Goldfarb Gross Seligman & Co.

Adv. Aaron Michaeli, one of the top litigators in Israel, specializes in corporate litigation, complex class actions, derivative actions, and insolvency proceedings, as well as in representing clients in local and international arbitration proceedings. In addition, he possesses unique expertise relating to commercial law, and applies a broad business outlook when advising on project finance proceedings and advising companies and corporations on mergers and acquisitions following a structural change in holdings. In recent years, Aaron was involved in a significant portion of the largest and most complex litigation proceedings in the Israeli market, which have resulted in the rulings of several precedents. He possesses many years of experience regarding the representation of leading companies in commercial disputes, struggles for corporate control, class actions and derivative actions related to securities, antitrust, administrative law and criminal law. In addition, Aaron specializes in the representation of directors and company executives who have personal liability claims brought against them, in class actions and derivative actions. Aaron accumulated significant experience in advising special litigation committees as well, and was among the pioneers of the field in Israel with regard to establishing and advising special litigation committees as sub committees of the board of directors aimed at examining and enforcing a company’s right to sue. Aaron possesses expertise in representing clients in alternative dispute resolution proceedings, such as mediation and arbitration, and represents family businesses and high net worth individuals in complex and sensitive proceedings held in family court. In addition, Aaron has acquired unique expertise relating to tender committees, and regularly represents tender committees of statutory corporations and government companies with significant influence on the Israeli market. He often serves as external legal advisor to these corporations, and is a member of the permanent consulting committee to the Israel Government Companies Authority, for statutory reforms and accounting reports. Among Aaron’s clients are local and international holding groups and corporations from various business sectors, including banking, energy, pharmaceuticals, transportation, retail, communication and more. Aaron regularly lectures in conferences, seminars, panels and professional forums of the Israel Securities Authority, the Israel Bar Association, the Institute of Directors Training, and the CFO Forum of Israel’s largest corporations. He lectures on various topics related to his fields of expertise, including class actions, derivative actions, business judgment, director liability, special litigation committees, and more. Aaron serves as academic coordinator and lecturer for attorney professional training courses in various fields, including corporate law, class actions, director liability and more, as part of the Israel Bar Association’s Institute for Continuing Legal Studies. In addition, he regularly lectures at various academic programs, including the Business Administration School at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem, the Law and Business Schools of the Ono Academic College, and various professional forums of the Israel Bar Association. Aaron is a member of the firm’s Executive Committee.

Aaron M. Lampert

Adv. Aaron M. Lampert specializes in international securities offerings and regulation, cross-border M&A and strategic business transactions, and the legal aspects of foreign investments in Israel. Aaron’s expertise focuses on cross-border M&A transactions, including inbound and outbound transactions and representation of either the acquiring or selling side, and international securities offerings by Israeli companies, including representing issuers, selling shareholders and underwriters. In addition, Aaron handles strategic transactions, where he represents Israeli and foreign parties entering into strategic partnerships. Aaron was recognized as a leading Corporate, M&A and Capital Markets attorney by a number of international guides, including Chambers & Partners and The Legal 500. From 1981 to 1986, Aaron was an associate in the Corporate Department of Willkie Farr & Gallagher in New York, and from 1987 until early 2012 he was a partner in another leading Israeli law firm.

Adv. Adam M. Klein specializes in cross-border corporate and finance transactions, including mergers and acquisitions, public offerings, SPACs, Rule 144A offerings, tender offers, ‘going private’ transactions, reverse takeovers, spin-offs, PIPEs, and private equity and venture capital investments. Adam advises Israeli SEC-registered companies and dual-listed companies on their corporate governance requirements under Israeli law and under the rules of the SEC, NYSE, and NASDAQ. He also advises foreign companies and investment funds on their acquisitions, financings, investments and business activities in Israel. Adam possesses particular expertise in U.S. public offerings and public offerings of foreign companies on the Tel Aviv Stock Exchange. In recent years, Adam has advised on some of the largest and most complex merger and acquisition transactions and cross-border public offerings in Israel, in which he has represented multinational corporations and private equity funds in Israeli transactions, as well as Israeli corporations and global investment banks in overseas transactions. Adam is recognized as one of Israel’s leading attorneys in the capital markets, corporate and M&A fields by Chambers & Partners and The Legal 500. Adam advised the Ethics Committee of the Israel Bar Association on rules of conduct for attorneys under the Sarbanes-Oxley Act; crafted the first U.S.-style Shareholder Rights Plan (‘Poison Pill’) in Israel, which enables public companies to defend themselves from hostile takeovers; and lecturers to professional audiences on a variety of legal topics. From 1992 to 1999, Adam was an associate in the Corporate and Financial Services Department of Willkie Farr & Gallagher, New York. Adam is a member of the firm’s Executive Committee.

Adv. Adam Adi has comprehensive experience in the various aspects of labor law, both collective and private. In the individual labor law field, Adam represents clients in contentious proceedings such as litigation, injunctions and class actions, as well as non-contentious matters such as providing legal opinions and ongoing legal counsel. In the collective labor law field, Adam provides ongoing advice to clients in organizational proceedings, including collective disputes, negotiations, agreements and more.

Adv. Adi Yogev specializes in commercial litigation. Adi has extensive experience in handling and representing private and business clients in a variety of commercial litigation, most notably complex contractual disputes, corporate disputes, class action and insolvency proceedings in various courts. Under her care, the firm’s clients receive highly professional and credible services, utilizing her vast knowledge, experience and legal creativity.

Adi Karny Shitrit

Adv. Adi Karny Shitrit has extensive experience in representing clients in class actions as well as complex commercial and contractual disputes. Adi has over 10 years of vast experience in the field of class actions, including complex procedures worth significant amounts of money, and in various areas of civil and commercial law. Adi represents local and international clients before a variety of courts in Israel, as well as in mediation proceedings. Adi provides clients with ongoing and professional legal advice during all the different stages in legal disputes, with a wide perspective and with the aim of achieving the best solution for the client, while paying close attention to the essence of the conflict and maintaining the client’s business goals.

Adv. Adva Bitan provides advice to Israeli companies in all aspects of corporate law and securities law, including raising of private and public capital in Israel and abroad, the issuance of financial instruments, debt arrangements and transactions. Additionally, Adva is highly experienced in representing dual-listed companies and counsels investment banks and foreign investors regarding their business in Israel. Adva also advises clients on the legal issues of corporate management.

Adv. Amir Vang specializes in competition law (antitrust), telecoms and media and regulation in various markets, including regulated financial services, payment services, recycling, food and more. Amir possesses unique expertise in all aspects related to competition (antitrust) in Israel, and he and his team accumulated significant experience in the field. In this capacity, they are ranked among Israel’s leading competition and antitrust attorneys by international rankings. Amir represents his clients in precedential cases in the fields of mergers, monopolies, restrictive agreements and concentration, as well as in relation to the Law for Promoting Competition and Reducing Concentration, 2013 (the “Concentration Law”) and the Promotion of Competition in the Food and Pharma Sectors Law, 2014. Academic articles by Amir are frequently mentioned in court rulings, including antitrust tribunals and the Supreme Court. In addition, Amir possesses expertise in the regulation field, including drafting and implementing strategies relating to legislative proceedings and other regulatory actions; planning for and representation in hearings and before committees; leading approval and license processes for transactions and various actions; and representing in appeals to the Supreme Court. Amir provides ongoing counsel to leading food companies and recycling corporations regarding various regulatory aspects of their activity As part of his activity in financial services field in recent years, Amir advised on the legislative process of the Supervision of Financial Services (Regulated Financial Services) Law, and on Israel’s new laws for regulating open banking (open finance) and payment services, as well as their implementation in the market. He also handles the regulation of crypto assets and related financial services, and he is the legal advisor for both the Israeli Bitcoin Association and the Israeli Crypto, Blockchain and Web 3.0 Companies Forum which spearheads the advancement of all legal aspects pertaining to crypto assets in Israel. Amir advises his clients on building internal compliance programs, including procedures, guidelines and training for all members of the organization. Amir possesses unique expertise in the telecommunications and media field in Israel, and is consistently ranked as one of Israel’s leading attorneys in the field by international guides such as The Legal 500, Chambers & Partners and others. He advises leading telecommunications companies on all aspects of their activity, from day-to-day activity to participation in Knesset deliberations and regulatory hearings, drafting proposals for new legislation and reforms, and drafting petitions and representation of clients before all courts and tribunals. In the technology field, Amir represents companies, public entities and government ministries in large scale transactions, as well as software licensing, development, infrastructure procurement, outsourcing, cloud computing and tenders. In the past, Amir served as a software officer in the IDF’s Center of Computing and Information Systems (“Mamram”) and in various positions in the software industry.

In his career as a corporate lawyer, Adv. Amir Raz has not only counseled technology companies on a broad range of transactional matters, including venture capital financings, domestic and cross-border mergers, acquisitions, and other strategic transactions, but also evolved into a trusted strategic legal advisor. In recent years, Amir has taken on a more active role in guiding clients through complex decision-making processes, providing counsel that integrates legal expertise with broader business and industry insights. Amir’s practice now encompasses more than just transactional work; he has become a key partner to clients seeking strategic guidance on navigating the evolving legal landscape of cutting-edge industries. His clients range from emerging companies developing disruptive technologies through publicly traded corporations, across sectors such as cyber security, artificial intelligence, fintech, cloud computing, quantum computing, big data, semiconductors, digital media, SaaS, and life sciences. Amir continues to counsel various venture capital and private equity funds, as well as strategic investors, in their investments and acquisitions of Israeli and Israeli-related companies. His comprehensive understanding of market trends and legal developments has allowed him to offer a broader scope of strategic counsel, addressing not just legal concerns, but also how to position companies for growth and competitive advantage. In addition to transactional expertise, Amir has expanded his advisory work with fund managers and limited partners in forming and managing various investment vehicles, including venture capital, private equity and hedge funds, while offering strategic insight into market dynamics and fund operations. Amir’s early career included practicing at the M&A and Private Equity Group of Sidley Austin LLP in New York.

Adv. Amir Yariv specializes in providing legal counsel and representation to entrepreneurs, start-ups, investors, technology companies and international concerns operating in various fields, including cyber, software, chips, semiconductors, Fin-Tech, Ad-Tech, pharma, Food-Tech, Bio-Med and more, in Israel and abroad. Amir advises clients on all commercial aspects of their day-to-day activity, from company establishment through the financing stages to the exit. In this capacity, he accumulated experience in mergers and acquisitions, as well as in a broad array of diverse financing transactions and venture capital investments.

Adv. Amir Tzafrir is Chairman of the firm and a member of its Executive Committee. Amir handles a variety of complex corporate and finance transactions, including public offerings in stock exchanges in Israel, London, New York, and Warsaw, as well as other foreign stock exchanges. He also handles cross border merger and acquisition transactions, private placements, franchise agreements and complex infrastructure agreements, including unique public funded BOT and BOO projects. Amir is an international expert in the capital markets field, and has accrued considerable expertise in the issuance of securities by Israeli companies on various stock exchanges worldwide, particularly NASDAQ, the New York Stock Exchange (NYSE), and the London Stock Exchanges (LSE, AIM). In recent years, he has been leading numerous American real estate companies’ issuances in the Tel Aviv Stock Exchange (TASE). Amir maintains extensive working relations with various entities in the capital markets sector, and is the first contact of choice for companies seeking to issue bonds in Israel. Among Amir’s clients are public and private companies in Israel and abroad, ranging from real estate and retail companies to hi-tech, life sciences, desalination, and textile companies.

Adv. Amir Halevy has extensive experience in the fields of technology and venture capital, representing numerous Israeli startups, enterprises and venture capital funds. Amir advises international investment banks in connection with their activities in the Israeli and international markets, and has extensive experience in advising international wealth management firms in their activities in Israel or with Israeli clients. Amir represents publicly traded companies both in Israel and the U.S. and had been involved in IPO’s in Israel, U.S. and UK, as well as in securities and corporate litigation matters in Israel. Amir played an instrumental role in the adoption of legislation and regulations that affect investments in Israeli technology companies. Amir also advises family held enterprises with regard to the day-to-day operation of their businesses and the transfer of control from one generation to the next. He advises high net worth individuals regarding their estates, trusts and succession planning. Amir is qualified as a STEP Trust and Estate Practitioner (TEP). In addition, Amir serves as a member on the Advisory Committee to The Raya Strauss Center for Family Business Research at the Koler Business School, Tel Aviv University. Amir lectures on Family Businesses as part of the “Lahav” program at The Coller School of Management at Tel Aviv University and in the past at the Executive Training Program at the Interdisciplinary Center, Herzliya. Together with Gene Kleinhendler, Amir is the co-author of “ISR International Securities Regulation, Israel Section,” published by Oceana Publications, Inc.

Adv. Anat Gafni is an experienced attorney with years of professional experience in providing legal counsel, and specializes in tender law and administrative law, including civil and administrative litigation. She has in-depth knowledge of the public and municipal sector in all areas of activity, including in the fields of legislation and regulation. In the field of tender law, Anat provides comprehensive legal guidance and advice to public bodies, particularly local government entities, concerning the formulation and publication of public tenders in different fields, such as planning and construction of projects, development, infrastructure, utilities, acquisition of services (including labor intensive services), acquisition of goods, asset sale and insurance, from the preliminary phases of drafting the tender, through leading all relevant proceedings, legal examination of the tender offers, legal guidance and advice to the tenders committee, finalizing agreements following the tender, and finally representation in administrative proceeding and appeals. Anat represents clients in a range of civil, administrative and labor claims. She also advises clients in relation to regulatory entities such as government ministries and the State Comptroller with regard to various matters, including legislative amendments, writing protocols, responses to audits, legal opinions and more. In addition, Anat lectures in professional forums on the topics of contractual agreements of public bodies and tender law. Anat was a board member of the Israel Bar Association’s Economic Company, and a member of the Israel Bar Association’s Tel Aviv District Ethics Committee for eight years. She currently serves as chairperson of the Israel Bar Association’s Local Government Committee.

Ariel Rosenberg

Adv. Ariel Rosenberg handles all types of international financing transactions, domestic and international, and advises on the financing of corporate transactions and on the financing of projects, among others, in the energy, infrastructure and real estate fields. In addition, Ariel specializes in the regulatory aspects and the legal framework of the various financial activities, including bank and non-bank financial services, issuing and defrayment of debit cards and internet-based payment services; and also specializes in international transactions and financial derivatives. Ariel advises regulatory authorities, domestic and foreign banks, credit card issuers and other financial services agents; and represents Israel’s largest concerns in negotiations before financing entities. In addition, Ariel advises international charitable foundations and non-profit organizations regarding issues relating to their activity in Israel. Ariel is joint editor of the ‘Corporate Law Review’ and is the editor of the review’s finance section. From 2006 to 2007, Ariel was a legal advisor at WilmerHale Law Firm, New York.

Arthur Brusilov

Adv. Arthur Brusilov specializes in the fields of corporate and securities law, M&A, venture capital, angel financing, private offerings, and cross-border commercial transactions. Arthur represents Israeli and international clients in the software, cyber, fintech, automotive, insurance, food-tech, and big-data analytics fields. Arthur also assists start-ups with incorporation, ongoing counseling, option and securities related matters and all stages of financing from Seed to IPO. Arthur advises multinational fortune 500 companies regarding a wide array of finance and investment agreements, M&A, and complex international transactions, including restructuring of multinational holding structures. Arthur was also a teaching assistant to Dr. Ayal Shenhav, Chairman of the firm and Head of the International and Hi-Tech Department, at the Tel Aviv University faculty of law.

Asaf Hershkovitz

Adv. Asaf Hershkovitz represents private equity and venture capital funds, strategic and individual investors, and companies at all stages of development, in a wide range of international and domestic corporate and commercial transactions. Asaf’s practice includes mergers and acquisitions, capital financing, technology licensing, and general corporate counseling.

Ashok J. Chandrasekhar

Adv. Ashok J. Chandrasekhar has for several decades been the counsellor of choice for multinational corporations investing in and acquiring Israeli companies and for Israeli companies engaging with multinational corporations. Ashok specializes in the representation of clients in the hi-tech sector and has been involved in hundreds of international transactions, including many of the most significant deals in the Israeli market. He represents acquirers and target companies in cross-border mergers and acquisitions; handles investments for venture capital funds, private equity funds, strategic investors, and tech companies; advises Israeli companies on forming strategic connections with foreign partners; and is a trusted advisor to Israeli tech companies and their investors from their early stages to maturity and exits. Among Ashok’s clients are the world’s leading technology corporations, groundbreaking hi-tech companies, and a long list of well-known funds and private investors. He works on a regular basis with clients from the US, Europe, and the Far East. Ashok has been recognized as one of Israel’s leading corporate, M&A, venture capital, and hi-tech attorneys by a number of international guides, including Chambers & Partners and The Legal 500. He was chosen as one of the 100 most influential people in the Israeli hi-tech industry by the leading Israeli technology website GEEKtime. Alongside his professional activity, he serves on the Board of Trustees of the University of the People (of which he was Chairman for approximately ten years), the world’s first U.S.-accredited, tuition-free, online, non-profit, degree-granting institution. From 1990 to 1991, Ashok served as law clerk to U.S. District Court Judge J.P. Vukasin Jr. of the Northern District of California. From 1991 to 1993, he was an associate in the International Transactions Department of Pillsbury, Madison & Sutro (currently known as Pillsbury, Winthrop, Shaw, Pittman). Ashok is a member of the firm’s Executive Committee.

