Jack Lewis is senior counsel in the Northern Virginia office of Morrison & Foerster. He has more than 30 years of experience helping businesses and entrepreneurs develop effective business strategies, from the start-up stage to operation as successful public companies. Mr. Lewis is one of the pioneers in developing the venture capital/emerging companies practice for technology companies in the Mid-Atlantic region. He regularly counsels clients in the areas of the Internet, ecommerce, enterprise and other software, and information technology. He represents exiting employees forming new businesses and executives joining public and private companies. Mr. Lewis’ experience includes capital raising, employee arrangements, international expansion, buyouts, mergers and acquisitions, and public offerings. He was a stockholder in Tucker, Flyer & Lewis, a firm he co-founded in 1975. Mr. Lewis also taught business planning for more than ten years at the George Washington University National Law Center.

Mr. Lewis has been listed in The Best Lawyers in America for the past four years (2006-2009) as a leader in Securities Law. He was mentioned in the inaugural 2003-2004 issue of Chambers USA Guide to America’s Leading Business Lawyers put out by Chamber & Partners Publishing, and for the last four years has been named a Leading Lawyer in Corporate/M&A. He is also listed in the 2006 Virginia Super Lawyers and 2007 Washington, D.C. Super Lawyers for Business/Corporate Law.

Mr. Lewis received his A.B. from Brown University and his J.D. from Cornell Law School. He is admitted to practice in the District of Columbia and Virginia.