Joseph Spedale is a senior member of the Georgeson M&A Advisory Group. He specializes in special situations, including friendly mergers and acquisitions, unsolicited takeovers, proxy contests, restructurings and Corporate Governance Consulting.

During his 30-year career, Joe has done extensive work in developing successful campaign strategies in communicating with securityholders. He has worked on numerous contested campaigns including Openwave Systems vs. Harbinger Capital Partners; Value Act Capital vs. Acxiom Corporation; Image Entertainment, Inc. vs. Lions Gate Entertainment Corp; PeopleSoft Inc. vs. Oracle Corp., Aetna Inc vs. Providence Capital; International Specialty Products vs. Hercules; Burlington Northern/Santa Fe vs. Union Pacific; and RJR Nabisco vs. Kohlberg Kravis Roberts.

He also represented Bank One Corp in its $55 billion merger with J.P.Morgan Chase; Aetna Inc in its $8.8 billion merger with U.S. Healthcare; First Data in its $7 billion merger with Concord EFS; Siebel Systems in its $5.9 billion merger with Oracle Corporation and Mead Corporation in its $4.9 billion merger with Westvaco Corporation.

Joe was President and Chief Operating Officer of Kissel-Blake, a proxy solicitation firm that was acquired by Georgeson in 1998. Prior to that, he was a Vice President at D. F. King & Co. for 10 years.