Adv. Assaf Berenson specializes in labor law, both private and collective, and is experienced in managing litigation proceedings in the field. He provides ongoing counsel to various private and commercial clients, including with regard to drafting employment agreements, advising on labor crisis situations, providing legal opinions (in relation to due diligence as well), pension counsel and more. Assaf possesses unique expertise in the collective labor law field, and has many years of experience advising on initial organization, collective negotiations and collective agreements related to strikes, labor disputes, privatization, transfers of control and corporate restructuring. Moreover, he is experienced in representing public entities and officials before the Finance Ministry’s Department of Salary and Employment Agreements. Over the years, Assaf advised on dozens of collective agreements in various organizations, including universities, municipalities, infrastructure companies, defense corporations, public service and more. In the litigation aspect, Assaf represents his clients in complex labor law litigation proceedings, including class actions, collective proceedings and disciplinary hearings. In addition, Assaf serves in the military reserves as an officer in the Military Advocate General’s Corps, where he serves as legal advisor on labor law. In the past, Assaf co-authored (together with his father, Adv. Haim Berenson) an article on “Sympathy Strikes” in honor of his grandfather, the late Supreme Court Judge, Zvi Berenson, published in the second volume of the book known as the Berenson Book, “Bnei Svara”.

Adv. Avi Arad specializes in complex real estate transactions, including large scale residential projects which include hundreds or thousands of housing units, and possesses significant reputation regarding Tama 38 (a National Outline Plan for the reinforcement of buildings against earthquakes) and urban renewal projects. Avi provides ongoing legal consulting to real estate companies, developers and infrastructure companies regarding various projects and transactions, including commercial projects, public housing projects, hotel projects and more. Avi advises public and private real estate companies, as well as leading Israeli and international entrepreneurial companies. In recent years, he handled a significant portion of the largest and most complex real estate transactions in Israel – both from the legal rights’ status aspects of the relevant real estate, and from the transaction’s commercial and financial aspects. Avi advises clients from the planning and acquisition stages, through the development stages and construction and registration stages. He advises on financing procedures, and on real estate tax aspects, and represents clients before various government authorities. Among Avi’s clients are public companies, private companies, holding groups and entrepreneurs of large-scale real estate projects. Avi has been repeatedly recognized, year after year, by various international directories, among them is Chambers & Partners, by domestic directories and by professional magazines, as one of Israel’s leading attorneys in the real estate field. In the past, Avi was a senior partner at Dankner Lusky & Co., a leading Israeli law firm in the real estate, commercial and corporate fields. Avi is a member of the firm’s Executive Committee.

Adv. Aviad Feldman specializes in the formation of investment funds, including venture capital funds, hedge funds, private equity funds and real estate funds, in the representation of such funds in their capital raise and investment activities, and in the planning, structuring and negotiating of complex financing, commercial, technology and joint venture transactions. Aviad’s diverse venture capital practice includes representation of a wide range of investors and investees in their domestic and international equity and quasi-equity financing and M&A transactions, and consultancy with respect to their related corporate matters. Aviad also advises entrepreneurs and hi-tech companies acting across various industries and sectors in their domestic and cross-border commercial transactions, including strategic alliances and partnerships, joint ventures and collaborations, intellectual property and technology licensing, manufacturing, marketing, resale and distribution agreements. In addition, Aviad routinely advises clients in connection with their ongoing management, strategic considerations, general corporate matters, intellectual property and employment relations.

Adv. Aya Yoffe serves as managing partner of the firm, alongside Levy Amitay and Tal Atsmon. In her capacity as Managing Partner, Aya handles the managerial-strategic aspects of the firm, from daily management to formulating the firm’s vision and long-term commercial strategy for the firm’s continued growth. In addition, Aya is Head of the Capital Markets and Corporate Department. She specializes in corporate law, securities and finance, and is considered a renowned expert in the field. Aya has extensive experience in raising public and private capital and debt, financing transactions, mergers and acquisitions and in providing ongoing advice and support to public companies, boards of directors and independent committees. In addition, Aya specializes in representing companies and creditors in debt settlements and insolvency proceedings.

Dr. Ayal Shenhav is one of Israel’s leading attorneys with over 30 years of experience. Dr. Shenhav’s practice includes representation of investment funds and investors, start-ups, multinational corporations and high net worth individuals. Dr. Shenhav is consistently ranked as a leading (Tier 1) practitioner by Chambers & Partners, The Legal 500 and other legal directories. Dr. Shenhav represents many of Israel’s leading venture capital and private equity funds, advising them on their formation, tax efficient structuring, investments and operations. Dr. Shenhav has been involved in dozens of complex financing transactions, representing the investors, companies and founders. He has also been involved in numerous M&A transactions, representing target companies, acquiring companies, investors and more. Dr. Shenhav advises high net worth individuals on tax matters, asset protection and transfer of assets to next generation. Dr. Shenhav is a well-known international tax expert with significant expertise in the interaction of the Israeli and US tax systems. Dr. Shenhav practiced law for several years at Davis Polk & Wardwell in New York, and has served as Vice Dean of the Radzyner School of Law at the Reichman University. Dr. Shenhav founded Shenhav & Co. Law Offices, a leading Israeli law firm which merged with Gross & Co, in 2018. He was Managing Partner of Gross & Co. prior to the formation of Goldfarb Gross Seligman. Dr. Shenhav is an Adjunct Professor at the Tel Aviv University and the Reichman University (teaching the course Start Up Law). Dr. Shenhav was the head of the Law Firm and Accounting Firm Committee of IATI (Israel’s leading Hi-Tech Organization). He is also a frequent lecturer at seminars and conferences relating to innovation, venture capital and tax in Israel and abroad. Dr. Shenhav was a board member of the Alliance High School in Tel Aviv.

Adv. Ben Lipetz specializes in providing legal services in all aspects relating to Companies Law, Securities Law and commercial transactions, including: IPOs (mainly tech companies), capital and debt raising, mergers and acquisitions, debt restructuring , corporate governance (including accompanying independent committees in transactions with controlling shareholders), financing agreements, factoring transactions and securitization transactions. Ben accompanied some of the most complicated debt restructurings in Israel – Petrochemical plants in Israel Ltd., Mirland Development Corporation PLC, and Leader Holdings and Investments Ltd. Prior, Ben worked with the Israeli Justice Ministry – Official Receiver.

Benjamin Rotenberg

Adv. Benjamin Rotenberg has many years of experience in providing legal-strategic counsel to large Israeli corporations regarding ,any diverse aspects of their activity. Among others, he advises on establishing commercial ventures from their initial stages, the establishment of factories in Israel and abroad, partnership agreements, franchisee agreements, state and international corporate tenders for franchisees and licenses, and more. In this capacity, Benjamin accumulated significant experience in commercial law, M&A, antitrust, telecoms and media, administrative law, environmental law and regulation. Benjamin has led various complex transactions over the years, including agreements for the establishment of a cellular company, the establishment of a commercial broadcasting corporation, regional radio stations, the acquisition of the controlling share of a large commercial bank, acquisitions of industrial companies in Israel and abroad, joint ventures for the establishment of factories, and more. Benjamin possesses extensive experience in representing clients with regard to regulatory matters vis-à-vis the relevant authorities, government ministries and the Israel Competition Authority, as well as in Knesset committee deliberations. Among others, he played a key role in the legislation process of the Deposit Law on Beverage Containers, the Law for the Second Authority for Television & Radio, the Communications Law (Bezeq and Transmissions), and the Packaging Law. Alongside his professional activities, Benjamin is a member of the National Disciplinary Court of the Israel Bar Association, and served as a director in several industrial companies in Israel and abroad. Benjamin is a member of the firm’s Executive Committee.

Adv. Boaz Golan possesses extensive experience and significant expertise in Israeli antitrust and competition law, including managing civil and criminal litigation proceedings in the field. Boaz served as Chief Legal Counsel of the Israeli Antitrust Authority for five years (2006-2011), during which he led the agency’s enforcement proceedings and played a prominent role in numerous decisions and legislation amendments. Following his service in the public sector, he developed an extensive private practice in the antitrust field, and is nowadays considered one of Israel’s leading attorneys in the field. Boaz specializes in all aspects of antitrust and competition, and he represents his clients in a wide variety of matters in these fields. Among others, he provides ongoing counsel on large scale and unique mergers; represents plaintiffs and defendants in complex litigation proceedings; and provides ongoing counsel to his clients in criminal proceedings initiated by the Israeli Antitrust Authority. In addition, Boaz offers his clients tailor made internal compliance programs, and regularly counsels clients with regard to crafting commercial agreements in accordance with the antitrust and competition laws. Boaz’s clients include leading local companies in the fields of banking, telecommunication, energy, insurance, hi-tech & technology, pension funds, retail, infrastructure and others; as well as multinational corporations, to whom he provides ongoing counsel regarding their activities in Israel, specifically with regard to antitrust and competition regulation matters. Among others, he advises Fortune-500 corporations regarding merger notification rules in Israel, the effect of the Law for Promoting Competition and Reducing Concentration 2013 on acquisitions in Israel, and domestic enforcement vis-à-vis foreign companies; advises clients on the Promotion of Competition in the Food Industry Law, 2014; and represents multinational corporations with regard to competition matters before the relevant Israeli authorities and courts. Boaz is recognized as a leading antitrust and competition attorney by a number of international guides, including Chambers & Partners and The Legal 500. Alongside his professional activities, Boaz serves as Co-Chair of the Antitrust and Competition Committee of the Israel Bar Association. In addition, he teaches a course on Antitrust and Economic Regulation in the Hebrew University of Jerusalem, and serves as Professional Development Coordinator for the antitrust professional development program offered by the Israel Bar Association.

Adv. Boaz Sity specializes in the telecommunications, media, advertising, and competition law fields. Boaz provides legal counsel to his clients in various fields, including regulation, competition, technology and internet, privacy and data protection, sports and entertainment, as well as telecommunications and media. Boaz provides specialized counseling in the advertising and entertainment field, and advises his clients on consumer protection laws, advertising campaigns and commercial activities, prohibition on gambling and lotteries, and marketing laws. Boaz has vast experience in representing clients before various regulators and the Knesset, as well as in litigation procedures before administrative courts, in administrative petitions and freedom of information procedures. Boaz also has a unique specialization in sports law, with a focus on football law. Boaz regularly advises football clubs, football players and football agents. He has vast experience in representing football clubs and players before the judiciary bodies of the Israel Football Association and FIFA. In addition, Boaz serves as Deputy Chairman of the Sports committee of the Israel Bar Association, as well as a member of the Regulations committee of the Israel Football Association. Boaz previously worked as a sports and entertainment journalist, and accumulated experience in the media and written journalism fields.

Adv. Chen Manzur advises Israeli and international clients, from technology-based companies in a variety of industries and different stages of the growth cycle, to top tier VCs, investment banks and leading global companies. Chen’s professional experience includes cross-border merger and acquisition transactions, venture capital and finance transactions, commercial and technology transactions, collaboration agreements as well as experience acting as special investigative counsel to corporate audit committees. Chen is ranked among the top M&A and Startup Lawyers in Israel by the prestigious international rankings Chambers & Partners and The Legal 500. Both ranking guides have been mentioning Adv. Manzur as a recommended lawyer for several consecutive years. The Legal 500 recently ranked Chen as a “Leading Individual” in the field of Hi-Tech & Startups. Chen is also an Adjunct Lecturer at the Tel-Aviv University Faculty of Law. Chen joined the firm in 2008. Prior to joining the firm, he served about 10 years in the Israeli Intelligence Corps and the Israeli Prime Minister’s Office.

Adv. Chen Ishai specializes in various aspects of planning, construction, local government and municipal taxation, including planning stages, licensing, betterment levies, monetary claims related to plans, expropriation, and more. Chen advises clients, including public and private entities, developers, companies and some of Israel’s largest infrastructure entities, with regard to real estate and infrastructure ventures, representing clients before all relevant courts and planning institutions.

Dafna Lotan Medvejer

Adv. Dafna Lotan Medvejer has extensive professional experience in the commercial insurance practice, both locally and internationally and specializes in Enterprise Risk Management (ERM) for corporations. Dafna brings significant professional expertise and years of practice in managing complex multinational insurance programs, managing insurance claims and negotiating policies’ terms and conditions with local and global insurers. Dafna specializes in consulting to corporations in respect of best practices insurance coverage, including Directors and Officers insurance, Professional Liability / Errors & Omissions insurance, Cyber liability insurance, Representations and Warranties insurance for M&A deals, Property and Casualty insurances, insurance for complex construction projects, Financial insurances, Credit insurance and more. In addition, she advises corporations in respect of insurance aspects in commercial agreements, supports due diligence processes in M&A transactions and advise to insureds throughout insurance claims. Dafna also has vast experience in managing Enterprise Risk Management (ERM) programs, based on international best practices methodologies for mapping and managing strategic, operational, financial and regulatory risks. Dafna advises companies’ managements, audit committees and board of directors throughout the implementation of Enterprise Risk Management programs. Among Dafna’s clientele are a variety of leading Israeli and international corporations from a wide array of sectors, including real estate, retail, communications, technology, manufacturing, finance, capital markets, life science and more. Dafna previously served as head of Risk Management and Insurance for the Amdocs Group. She managed the group’s global insurance programs in Israel, North America, Europe, Asia and Latin America, as well as the group’s Enterprise Risk Management program and the company’s Credit Worthiness practice. In addition, prior to her tenure in Amdocs, Dafna served in various senior underwriting positions in Israeli leading insurance companies.

Adv. Daniel Kahn specializes in providing legal counsel and representation to entrepreneurs, start-ups, investors, financial institutions, technology companies and international concerns operating in various fields, including cyber, software, chips, semiconductors, Fin-Tech, Ad-Tech, pharma, Food-Tech, Bio-Med and more, in Israel and abroad. Daniel advises clients on all commercial aspects of their day-to-day activity, from company establishment through the financing stages to the exit. In this capacity, he accumulated experience in mergers and acquisitions, as well as in a broad array of diverse financing transactions and venture capital investments. Daniel also advises underwriters of representations and warranties (R&W) insurance policies in connection with M&A transactions. In addition, he advises Israeli companies publicly traded in the U.S. on SEC compliance issues, corporate governance and securities offerings.

Adv. Daniel Hartov Tzaban focuses on commercial real estate transactions, contractors’ representation, projects, leasing, tenders, tax aspects of real estate transactions, purchase groups, building associations, sale and acquisition transactions, project finance and more. Daniel has extensive experience in the field of real estate. She leads large transactions and projects in the department and handles all areas of real estate in her transactions and for her clients. In addition, significant clients in the department are handled by her. Daniel has expertise in the representation, leading and management of complex real estate transactions, including accompanying large-scale residential, commercial and office projects. She accompanies her clients in all phases and aspects of the project, including the phase of land purchase, financing the purchase and construction, accompanying the dealings with the various authorities (the local authority, the planning authorities, real estate taxation authorities, the Ministry of Construction and Housing, the Israel Land Authority, etc.) and with buyers and tenants. Daniel also handles the registration of rights at the Land Registry Office and the Israel Land Authority, including the registration of parcels, condominiums and legal support of real estate companies.

Adv. Danny Dilbary specializes in cross-border mergers and acquisitions and joint venture transactions; as well as in venture capital investments and fund formation. In addition, he regularly advises public and private corporations on all legal aspects of operation, focusing on corporate, commercial, and technology-related aspects. In recent years, Danny has led many of the Israeli market’s high-profile mergers and acquisitions and investment transactions, representing acquirers/investors and target companies. Danny leads an experienced and talented team of professionals which offers a full range of legal services related to cross-border mergers and acquisitions and high-tech investments, including corporate law, tax, labor, regulation, intellectual property, and more. Danny possesses unique expertise in the high-tech arena in a variety of fields, and has been involved in numerous complex corporate and commercial transactions in foreign markets, including in the United States, Europe, and Asia. Danny represents public and private companies, including companies traded on the Tel Aviv Stock Exchange and on foreign stock exchanges, venture capital funds, institutional and private (“angel”) investors, and start-ups in all stages of development. In addition, Danny lectures at academic institutions and at professional forums, and over the years has published high-profile articles regarding mergers and acquisitions, private equity financing and the high-tech industry. Danny is a member of the firm’s Executive Committee.

Danny Kleinhendler

Adv. Danny Kleinhendler’s expertise is in general business, commercial and corporate law, specializing in legal matters pertaining to technology-oriented companies in all stages of their life-cycle, as well as mergers and acquisitions – especially cross border transactions, equity and debt financing transactions, licensing and other commercial transactions. The clients that Danny represents come from a wide range of industries, and include many hi-tech and life science companies as well as international and local acquirers and investors.

