Bio

Edward G. Reitler was born in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania in 1965. After a clerkship with the Hon. J. Edward Lumbard (United States Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit), he joined Cravath, Swaine & Moore as a corporate associate in 1991.  He joined RB&R 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, 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 Advisors of X + 1, an online marketing technology solution provider.  He is a member of the Board of Directors of 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 Finance, Insurance and Real Estate committee of the New York City Investment Fund, a venture fund that co-invests in early stage businesses in New York City.  He is also on the Board of Advisors of SAS Investors, an early stage venture capital fund investing in paradigm shifting companies in the Tri-State area and of Acuity Ventures III, LLC, a venture fund investing in early stage software development and bio-technology companies.  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 at Columbia Business School.