Education
Harvard Law School (J.D., 1990), magna cum laude, where
he was an Editor and a contributor to the Journal of
Law and Public Policy and a contributor to the Harvard
Journal of Legislation.
University of South Carolina
Honors College (B.A.,
1987), magna cum laude, where he was a member of Phi
Beta Kappa and the Golden Key Honors Society.
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, Milestone Ventures,
Greenhill SAVP, New Spring Capital, New Atlantic Ventures, Osage Venture
Partners, SJF Ventures, Innovation Ventures, 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 member of the Board of Directors of Business
Financial Services, a credit card accounts receivable
factor, gCommerce, Inc.,
an inventory management and custom order software
developer; and Blink Twice, a developer and distributor of
assistive technology products for the disabled. 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. He is on the Board of
Advisors of SAS Investors, an early stage venture capital
fund investing in paradigm shifting companies and of Acuity Ventures III, LLC, a venture
fund investing in early stage software development and
bio-technology companies. Ed is a member of the
Board of Advisors of X + 1, an online marketing technology
solution provider. 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.