Daphna Kapeliuk

Adv. Dr. Daphna Kapeliuk specializes in international arbitration and complex international litigation and has a significant reputation in these fields. She represents local and foreign clients in arbitration proceedings conducted according to the rules of various international arbitral institutions. In 2024, she was appointed as a member of the International Court of Arbitration of the International Chamber of Commerce (ICC) for the years 2024-2027. As the only academic researcher in Israel specializing in local and international arbitration law for over two decades, her academic publications are frequently cited by the Supreme Court, the District Courts, and the Magistrate Courts. She provides expert opinions on various issues related to arbitration law in Israel and has been invited to the Constitution, Law, and Justice Committee of the Israeli Parliament to discuss amendments to the Arbitration Law and the enactment of the International Commercial Arbitration Law. Dr. Kapeliuk’s additional expertise is in private international law and complex cross-border disputes. She represents foreign clients in Israeli courts, including in issues related to jurisdiction and the enforcement of foreign judgments and arbitration awards. For years, Dr. Kapeliuk has been recognized by international ranking guides such as Legal500, and has been described, among other things, as someone who “thinks outside the box and uses her wide academic knowledge to assist the clients.”

Daphna Tsarfaty

Adv. Daphna Tsarfaty specializes in complex proceedings and disputes in the fields of consumer protection, contracts, technology, internet, trademarks, banking, communications, corporations and securities, including as part of class actions and derivative actions. Daphna represents clients in all courts of law and tribunals regarding these matters, including in arbitration and mediation proceedings, and provides ongoing counsel regarding the resolution of disputes prior to addressing the courts. Daphna accumulated extensive experience regarding capital distributions, deductions and corporate settlements which require court approval, such as corporate restructuring under clause 350 of the Companies Law, including with regard to mergers, splits, changing the terms of debentures and purchase offers. Daphna possesses extensive expertise and experience in class action proceedings, including their resolution by settlements. In addition, Daphna advises companies and individuals who are creditors in liquidation and receiverships proceedings, including in relation to debt collection and creditors settlements. Among Daphna’s clients are private and public companies, both international and domestic, which operate, among others, in the fields of retail, cellular communication, cars, service providers, internet, technology and banks.

Prof. David Hahn is a prominent expert on insolvency law, secured transactions and corporate law. David has served for many years as an advisor to many large corporations in Israel’s capital market on various issues associated with corporate and insolvency law, including matters of corporate governance, mergers and acquisitions, liquidation, reorganization, receivership, debt arrangements, corporate bonds, dividend distributions, and more. David served as the Guardian General and the Official Receiver of Israel. Previously, he was retained as an academic counsel to the Attorney General for insolvency law. He was also a member of the audit committee in the liquidation case of the Trade bank. During his tenure as the Official Receiver, David served as the liquidator of the Israel Broadcasting Authority (IBA) – the largest and state-owned media entity in the country. He managed the IBA’s operations and broadcastings, which lasted three years, until their termination. Additionally, in his capacity as the Official Receiver, David monitored and accompanied the largest debt and recovery arrangements in the market, including ‘Hadassah’ medical center, IDB and Elbit Imaging. As the Official Receiver of Israel, David spearheaded and advanced the introduction of The Insolvency and Economic Rehabilitation Bill, in collaboration with the Attorney General’s office. In 2018 this bill was enacted into law, replacing old British Mandate legislation. Previously, he conceived and executed the Reform in Practicing Individual Bankruptcy Cases, which created timelines for all individual bankruptcy cases and promoted the discharge for such debtors in order to facilitate a fresh start in their lives. During his years in the Government, David worked to improve and make the public service accessible to the citizens by developing and implementing online systems, as well as shortening and expediting bureaucratic procedures relating to rights of debtors and creditors, issuing inheritance orders and the probation of wills. David serves as a member in the leading international organizations specializing in insolvency, namely the International Insolvency Institute (III) and INSOL International. Recently, David was appointed by the Israel Securities Authority (ISA) to prepare a special report on cross-border insolvency aspects of foreign corporations that offer bonds on the Tel-Aviv Stock Exchange. He was also a lead nominee for Justice of the Supreme Court of Israel. David is a Faculty Member at Bar-Ilan University Faculty of Law, and frequently publishes academic papers on various subjects. Among his notable publications are the book The Law of Insolvency (2018), “The Liability of Directors upon the Insolvency of a Corporation under the New Israeli Insolvency Act” (2020, Hebrew), “Concentrated Ownership and the Control of Corporate Reorganizations”, 4 J. Corp. L. Stud. 117-154 (2004) and “The Financial Crisis on 2009- Have Reorganization Proceedings in Emerging Markets Gone Bankrupt? Israel as a Case Study”, 12 U. Penn. J. Bus. L. 731 (2010).

Adv. David Hodak is one of the lead practitioners in corporate, capital markets and mergers and acquisition. David advises clients on the structure of complex commercial transactions, taxation matters and finance, both in Israel and abroad. He is a key player in designing M&A in Israel and abroad. David has led the legal representation for numerous public companies in connection with their local and international public offerings of stocks and bonds, and has advised directors and CEOs on corporate issues. In addition, David advises the Israeli government and governmental agencies with respect to privatization and debt financing as well as local and international banks. David has been a key player in the high-tech arena in Israel for the past 35 years. In his tenure, David has led numerous IPO’s of hi-tech companies in the Tel Aviv Stock Exchange, NASDAQ and other stock exchanges. Following the last global crisis in 2008, David Hodak was appointed by the Israeli Ministry of Finance as the chairman of the Committee to Determine Parameters for Consideration by Institutional Investors (insurance companies, pension funds, provident funds) in the debt market (the “Hodak Committee”) in 2009. He was a member of the Israel Securities Authority Committee on the Structure and Content of Annual Reports and Prospectuses (the “Barnea Committee”) in 2001 and he served as a member of the Israel Securities Authority Committee on the Encouragement of Venture Capital in Israel of 1994 (the “Vardi Committee”). David worked for two years at Weil Gotshal & Manges in New York specializing in securities, mergers and acquisitions and international transactions, as well as the representation of Israeli companies overseas. He represents technology-based clients in many fields of technological innovation, as well as Israeli and international VC funds investing in technology in Israel. David has developed excellent working relationships in China and Hong Kong. As the head of our China desk, David advised over the years many large M&A deals between Israeli and Chinese companies. David served as a lieutenant colonel in the Armored Corps of the Israeli Defense Forces.

Adv. David Olshtein advises boards and managements of large Israeli public companies on various legal issues, including corporate law, securities law, regulation, corporate governance, offerings, financings, M&As and other commercial transactions. David also provides clients with ongoing legal advice on dividend distributions and the Israeli Promotion of Competition and Reduction of Concentration Law. Alongside his professional activity, David is a lecturer at the Israel Bar Association and the Israeli Institute of Certified Public Accountants, where he instructs courses for directors and officers. Prior to joining our firm, David worked at the Israel Securities Authority, and was an intern at the office of The Deputy Attorney General for Fiscal-Economic Matters.

Adv. David Cohen has years of experience in commercial and real estate law. David regularly advises Israeli and foreign individuals and companies in a variety of real-estate transactions, including large scale acquisitions, sales, leases, joint ventures and development projects. David represents some of the largest multinational companies worldwide in their real estate transactions in Israel. As a native English speaker, he is instrumental in his ability to communicate the intricacies of Israeli real property law to foreign investors and businesses interested in entering the Israeli market. In addition, David provides ongoing advice to clients on complex legal issues related to real-property law, ranging from conveyance, registration and zoning matters to project finance, tax and dispute resolution. David also advises clients on real-estate aspects of due diligence processes in public offerings, joint ventures and M&A transactions.

Adv. Doron Segal specializes in corporate law, capital markets, securities law, mergers and acquisitions, commercial transactions, financing, financial services, executive compensation and investment counseling. Doron possesses significant legal experience, and has a unique combination of analytical and legal analysis capability along with purposefulness, business understanding and negotiation capacity to achieve client goals. He is a highly efficient lawyer who drives processes forward and aims to achieve his clients’ goals, while mindful of both the small details and the larger picture. Doron possesses extensive experience regarding large-scale, complex transactions, including mergers and acquisitions, various offerings and capital raisings, reorganizations, financing transactions (lenders and borrowers), various commercial transactions, going private transactions, acquisition offers and securitization transactions. In addition, he provides ongoing counsel to investment firms, banks and various financial institutions, both Israeli and foreign. Doron is an expert in all matters relevant to public companies, including controlling shareholder transactions, corporate governance and Board of Directors obligations, dividends distribution and executive compensation, and he regularly advises the Boards of Directors and the senior management of some of Israel’s largest public companies.

Adv. Dubi Zoltak specializes in corporate law, M&A, corporate finance, international commercial transactions, joint ventures and international real estate projects. Dubi possesses extensive experience in representing clients in complex merger and acquisition transactions in Israel and abroad, leading the interdisciplinary teams required for providing comprehensive consultation for such transactions. He regularly advises leading private companies, as well as public companies listed for trade in Israel and abroad, and acquired extensive and unique experience in the area of international real estate investments. Dubi is a member of the firm’s Executive Committee.

Ehud (Udi) Alfassi

Adv. Udi Alfassi represents insurance companies, pension funds and other long-term saving funds, as well as local banks and international banks regarding their activities in Israel. Udi is experienced in the representation of public companies traded both in Israel and in the USA, and has counseled a wide variety of clients on mergers and acquisitions, securities regulations, corporate law, joint ventures, and other legal and business issues. He also represented the Institute of Certified Public Accountants in Israel. Before joining the firm, Udi worked for four years in the Legislative and Civil Counsel Branch in the Attorney General’s Office of the IDF (Israel Defense Forces), as the legal counsel of the Technology & Logistics branch of the IDF, the IDF Surgeon General and the IDF Civilian Human Resources branch. Prior to that, he served for two years in the Office of the Ombudsman for IDF Soldiers.

Eitan Rotschild

Adv. Eitan Rotschild has extensive expertise and years of professional experience in accompanying both public and private entities in tender proceedings, particularly tenders for complex projects, as well as representing these entities before various legal courts in Israel, including the Supreme Court. Eitan is active in the field of urban and municipal infrastructure, local authorities and municipal economic corporations, advising such clients through the planning, development and execution stages of significant projects involving large-scale investments, such as municipal employment complexes, metropolitan transportation centers, public buildings, energy projects, and more. Eitan also specializes in the representation of private and commercial clients in complex disputes and legal proceedings in the field of real estate (including real estate management). In addition, Eitan has vast and diverse experience in the commercial aspect of the real estate field, handling complex transactions including sales and acquisitions of private and commercial real estate assets, office buildings, trade centers and hotels (including hotel management agreements), agricultural estates, as well as combination transactions, real estate partnership agreements, real estate management, acquisition group and more. Among his clients are government companies, local authorities and municipal economic corporations, as well as clients from the private sector. As of 2024, Eitan has been serving as Co-Head of the Local Government Committee at the Israel Bar Association.

Eli (Robert) Barasch

Adv. Eli (Robert) Barasch represents a diverse clientele which includes start-ups, growth stage companies, venture capital, private equity, and hedge funds, and private and strategic investors. His broad transactional practice focuses on equity financing, mergers and acquisitions, fund formation, and intellectual property commercialization. Eli has more than 15 years of experience in conducting China-Israel cross border transactions including both inbound and outbound foreign direct investment, joint ventures, IP commercialization, and fund formation. Prior to joining our firm, Eli spent 10 years as General Counsel of the Infinity venture capital fund which pioneered China–Israel technology and investment cooperation while he was with the fund. Among the many China-Israel cross border transactions Eli conducted on behalf of Infinity were the establishment of China’s first FIVCE joint venture fund by Infinity and the venture capital arm of the Suzhou Industrial Park in 2004 and the 2005 investment in Israel’s Shellcase by Infinity and a Chinese venture capital fund. Before joining Infinity, Eli was General Counsel of MIND CTI Ltd., a NASDAQ listed software company. Eli began his legal career during 1999 in the international and hi-tech department of another leading Tel Aviv law firm. Eli completed his articles with Gardiner Roberts, LLP, a prestigious Toronto law firm.

Adv. Elisha Kesner specializes in various tax fields including income tax, land taxation, VAT and international taxation. Adv. Kesner represents clients in tax assessment hearings and tax appeals in courts of law, as well as before the Tax Authority in pre ruling tax procedures. Elisha possesses unique expertise in tax planning and tax-related legal opinions. Elisha accumulated significant reputation in handling all tax aspects of large-scale real estate transactions, as well as urban renewal projects, restructuring, sale of shopping centers, real estate transactions of foreign investors which require reference to foreign law, and land assessments.

Adv. Ella Tevet is a renowned expert in the fields of intellectual property, information technology, privacy protection and artificial intelligence. Ella has extensive experience in complex commercial and technological transactions involving significant intellectual property aspects, such as licensing agreements, software agreements, source code escrow agreements, R&D agreements, international consortium agreements, agreements for development and integration of various technology systems in core corporate systems (including ERP, CRM), and more. She also has significant experience in advising clients who received grants from the Israel Innovation Authority in a variety of proceedings vis-à-vis the Authority. In addition, Ella is an experienced expert in the privacy protection field in Israel, Europe and the U.S., and advises clients on related regulatory matters (such as, Israeli privacy protection law and GDPR compliance projects and with respect to database management); data security (including counsel on cyber events and data breaches, before, after and during an event); and commercial transactions involving privacy and data protection aspects; as well as represents clients in various proceedings before the Israel Privacy Protection Authority. Ella also serves as Co-Head of the Privacy Protection Committee of the Israel Bar Association. Ella has extensive experience and knowledge in the field of Artificial Intelligence, including relating to machine learning applications and Generative AI tools. She advises her clients in the framework of the development, use and implementation of AI based technologies, with an emphasis on the protection of intellectual property rights and trade secrets and compliance with the evolving regulatory requirements in the AI field alongside the existing regulation in the field of privacy, information technology and cyber. In addition, Ella specializes in formulating internal mechanisms of accountability and AI governance, and also advises regarding the use of artificial intelligence tools in the workplace, including by formulating Ethical AI internal policies for organizations. In addition, she advises clients within the framework of complex commercial agreements involving artificial intelligence issues. Ella and her team work closely with the firm’s other departments on investment rounds, M&As and IPOs, both with respect to the conduct of intellectual property, privacy and commercial due diligence and with respect to other strategic intellectual property issues inherent in these transactions. She also represents clients in trademark registration and handles procedures vis-à-vis the Israeli Trademark Registrar, and represents clients in various legal proceedings in the fields of intellectual property, privacy and spam law in co-operation with the firm’s litigation departments. The department led by Ella Tevet is ranked as one of Israel’s best departments in the field of commercial intellectual property and privacy by international rankings such as Chambers and The Legal 500, as well as the local rankings BDICode and Dun’s 100. Ella herself is personally recognized as one of Israel’s top lawyers in these fields. Ella advises local and international corporations, from early-stage start-ups to multinational conglomerates, operating across a range of sectors, including software, AI, internet, social media, cyber, e-commerce and life science, as well as traditional industries, such as banks, energy corporations, real estate companies and insurance companies.

Adv. Eran Faibish has over two decades of experience in the field of municipal taxation and administrative law. Eran has been selected several times to consult on complex matters relating to the change in municipal tax rates. As part of his practice, Eran provides guidance and legal advice regarding the legality of various municipal property tax and levy provisions and the implementation of long-term and transitional legislative changes in these areas. Eran has extensive knowledge, expertise and experience in representing private companies, public companies and local authorities. Eran served as a member of the Bar Association’s Municipal Taxation Committee and is a frequent lecturer at the Federation of the Local Authorities in Israel, the Israel Bar Association and public and private sector organizations. Eran took part in writing a leading textbook, published by Orian Publishing House, which analyzes the heart of controversies over municipal taxation (‘Arnona’) issues, in addition to publishing other professional articles in the field of municipal taxation.

Adv. (C.P.A) Esther Koren specializes in corporate law, mergers and acquisitions and securities law, as well as engaging in corporate reorganization and creditor arrangements, compensation and incentive schemes, and executive compensation. In this capacity, she advises the Boards of Directors of major Israeli concerns on corporate law and securities law, including the legal aspects of accounting and taxation matters. In addition, Esther represents public and private corporations in complex mergers and acquisitions, spin offs and reorganizations, investments, sale of activity transactions and shareholder agreements, while providing comprehensive counsel on all aspects of these transactions, including taxation, required reports under securities law and regulatory approval. Esther also advises companies in capital raising, both public and private. She handles offerings and privatization of government companies, and provides ongoing counsel to clients on the legal aspects of capital markets activity, including immediate and annual reports. Alongside the above, Esther advises on executive compensation, and develops unique programs and tools for executive compensation in Israel. Additionally, Esther is a sought after lecturer for advanced training courses of attorneys, CPAs and executives in the fields of corporate law and securities law. She previously served as a member of the advisory board of the Bank of Israel, and of the Public Committee for Government Housing Assistance.

