Offit Kurman

Commercial Litigation

Principal

With extensive experience at the national and regional levels, Joyce Kuhns brings her in-depth knowledge in delivering creative solutions to help transform financial challenges to successful outcomes. Whether representing businesses as debtors or creditors, creditors’ committees or equity committees, as a receiver or as an advisor to trustees or regulators, Joyce’s understanding of the complexities of financial and business structures and her experience with out-of-court resolutions as well as litigation at the trial through appellate levels enables her to provide critical strategic advice from the boardroom to the courtroom to a broad spectrum of clients at every stage of the business cycle including directors and officers of companies in crisis. A pragmatic problem-solver, Joyce uses her cross-disciplinary legal skills to meet the daily business needs of her clients and to help reshape their future. Joyce has significant transactional and litigation experience representing all constituents in distressed real estate settings including lenders, borrowers and investors covering every asset class from multi-family to office to shopping centers, in work-out and in bankruptcy.

Joyce is frequently invited to lecture before national and international trade groups on restructuring and commercial law issues and has published in regional and national publications on these issues. She has testified before Congress on key legislation in the restructuring industry. She recently served as a member of the Maryland Commercial Receivership Committee that drafted the Maryland Commercial Receivership Act and testified on behalf of passage of the Act before both Houses of the Maryland General Assembly. Joyce has also lectured and written on cutting edge legal issues on blockchain technology, cryptocurrency and smart contracts.

The College of William and Mary Law School Foundation Board, Past President, 2009-2023; Honorary Trustee, Current

Executive Alliance f/k/a Network 2000, Board Member; Women on Boards Committee, Co-Chair

International Council of Shopping Centers, Bankruptcy Task Force, Member; Legal Advisory Council, Former Member

American Bankruptcy Institute (“ABI”), Member, and ABI Mid-Atlantic Bankruptcy Conference Advisory Board, Former Member

Greater Maryland Network of the International Women’s Insolvency & Restructuring Confederation (“IWIRC”) Board Member, 2012 to present; Past Co-Chair, 2012 - 2014

Turnaround Management Association (TMA) and Chesapeake Chapter, Member

American Bar Association, Business and Business Bankruptcy Sections, Member

Maryland Bankruptcy Bar Association, Member

Maryland State Bar Association, Member

Alzheimer’s Association, Greater Maryland Chapter Board, Member, 2011 to 2017; Development Committee, Chair, 2012 to 2017; Memory Ball Committee, Co-Chair, 2008 to 2011; Member, 2008 to present

Bryn Mawr School, Baltimore, Former Board of Trustees member; Former Vice Chair

Leadership Maryland, Class of 2007

Offit Kurman, P.A., D.E.I. Steering Committee, Member

William & Mary School of Law (J.D.)

Smith College (B.A.)