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Giora Erdinast

Work Department

Commercial Litigation Department

Position

Founding partner, Heads the Litigation Department

Career

Giora Erdinast specializes in the field of commercial litigation.

Giora is widely regarded as one of the most prominent litigators in Israel. Many of the cases handled by Giora have become leading legal precedents in Israel in various areas of the law, including corporate law, contract law, commercial law, administrative law, and constitutional law. In 2017, TheMarker, Israel’s leading financial publication, selected Giora as one of the three most influential civil litigators in Israel.

Giora specializes in representing corporations and individuals in all aspects of commercial disputes concerning, inter alia, takeovers, proxy disputes, shareholder disputes, complex contract disputes, and tender related proceedings. Giora’s practice also includes managing complex class action suits, as well as representing corporations and other bodies before governmental authorities, mainly the competition Authority, the Israeli SEC and the Commissioner of Capital Markets, Insurance and Savings.

Giora is ranked as a leading civil litigator in all major guides, such as BDI Israel, Duns100, Chambers Global and Legal 500.

Languages

Hebrew and English

Memberships

Bar Admissions - Israel, 1985

Education

LL.M., Yale University, U.S.A. (Fulbright Scholarship recipient), 1986. LL.B., Law and Philosophy (magna cum laude), Tel Aviv University, 1984.

Mentions

Israel

Competition/antitrust

Dispute resolution • Israel

Dispute resolution: class actions (including derivative actions)

Leading partner
Dispute resolution • Israel

Dispute resolution: local litigation and arbitration

Hall of fame
Dispute resolution • Israel

Dispute resolution: mediation and international arbitration