Etai Shay is a corporate lawyer advising both international and domestic companies with a particular focus on technology start-ups and growth companies across a broad range of sectors. Etai regularly assists companies on corporate and commercial matters including early- and later-stage venture capital financings and debt financings as well as mergers and acquisitions. Etai also regularly represents private investors and venture capital funds in investments into start-up companies. Etai has run courses on legal aspects of investing in start-ups for Executive MBA students at the Hebrew University and for graduates and post-graduates at Tel Aviv University on entrepreneurship. Etai has also been mentoring seed stage startups in various forums, most recently at the Palestinian Mentorship Program.

Adv. Evan Schendler advises clients with respect to incentive plans and in connection with cross-border and local transactions, investments, joint ventures, mutual funds and on complicated international taxation issues. Prior to joining the firm, he worked as an attorney for leading firms and companies in Israel and New York.

Adv. Eyal Price has decades of experience in the intellectual property field, and provides legal counsel to his clients on all aspects of the field. Eyal represents clients in various disputes relating to patents, trademarks, copyright and designs, including before Israeli courts and in legal procedures before the Israeli Registrar of Patents, Designs and Trademarks. In addition, Eyal provides legal – strategic counsel to clients in the intellectual property field. He also advises local and international agreements, trademark and design registration in Israel and trademark and design registration and protection abroad. Eyal advises clients in a variety of fields, and accumulated unique expertise in the media, TV and music sectors, as well as in representing clients in artist agreements. Over the years, Eyal took part in various intellectual property related committees and forums, including as a member of the Justice Ministry committee for amending the Israeli Registrar of Patents, Designs and Trademarks procedures. In addition, Eyal is a member of several professional associations in the intellectual property field, including INTA and the Israeli chapters of ALAI and AIPPI. Eyal lectures on his fields of expertise before professional forums, attorneys and the public. As of 1994, he has been lecturing in the Bezalel Academy of Art and Design Jerusalem on copyrights and designs. Eyal has been repeatedly ranked as one of Israel’s leading attorneys in the intellectual property field by local and international guides, including Chambers & Partners, The Legal 500, BDI and others.

Adv. Eyal Shakiv specializes in various aspects of planning, construction, local government and municipal taxation, including planning stages, licensing, betterment levies, zoning, loss of value, monetary claims related to plans, expropriation, and more. In this capacity, Eyal represents clients before all courts, including Magistrate Courts, District Courts, Administrative Courts and the Supreme Court; as well as before the various planning institutions, from local councils to the National Council and its sub committees. Eyal advises clients, including public and private entities, developers, companies and some of Israel’s largest infrastructure entities, with regard to real estate and infrastructure ventures. In addition, Eyal serves as Co-Head of the Planning and Construction Committee of the Israel Bar Association.

Adv. Dr. Eyal Diskin focuses his practice on cross-border transactions and high-tech and venture capital. He has counseled clients on structuring and carrying out a broad range of transactions, including mergers and acquisitions, venture capital investments, private equity transactions, joint ventures, financing transaction and other complex international transactions. Eyal has substantial experience in representing acquirers and investors both local and international, as well as sellers and issuers. He advises companies through all stages of development regarding all their corporate, securities and general commercial needs and regularly counsels clients on commercial and technology transactions, including licensing, commercialization and distribution agreements. Eyal’s dissertation at Harvard Law School explored theoretical and legal aspects of contract law. Eyal is an Adjunct Lecturer at the Tel-Aviv University Faculty of Law. Eyal is licensed to practice law in Israel, New York and Massachusetts.

Adv. Eylon Szatmary advises a variety of investment funds, including real estate, venture capital, private equity, hedge and financial funds, from formation to operation. Eylon also represents private and institutional investors in their investments into funds. In addition, Eylon advises start-ups in all stages; advises on mergers and acquisitions in Israel and abroad; and advises on corporate law, securities law and international real estate investments.

Adv. Flavio Naidin represents venture capital funds, strategic and individual investors, and companies at all stages of development, in a wide range of international and domestic transactions. Flavio’s practice includes mergers and acquisitions, capital financing, technology licensing, and general corporate counseling. Prior to joining the firm, Flavio worked as an attorney for leading law firms of Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, providing counselling to several Brazilian and foreign companies on corporate and regulatory issues, compliance with safeguards and environmental licensing of major industrial and infrastructure projects. Flavio also worked as consultant for the World Bank in Washington, DC, United States.

Adv. Gabi Drucker specializes in providing legal counsel to developers and contractors in all real estate transactions, including representing tenets and entrepreneurs with regard to urban renewal projects – all types of TAMA 38 projects and evacuation & construction (“Pinuy Binuy”) projects. Gabi led a wide variety of large-scale projects over the past few years, providing ongoing counsel to his clients from the initial stages of negotiation, through the planning, registration, bank accompaniment, and construction stages, and up to the final stage of receiving the new apartments and registration of rights. Gabi possesses unique expertise regarding Israel Land Authority Law, transactions and representation vis-à-vis the Israel Land Authority, re-zoning agricultural plots, residential expansions in agricultural settlements and real estate transactions of all types, including partnerships for establishing industrial zones in agricultural settlements and compensation agreements for re-zoned agricultural plots. In recent years, Gabi handled a number of large projects for establishing industrial zones in re-zoned agricultural settlements, compensation agreements with the Israel Land Authority, re-zoning transactions, and acquisition and sale transactions of real estate projects. Gabi possesses significant acquaintance and diverse working relations with the relevant entities at the Israel Land Authority, therefore providing his clients with comprehensive information and extensive experience required to advance their initiatives in this field. Among Gabi’s clients are public companies, private companies, financial institutions, and entrepreneurs operating in the real estate field. From 2001 to 2006, Gabi served as the Legal Counsel and Director of the Legal Department at the Jerusalem District of the Israel Land Authority, where he handled all legal aspects relating to the district’s activities and served on various statutory committees. From 1998 to 2000, Gabi served as the Assistant to the Director of the Israel Land Administration, where he took part in the decision-making process of the Israel Land Administration’s Council, in the forming of the Administration’s procedures, and in the deliberations held by the Administration’s management. During these years, Gabi also served on several of the Administration’s committees and was a part of the professional team which was established in order to examine the decisions of the Israel Land Administration’s Council relating to the re-zoning of agricultural land.

Adv. Gal Sion advises on M&A transactions and various commercial transactions, especially in the technology and intellectual property field, including licensing agreements; terms of use and privacy policies; R&D; manufacture and supply; distribution and agency agreements; and more. In this capacity, he advises companies operating in various fields, including cyber, software, chips, semiconductors, Fin-Tech, Ad-Tech, pharma, Food-Tech, Bio-Med and more, in Israel and abroad. Gal specializes in commercial agreements, intellectual property rights, privacy protection, open-source use, the Israel Innovation Authority, trademarks, and consumer protection. He provides ongoing legal counsel to local and international start-ups and mature companies operating in various fields. Gal worked as a teaching assistant in different courses including the following: Copy Rights, Professor Niva Elkin-Koren; Patents Law, Dr. Daniel Benoliel.

Adv. Gavriel Maimon provides ongoing representation to venture capital firms and to high-tech companies in all stages of their activities, including early stage and later stage investments, commercial agreements and mergers and acquisitions.

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Partner, Administrative Law, Tenders and Municipal Government

Adv. Gil’ad Ronen specializes in case management, as well as commercial and administrative litigation. In addition, he handles investigations and legal proceedings in the white collar field, including national security offenses, extradition cases, environmental offenses, and more. Gil’ad also manages internal investigations of legal violations by Israeli individuals and corporations in Israel and abroad. Gil’ad represents the firm’s clients before all courts and tribunals, including arbitration and mediation proceedings. In addition, he regularly represents a public entity in various litigation cases.

Adv. Gilad Kessler specializes in corporate law, administrative law, projects and tender law. Gilad accumulated significant experience in advising large scale construction and infrastructure projects that integrate planning, finance and corporate aspects. He advises clients throughout all stages of the project – from initial planning and development stages, through construction and to the completion of the project, advising on all related agreement and legal aspects. In this capacity, Gilad regularly advises public entities and government companies on complex, large scale projects, including a broad range of infrastructure projects, particularly transportation infrastructure and technology driven, smart transportation solutions; technology and IT projects; construction of public buildings and facilities; and projects that involve both the private and public sectors (PPP/BOT). Gilad is experienced in tender law, and regularly advises on complex, large scale tenders and other competitive proceedings held by some of Israel’s largest public entities under the Mandatory Tenders Law and related regulations. His experience includes providing ongoing counsel to tender committees of public entities and government companies, as well as advising on complex tender law aspects in dozens of projects in diverse fields. In addition, Gilad represents large private corporations as bidders in tenders and other competitive proceedings, advising on legal aspects of bids and contractual agreements. Gilad also specializes in the corporate field, advising on mergers and acquisitions, commercial co-operations, joint ventures and supply agreements for products and services, in Israel and abroad. In this capacity, he advises on various legal matters, including commercial and corporate law, administrative law, financing, investments and more. Alongside the above, Gilad provides ongoing counsel to the “Bat Sheva” dance company as part of the firm’s pro bono activity.

Adv. Gill Nadel specializes in import and export law, indirect taxes, maritime law, and international forwarding. He also represents clients in complex litigation proceedings in these fields. Gill is considered an expert in these fields and possesses a significant reputation. He provides his clients with comprehensive legal consulting on a wide array of matters in the fields of customs and international trade, including providing professional opinions and conducting indirect tax planning; handling retroactive assessments and drawbacks; handling the verification of certificates of origin; advising on antidumping duties; obtaining tax rulings from the Customs Authority; advising on international trade agreements (Free Trade Areas and WTO-GATT Agreements); and more. In addition, Gill represents clients in complex disputes relating to maritime law, aviation law, and international forwarding, including claims regarding cargo damages and delays in their arrival, claims regarding professional negligence of various logistics entities, and various claims against insurers. Gill has been accompanying the legislation and regulation processes in the import field for many years and possesses widespread working relations with policymakers and enforcement authorities in the field. Among Gill’s clients are Israel’s leading importers, exporters, and industrialists, leading international companies, customs agents, international forwarders, insurers, and other entities that handle international trade and international forwarding. Gill advises many divisions of the Israel Chamber of Commerce, among them the Dietary Supplements Section, the Food Section, and more. He also serves as special legal counsel to the Manufacturers Association of Israel on matters relating to international trade law and also advised the Federation of Vehicle Importers to Israel. Gill is a member of the firm’s Executive Committee.

Adv. Giora Ben Tal has nearly 30 years experience in the field of litigation, and is noted among the most prominent litigators in Israel, boasting an impeccable reputation with regards to legal representation before all court instances, including various regulatory bodies. Moreover, Giora has years of experience in the fields of mediation and arbitration. Giora holds a unique specialization in the field of class actions (including in the fields of local authorities, consumer protection and media), managing complex ownership disputes (among partnerships and corporations both in Israel and abroad), derivative suits, complex disputes, requests for the cancellation of arbitration proceedings and more. In addition, Giora practices administrative law with a unique specialization in the niche-practice area of tender law, representation of governmental authorities and offerors in administrative petitions.

Adv. Gur Tenenbaum focuses on all real estate, planning and building matters, and has unique expertise and significant experience in all aspects of real estate litigation. He provides his clients with ongoing legal advice, and handles and leads acquisition transactions, construction projects, real estate taxation issues, rentals and licensing. Gur has extensive experience in accompanying planning and building procedures, and in representing litigation cases related to real estate matters. Gur specializes in managing complex disputes in the civil law field in general, and in real estate, planning and construction in particular. Among others, he represents his clients in real estate disputes, contractual disputes, shareholder disputes, administrative appeals, appeals to the Supreme Court, real estate claims, construction deficiencies, delays in transfer of property, real estate partnerships, lease eviction, protected tenants and more. In addition, Gur advises on various planning and construction matters, including representation before local government authorities, the Israel Land Authority, Ministry of Construction and Housing and others, including in relation to planning, licensing, zoning, building permits, objections, appeals and more. He also advises clients on municipal taxation, developments levies etc. Gur handles large-scale claims related to construction and development projects, representing both private clients and municipalities (including municipal economic companies). Gir represents his clients in all types of contentious proceedings and before all courts and tribunals, as well as alternative dispute resolution proceedings such as arbitration and mediation. In addition, he provides strategic counsel to clients in the preliminary stages on the best strategies for avoiding future disputes, and how to prepare once a dispute is unavoidable. Among Gur’s clients are contractors, developers, real estate companies, utilities, private corporations, municipalities, government companies and others.

Adv. Guy Libzon advises Israeli and international clients, ranging from technology-based companies in a variety of industries and different stages of the growth cycle, to top tier VCs, investment banks and leading global companies. Guy’s professional experience includes venture capital funds’ formation and ongoing representation in investment rounds, cross-border merger and acquisition transactions, venture capital and finance transactions, commercial and technology transactions, as well as collaboration and joint venture agreements. Guy is highly involved in various aspects of the business of his clients, utilizing his multi-disciplinary experience and technological background. Prior to becoming an attorney and joining the firm, Guy completed his studies of Economics and Computer science at University of Haifa, as part of the IDF Academic “Atuda” program, and thereafter served for seven years as an economist, budget manager and financial advisor at several Directorates and units of the IDF and the Israeli Ministry of Defense.

Adv. Guy Shalev specializes in complex real estate transactions, sale and acquisition transactions of office buildings, commercial centers, luxury assets and industrial parks. Guy advises on all aspects of initiating and establishing residential and commercial projects, including planning the outline of the land acquired; financing the acquisition and establishment of the project; managing negotiations and finalizing agreements with contractors and service providers; advising on relations with financial institutions, municipal councils and planning authorities, land taxation authorities, acquiring and leasing parties, and more. In addition, he specializes in advising acquisition groups and large-scale urban renewal projects. Among Guy’s clients are some of Israel’s largest real estate companies as well as international hi-tech corporations, and he also represents individuals in complex real estate transactions. Adv. Shalev was recognized by The Legal 500 in the Real Estate category.

Adv. Guy Gershon provides ongoing counsel on labor related matters to Israeli and multinational clients – from early-stage start-up companies to large multinational and well-established industrial companies. He delivers efficient and timely practical solutions to complex employment problems that arise when managing a workforce in Israel. This includes legal advice on private and collective labor law issues, ongoing consultancy, composing labor related agreements, and legal opinions of various matters, assisting with termination procedures and complex issues of harassment or discrimination claims. Guy has extensive experience in handling labor and employment aspects of M&A transactions and has been involved in dozens of transactions, representing target companies, acquiring companies and investors. He also advises on post-acquisition integration, solving day-to-day HR management issues to allow compliance with Israeli laws, without compromising business needs, and assisting with downsizing projects. In addition, Guy has extensive litigation experience in representing clients in the labor courts as well as in additional tribunals including the Ministry of Interior, Ministry of Labor and the Population and Immigration Authority.

Adv. Guy Gordon represents a wide variety of tech clients in M&A transactions, largely cross-border, venture capital financings (representing top tier international and local VC’s), corporate and securities law matters and in other related issues. He has negotiated numerous equity financing and venture capital transactions that involved complex corporate and transactional matters. Guy advises entrepreneurs and company founders on a daily basis in matters relating to company formation, negotiating technology and commercial agreements, fund raising and other general corporate issues. He provides creative and out-of-the-box solutions to the different dilemmas that technology-based companies encounter from start-up to maturity. Guy’s clients are both local and international companies of all sizes, which are active in most fields of technology: cyber security, internet, telecommunications, artificial intelligence, life sciences, connected car/mobility and more.

