Joe Soraghan practices in legal matters pertaining to business operations and growth. He guides businesses in financing, contracts, acquisitions/mergers and sales, resolving disputes, and assists clients in offering securities and in complying with state and U.S. securities laws.

Joe assists entrepreneurs and others to legally raise funds for, and structure, their businesses. He is a Missouri crowdfunding attorney who has studied its development, step-by-step. Joe has long represented such businesses before the federal and Missouri courts and securities commissions on the issues which will continue to arise in crowdfunding situations.

In addition to business law, Joe is an experienced litigator and arbitrator. He serves on the mediation and arbitration panels of the American Arbitration Association and the Financial Industry Regulatory Authority, as an arbitrator for the National Futures Association, and as a mediator for the local federal and state courts.

In more traditional litigation approaches, he has tried and argued cases before Missouri and federal trial and appellate courts, including the Supreme Court of Missouri. He is a member of these courts and the U.S. Supreme Court.

The U.S. Small Business Association honored Joe with the Financial Services Champion, Region VII award in 2005. St. Louis Small Business Monthly selected him as a 2009 Top St. Louis Entrepreneurial Lawyer and as one of the 2011 “100 St. Louisans You Should Know.” Super Lawyers, Thomson Reuter’s rating service, named Joe to its list as one of the top attorneys in Missouri in 2010, 2011 and 2012.

Joe was selected as a member of the St. Louis Business Hall of Fame in 2023 for his lifetime of contributions, accomplishments, and leadership in business throughout the St. Louis region.

After law school, Joe served in the U.S. Navy aboard submarines. A reserve officer for 20+ years following active duty, he served as commanding officer of six reserve commands.

 

PUBLICATIONS & SPEAKING ENGAGEMENTS

  • Presenter and panel member on topics including entrepreneurship and small business concerns for: The Missouri Bar, Lorman Education Services, Public Investors Arbitration Association, Bar Association of Metropolitan St. Louis, and St. Louis IT Entrepreneur Network.
  • TV guest: “Missouri Venture Forum and Its Service to the Entrepreneur Community,” Business Roundtable, Lindenwood University Television.
  • Adjunct professor of securities law, Washington University School of Law.

COMMUNITY INVOLVEMENT

  • Children’s Home Society of Missouri, former director and secretary
  • Gateway Venture Mentoring Service, mentor
  • Information Technology Entrepreneur Network (ITEN), mentor
  • National Senior Games Association, former director and treasurer
  • Navy League of the U.S., St. Louis chapter: general counsel, former president and secretary
  • LL.M., Yale University School of Law (1966)
  • J.D., with honors, Order of the Coif, Washington University School of Law (1965)
  • B.S., mechanical engineering, with honors, Purdue University (1962)
  • Missouri
  • U.S. Supreme Court
  • U.S. Court of Appeals, Eighth Circuit
  • U.S. District Court, Eastern District of Missouri
  • Missouri Securities Advisory Commission, former member
  • The Missouri Bar
  • Bar Association of Metropolitan St. Louis, former vice president, treasurer, secretary, section and committee chair
  • Lawyers Association of St. Louis
  • Missouri Venture Forum: founding director, secretary, and former president; Executive, Governance, and Education Committees
  • Association for Corporate Growth, St. Louis
  • St. Louis Business Hall of Fame, 2023
  • Financial Services Champion, Region VII award, U.S. Small Business Association, 2005
  • 2009 Top St. Louis Entrepreneurial Lawyer, Small Business Monthly
  • 2011 “100 St. Louisans You Should Know” honoree, Small Business Monthly
  • Missouri & Kansas Super Lawyer, 2010 – 2012
  • AV Preeminent® Peer Review Rated, Martindale-Hubbell

EDUCATION

  • LL.M., Yale University School of Law (1966)
  • J.D., with honors, Order of the Coif, Washington University School of Law (1965)
  • B.S., mechanical engineering, with honors, Purdue University (1962)

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Joe Soraghan practices in legal matters pertaining to business operations and growth. He guides businesses in financing, contracts, acquisitions/mergers and sales, resolving disputes, and assists clients in offering securities and in complying with state and U.S. securities laws.

Joe assists entrepreneurs and others to legally raise funds for, and structure, their businesses. He is a Missouri crowdfunding attorney who has studied its development, step-by-step. Joe has long represented such businesses before the federal and Missouri courts and securities commissions on the issues which will continue to arise in crowdfunding situations.

In addition to business law, Joe is an experienced litigator and arbitrator. He serves on the mediation and arbitration panels of the American Arbitration Association and the Financial Industry Regulatory Authority, as an arbitrator for the National Futures Association, and as a mediator for the local federal and state courts.

In more traditional litigation approaches, he has tried and argued cases before Missouri and federal trial and appellate courts, including the Supreme Court of Missouri. He is a member of these courts and the U.S. Supreme Court.

The U.S. Small Business Association honored Joe with the Financial Services Champion, Region VII award in 2005. St. Louis Small Business Monthly selected him as a 2009 Top St. Louis Entrepreneurial Lawyer and as one of the 2011 “100 St. Louisans You Should Know.” Super Lawyers, Thomson Reuter’s rating service, named Joe to its list as one of the top attorneys in Missouri in 2010, 2011 and 2012.

Joe was selected as a member of the St. Louis Business Hall of Fame in 2023 for his lifetime of contributions, accomplishments, and leadership in business throughout the St. Louis region.

After law school, Joe served in the U.S. Navy aboard submarines. A reserve officer for 20+ years following active duty, he served as commanding officer of six reserve commands.

 

PUBLICATIONS & SPEAKING ENGAGEMENTS

  • Presenter and panel member on topics including entrepreneurship and small business concerns for: The Missouri Bar, Lorman Education Services, Public Investors Arbitration Association, Bar Association of Metropolitan St. Louis, and St. Louis IT Entrepreneur Network.
  • TV guest: “Missouri Venture Forum and Its Service to the Entrepreneur Community,” Business Roundtable, Lindenwood University Television.
  • Adjunct professor of securities law, Washington University School of Law.

COMMUNITY INVOLVEMENT

  • Children’s Home Society of Missouri, former director and secretary
  • Gateway Venture Mentoring Service, mentor
  • Information Technology Entrepreneur Network (ITEN), mentor
  • National Senior Games Association, former director and treasurer
  • Navy League of the U.S., St. Louis chapter: general counsel, former president and secretary

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