Porter Hedges LLP

Commercial Lending and Finance

Joyce currently serves as Co-Managing Partner – External Affairs for the firm, prioritizing lateral recruiting, marketing and business development, innovation, strategy, and growth. She is also Chair of the Diversity, Equity, Inclusion and Belonging Committee, a position she has held since 2017, and leads the Finance Section at the firm.

Joyce has maintained a wide and varied finance practice for over 20 years. Her clients include domestic and foreign banks, private lenders, administrative agents, and public and private companies who are involved in secured and unsecured financings, such as asset-based loans, syndicated, club and single lender credit facilities, real estate loans, acquisition financings, letter of credit facilities, equipment loans, note purchase and sale transactions, leasing transactions and debt workouts and restructurings. She is a trusted advisor who guides clients as they navigate complex transactions from term sheet to closing.

Before joining Porter Hedges, Joyce served as Associate General Counsel in the legal department of a NYSE-listed company at its corporate headquarters in Houston. In that capacity she handled various corporate matters, with particular emphasis on mergers and acquisitions.

State Bar of Texas, Member

American Bar Association, Member

Houston Bar Association, Member

Texas Bar Foundation, Fellow

Breakthrough Houston, Advisory Board Member (2023-current) and Board of Directors and Executive Committee (2019-2023)

Asian American Bar Foundation, Advisory Board Member (2023- current) and Chair of the Board of Trustees (2019-2022)

Asian American Bar Association of Houston, Chair of the Board of Directors (2014 and 2015) and Director (2011 and 2012)

Asian American Bar Association of Houston, President (2010), President-Elect (2009), Vice President of Programs (2008), Gala Co-Chair (2007)

Judy’s Mission Possible Luncheon, Host Committee (Spring 2017)

Women’s Finance Exchange, Houston Chapter, Board Member (2008-2009)

Child Care Council of Greater Houston, Inc., a United Way Agency, Board Member (2007-2009)

Vanderbilt University, Oak Leaf Society

Louisiana School for Math, Science and the Arts, 1983 Society

J.D., Vanderbilt University Law School

B.A., Vanderbilt University, cum laude

Harvard Law School Executive Education, Women's Leadership Initiative, 2019