Adv. Hagit Blaiberg possesses extensive experience regarding complex commercial disputes, and regularly represents international corporations and financial entities in complex, sensitive proceedings. Hagit has unique expertise relating to corporate litigation and securities litigation, including shareholder disputes, as well as internet litigation, class actions and derivative actions. She represents clients in an array of complex litigation proceedings in all courts of law and tribunals, as well as in complex arbitration and mediation proceedings. Hagit possesses significant reputation regarding the representation of Israeli and foreign corporations and corporate executives having class actions brought against them, regarding corporate and securities law, insurance law, consumer protection, antitrust law, discrimination, banking, environmental law and more. She also represents some of Israel’s leading corporations, shareholders and corporate executives, operating in various fields, in proceedings relating to derivative actions. Her many years of experience in the field serve her clients through filing requests for approval of the claim as a class action and when required, through the class action itself and the attempts to resolve the dispute and minimize the corporation’s exposure to financial and reputational damage. Hagit possesses extensive experience regarding complex shareholder, debenture-holder and creditor settlements in companies, and frequently represents clients in insolvency proceedings, liquidation and receivership proceedings that require innovative, out of the box solutions. She also represents defendants, including CPAs, executives and directors, in claims filed by court appointed officials as part of insolvency proceedings. Hagit is a renowned expert in internet law. She represents search-engines and large corporations which operate in the technology and internet fields, in litigation proceeding and various commercial disputes, and possesses great knowledge of the foreign legislation and rulings in the field, which Israeli courts address while deciding their verdicts. Among Hagit’s clients are Israeli and international private and public companies which operate in the fields of banking, retail, insurance, internet, communications and telecommunications, technology, and more; and she also represents the directors, senior executives and shareholders of these companies. Hagit possesses significant reputation as a mediator and arbitrator of complex business disputes which involve large scale capital, including class actions and monetary disputes in various fields, such as shareholder disputes, developer – contractor disputes, development disputes, securities, insurance and consumer class actions, and more. In the past, she served as the Chair of the Arbitration Committee of the Israel Bar Association and as the Academic Coordinator of the Arbitration Institute of the Israel Bar Association. She has been serving as Co-Head of the Class Action and Derivative Action Committee of the Israel Bar Association for over a decade. Hagit is recognized as one of Israel’s leading attorneys in the dispute resolution, class action and insurance fields by Chambers & Partners and The Legal 500. Alongside her professional work, Hagit lectures at academic institutions and professional forums, and also serves as a lecturer on behalf of the Israel Bar Association in her fields of expertise, among them are class actions, derivative actions, civil procedure, contract law, commercial litigation, debt restructuring, arbitration, the enforcement of foreign verdicts, and more. Hagit is a member of the firm’s Executive Committee.

Adv. Haim Berenson, one of the leading labor law attorneys in Israel, has many years of experience and a pristine reputation in the labor law field and related practice areas, including disciplinary, administrative, civil and fiscal law. Over the years, Haim advised a wide variety of clients on diverse labor law matters, including higher education institutions, government companies, local municipalities, defense corporations, infrastructure companies, hi-tech companies and industrial corporations, as well as worker unions and organizations. For over 20 years, Haim wrote a weekly column on labor law in the financial supplement of the Haaretz daily newspaper and the business supplement of the daily newspaper Maariv, titled “Oved V’Maavid” (“Worker and Employer”). He also writes articles and reviews of case law in professional journals, including the Labour Law Annual, Yeda Le’Meda, Netto+ and Vaadim, as well as on the major legal websites, Psak Din and Nevo. Between 1965-1982, Haim worked for some 17 years in the State Attorney Office, among others as the Ministry of Justice’s Labor Dispute Department Manager and Fiscal Department Manager, with a standing equivalent to that of a District Court Judge. Between 1997-2007, Haim, together with then President of the Supreme Court, Judge Aharon Barak, edited three volumes of the book known as the Berenson Book, published by Nevo in honor of his father, the late Supreme Court Judge, Zvi Berenson: “Dan Yachid” – an autobiography with selected case law (1997); “Bnei Svara” – 20 legal articles (2000); and “Golel” – eulogies and articles in his memory (2007).

Adv. Hila Waintrob has many years of experience and expertise in providing legal representation before all court instances in the fields of civil-commercial law, real estate, contracts, corporations, banks, planning and construction and administrative law. Hila possesses profound professional knowledge, experience and expertise in the fields of planning and construction, and provides the firm’s clients with legal guidance and advice in various proceedings, including betterment taxes, compensation claims, objections to plans and permit requests, expropriations and criminal proceedings (in the field of planning and construction). Hila appears before all court instances, including civil courts, arbitration and mediation; administrative and planning and zoning tribunals and courts, including the Supreme Court as the High Court of Justice and highest court of appeals, administrative courts, appeals committees, deciding assessors and planning institutions; as well as criminal courts (in the field of planning and construction); and more. In her many years as an attorney, Hila has set several precedents in various fields, including betterment taxes, legal proceedings based on implantation of the disengagement plan, cases of evacuation of real estate and disputes regarding real estate rights, cancelation of closing warrants by the ministry of health, expropriations and more.

Adv. Hili Cohen focuses on advising technology-based life science companies of diverse sectors, including medical devices, pharmaceuticals, mHealth, cosmetics and diagnostics. Hili counsels private and public companies, Technology Incubators, entrepreneurs and investors in these companies in connection with day-to-day management, corporate law matters, fund raising transactions, strategic partnerships and mergers and acquisitions. Hili works closely with clients on their commercial transactions, ranging from research and development, joint ventures, clinical trials, licensing and technology agreements, OEMs, manufacturing, marketing and distribution agreements. She also handles Israeli regulatory reviews and compliance programs for life science companies. Hili is recognized as one of Israel’s top lawyers in the life science field by international rankings such as The Legal 500.

Adv. Idan Menchel specializes in the fields of real estate, planning and construction as well as real estate transactions, specifically urban renewal projects, representing both developers and tenants in TAMA 38 and “Pinoy Binoy” projects. Idan advises clients from the initial acquisition and planning stages and throughout the development process to the final construction, marketing and registration stages. Among others, he advises on financing and real estate taxation matters, and represents clients before various authorities. Among Idan’s clients are public companies, private companies, holding groups and urban renewal developers.

Adv. Idan Fefer began practicing labor law in 2007. Throughout his career, Idan represented both employers and employees, as well as unions of both employers and employees, before courts and tribunals; also, he provided companies with legal advice on private and collective labor law issues, ongoing consultancy, composing labor agreements, and legal opinions on various matters. Idan developed a unique expertise in the specific fields of labor law and has a wide range of knowledge and familiarity of the labor courts in Israel. Over the years, he had tremendous legal success and achieved many accomplishments in several high-profile cases. Idan’s professionalism and knowledge in the field of labor law constitute valuable strategic tools in the process of case-handling by our firm. Idan provides legal counseling to his clients on a daily basis and finds creative solutions to the unique problems, dilemmas, and challenges that his clients face, assisting each client based on their specific needs. Idan’s knowledge and expertise have made him a well-known and respected name in the field of labor law, and his reputation and success in the litigation cases he has handled have earned him the respect of his colleagues and peers. Idan gives lectures on a number of labor law issues to various institutions, including the Israeli Bar Association and the Institute of Certified Public Accountants in Israel.

Adv. Idit Reiter is a pioneer and a renowned expert in the Israeli Environmental Law field. Over the past two decades, Idit accumulated significant reputation regarding the development of professional practice in the environmental law field, and possesses unique expertise relating to the advising of clients operating in the industrial sector, financial sector and business sectors, regarding complex issues in the field. Idit provides her clients with comprehensive legal consulting regarding environmental regulation issues (relating to air, water, sea, soil, noise, smell, hazardous materials, radiation, business licensing, perishable energy and renewable energy, planning and construction, public health and more). In addition, she provides continuous consulting to companies regarding issues relating to sustainability and climate change; the implementation of environmental policies, environmental management systems and large-scale projects of internal enforcement and preventive behavior; the drafting of policy programs for government ministries; advising financial institutions regarding environmental risk management; advising on real estate projects; advising national infrastructure government companies; advising environmental technology companies; advising on large-scale commercial transactions relating to environmental aspects and performing due diligence; criminal, administrative and civil litigation; and more. Many of the projects handled by Idit are considered precedential in terms of their innovativeness and scope. As a leading individual in the environmental law field in Israel, Idit is frequently called upon by government entities to take part in policy-making proceedings and advise on legislative initiatives and standardization for the regularization of environmental issues. In addition, she frequently participates in professional conferences, courses and continuing education programs with significant reputation in the field. Throughout the years, Idit has written prominent professional literature in the field. Idit was the first to establish a designated environmental law department at a commercial law firm in Israel, and was the first in Israel to be given partnership based on environmental law expertise. Idit’s significant contribution to the environmental law field has earned her recognition and public acclaim; she was recognized by TheMarker Magazine as one of the seven leading individuals in the environmental law field in Israel; and by Forbes Israel Magazine as one of the most influential individuals in the environmental law field. In addition, Idit was appointed as special counsel to the committee of the ‘Environmental Life Achievement Award’ in honor of the state of Israel’s 60th year celebration. Idit is also personally recognized by international rankings such as Chambers & Partners as one of the top environmental attorneys in Israel.

Adv. Ido Gonen handles a wide array of complex commercial transactions, including private and public capital raising; various aspects relating to securities and stock market laws; mergers and acquisitions; restructuring; private, banking and public finance transactions; and finance agreements. He advises public companies traded on the Tel Aviv Stock Exchange and the New York Stock Exchange on various aspects of securities law, capital raising and corporate governance. In recent years, he led a number of complex capital raising processes, each worth an estimated one billion ILS. Ido possesses extensive experience regarding the establishment of investment funds as well, including private and public funds for investments in real estate, securities, infrastructure, funds of funds, and more. He advises his clients throughout the establishment stages of the fund and capital raising from investors, as well as the ongoing commercial activity of the funds in Israel and abroad. In recent years, Ido accumulated in-depth expertise and a systematic perspective in the establishment and counsel of REIT funds, established under the recent legislation in the real estate and infrastructure fields. The establishment of such funds required innovative legal solutions taking into account both the legal requirements and the client’s commercial needs. Ido’s long years of experience in the corporate law, investment funds and capital markets fields provide him with a broad perspective and a unique ability to analyze the legal-commercial framework in which the client operates, to the benefit of his clients. His business understanding, extensive work relations with the regulators in the field and integrated professional knowledge in various legal practices allow him to provide innovative solutions tailored to his clients’ needs. Among Ido’s clients are private, public and government companies, investment funds, and institutional entities from a wide variety of sectors, including finance, technology, industry, services, real estate, communications, restaurant chains and more. In past years, Ido was an associate in leading New York based commercial law firms.

Adv. Ido Zemach’s broad-based transactional practice concentrates on M&As, capital markets transactions and corporate governance matters, and he has been involved in numerous high-profile and complex international transactions, including struggles for corporate control and shareholder activism, valued at a total of over $100 billion. Ido advises emerging companies as well as public companies, committees of independent directors, investment banks, PE and VC funds, on a broad array of corporate and securities law matters as well as domestic and cross-border transactions, including M&As; public offerings; investments; technology licensing; and franchise transactions in a variety of industries, including TMT, life sciences, cyber, gaming, infrastructure and energy, aviation, food and retail, spreading over diverse geographies, including the U.S., Europe, China, India and Japan. Ido acted in the past few years in a number of significant corporate transactions involving the representation of a range of domestic and foreign companies, including Attunity (Nasdaq: ATTU) on its sale to Qlik (a Thoma Bravo company); Google on its acquisition of Waze; Intel on its acquisitions of Replay Video and Sentrigo; Itamar Medical (Nasdaq: ITMR) on its Nasdaq IPO and sale to ZOLL Medical; J.P. Morgan, Barclays, Jefferies and the other underwriters on the IPO of Tufin Software (Nasdaq: TUFN); Micron (Nasdaq: MU) on its acquisition of Numonyx and the sale of Israeli plant to Intel; Mitsubishi Tanabe Pharma on its acquisition of NeuroDerm (Nasdaq: NDRM); Ormat Industries (TASE: ORMT) on its reorganization with Ormat Technologies (NYSE: ORA); Radware (Nasdaq: RDWR) on several acquisitions; Signet Jewelers (NYSE: SIG) on its acquisition of R2Net; TCV on its investment in Payoneer; Mivne Group on its data centers JV with DLR; Kryon Systems on its sale to Nintex; Trustodome on its sale to Zscaler (Nasdaq: ZS); IBF on its PIPE investment in MediWound (Nasdaq: MDWD); Smith & Nephew (NYSE: SNN) on its acquisition of CartiHeal; and Bynet Data Centers on its financing from Noy Fund. Ido routinely advises boards of directors and management teams on their most sensitive and crucial matters, devising creative solutions to achieve their goals, including the structuring of the first U.S. style shareholder rights plan (a/k/a ‘poison pill’) ever adopted by an Israeli company and the first special tender offer conducted for a dual listed company. Ido was recognized as a leading M&A and capital markets attorney by a number of international guides and occasionally publishes professional articles and lectures on different aspects of his practice areas at academic and professional forums. Following law school, Ido clerked for the Tel Aviv District Attorney (Fiscal Department). From 1999 to 2000, he was an associate at the corporate department of Wachtell, Lipton, Rosen & Katz, New York.

Adv. Ido Amir’s practice focuses on Payments and Digital Financial Services, where he provides strategic legal counsel to banks, card issuers and acquirers, payments and financial institutions, fintechs, and other key participants in the payments ecosystem. His expertise encompasses both financial regulatory and commercial aspects. Ido has extensive experience and a deep understanding of both traditional and innovative payment solutions. He has been involved in major transactions in this field, including card processing agreements, open banking and payment initiation, pay-apps, digital wallets, domestic and international payment schemes, and card loyalty programs. Additionally, Ido is highly experienced in financial licensing matters and represents clients before regulatory and governmental authorities, including the bank of Israel and the Israel Securities Authority. Combining broad legal experience with a strong business orientation, Ido delivers comprehensive advice tailored to the needs of the evolving financial sector. Prior to joining the firm, he served for more than 7 years with the Military Advocate General of the IDF (Israel Defense Forces), holding several legal positions, including Head Legal Counsel of the Home Front Command.

Ifat Sheftel-Ben Zvi

Adv. Ifat Sheftel Ben Zvi specializes in M&A transactions, corporate matters, and capital market commercial transactions. She serves as ongoing corporate and securities counsel for both publicly traded and private companies in a variety and advising clients on a range of issues related to all aspects of their day-to-day business, corporate reporting and compliance issues. Ifat has substantial experience in all aspects of domestic and cross-border mergers and acquisitions, investment and joint venture transactions. Ifat also has extensive experience representing public companies, whose shares are publicly traded in Israel and abroad, with respect to regulatory matters, corporate governance, and other matters. Ifat represents local and international clients across a range of industries, including biotechnology, medical device and software and counsels these clients in a vast variety of transactions, including mergers and acquisitions, venture capital financing, material transfer agreements, drafting and negotiating technology, commercial transactions and other legal and business issues. Ifat is experienced in the representation of public companies, advising companies on public and private offerings, including IPOs, follow-on public offerings, tender offers, periodic reporting, disclosure issues and other general corporate issues. Ifat also counsels Israeli government companies in private and public offerings, on the government companies law and in connection with day-to-day management.

Inbal Faibish Wassmer

Adv. Inbal Faibish Wassmer has years of professional experience in advising high net worth individuals and families with international businesses and activities, as well as Israeli and international financial institutions. She possesses unique expertise in taxation and international tax planning, and provides legal counsel regarding trusts, estates, international tax planning for family wealth, insurance, philanthropy, financial regulation and immigration. Inbal’s experience in the tax and private clients field, alongside her deep understanding of the client’s business environment, allow her to provide comprehensive legal counsel, tailoring innovative legal solutions to the client’s needs. Inbal often lectures on tax, international planning for family wealth and estates. She regularly participates in professional forums and contributes articles on tax regulation, trusts, and private clients in Israel. Alongside her professional activities, Inbal serves as Vice-President of the Switzerland-Israel Chamber of Commerce and Co-Chair of the Private Client Committee of the International Bar Association (IBA). She is also a member of the Steering Committee of the Forum for International Wealth Advisors. Inbal is the sole attorney ranked as Expertise Based Abroad in the Chambers HNW guide Private Wealth Law category for Israel. In 2021, Inbal became the first Israeli attorney to win a Citywealth award. She won three awards in different tax and private client categories, including the Citywealth IFC Gold Award as Advisor of the Year – Succession and Trusts Planning, the Citywealth Magic Circle Silver Award as Women of the Year and the Citywealth Magic Circle Bronze Award as Lawyer of the year. The prestigious Citywealth awards rank professionals worldwide in the fields of tax and private clients. Inbal is fluent in Hebrew, English and German.

Adv. Israel Aziel has dozens of years of real estate experience in all its aspects, and is very knowledgeable and rich in the field and in many complementary aspects such as litigation and taxation. Israel has extensive experience in all areas of the real estate industry – from complex, large scale purchase and sale transactions to combination transactions, investments, partnerships, construction, leasing and more, as well as mega projects – residential, offices, logistics centers, industry and agriculture. He advises throughout all stages and on all aspects of said projects, from the acquisition of rights to the delivery of the units and registration of rights. In addition, Israel handles numerous urban renewal projects (Pinuy-Binuy and TAMA 38), as well as purchasing groups and associations for construction, and advises landowners and developers on the promotion and change of real estate plans and zoning. Israel also specializes in planning and construction in all areas – planning aspects of projects, objections, appeals and administrative appeals – and advises clients throughout the construction and infrastructure development stages, including representation in complex matters before various authorities such as governmental and municipal entities. In addition, Israel represents clients in complex legal proceedings related to real estate rights, partnership disputes, partnership dissolutions, construction defects and more. Israel also specializes in real estate finance. Israel represents large real estate companies and entities, including development companies, investment firms and large private entrepreneurs. He also represents landowners and assets, purchase groups, contractors and infrastructure companies. Israel also represents many public entities such as local authorities and large government companies. Israel is ranked by local and international guides as one of Israel’s top real estate attorneys.

