Josh Cender

Practice Areas

Josh Cender focuses his practice on a wide-range of corporate, commercial, and transactional matters.

Career

Before joining Brick & Patel LLP, Mr. Cender spent 17 years as general counsel and chief operating officer of three family offices, and 10 years as a corporate generalist at a major international law firm. He has extensive experience representing individuals, family offices, corporations, and funds in acquisitions, joint ventures and minority ownership stakes, private equity and venture capital, bank financing, cross-border tax structures, trust compliance, corporate secretary matters, employment issues, bankruptcy, insurance, real estate, marital and elder law, art collecting, philanthropy, nonprofits, internal investigations, and litigation management.

In addition to his legal experience, Mr. Cender was president of a family office focused on sourcing and executing direct investments, served on the boards of directors of investment portfolio companies, refocused the business plans of family-owned businesses, chaired an internal investment committee, and led investment teams through every stage of analyzing, structuring, and closing successful transactions. Mr. Cender has also overseen tax compliance, accounting, cash management, financial reporting, IT systems, and long-term strategic planning in his prior roles.