Jordan Silber

Practice Areas

Jordan is a fund formation partner and the chair of Cooley’s partner compensation committee. His practice is concentrated on the formation and representation of private investment funds – primarily venture capital and growth equity funds – in the US, Greater Asia, and Middle East and North Africa (MENA) regions. For more than 20 years, Jordan has acted in a leading legal capacity in the raising of greater than $110 billion in private fund interests across a multitude of investment areas, primarily focusing on technology and life sciences. He also advises multinational enterprises, including Fortune 500 corporations in the technology, healthcare and aerospace sectors, in the structuring of their corporate venture capital funds and investments in third-party funds. In addition, Jordan is deeply knowledgeable about cross-border regulations applicable to global venture capital funds, particularly those operating in both the US and Asia.

Jordan is the creator and founder of Vanilla by Cooley, a proprietary cloud-based subscription service for raising venture capital funds that has transacted more than $49 billion in closings for 750+ funds and 35,000+ registered investors since its launch in 2019. He also serves as managing member and an investment committee member of GC&H Investments, an investment fund for Cooley’s lawyers. Jordan is a regular panelist at US, Caribbean and Asian industry seminars and events, where he speaks on a broad range of legal topics related to venture capital fund formation and investing.