Jeremy Benjamin

Adv. Jeremy Benjamin specializes in corporate and contract disputes. He handles litigation and arbitration relating to corporate transactions and shareholder disputes, investment funds, financial services, real estate, and cross-border distribution and sales agency agreements. In addition, Jeremy possesses expertise in private international law, specifically international jurisdiction, choice of law, and international arbitration. Jeremy also advises and represents companies and executives regarding insolvency issues and works with local counsel when firm clients litigate or arbitrate outside of Israel. Jeremy’s clients include Israeli and foreign companies active in the hi-tech, finance, food, aviation and defense, and automotive sectors. Jeremy is recognized as a key lawyer in dispute resolution by The Legal 500. Jeremy served in the past on the audit committee of the Association for Civil Rights in Israel.

Josef Sternthal

Adv. Josef Sternthal advises individuals and corporations on a wide range of domestic and international tax aspects and represents clients before the Israeli Tax Authorities and the courts in tax disputes.

Adv. Layla Chertow has over 30 years of legal and business experience, including in formation and management of private equity funds and establishment of and legal advice to venture capital funds. Layla advises clients on all matters related to venture capital, investment funds and hi-tech financing, and has extensive experience in investment transactions and mergers and acquisitions. In the past, she served as a vice-president, general counsel and corporate secretary in private and publicly traded companies in Israel and abroad including Tadiran Communications and was a partner in Shamrock Israel Growth Fund. Layla was a member on boards of directors of companies in Israel, the USA and Germany.

Adv. Lev Gaft advises international and domestic clients on mergers and acquisitions, investments and other corporate and commercial transactions. Prior to joining the firm in 2020, Lev practiced at Shearman & Sterling LLP in New York.

Adv. Levy Amitay manages the firm together with Adv. Tal Atsmon and Adv. Aya Yoffe. In his capacity as Managing Partner, Levy handles the managerial-strategic aspects of the firm, from daily management to formulating the firm’s vision and long-term commercial strategy for the firm’s continued growth. In addition, Levy serves as Head of the Real Estate, Planning and Construction Department . In this capacity, Levy, one of Israel’s top real estate attorneys, advises and manages complex real estate transactions and large-scale real estate projects. Among others, Levy specializes in large-scale residential, commercial and office projects, as well as in real estate finance transactions and in the legal consulting of holding groups and real estate companies, some of the largest in the Israeli market and internationally. In recent years, Levy handled a significant portion of the largest and most complex commercial and real estate transactions in Israel - both from the legal rights’ status aspects and from the transaction’s commercial and financial aspects. Among Levy’s clients are public companies, private companies, holding groups and developers of large-scale real estate projects. Levy has been repeatedly recognized, year after year, by various international directories, among them is Chambers & Partners and The Legal 500, by domestic directories (BDI, Dun’s 100) and by professional magazines, as one of Israel’s leading attorneys in the real estate field. Levy is a member and one of the founders of Friends of Mayanei Hayashi Medical Centre Association in Bnei Berak.

Adv. Lia Litvak specializes in the corporate field, advising on mergers and acquisitions, commercial co-operations, joint ventures and large-scale construction and infrastructure projects, in Israel and abroad. In this capacity, Lia advises on various legal matters, including commercial and corporate law, administrative law, tenders, financing, investment and more.

Adv. Liam Schwartz is a recognized leader in United States and Israeli corporate immigration law. His law practice focuses on assisting companies in relocating executives, managers and specialized knowledge employees to the U.S. Liam works primarily with Human Resources and other C-level executives at client companies, guiding them through the maze of non-immigrant work visas. Given the nature of his primary clientele – startups involved with cyber, biotech, fintech, real estate and AI – his work focuses on the two “E” work visas (E-1 trade and E-2 investment), the O-1 extraordinary ability visa, and the L-1 intercompany transferee visa. Liam and his team provide total lifecycle support for the relocation visa process, from selecting the best visa type for the client, its personnel and their families; to drafting and submitting the substantive visa petitions; to preparing employees for the in-person interview with a U.S. Consular Officer. Liam also works with individuals, specializing in complex visa cases involving possible inadmissibility to the U.S. due to (for example) past criminal convictions (white-collar and cannabis-related violations, e.g.) or immigration violations such as overstays and unauthorized employment. As Head of the firm’s Corporate Immigration Practice, Liam provides guidance and assistance in the field of Israeli immigration law to a large range of foreign and domestic business clients. His work in the Israeli corporate immigration field focuses on B-1 Foreign Experts, the 90 day short-term expert visa, the 45-day expedited work visa, the B-1 High Tech/Cyber work visa and the B-5 investor visa for American citizens. In parallel, Liam has served as Outside Counsel to the Israel Population and Immigration Authority on U.S. immigration law issues. Liam’s career contributions include: Annual selection by his global peers to the list of “Most Highly Regarded Individuals in Corporate Immigration Law;” Service in positions for the American Immigration Lawyers Association (AILA) including Chair, Department of State Liaison Committee; Chair, AILA EMEA Chapter; and co-Chair, AILA Global Migration Section; Receipt of an AILA Presidential Commendation for Outstanding Leadership, the AILA Sam Williamson Mentor Award, and the AILA Edward Gudeon Service Award; Co-author of the Council on Foreign Relations’ Policy Memorandum on modernizing the United States visa system; Featured in a large variety of media in Israel and abroad; Lectured at professional conferences throughout the United States, Israel and Europe; Authored dozens of articles for professional publications, as well as several books and guides; Creator of “Consular Corner,” an online community dedicated to raising the level of discourse between American consular officers and immigration attorneys.

Liat Faig-Neuwirth

Adv. Liat Faig-Neuwirth possesses significant experience in the tax field and unique expertise in the areas of indirect tax and value added tax. Liat has extensive experience in planning and advising on transactions; managing proceedings before the tax authorities (handling tax decisions, special arrangements and rulings, as well as audits and assessments); and providing complex opinions and ongoing advice regarding the optimization of business activities and management. She provides ongoing legal counsel in tax related areas to a wide variety of leading Israeli and international companies operating in various sectors, including real estate, retail, communications, industry, finance, capital markets and more. Alongside her professional activities, Liat serves in several official positions at the Institute of Certified Public Accountants in Israel, including Vice President, Co-Chairperson of the Business Sectors Committee and a member of other committees. She also serves as Chairperson of the VAT and Customs Committee at the Israel Bar Association. In addition, she lectures in seminars organized by the Institute of Certified Public Accountants in Israel, the Israel Bar Association and other forums, and publishes articles on tax related subjects. Liat previously led the Indirect Tax Department in the PwC accounting firm.

Adv. Liat Graber specializes in various taxation aspects of large-scale commercial transactions and complex litigation proceedings, including capital market taxation, restructuring, public and private offerings of debt and capital, complex financial products, corporate liquidation, individual taxation, and more. Liat is one of Israel’s leading experts in the crypto and blockchain taxation and regulation field and possesses unique expertise in the field, including in relation to tax arrangements, corporate structuring for blockchain companies and the applicability of the Encouragement of Capital Investments Law. She is involved in legislation proceedings, regulatory guideline formation and other regulatory proceedings vis-à-vis various regulatory authorities in the field, such as the Arrangements Law 2021, Finance Ministry regulation and more. In addition, Liat represents corporate and private clients before banks and advises on meeting banking regulation requirements. Among her clients in the field are the Israeli Bitcoin Association, leading blockchain companies and individual cryptocurrency investors. Liat possesses extensive expertise in the fields of international taxation, capital markets taxation, real estate taxation, income tax, and others. She accumulated this expertise over the course of her long years of public service in the Israel Tax Authority (2005-2016). Liat served as Deputy Legal Adviser to the Israel Tax Authority (ITA), overseeing the Legislation Division in the ITA, as well as Director of the Capital Markets Department in the ITA’s Legal Division. In this capacity, Liat accumulated significant experience in the tax regulation field, and led most of the tax legislation since 2011, providing ongoing counsel throughout the legislative process, which involved the Finance Ministry, the Justice Ministry, the Ministerial Committee for Legislation, and various Knesset (Israel’s parliament) committees. Among others, she led the legislation related to tax for private owners of multiple apartments; reportable actions, ‘wallet companies’; REIT funds; natural resources taxation; trusts; closely held private companies; the Encouragement of Capital Investment Law; and more. In addition, Liat provided ongoing professional counsel with regard to several tax related suits filed against the State in the Supreme Court; provided ongoing counsel regarding the tax aspects of the ‘Gas Outline’; and was a member of inter ministerial committees, such as the Committee for Examination of the Securitization Market in Israel. Among Liat’s clients are private and public companies from a wide variety of sectors, as well as high net worth individuals. She represents her clients in a long line of activities, including preparation and submission of tax reports, representation before various courts and tribunals, ongoing counsel on commercial transactions and processes, and more.

Liraz Shaharabani Kosover

Adv. Liraz Shaharabani Kosover specializes in corporate law, investment transactions and M&As. Liraz also specializes in corporate finance, representing both local and international entities. Liraz advises clients in all areas of corporate governance and various aspects of Israeli corporate recovery and insolvency law. Liraz’s clients include managements and boards of directors of leading public and private companies to which she provides ongoing consultation and legal opinions on complex issues. In the corporate finance practice area, Liraz represents both lenders and borrowers in all stages of the transaction, from the negotiation stage to drafting and closing.

Liraz Navon Tubul

Adv. and CPA Liraz Navon Tubul specializes in various taxation aspects as part of large-scale commercial transactions and complex litigation proceedings, including corporate and individual tax; capital markets tax; restructuring; public and private offerings of shares, debt and complex financial products; and liquidation. Liraz possesses extensive expertise regarding income tax in Israel, international taxation, corporate and individual tax, capital markets, real estate tax, and more. Among Liraz’s clients are public and private companies from a wide variety of sectors, high net worth individuals, and leading financial institutions. She represents her clients in numerous matters, including representation before the tax authorities and various courts and tribunals, as well as in transactions and commercial activities. Liraz lectures on tax subjects in several academic institutions, including the Hebrew University of Jerusalem and the Ruppin Academic Center.

Maayan Pogozelits Lasri

Adv. Maayan Pogozelits Lasri advises international and local clients from a wide range of industries, including companies in the fields of software, social media, information security and cyber, e-commerce and life sciences, regarding intellectual property commercialization, management and protection. The consultancy includes drafting license agreements and online agreements for websites and applications, managing databases, registering trademarks, conducting proceedings with the Registrar of Trademarks, and assisting in all aspects of the law of protection of privacy and infringement of intellectual property. Furthermore, Maayan accompanies international transactions of investment and acquisition in which start-ups and technology companies in Israel and abroad are involved.

Adv. Matan Winkler has several years of experience representing clients in complex commercial disputes and class action suits. Matan represents international clients before all courts in Israel and before international tribunals such as ICC and SCC. He also has extensive experience in arbitration and mediation proceedings, including complex procedures worth significant amounts of money, in various aspects of civil and commercial law. Matan specializes in conflict resolution and commercial litigation for private and public companies including start-ups, technology based companies, venture capital entities, biomed companies and real estate companies, in the civil, administrative and High Courts. Matan provides ongoing advice to clients through all stages of the legal dispute with a wide perspective, striving to achieve the best solution for his client with attention to the nature of conflict and maintenance of the client’s business goals. Matan also deals with real estate sale transactions, and represents clients in legal disputes related to aforementioned field. Prior to joining the firm, Matan represented a well know large public companies in the various courts and in complex arbitration proceedings. He also provided several commercial companies with ongoing legal advice in regard to all of their business and contractual affairs.

Maya Nusbaum Rapaport

Adv. Maya Nusbaum Rapaport specializes in managing complex litigation proceedings in the fields of civil law, particularly commercial law. Maya represents clients in complex business disputes, various commercial matters (including contracts), shareholder disputes, cancellation and enforcement of commercial agreements, consumer matters and a variety of class actions. In addition, Maya provides ongoing counsel to clients active in the media sector, such as production companies and individuals, including in relation to libel claims, copyright and intellectual property. Maya represents high net worth individuals in complex personal status and inheritance monetary disputes, as well as other sensitive monetary proceedings. She also advises companies and other entities embroiled in such proceedings as third parties. Maya represents her clients before all courts and tribunals, including arbitration and mediation proceedings, and at times serves as a mediator. She also provides ongoing counsel and legal-strategic advice, and assists in the settlement of disputes before they reach the court. Among Maya’s clients are local and international public and private companies, as well as senior businesspeople.

Merav Kainan-Wagner

Adv. Merav Kainan-Wagner specializes in corporate and securities law, and handles complex corporate transactions. Merav handles public securities offerings (including IPOs and secondary offerings), private placements, equity and debt financings, institutional finance transactions, investments, mergers and acquisitions, acquisitions of control, tender offers, corporate restructurings and reorganizations, and shareholder transactions. In addition, Merav regularly advises and represents market leading Israeli and international companies on ongoing matters regarding corporate law and securities law, including the implementation of applicable regulatory provisions and corporate governance requirements, as well as enforcement plans and executive compensation. Among Merav’s clients are public and private companies, which operate in Israel and abroad, including companies traded on the Tel Aviv Stock Exchange and on foreign capital markets.

Adv. Merav Niv Geva accompanies entrepreneurs, investors and international companies in various fields of technology, cleantech and industry, including water and wastewater treatment and delivery, energy, chemistry, electronics and others, combining entrepreneurship, financing, planning and building plants and infrastructures. Merav advises international investors in their investments in Israel and Israeli companies in projects and transactions in Israel and outside Israel, together with local lawyers in the various countries. She advises on capital raising, M&A transactions and international transactions of various types and scopes, purchase and sale of technology, activity and assets and projects of various infrastructures. Merav is experienced in various financing tools, including securitization, mezzanine financing, buyer credit and various bank credit. In addition, Merav advises on agreements for the establishment of factories and infrastructures, as well as supply chains, including procurement and logistics, marketing and distribution agreements in different countries of the world. Merav is a lecturer at international forums of lawyers, accountants and others.

Adv. Merav Baruch specializes in complex disputes in the fields of civil-commercial law (including contract law, corporate law, telecommunications law and more) and administrative law (tender law, various administrative appeals), and represents her clients in a variety of litigation proceedings, including class actions, contractual disputes, competition claims, tax litigation, various types of administrative claims, and professional liability claims, arbitration proceedings, complex commercial disputes, and more. Merav accumulated significant reputation in the representation of clients in all courts of law and tribunals, and in alternative dispute resolution forums. In this capacity, she provides ongoing counsel to her clients, including leading Israeli companies and foreign corporations involved in contentious proceedings in Israel, advising on a wide array of legal issues relating to various fields of law, and representing her clients in all of the various aspects of civil and administrative disputes.

Meytal Sadovnick Toledano

Adv. Meytal Sadovnick Toledano specializes in antitrust and competition in Israel. Meytal provides ongoing legal counsel to clients regarding competition regulation, concentration matters and various litigation proceedings related to competition and antitrust matters.

Adv. Michael Heller specializes in corporate finance, mergers and acquisitions, and emerging growth companies of all shapes and sizes. He represents a broad array of start-up companies in their day-to-day legal and business activities. Michael represents top-tier venture capital funds in Israel and abroad in a wide variety of private equity financings. Since 1997 when he arrived in Israel, he has handled a vast array of equity and debt financing transactions, many of which involved complex secondary transactions, capital restructuring, reorganizations and spin-offs. Michael represents hi-tech start-up companies from their early stages, and advises them on all legal, business and commercial activities, including corporate governance, finance, commercial, employment, compensation and intellectual property matters. He advises companies from a wide array of industries and provides continuous consulting to entrepreneurs and company founders regarding their ongoing and evolving relations with their companies, as well as matters relating to company formation, recruitment of service providers, compensation matters, shareholder relations, financing and complex restructuring. He plays an active role in helping companies tackle daily challenges in all aspects of their operations and business. Michael is ranked as one of the highly recommended venture capital and hi-tech attorneys in Israel by the international guides Chambers & Partners and The Legal 500. From 1991 to 1993, Michael served as an associate at Ervin, Cohen & Jessup LLP, Beverly Hills, California. From 1993 to 1997, he served as an associate at Sonnenschein, Nath & Rosenthal LLP, Chicago, Illinois (now part of the Dentons firm).

Michael Ginsburg

Adv. Michael Ginsburg is a leading litigator and has extensive experience in civil litigation with representing clients in broad, complicated commercial litigation and arbitration in all areas of corporate, commercial and civil law. Michael specializes in all areas of commercial litigation including securities litigation, complex corporate and contractual litigation, administrative litigation, insolvency litigation, class actions and other disputes for both Israeli and international clients and as such, he offers his clients continuous, professional counsel at every stage of a legal dispute, in order to reach an appropriate solution while protecting and achieving the clients’ business objectives. Michael represents his clients in disputes before all Israeli courts, arbitration organizations and tribunals, in Israel and abroad. Michael also advises commercial clients regarding all aspects of a wide range of real estate transactions, including complicated sales, combination agreements, partnership agreements, tenders, residential deals and more. He also represents clients in related litigation. In addition, Michael serves as President of The Academic College of Tel Aviv–Yaffo’s Appeals Court. In the years 2021 and 2022, Michael contributed a chapter in the new book, “The Securities Litigation Review”, published by Wachtell, Lipton, Rosen & Katz, which details a comprehensive legal guide to Securities Litigation in Israel. In the chapter, Michael provides an overview of the uniqueness of the Israeli jurisdiction, the private and public enforcement of securities law and the new developments in this field, with special emphasis on the use of the business judgment rule in securities litigation cases and the interpretation of the courts in applying this rule.

