At ServiceNow, where I am responsible for the legal aspects of strategic transactions/M&A, investments, and financings. Prior to that, I was at Skadden, handling complex transactions for some of the world's best known companies, investment banks, and private equity funds, and General Counsel and Chief of Staff of ITHAKA, a technology incubator that is the home of JSTOR and playing an important role as technology transforms research and universities. During the dot-com years, I helped Davis Polk, another top law firm, in its efforts to establish a successful Menlo Park-based office.

Joseph Halloum leads the M&A/Private Equity practice in Silicon Valley.  He represents public and private companies, as well as private equity sponsors and their portfolio companies, in a wide range of domestic and international transactions, capital structures and investments, governance and activism defense, finance, securities and other general corporate matters. Joseph is a nationally-recognized M&A advisor who has led on several of the largest and most notable technology and life sciences deals over the last several years. Joseph is a member of the firm’s Public Company, Private Equity and Technology industry teams.

Joseph is regularly sought after for his broad-based transactional experience in high-profile and complex M&A and private capital investments, including LBOs, strategic sales, carve-outs, tender offers,  take-privates and exits,  joint ventures, domestic and cross-border transactions,  growth equity,  PIPEs and toe-hold investments in public companies, IPOs and SPAC transactions, debt and equity financings,  restructurings and recapitalizations,  and SEC compliance matters.

He has also represented numerous companies and boards in connection with large shareholder matters and activist defense and unsolicited takeover situations, the majority of which remain confidential. Among publicly disclosed situations, he has advised TriNet Group with matters involving its largest shareholder Atairos Group, Del Frisco’s in its settlement with Engaged Capital, Yahoo! in its settlement with Third Point, Autodesk in its settlements with Sachem Head Capital and Eminence Capital, and Tessera Technologies in its settlement with Starboard Value.

Joseph is deeply involved with his alma mater, UC Berkeley, where he teaches an M&A class at Berkeley Law. In addition to teaching, Joseph is also involved at Stanford Law, where he is a Founder and Co-Chair of The GC Roundtable, which brings together chief legal officers and general counsel from tech companies and PE firms in the Bay Area to meet, network and discuss the most pressing issues at the forefront of business and law.

Supplementing his active involvement at Berkeley Law and Stanford Law, Joseph founded and oversees the Emma and Joseph H. Halloum Business Competition and Negotiation Competition. The Business Competition is the first and only competition in the nation that joins together students from a university's law school and graduate business school in a negotiation case competition to tackle a challenging real-world transaction.