Meet Joe
Chief Legal Officer
Bringing big law know-how to small and midsize businesses.
Creative, forward-thinking legal counsel.
Joe is an experienced corporate and securities lawyer. Equipped with an intimate knowledge of their business goals and challenges, Joe helps clients take on new business and investment opportunities.
Staying-focused on client goals
Joe represents early- and growth-stage companies with everything from formation and raising seed capital to corporate governance and day-to-day business transactions. Working with Joe is having a trusted advisor who has helped clients through all the stages of business and knows that legal counsel is only in service of your objectives. Keeping the goal in the forefront, Joe provides deep legal knowledge and experience, working closely with clients to craft growth-oriented legal strategies and create strategic, practical, and efficient solutions.
Sophisticated legal counsel, no matter the size of your business
Joe began his legal career in New York working with public companies and investment banks on IPOs, corporate finance, and securities regulation.
Taking that big law training, Joe uses a tailored, results-oriented approach in service of technology startups, small businesses, and innovators in need of creative, forward-thinking legal counsel.
Keeping it moving
Joe is a creative problem solver with a dedication to continual improvement. At Foundry Law Group, he shares our commitment to giving clients the best representation possible through efficiency, clarity, and entrepreneurial spirit that we share with our clients and keeps their businesses moving forward.
Outside of work, Joe loves bike riding with his daughter, playing chess, or tackling home projects to fix up his old Seattle house.
- Focal Law, Seattle (2014-2019)
- Adler Vermillion & Skocilich LLP, Seattle and New York (2011-2014)
- Perkins Coie LLP, Seattle (2010-2011)
- White & Case LLP, New York (2006-2009
- Villanova School of Law, J.D. (2006)
- Florida State University, Philosophy and Political Science (2003)
- Bushwick Northwest, a 501(c)(3) non-profit arts and education organization, Board Member
- Northwest Securities Institute, WA State Planning Committee Chair
- WA State Bar Association, Securities Law Committee