Commodity Futures Trading Commission General Counsel Dan Berkovitz is leaving the agency after 30 years with the federal government. Berkovitz, who has no announced plans, will depart the agency at the end of March.

Berkovitz has served as CFTC's general counsel since June 2009, advising the CFTC on legislative and regulatory initiatives that improved the nation's financial and commodity markets, including passage and implementation of the Dodd-Frank Act. Following the passage of the Dodd-Frank Act, Berkovitz led the legal review of every rulemaking presented to the CFTC to implement Dodd-Frank—55 proposed rules and 43 final rules, to date.

He also managed the legal defense of the CFTC's rulemaking actions that have been challenged in federal district and appellate courts. Berkovitz supervised the drafting of CFTC orders and the legal review of staff actions to enable market participants to transition to the new regulatory regime. During this period he also counseled the CFTC on a range of administrative, budgetary, and operational issues facing the agency. Since 2011, he served as the chairman's deputy to the Financial Stability Oversight Council.

Prior to joining the CFTC, Berkovitz served as counsel to the U.S. State Permanent Subcommittee on Investigations, where he lead several investigations into the operation and regulation of energy markets and trading. Previously, he was the deputy assistant secretary for planning, policy and budget in the Department of Energy's Environment Management program. He also served as counsel to the Senate Subcommittee on Nuclear Regulation. He began his legal career in the office of the general counsel of the U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission.