Joseph Guay

Joseph A. Guay is the secretary of MyGoodDeed.

A partner in Holland & Knight’s New York office, Joe serves as the firm-wide head of the Real Estate Section. He also co-chairs the Hospitality, Resort and Timeshare Group. His practice is focused in the areas of real estate, business and commercial lending with a strong emphasis in hotel and resort development and hospitality law including hotel acquisitions and dispositions, development and finance, mixed-use development projects, hotel management agreements, branded residential projects, restaurant agreements and general hotel operation matters throughout the U.S., Latin America and the Caribbean. He represents national hotel company owners and operators, pension fund advisors and investment funds, and real estate development companies, institutional lenders and investment banks.

Joe also serves on the Board of SARAH, Inc., a community service provider serving children and adults with disabilities in communities across the Greater New Haven and Shoreline area of Connecticut, and is active in providing pro bono legal services through Lawyers Alliance of New York (and is a past Cornerstone Award recipient). Joe is a 1991 graduate of The University of Connecticut and a 1994 graduate of The Catholic University of America, Columbus School of Law. Born and raised in Connecticut, Joe currently lives in Madison, Connecticut with his wife Joann and their three boys.