Michal Matthews-Maor

Adv. Michal Matthews – Maor’s practice focuses on finance, commercial law and local and international financing transactions Michal represents both financial institutions in their capacity as lenders and corporate entities in their capacity as borrowers (including banking institutions, insurance companies, investment houses and mezzanine funds). In addition, Michal specializes in various complex aspects of collateral, security interests and liens, in both domestic and international aspects. Moreover, Michal drafts commercial contracts across a broad spectrum of fields. She also offers continuous legal counsel to both Israeli and international corporations on numerous commercial law matters. Additionally, Michal supports non-profit organizations and philanthropic entities in all aspects of donations and philanthropic endeavors in Israel.

Michal Lifton Sitbon

Adv. Michal Lifton Sitbon represents private technology-based companies in a variety of industries and different stages of their development. Her practice includes, inter alia, cross border mergers and acquisitions, drafting and negotiating international commercial transactions, venture capital and financing transactions (including early stage and debt financing), as well as ongoing corporate counseling.

Over the years, Adv. Moshe Mazor accumulated significant experience and reputation in the ‘white collar’ field. He provides ongoing legal counsel to executives from the public and business sectors in investigations and legal proceedings related to bribery and corruption charges, money laundering offenses, environmental law, military offenses, international offenses, antitrust law, securities law, and more. Moshe possesses extensive experience in providing legal counsel to military and other security personnel relating to inquiry and review committees, and in their representation in proceedings related to security offenses. in addition, Moshe possesses unique expertise in managing legal proceedings conducted in foreign countries. He works alongside local lawyers in cases relating to Israeli citizens and corporations, including extradition proceedings. In recent years, Moshe was involved in managing multiple high-profile, complex legal proceedings which drew extensive public interest. Among his clients are leading Israeli and international corporations that operate in the infrastructure, real estate, defense, transport, retail, and other sectors, as well as government owned companies and executives from the public sector. Moshe specializes in managing complex disputes in the civil-commercial litigation field, as well as administrative litigation, petitions to the High Court of Justice and various administrative proceedings. In the field of civil law, Moshe provides ongoing legal counsel to his clients – corporations and executives – in large scale commercial disputes. He represents his clients before all courts and tribunals, as well as in alternative dispute settlement proceedings. Alongside his professional work, Moshe lectured on criminal law at Bar-Ilan University and Sha’arei Mishpat College, and lectures in the senior management and directors course at Bar-Ilan University. He also occasionally lectures at professional seminars of the Israel Bar Association.

Adv. Moshe Ganot focuses his practice on mergers and acquisitions, corporate governance, corporate law, capital markets, corporate finance and commercial transactions. Moshe has extensive experience in various domestic and cross-border M&A and investment transactions, representing both Israeli and international clients and has advised over the years on many complex and high-profile transactions in the Israeli market. Moshe advises Israeli large-scale corporations on a wide variety of corporate and securities matters (including, corporate governance, D&O fiduciary duties, independent committees on going-private transactions, shareholders agreements, tender offers, purchase agreements, corporate reorganization, dividends and capital reduction, ESOPs and executive compensation) as well on matters relating to business partnerships and joint venture transactions. Moshe also provides legal advice to international clients in connection with corporate matters, M&A / “going private” alternatives and securities law issues. Moshe previously worked as a corporate foreign associate in the New York office of Kirkland & Ellis LLP, where his practice focused on mergers and acquisitions, corporate divestitures and private equity investments. Moshe is recognized as a recommended lawyer by The Legal 500 in the practice areas of Commercial, Corporate and M&A.

Adv. Moti Arad specializes in litigation and dispute resolution, including class actions, media law, libel, privacy protection, shareholder disputes, administrative law and commercial law. Moti possesses unique expertise in representing clients in complex commercial class actions in various sectors, including consumer claims and claims in the fields of food, telecommunications and media, antitrust and accessibility. He represents clients before all courts and tribunals. Moti is a certified mediator, and serves as an arbitrator in complex disputes.

Adv. Moti Balilti’s taxation practice is vast, both domestically and internationally, and includes tax structuring, transfer pricing, international taxation, immigration planning, corporate taxation, real estate taxation, benefits under the Encouragement of Capital Investment Law, tax benefits in accordance with tax treaties, aspects of VAT and more. In addition, Moti specializes in providing consultation and planning services to high-net worth individuals, including with respect to hybrid entities, transparent entities, insurance wrappers, immigration planning, trusts and cross-border issues. Moti provides his clients with detailed and comprehensive opinions on Israeli tax laws, advises them on optimal tax planning, and obtains pre-rulings and certificates from the Israeli tax authorities in various tax matters. Moti has experience representing clients in tax disputes before the Israel Tax Authority and District and Supreme Courts in Israel. Moti served as academic assistant in several taxation courses taught in prominent universities and colleges in Israel. Moti is a member of the Tax Committee of the Israel Bar Association.

Adv. Nimrod Prawer possesses extensive experience and expertise in antitrust law and competition regulation. He regularly advises multinational and domestic companies regarding antitrust matters ranging from complex M&A transactions (where Nimrod accumulated unique expertise in cross-jurisdictional reviews of merger notifications) to ongoing counsel on antitrust aspects of commercial activity and competition enforcement by the Israel Competition Authority. Nimrod represents both Israeli and international clients on the unique antitrust and competition aspects of the Israeli market, including the Law for Promoting Competition and Reducing Concentration 2013 (the “Concentration Law”) and the Promotion of Competition in the Food Industry Law, 2014 (the “Food Law”). He advises on competition and antitrust aspects of various litigation proceedings (civil, administrative, criminal), and provides ongoing counsel to leading clients regarding these proceedings. Nimrod provides expert competition and antitrust counsel to numerous leading local and international corporations from a wide variety of sectors, including hi-tech, banking, transportation, telecommunications, retail, and more.

Adv. Nitzan Tuvya specializes in commercial and corporate law, including complex, cross border M&A transactions, providing legal counsel and representation to entrepreneurs, start-ups, investors, technology companies and international concerns operating in various fields, including cyber, software, chips, semiconductors, Fin-Tech, Ad-Tech, pharma, Food-Tech, Bio-Med and more, in Israel and abroad. In addition, Nitzan possesses significant experience in advising on venture capital transactions, in which she represents leading local and international investment funds. Over the years, she advised on numerous financing and VC transactions with complex commercial and legal aspects. Nitzan advises clients on all commercial aspects of their day-to-day activity, from company establishment through the financing stages to the exit. She advises her clients on the legal and commercial aspects of their activity, including corporate governance, finance, commerce, employment, service providers, compensation, shareholder relations and complex capital restructuring. Nitzan also specializes in advising clients on various commercial transactions, particularly in the technology and intellectual property field, including licensing agreements, terms of use, privacy policy, R&D, manufacturing and supply, distribution and agency agreements, and more.

Nufar Stein-Uhr

Adv. Nufar Stein-Uhr has extensive experience in civil litigation with representing clients in broad, complicated commercial litigation and arbitration in all areas of corporate, commercial, and civil law. Nufar specializes in all areas of commercial litigation including securities litigation, complex corporate and contractual litigation, class actions, derivative actions and other disputes for both Israeli and international clients. Nufar also represents clients in disputes before all Israeli courts, and before arbitration organizations and tribunals, in Israel.

Adv. Ofer Ravid is one of Israel’s most respected attorneys in the Labor Law field. His practice focuses on the interplay between Israeli labor and corporate laws, particularly with regard to corporate transactions. In this regard, Ofer’s comprehensive legal support of clients includes drafting agreements and providing legal opinions relating to the full cycle of employer-employee relations: from the hiring and compensation of employees, to organizational restructuring and corporate downsizing; and from changes in employment terms and conditions, to employee dismissal. He also advises clients on the interaction between labor law and employee relocation. Ofer provides guidance, both tactical and strategic, to corporate clients in addressing complex issues in the intersection between labor and corporate laws, such as those arising from merger and acquisition transactions, public offerings, and corporate due diligence. He actively represents clients in Israel’s civil courts, labor tribunals, and arbitration proceedings; and appears before government agencies on behalf of clients on matters of labor relations. As a labor law focal point for the firm’s wide-ranging clientele, Ofer provides services to leading hi-tech corporations, as well as companies in traditional business sectors and private individuals. Ofer provides workshops and training to clients on a variety of subjects such as sexual harassment, employee recruitment, and more, and serves as an external auditor in sexual harassment and work abuse complaints . He also lectures on emerging labor law topics at a wide variety of academic and professional forums, including the Israel Bar Association, the Legal Advisers Forum, the CFO Forum and others. Ofer authored the chapter on Israeli Labor Law for the American Bar Association (ABA), and regularly publishes articles in the professional media. Ofer is a member of the International Labor Law Association, and provides pro bono services to non-profit entities.

Adv. Ofer Hanoh represents Israeli and foreign banks, holding bank corporations, investment banks and organizations, and public companies. Ofer is also experienced in the representation of public companies traded both in Israel and in the USA, and was involved in many merger and acquisitions transactions and transactions involving corporate reorganization. Prior to joining the firm, he worked for 4 years in the Advisory and Legislation Department of the Military Advocate General HQ of the IDF (Israel Defense Forces).

Adv. Ofir Goldstein advises start-ups, technology companies and life science companies at all stages of development, in a wide range of international and local transactions, including early stage and later stage investments, commercial agreements, and M&A. Ofir’s expertise focuses on all legal aspects of the development and commercialization of medical devices and products – from manufacturing and development agreements to marketing and distribution agreements. Ofir deals with commercial agreements, including licensing agreements, investment agreements, capital financing, supply agreements, development agreements, collaboration agreements and clinical trial agreements, as well as ongoing accompaniment of companies in various fields.

Adv. Oren Reif specializes in energy and infrastructure as well as international commercial transactions, joint ventures, M&As, investment transactions and structured finance. Oren possesses significant experience in the energy and infrastructure fields, and represents key entities which operate in these sectors in Israel. He provides ongoing counsel to a variety of projects for the establishment and operation of power generation facilities (traditional power plants, co-generation facilities, solar facilities, energy storage facilities and biogas-based facilities), as well as agreements for the purchase, transfer and distribution of natural gas. In addition, Oren advises complex, large-scale projects in various infrastructure fields, such as desalination plants, light rail, roads, mineral mining and conveyance, waste sorting and seaports. Alongside the above, Oren is experienced in providing ongoing legal counsel to government entities and tender committees on the drafting of tenders and the tender process, as well as providing ongoing legal counsel to private entities competing in major tenders in the Israeli market. In addition, Oren is engaged in establishing, advising, and providing ongoing legal counsel to high value joint ventures, in Israel and abroad, in the real estate, industrial and communications sectors. He also regularly advises his clients on all corporate aspects related to managing their businesses. Oren accumulated unique expertise in mediating relations between founders and partners, and managing complex international corporate and commercial transactions. From 2007 to 2008, Oren was a member of the Structured Finance Group in Skadden, Arps, Slate, Meagher & Flom LLP and Affiliates in New York, one of the leading law firms in the United States.

Adv. Oren Wolpin specializes in corporate law, private investments funds, international real estate investments, mergers and acquisitions, and international tenders. Oren has extensive experience relating to the establishment and ongoing consultation to private investment funds, including private equity funds, real estate funds, venture capital funds, and hedge funds. He advises his clients throughout the formation of the investment funds, capital raising from investors and the funds’ ongoing operations in Israel and abroad. Oren also counsels institutional investors on their investments as lead investors in various types of funds. In addition, Oren acquired vast experience in the area of international real estate investments, particularly in the U.S and Europe. In this field, Oren advises clients on the drafting of investment, joint venture and cooperation agreements with local entrepreneurs and partners, and on all applicable Israeli securities regulation issues related to raising funds from Israeli investors for such purposes, utilizing both his corporate experience and his understanding of private placements regulation in Israel. Oren also specializes in merger and acquisition transactions in Israel and abroad, and in recent years led complex deals in the media, insurance and energy fields, including all structure planning, contract drafting, and due diligence work related to such transactions. Oren additionally provides ongoing counsel on various corporate and commercial issues to a large array of clients, and counsels both local and international clients with respect to international tenders in Israel and abroad.

Adv. Oren Biran has a diverse tax practice, which includes tax structuring of strategic transactions (e.g. mergers and acquisitions), investment funds of all kinds, real estate projects, incentive compensation plans and individual tax planning. Oren advises clients with respect to tax planning and structuring of various domestic and international transactions, including merger and acquisitions, public offerings, reorganization, investments, joint ventures and other complex international taxation matters. Oren specializes in the formation of venture capital funds, private equity funds, hedge funds and real estate funds, including advising on structure issues and obtaining tax rulings from the tax authorities. Oren has extensive experience representing clients in tax disputes in precedents and leading tax cases in front of the Israel Tax Authority, District and Supreme Courts in Israel, including, multinational companies in tax controversies, Transfer Pricing, Intellectual Property, Valuations and APA, and restructuring of companies’ tax and business models. In addition, Oren has an extensive experience representing high net-worth individuals in connection with trusts, investments, cross-border tax issues, employees and executives’ incentives compensation plans as well as pre and post-immigration planning. Oren has obtained dozens of tax rulings from the tax authorities and has handled many controversies between the tax authorities and taxpayers, including negotiating settlements and representing clients in judicial proceedings. Oren is a member of the Tax Committee of the Israeli Bar and has published a number of articles on taxation issues.

Adv. Orit Kremer specializes in financing, financial regulation, banking and commercial transactions, and possesses unique expertise relating to the activity of financial entities and financial regulation aspects, including obtaining licenses and permits for various financial activities such as providing credit, financial services and payment services, representing clients in legislative proceedings and providing ongoing legal and regulatory counsel to supervised entities in the financial sector. Orit possesses extensive experience in local and international financing and loan transactions, including project finance for energy and infrastructure projects as well as corporate finance for hi-tech companies. She also represents institutional lenders and corporate borrowers. Orit provides ongoing legal counsel to Israeli and multinational corporations, including banks and financial institutions, with respect to financial regulation and payment services issues. Orit accumulated significant expertise in advising financial institutes and private clients regarding a variety of financial services provided by both banking and non-banking financial entities; regarding financial technologies (Fin-Tech), debit cards, advanced payment methods and digital payment services, such as digital wallets and payment apps; consumer and credit clubs; and regulatory aspects thereof, including anti-money laundering aspects.

Adv. Orna Verhovsky specializes in planning and construction law and among others, advises landowners and Israel’s leading construction companies on residential, commerce and industry construction projects; and advises private and public entities on the advancement of infrastructure and energy projects. Among others, Orna handles the drafting and approval of plans before the planning institutions and all courts of law, and advises on the realization and execution of plans. She also represents the expropriating authority in proceedings which regard the expropriation of land for public needs. In addition, Orna handles the licensing procedures of the various projects under her care, both regarding the construction licensing aspect and the business licensing aspect. Orna acquired extensive experience in administrative and civil litigation in all courts of law, in the planning and construction and real estate fields, as well as in the representation of clients in criminal proceedings relating to her field of expertise. Orna’s clients are from a wide array of business sectors and include, among others, private and public companies, government companies, administrative entities, real estate entrepreneurs, infrastructure, communications, transportation and renewable energy entities, as well as industrial companies and retail chains.

Associate, Administrative Law, Tenders and Municipal Government, litigation

Adv. Oz Sasi specializes in managing complex litigation proceedings in diverse areas, including representing defendants in class actions; representing directors and company officials; shareholder disputes; managing commercial disputes; and managing various administrative proceedings. Oz possesses unique expertise in managing complex class actions in various fields, especially class actions with a dominant economic-financial aspect. In addition, he provides ongoing counsel to clients, including some of the largest companies in Israel and senior officials, in derivative actions to which they are a party. Throughout his work, Oz accumulated extensive experience in providing ongoing counsel to companies, directors and company officials in insolvency proceedings, and he possesses unique expertise relating to debenture settlements. He provided legal counsel regarding some of the largest debenture settlements made by public companies in Israel in recent years. Oz provides ongoing counsel and representation to his clients before all courts and tribunals, including arbitration and mediation proceedings. Among his clients are Israeli and international corporations, directors, company officials, public authorities and individuals. Alongside his professional work, Oz lectures and leads litigation workshops in academic institutions, and served as a TA in several courses including, inter alia, Commercial Law, Securities Law, Torts, Contracts Law, etc.

