Team Details

Joe Choi brings over 35 years of experience in private equity, corporate finance, and public accounting to his role as Director of Corporate Development at Bridgewater Law Group. His background in mergers and acquisitions includes analyzing, negotiating, structuring, and closing transactions for businesses in the lower and middle markets.

His superpower is seeing how the numbers and the bigger picture fit together. Joe combines financial analysis with hands-on transaction experience to evaluate opportunities and guide complex business decisions. For more than a decade, he served as CFO and Investment Professional at a Los Angeles-based private equity firm managing $500 million across two investment funds. His responsibilities covered evaluating, monitoring, and selling portfolio investments, with deal sizes ranging from $15 million to $50 million.

Earlier in his career, Joe worked at KPMG and PricewaterhouseCoopers and served as CFO of a family office with more than $300 million in assets under management. These roles gave him a broad perspective on financial management, investment strategy, and business operations.

Joe holds a Bachelor of Science in Accounting from Indiana University’s Kelley School of Business and an MBA with a concentration in Finance from the University of California, Irvine’s Paul Merage School of Business.