Gilad Berkowitz is a corporate transactional attorney with nearly a decade of experience advising clients across private equity, venture capital, M&A, financing, and cross-border transactions. He has served as lead counsel and primary associate on high-value matters ranging from complex roll-up mergers and venture fund formation to institutional lending, securities offerings, and joint ventures. Mr. Berkowitz regularly advises growth companies, fund sponsors, financial institutions, and emerging businesses on governance, compliance, and strategic transactions across diverse industries, including AI and robotics, fintech, biopharma, sports and entertainment, and real estate. His extensive background also includes serving as general outside counsel to middle-market companies and representing clients with significant cross-border and regulatory considerations.  

Mr. Berkowitz obtained his Juris Doctor degree from Duke University School of Law and his Bachelor of Arts degree in Political Science and Psychology from the University of Michigan at Ann Arbor. 

Mr. Berkowitz currently serves as a private practicing attorney where his practice focuses on corporate matters with an emphasis on national and cross-border transactions including buy- and sell-side M&A, debt and equity financing arrangements, venture capital investment and institutional bank lending. Mr. Berkowitz is experienced handling public and private company security offerings and maintains a robust capital markets practice that represents both issuers and underwriters in a host of debt offerings in connection with  fixed-income securities, investment grade debt, leveraged capital, high yield debt and hybrid capital. His practice additionally includes project finance work representing lenders, sponsors, developers, institutional investors, contractors, operators and government entities in major domestic and cross-border projects. He also advises companies and individuals on a wide range of IP-related matters, including technology transfers, licensing arrangements, joint ventures and partnerships. 

Mr. Berkowitz is licensed to practice in the District of Columbia, Maryland and California.