Yaacov Silberman

Yaacov Silberman is a Founding Partner and Chief Operating Officer of Rimon, focusing on the internal operations and infrastructure of the firm. Yaacov's innovations with Rimon have appeared in a wide array of publications, including The Economist, The American Lawyer, AmLaw's Law Technology News, Bloomberg, the California Daily Journal, the San Francisco Business Times, eLawyering and the National Post. He has been characterized as top innovator in the legal profession by the American Bar Association for his role in developing Rimon's alternative business model. Yaacov has presented on innovations in law firm management and technology at Harvard Law School, Stanford Law School, UC Berkeley Law School, and UC Hastings College of the Law.

Yaacov's practice currently focuses on private equity and leveraged buyouts, as well as securities representation of founders and executives of some of the most notable technology companies in the world, including Facebook, Dropbox, Twitter, SpaceX, Square, Jawbone, Zynga, Bloom Energy, Gilt Groupe and Solar City, among others.

Yaacov is a frequent volunteer for Legal Services for Entrepreneurs, a division of the Lawyers' Committee for Civil Rights, and serves as Co-Chair of the board of directors of Refugee Transitions. He is also a frequent speaker on the topic of cloud computing and Internet technologies in the legal industry.  

Prior to Rimon, Yaacov was an attorney with the private equity and debt finance practice group of Ropes & Gray, LLP. He also clerked for Judge A. Jay Cristol of the United States Bankruptcy Court for the Southern District of Florida. Before law school Yaacov was the Assistant Director of Web Content for , one of the earliest legal resource websites on the Internet.