Professional Experience
Jeff focuses his practice on corporate and securities law matters. Jeff represents entrepreneurs, domestic and international companies, closely-held businesses, family offices, investors, and not-for-profit organizations in connection with business structuring, domestic and cross-border transactions, mergers & acquisitions, venture capital, private equity, secured financing, joint ventures, investment fund structuring, securities law matters, commercial transactions/contracts, and a wide-variety of other business law matters.
Jeff has practiced law for over thirty years, working with entrepreneurs, investors, companies, investment funds, and joint ventures in various industries, including venture capital, private equity, technology, Internet, telecommunications, healthcare, food services, retail, fashion, management consulting, manufacturing, engineering, goods and services providers, professional practices, entertainment/film, and emerging media. Jeff was previously General Counsel of a multimillion dollar venture capital firm with operations in the U.S., Europe, and Asia. He has served on the Board of Directors of both public and private companies. Jeff was a Judicial Law Clerk for Judge Rodger Miner (dec.), 2nd Circuit Court of Appeals.
Jeff is an Adjunct Professor at Touro College – Jacob D. Fuchsberg Law Center, teaching Drafting Commercial Documents (and previously Business Organizations II). He is a lecturer for continuing legal education classes and a presenter at a variety of seminars and business workshops.
Education
- New York Law School — J.D.
- New York University School of Law — Master of Laws
- Middlebury College — B.A., Political Science, cum laude; with a concentration in Mandarin Chinese
Bar Admissions
- State of New York
- State of Connecticut
Publications
Additional Languages
- Mandarin Chinese
Honors & Awards
- Selected to New York Metro Super Lawyers: 2023-2024
Related Publications
- Falcon Rappaport & Berkman Ranked in Chambers Regional Spotlight 2025
- Twenty-Three FRB Attorneys Selected to 2024 New York Metro Super Lawyers and Rising Stars List
- Jeffrey W. Berkman Honored at the 2024 Girl Scouts of Suffolk County Golf Classic
- Turning Scrap Metal into Business and Personal Success: A Talk with George Adams
- A Million Cookie Boxes Annually: Lessons Business Owners Can Learn from Non-Profits with Girl Scouts of Suffolk County CEO Tammy Severino – Helping You Soar: A (Sort of) Legal Podcast #3
- A Million Cookie Boxes Annually: Lessons Business Owners Can Learn from Non-Profits with Girl Scouts of Suffolk County CEO Tammy Severino
- Uncle Joe, the Village Voice and Jeff Bezos: Michael Gleissner Builds an Empire – Helping You Soar: A (Sort of) Legal Podcast #2
- Uncle Joe, the Village Voice and Jeff Bezos: Michael Gleissner Builds an Empire
- Falcon Rappaport & Berkman Ranked in Chambers Regional Spotlight 2024
- From a Man with a Van to Eight Figures: Lessons from Mike Agugliaro’s Entrepreneurial Voyage – Helping You Soar: A (Sort of) Legal Podcast #1
- From a Man with a Van to Eight Figures: Lessons from Mike Agugliaro’s Entrepreneurial Voyage
- Fourteen FRB Attorneys Selected to 2023 New York Metro Super Lawyers and Rising Stars List