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Dan Berkovitz
Legal AI Committee
Former SEC General Counsel, CFTC Commissioner and Partner at WilmerHale
Biography
Dan Berkovitz has extensive experience in the regulation and operation of the U.S. financial markets. From 2021 to 2023, Dan served as General Counsel of SEC. He served as a Commissioner of the CFTC, after previously serving as the CFTC’s General Counsel, where he helped draft the legislation that became Title VII of the Dodd-Frank Act.
Dan has also been a Partner and Co-Chair of the futures and derivatives practice at WilmerHale. Earlier, he served on the U.S. Senate Permanent Subcommittee on Investigations, leading inquiries into energy trading and helping develop legislation expanding CFTC authority over energy swaps.
Dan is a member of the Norm Law Legal AI Committee and Vice Chairman at Millennium Management.
Admitted In
New York
Education
J.D., UC Law, San Francisco
A.B., Princeton University
Academia
Lecturer in Law, Columbia Law School
Adjunct Professor, Georgetown Law
Vice-Chair, American Bar Association Committee on Futures and Derivatives
Previous work
General Counsel of the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission
Commissioner of the U.S. Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC)
Partner and Co-Chair of the Futures and Derivatives practice at WilmerHale
General Counsel of the CFTC
Deputy Assistant Secretary, Department of Energy’s (Environmental Management)