
Dan M. Berkovitz
Dan Berkovitz has extensive experience in the regulation and operation of the U.S. financial markets. From 2021 to 2023 Dan was General Counsel of the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission. Dan served as a Commissioner of the U.S. Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC), after previously serving as the CFTC's General Counsel. While at the CFTC Dan helped draft the legislation that became Title VII of the Dodd-Frank Act.
Dan also has been a Partner and Co-chair of the futures and derivatives practice at WilmerHale. From 2001 to 2009 Dan was a senior staff lawyer for the U.S. Senate Permanent Subcommittee on Investigations, where he led investigations into energy trading and markets and helped develop legislation that provided the CFTC with authority to regulate the trading of energy swaps.
Dan is a member of the Norm Law Legal AI Committee and Vice Chairman at Millennium Management.