Bio

Edward G. Reitler was born in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. After a clerkship with the Hon. J. Edward Lumbard (United States Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit), he joined Cravath, Swaine & Moore in 1991.  He joined the firm in 1998 as a member.

Ed handles a wide variety of corporate matters including private equity, venture capital, mergers & acquisitions, capital markets and joint ventures transactions.  While at the firm, Ed has represented dozens of merchant banks and buy out and venture funds and their portfolio companies in these matters including UBS, PaineWebber, American Securities, Wexford Capital, Lightyear Capital, Edison Ventures, Spark Capital, Safeguard Scientific, First Round, Milestone Ventures,  Tribeca Venture Partners, New Spring Capital, New Atlantic Ventures, Osage Venture Partners, Paladin Capital, SJF Ventures, Angel Round Capital, Gen Y Capital, Innovation Ventures, Cantara Global, Cammeby's Capital, SAS Investors, Hudson Ventures, Walden Capital, Libertyview Capital, Ovation Capital, Carrot Capital, GlobalNet Management, Zon Capital and Himalaya Capital.

Ed is a founder of Angel Round Capital, L.P., the first angel led venture fund in the New York metro region (www.arcangelfund.com).  Ed also serves on the technology committee of the New York City Investment Fund, a venture fund that co-invests in early stage businesses in New York City.  Ed is a member of the Board of Advisors of X + 1, an online marketing technology solution provider, of SAS Investors, an early stage venture capital fund investing in paradigm shifting companies, and of the North West Fund for Digital & Creative, a digital media venture fund operating in north west England and of Next-Gen Ventures, an early stage venture fund investing in SaaS companies.  He is also an Executive Advisor to the Westchester Business Accelerator and a Mentor to the Pipeline Fund which trains women philanthropists to become angel investors through education, mentoring and practice.   

Ed is a member of the Board of Directors of Business Financial Services, a credit card accounts receivable factor and gCommerce, Inc., an inventory management and custom order software developer.  Ed was formerly a director at Blink Twice, a developer and distributor of assistive technology products for the disabled, which was sold to Dynavox (Nasdaq: DVOX).

Ed has also served on the Board of Trustees of the Harvard Law School Alumni Association of New York. He is a frequent speaker and panelist on issues affecting the private equity and venture capital markets and is a regular guest lecturer on venture capital finance at Columbia Business School.