Ronit J. Berkovich is a partner in Weil’s Business Finance & Restructuring Department and is based in New York. Ms. Berkovich represents debtors, creditors, lenders, investors, and acquirers of assets in all aspects of distressed situations. She has served as debtors’ counsel in several of the largest and most significant chapter 11 cases in history, including General Motors, Lehman Brothers, WorldCom/MCI, and Takata. She also has extensive experience representing large and mid-market companies in prepackaged chapter 11 cases, out-of-court workouts, and international restructurings in a variety of industries and has provided advisory services to Fortune 500 companies and other companies on corporate structuring strategies.

Ms. Berkovich actively lectures on various topics relating to restructuring (including for organizations such as the Practising Law Institute, Bloomberg Law, the American Bar Association, the American Bar Institute, and Columbia Law School), taught legal research and writing at Harvard Law School for two years, and taught a seminar in economics at Harvard College. She is the co-editor of the Weil Bankruptcy Blog and has also written extensively, including articles published in The Banking Law Journal, The American University Law Review, Real Estate Finance, and the Harvard Law School Bankruptcy Roundtable.

Ms. Berkovich was recently (2018) profiled in Law360’s “Sealing the Deal” for her work advising Takata in its global restructuring and $1.6 billion asset sale to Key Safety. She has been named a Restructuring and Insolvency “Rising Star” by IFLR1000, a 2015 Bankruptcy “Rising Star” by Law360 and among the 2015 “Top Women” for Creditor Debtor Rights in New York by Super Lawyers. She has also been recognized by Turnarounds & Workouts magazine as one of its Outstanding Young Restructuring Lawyers on multiple occasions.

Ms. Berkovich serves as co-Chair of Women@Weil in New York, on TOWER (Taskforce on Women’s Engagement and Retention) and on Weil’s Hiring Committee. She is also active in her community. Among other things, she is a member of its Lawyers Executive Committee and Bankruptcy and Reorganization Group of the UJA Federation of New York and co-chaired its Next Generation Bankruptcy and Reorganization Group for several years. In 2013 she received the James H. Fogelson Emerging Leadership Award from the UJA Federation of New York. She is also on the Alumni Advisory Board for the Harvard Association for Law and Business.