Jeffrey Leavitt works with emerging growth companies, venture and growth capital investment entities and mature technology companies.

Mr. Leavitt is a graduate of the Kauffman Fellows Program, a highly competitive national fellowship akin to a Rhodes Scholarship for venture capital professionals (www.kauffmanfellows.org). He was the first J.D. ever accepted into the program. Kauffman Fellows receive two years of specialized training in venture capital investment techniques and develop an extensive network throughout the private equity industry. Mr. Leavitt is the only practicing attorney in the country to have completed the Kauffman program.

Mr. Leavitt’s Fellowship was hosted at Alliance Technology Ventures, where he focused on investment assessment, deal structuring, company fundraising strategies and exit modeling. Mr. Leavitt was a board observer with several ATV portfolio companies, including SecureWorks, RF Solutions, Omniguide and Xytrans.

Before moving to Atlanta, Mr. Leavitt co-founded Axiom Legal, Inc., a venture backed software company in New York City. He began his career at Davis Polk & Wardwell in New York, where he helped consummate several high-profile transactions, including the merger of the Qwest and US West corporations and the merger of the Exxon and Mobil corporations, each the largest in history when announced. He also negotiated several transactions for Morgan Stanley's and CSFB’s private investment arms.

Mr. Leavitt is a regular speaker and panelist in the Southeast technology community and was named one of Atlanta’s “Top Twenty Techies to Know” by the Atlanta Business Chronicle. He was appointed in 2006 to the faculty of the Venture Capital Institute, a worldwide education foundation and training program for venture and private equity professionals. He has also authored "Burned Angels: The Coming Wave of Minority Shareholder Oppression Claims in Venture Capital Start-up Companies," published in the North Carolina Journal of Law & Technology, which is now required reading at several US law schools. Mr. Leavitt has also had publications appear in The New York Times and the Venture Capital Journal.