Jack H. Sousa
Principal
Jack is Managing Principal of Lev Berlin & Sousa, P.C., a corporate
boutique law firm based in Norwalk, Connecticut that focuses in business
and corporate law, securities and financing, commercial and contract law,
technology and market research, privacy and data protection, real estate,
intellectual property, and executive employment law matters. Much of Jack’s
practice focuses on venture capital and startup and early stage companies
and their corporate and private financing needs. Jack’s representation
ranges from venture capital firms and family offices to high net worth
investors to early stage companies seeking financing. Jack has closed
transactions raising an aggregate of over $100 million in private securities
funding over the last decade. Jack’s client base covers a wide range
of companies, from venture capital, to market research, software, digital
media, technology, manufacturing, retail, apparel, to non-profits, to
joint ventures, advising clients on their corporate, transactional, commercial,
and/or regulatory needs.
Jack received his undergraduate degree in History and Communication from
Boston College in 2005. He graduated in 2008 from Fordham University School
of Law. Prior to Lev Berlin & Sousa, Jack worked at Whitman Breed
Abbott & Morgan in Greenwich, CT and Edwards Angell Palmer & Dodge
(now Locke Lord) in New York, NY. He is a member of the Connecticut State
Bar Association, and the Fairfield County Bar Association, and is admitted
to practice in Connecticut and New York. Jack has been named a Connecticut
Super Lawyer® for the last five years (2017, 2018, 2019, 2020, 2021)
(Rising Star - Business/Corporate). Jack's recent presentations include
Seeing All Sides of Investments in Early Stage Companies for the Connecticut Bar Association's Connecticut Legal Conference
(September, 2020). Jack currently volunteers his time as the President
of the New Canaan Men's Platform Tennis League, as the President of
the New Canaan Youth Softball Board, as a Co-Chair of the Business Law
Committee of the Fairfield County Bar Association, and on the Executive
Committee of the Fordham Law Alumni Connecticut Chapter.
Jack grew up in and has spent most of his life living in Fairfield County,
Connecticut, including where he currently lives in New Canaan, CT with
his wife Laura and their two daughters, Charlotte and Eleanor.
Contact Jack H. Sousa:
Telephone: (203) 838-8500 Ext. 121
Fax: (203) 854-1652
Email:
jsousa@levberlin.com