University, B.S., 1985

Admitted

State Bar of Georgia
All State and Federal Courts in Georgia
United States Court of Appeals, Eleventh Circuit