About
Covenant is the law firm for private markets, pairing elite private-market lawyers with AI-native execution.
Our Story
Private markets represent over $20 trillion in assets under management and more than 50,000 transactions a year, nearly all of it running through attorneys who bill by the hour, at a cost of over $10 billion in annual legal fees. Traditional law firms weren't built to move at the pace private markets now require, and general-purpose AI tools lack the domain expertise high-stakes investing demands.
Covenant's technology augments the judgment of experienced private markets attorneys. It doesn't replace it. Every matter is reviewed by a lawyer who holds legal responsibility for the outcome, informed by AI that removes the mechanical work, not the judgment.
Jen Berrent and Richard Perris were asking the same question: why can't legal work be both exceptional and accessible? Rather than continue on traditional legal career paths, they built Covenant instead. From the beginning, they made unconventional choices, starting with complexity: manually analyzing the terms of 100 limited partnership agreements, a process that led them to combine multiple AI models with expert lawyer review to reach a standard of accuracy neither approach could deliver alone.
Our People
Jen Berrent is the co-founder & CEO of Covenant. She previously served as COO and CLO of WeWork and was a corporate partner at WilmerHale, where she advised on complex transactions and led the New York emerging company practice. She founded Covenant to rethink the way legal services are delivered to clients and to give investors the legal intelligence that the traditional model has consistently failed to deliver.
- J.D., New York University School of Law
- B.S., Wharton School at the University of Pennsylvania, magna cum laude
- New York
Richard Perris is the co-founder of Covenant and spent 15 years as General Counsel of CVC Capital Partners, one of Europe's leading private equity firms. Having sat on the GP side of hundreds of private markets transactions, he founded Covenant to build the legal infrastructure that institutional investors have always needed but never had. He brings deep expertise in the full lifecycle of private markets transactions.
- LLB, Bristol University, Law & German, first class honours
- Solicitor, England & Wales
Andrew Keller is senior counsel at Covenant, where he advises institutional investors across fund investments, co-investments, and secondary transactions. He previously practiced at Kirkland & Ellis and served as in-house counsel at BlackRock and CVC Capital Partners, giving him firsthand experience of private markets legal work from every seat at the table. He joined Covenant to bring that accumulated expertise to bear at the speed and scale that modern deal-making requires.
- B.A., New York University, cum laude
- J.D., The Ohio State University Moritz College of Law
- New York
Herman Cheung is senior counsel at Covenant, leading the firm's direct investments and venture financing practice. He previously worked at O'Melveny & Myers in corporate finance and credit. He also ran his own law practice where he represented startups and venture investors. At Covenant, he works on bringing AI analytics to credit and venture investments, helping institutional investors move faster and with greater confidence on every deal.
- B.A., University of California, Los Angeles
- J.D., University of California, Davis - School of Law
- California
Randy Kaufman is counsel at Covenant, where he advises limited partners on fund investments, co-investments, secondary transactions, and independent sponsor deals. He began his career in the fund formation practice at Ropes & Gray, where he represented both sponsors and institutional investors across private fund strategies. At Covenant, he focuses on LP-side work across the full range of private markets transaction types.
- J.D., Columbia Law School
- BSc, Vanderbilt University
- New York
Laura Massagé is a law clerk at Covenant, where she focuses on fund document review and LP advisory work for institutional investors across private fund strategies. She brings fund practice experience from DLA Piper and Baker McKenzie in Luxembourg and an LLM from Duke University School of Law.
- LL.M., Duke University School of Law
- Master (International Law), University of Paris 1 Panthéon Sorbonne
- J.D., Saint-Louis University, Brussels
- Luxembourg
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