Ronit Berkovich

Ronit J. Berkovich is a partner in the Restructuring Department of Weil, Gotshal & Manges LLP in New York, where she 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. Ms. Berkovitch has experience representing large and mid-market companies in out-of-court workouts, international restructurings and prepackaged chapter 11 cases in a variety of industries, and she has provided advisory services to Fortune 500 companies and other companies on corporate structuring strategies. She also has expertise on restructuring strategies for managing litigation claims, including mass torts and government claims, and has recently developed deep knowledge of insolvency laws as applied to cryptocurrency companies. Ms. Berkovich has received several prestigious awards and recognition for her work. Most recently, she won the 2023 Law360 Distinguished Legal Writing Awards for her Bloomberg article, “Crypto Downturn Will Bring Legal, Regulatory Clarity.” In 2022, she was recognized as a “Northeast Trailblazer” by The American Lawyer, named “Highly Regarded” for Restructuring and Insolvency in the U.S. by IFLR1000, and named among the 500 Leading Global Bankruptcy & Restructuring Lawyers by Lawdragon, among others. Prior awards include The American Lawyer “Dealmaker of the Year” in 2019 and Law360 “Bankruptcy MVP” in 2018. Ms. Berkovich actively lectures on various topics relating to restructuring, including for organizations such as ABI, PLI, Bloomberg Law, the American Bar Association, the Turnaround Management Association, the New York City Bar Association and Columbia Law School. She is the co-editor of the Weil Bankruptcy Blog and has written extensively on restructuring-related topics, including articles published in The Banking Law Journal, The American University Law Review, Real Estate Finance and the Harvard Law School Bankruptcy Roundtable. She also taught legal research and writing at Harvard Law School for two years and an undergraduate seminar in economics at Harvard College. Ms. Berkovich received her B.A. with distinction from the University of Virginia in 1997 and her J.D. magna cum laude from Harvard Law School in 2001.