Patrick Benzimra

Adv. Patrick Benzimra specializes in providing legal-commercial counsel to Israeli and European corporations as well as private foreign investors in the fields of real estate, commercial law and more, particularly in relation to investments in Israeli commercial and residential real estate and other transactions in Israel. Patrick possesses significant experience in real estate investments and investments in Israeli corporations by foreign commercial entities. Over the years, he advised a broad variety of European clients in their commercial activity in Israel, including real estate, aviation, tourism, hotels, telecommunications and retail. Patrick is one of the most experienced attorneys in Israel with regard to advising French-speaking clientele, and maintains close ties with leading Paris-based law firms. In addition, Patrick represents foreign corporations in private arbitration proceedings relating to civil and commercial disputes, before all courts and tribunals, including the Supreme Court. Patrick also is an expert in representing clients in relation to the Hague Convention on the Civil Aspects of International Child Abduction (Hague Abduction Convention), as well as complex, cross border estates. Among Patrick’s clients are foreign embassies and governments, foreign airlines, telecommunication companies, private foreign investors and more.

Adv. Peer David specializes in managing large-scale, complex commercial litigation proceedings, local and international, in various fields, including infrastructure and energy projects, real estate disputes, construction disputes, business disputes (including in relation to crypto currency) and shareholder disputes. She also specializes in managing local and international arbitration, including enforcement and objections to the enforcement of foreign arbitration awards. Peer represents her clients before all courts and tribunals, including arbitration and mediation proceedings held before the top arbitration tribunals in the world. In addition, she provides ongoing counsel and legal-strategic advice, and assists in the settlement of disputes before they reach the court. Peer possesses unique expertise and extensive experience in managing complex proceedings in the construction, infrastructure and energy fields, including representing lead contractors, sub-contractors and apartment purchasers in disputes held before various courts. She is also experienced in providing ongoing counsel to company officials, particularly of development and contracting companies, and advises on the litigation aspects of diverse projects throughout the project, from the initial planning stages to project completion and beyond. Among Peer’s clients are local and international public and private companies, as well as senior businesspeople, active in the fields of infrastructure, development, international trade and more. Peer is recognized by the international ranking The Legal 500 as a Recommended Lawyer in the fields of dispute resolution, mediation and international arbitration.

Adv. Perry Wildes concentrates his practice in the area of corporate and securities law, with an emphasis on public and private capital raising transactions and cross border transactions. Perry advises Israeli companies registered with the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) on compliance with their securities law and stock exchange disclosure obligations and corporate governance issues. Perry also represents companies and underwriters in public and private finance transactions, including IPO’s, SPAC’s, follow-on public offerings, PIPES, overseas offerings and other private offerings. Perry also represents both Israeli and foreign buyers and sellers in public and private merger and acquisition transactions and other cross-border transactions. His experience includes representation of foreign investors in Israeli companies. Perry’s practice also includes representation of tax-exempt organizations and their founders, donors and board members, including foreign citizens and international organizations operating in Israel. Prior to joining our firm he practiced law in leading law firms in New York.

Adv. Rafi Levi advises international and domestic private equity and venture capital firms, as well as startup, growth-stage, and mature companies from a variety of industries (e.g., AI, life sciences, cybersecurity, auto-tech, ag-tech), in M&A, debt and equity financings, joint ventures, IP licensing, and other cross-border commercial transactions, and leads and manages work streams throughout the due diligence, negotiation, closing, and post-closing processes.

Adv. Rami Sofer specializes in corporate law, mergers and acquisitions, infrastructure projects, financial services, especially services to credit card companies as well as insurance law. He has been representing some of Israel leading companies in these fields for many years. Rami accumulated extensive experience and a significant reputation regarding various commercial transactions, including merger and acquisition agreements, international transactions for the acquisition of technology and equipment, and the initiation of projects in various fields, both in Israel and abroad. Rami possesses unique expertise in the insurance and financial services field, and regularly advises insurance companies, insurance agencies, and institutional entities on all aspects of their activity, including mergers and acquisitions, investments, corporate governance and regulation matters. In addition, he handled significant agreements related to forming consumer clubs and issuing credit cards. In the infrastructure field, Rami represents government and private sector entities (including large foreign corporations) regarding all aspects of complex infrastructure projects, including projects partially financed by the private sector (BOT and PFI infrastructure projects). He advises on all stages of the projects, from establishing the legislative framework for applicable government sponsored projects, to handling planning proceedings, land expropriation, drafting tenders and managing engagements with the winning bidders. In recent years, Rami advised on numerous projects and significant transactions, including the acquisition of major companies in the field of financial services and retail; mergers and acquisitions of institutional entities, insurance companies and insurance agencies; representing bidders in major infrastructure tenders valued at billions of ILS; providing ongoing counsel throughout the planning and construction of complex infrastructure projects including Highway 6, the fast lane at the entrance to Tel-Aviv, and the light rail ‘red line’ in Tel-Aviv; handling the establishment of automated logistic centers for leading Israeli corporations; significant transactions in the heavy industry and petro-chemical fields; agricultural projects in Israel and in developing countries; and more. Rami is a member of the firm’s Executive Committee.

Adv. Ran Ben-Ari provides legal advice on corporate matters and acts for both Israeli and foreign corporations in local and cross-border M&A transactions and investments. In addition, Ran provides legal advice on all matters relating to Israeli antitrust and competition law and is experienced in representing parties vis-à-vis the Israeli Competition Authority as well as appearing on behalf of parties in the Israeli Competition Tribunal and the Supreme Court, on matters relating to the approval of Israeli related merger transactions and restrictive arrangements as well as on ongoing antitrust related matters such as antitrust compliance programs for Israeli monopolies and other companies. Ran is the author of the Israel chapter of The Merger Control Review (sixth, seventh and eighth edition), published by Law Business Research. Ran also advises both local and international financial institutions such as banks, insurance companies and pension funds on issues relating to the legal and regulatory implications of activities in the Israeli financial markets and investments in derivatives and structured products, including ISDA, GMRA and GMSLA based products and the various transaction types thereunder. Having lived many years in Singapore and specializes in Singapore-Israel cross border transactions and legal activities. Prior to joining our firm, Ran worked in a civil law firm dealing with insurance and tort law as well as litigation, and prior to that he served as an officer in the Military Advocate General’s unit in the Legal Advice and Legislation branch.

Adv. Rayek Khoury possesses extensive experience in the infrastructure, project finance and tender fields. He is highly regarded for his expertise in providing ongoing counsel to large scale infrastructure and real estate projects, especially those based on cooperation between the private and the public sector through the PPP or BOT models, as well as complex contracting projects involving both local and foreign entities. In addition, Rayek provides ongoing counsel throughout all stages of tender processes, including with regard to international tenders. In this capacity, he represents bidders, advising them on all stages of the tender and providing ongoing legal counsel, examining the tender documents and requirements; drafting the relevant contractual agreements during the tender process and afterwards (including FIDIC based agreements) with sub-contractors, advisers, consultants, and others; drafting shareholders agreement, joint venture agreements, EPC and O&M agreements; examining financing matters; providing various legal opinions; and more. In addition, Rayek provides ongoing counsel to local and foreign clients regarding cross border projects. Over the years, Rayek provided counsel to some of the largest public and private companies in the Israeli market, as well as international companies. He advised his clients on numerous infrastructure transactions, including large scale projects which attracted considerable media attention, such as: the light rail project in Tel Aviv; the tender for the light rail project in Jerusalem; the tender for the establishment of the IDF’s Intelligence campus in the Negev; the Carmel Tunnels in Haifa; representing the issuer of the tender for the establishment of a blood bank in Ramla; the tender for the establishment of new ports in Ashdod and Haifa; the Hadera OPC power plant project; the expansion of the Tel Aviv Courthouse project; several railway projects, including the Akko-Karmiel railway project, the Haifa-Beit She’an railway project, and the Herzliya-Kfar-Saba railway project; route 531 project; and more. In 2017, Rayek was recognized as one of the most promising forty under 40 in Israel by the prominent ‘The Marker’ magazine.

Adv. Renana Lev specializes in securities law and corporate law. She regularly advises public companies regarding various aspects of securities law, corporate law, corporate governance and commercial matters. Furthermore, Renana guides companies through proceedings of capital raising, initial and secondary offerings of securities, as well as representing companies vis-à-vis the Israeli Securities Authority, the Tel Aviv Stock Exchange and other institutions.

Reut Matok-Rahman

Senior Counsel - Administrative and White Collar Litigation Department

Revital Shprung-Levy

Adv. Revital Shprung – Levy has extensive professional experience relating to a wide variety of aspects in the labor law field, including advising local and international companies, hi-tech companies and collective companies in acquisitions, offerings and mergers. In this capacity, she provides legal counsel tailored to the needs of each client throughout all stages of the transaction, from the initial planning stages of the transaction structure best suited to the client’s needs, through the due diligence, legal risk assessment and management, negotiating employment aspects of the transaction documents, to employer and employee transfer, inter-corporate plan harmonization and completion of the transaction. In addition, Revital regularly advises companies regarding a broad array of employment and HR related issues, including recruitment, employment contracts, employee policy and working procedures, remuneration plans, employee termination procedures, implementation of international policies under Israeli law, reorganizations, cutbacks and termination of activities. Revital also regularly represents clients before government authorities in obtaining special permits for salary reductions, work scope changes and employment termination of protected employees, as well as hearings and investigations by the Ministry of Labor, Social Affairs and Social Services regarding alleged labor law violations and special requests for work permits on holidays. Revital provides legal counsel tailored to the needs of her clients, Israeli and foreign companies, regarding relocation processes and Israeli work visa applications for expert foreign employees, including in relation to national projects.

Richard J. Mann

With almost 30 years of experience in the Israeli market, Adv. Richard J. Mann leads a team of experienced attorneys who focus on representing Israeli and foreign clients in implementing complex cross border transactions, including mergers and acquisitions, public and private debt and equity financings and secured and unsecured finance transactions. His clients include acquirers and targets, leading international private equity, growth and venture capital funds, strategic and financial investors, and joint venture partners. Rick also represents issuers and leading underwriters in public offerings in the United States and London, and advises Israeli companies on ongoing SEC and stock exchange regulatory matters. Rick is consistently ranked as one of Israel’s top lawyers in the corporate, capital markets and hi-tech fields by international rankings such as Chambers & Partners and The Legal 500. Rick previously worked as a corporate and tax attorney at Fried, Frank, Harris, Shriver & Jacobson, New York (1988-1992), and as legal counsel to the Defense Ministry in New York (1992-1995).

Adv. Roee Laor is a leading expert in intellectual property and commercial transactions. He has extensive experience negotiating and structuring complex agreements across various industries, with expertise spanning R&D contracts, asset purchases, licensing, technology transfer and governmental grants. Roee’s practice also includes trademark registration and management and consultation on open source matters. His diverse clientele includes high-tech enterprises, multinational conglomerates, startups, banks, financial institutions, venture capital funds, telecommunication companies and many more. In the rapidly evolving fields of privacy, data protection, and cybersecurity, Roee provides cutting-edge counsel to organizations of all sizes. He manages complex privacy compliance projects, navigating both Israeli and global data protection frameworks. Roee helps clients implement robust privacy practices and address unique technological challenges in compliance with various regulatory requirements. Roee’s deep understanding of emerging technologies, particularly artificial intelligence, allows him to offer invaluable guidance to companies at the forefront of innovation. He assists numerous businesses in navigating the legal and ethical complexities of AI implementation, covering areas from data governance to algorithmic transparency. His expertise in AI is particularly sought after as companies increasingly integrate these technologies into their operations. Recognized as a Recommended Lawyer by The Legal 500, Roee is also certified as a CIPP/E by the International Association of Privacy Professionals (IAPP). These accolades underscore his expertise and standing in the legal community, particularly in the areas of privacy and data protection.

Rona Bergman Naveh

Adv. Rona Bergman Naveh specializes in local and international financing transactions and advises on large-scale financing transactions in diverse fields. Among others, she represents clients in financing transactions in the fields of hi-tech, industry, energy, infrastructure, real estate and hotels, as well as large and complex transactions combining the creation of joint ventures ahead of purchases, M&A, corporate aspects and financing arrangements. Rona specializes in various types of financing transactions, representing banks and funds on the one hand and large borrowers on the other, both local and international. In addition, she represents public, private and government companies in complex mergers, spin-offs and reorganizations, investment transactions, sales of operations and shareholder agreements. Rona also advises Israeli companies on corporate law, dividend distribution, securities issuance and debt arrangements. In addition, Rona specializes in privatization procedures by the State of Israel and the acquisition of companies in privatization processes, and has represented the State of Israel or the bidders in the vast majority of the major privatizations carried out in Israel in recent decades. Over the years, Rona handled complex financing transactions, including: representing Community Fund as part of a group of investors in the acquisition of control of Keter Plastic; representing Community Fund in the acquisition of a portion of the shares of the Bazan Group; representing Bank Of Montreal as part of a consortium of lenders in providing billions of dollars in loans to the Nuvei Group; representing Sixth Street Partners in financing provided to the Avid Group; representing the investment fund Battery in financing the acquisition of Biodata (Labguru) by Titian; and many other transactions. Rona has a long-standing reputation and, in addition to her professional activities, she lectures at the Israel Bar Association’s advanced professional training courses, at courses for directors and legal advisors, as well as at courses at the Faculty of Law at the Hebrew University and Bar Ilan University on corporate law, in particular on corporate division aspects and financing transactions. Rona has published articles on matters common to financing and corporate law.

Adv. Ronen Hausirer’s practice focuses on complex domestic and multi-jurisdictional commercial transactions involving intellectual property assets and cutting-edge technologies, including representing clients in connection with establishing technology ventures and companies, joint ventures, strategic alliances, collaborations, technology licensing and distribution, intellectual property commercialization and intellectual property strategy management, as well as acquisition, divestiture and structuring of intellectual property and technology assets. Ronen leads an intellectual property-focused team in cross-border transactions in various fields of technology including medical devices, communications technology, semiconductors, computer hardware and software, cyber security, automotive and dual- purpose technologies. Ronen’s extensive experience in a wide range of international transactions in various fields of technology and intellectual property, including a wide variety of licensing transactions and commercialization of intellectual property, gives him a unique perspective on technology company growth and development through intellectual property strategy. In addition to providing legal services to his clients, Ronen has taken active rolls in establishing, managing and running innovation accelerators, centers and programs, including the Legal Clinic for Innovation and Entrepreneurship at Sapir Academic College, and has served as mentor and regular speaker in many other programs. He is often invited to speak on intellectual property and start up development strategies at various academic and business forums as well. Prior to joining our firm, Ronen was a partner in a large Israeli firm where he co-headed the technology transactions and licensing practice, and also worked as an associate in firms specializing in intellectual property litigation both in Israel and in the US.

Roni Silver Shteckler

Adv. Roni Silver Shteckler advises to private and public companies, banks and other financial entities on matters relating to legal and regulatory aspects, including, ongoing capital market activities; Roni provides legal counsel in transactions and ongoing variety of aspects of securities law, corporate law, corporate governance, remuneration and financial regulation; Roni also accompanies public companies in raising capital and debt, represents companies before the Israel Securities Authority and the Tel Aviv Stock Exchange, and establishes and implements compliance plans.

Adv. Roy Reiss advises publicly traded companies, banks, investment houses and insurance companies in the areas of corporate governance, capital markets and financial regulation, including companies law, securities law, public and private offering, banking, investment advice and portfolio management, insurance and long term saving regulation, commercial law, as well as a diverse range of legal and business related issues. Roy also practices in the array of financing and M&A transactions. Prior to joining our firm, Roy served for more than 5 years with the Military Advocate General of the IDF (Israel Defense Forces). During this time, he held several legal positions, among them legal assistant to the Military Advocate General, legal advisor in the Advisory and Legislation Department and legal advisor for the Homefront Command.

Sa’ar Plinner

Adv. Sa’ar Plinner specializes in intellectual property law, and provides legal – strategic counsel to clients in the field. Sa’ar represents clients before Israeli Courts and the Israeli Registrar of Patents, Designs and Trademarks, and advises on acquisition, licensing and other agreements in the fields of trademarks, copyright, patents and designs, in Israel and abroad. In addition, he handles the registration of trademarks and designs in Israel vis-à-vis the Israel Patent Office and works with foreign local counsel to represent clients before foreign patent authorities in trademark and design registration proceedings outside Israel. Sa’ar is an expert in libel, privacy law, social networks and internet law, as well as the fields of media and entertainment and advertising. In this capacity, he accumulated unique experience in representing movie and TV productions, stage performances, art productions and festivals, artists, collections, museums and galleries. Sa’ar publishes professional articles on intellectual property matters in leading international guides. Among others, in recent years he authored the Israel chapter of “Getting The Deal Through: Patents” and an article on litigation strategies in Inside “The Minds: IP Strategies In The Middle East And Africa”. In addition, Sa’ar lectures on his fields of expertise in the Tel Aviv University and the “Habetzefer” – Israel’s Advertising Agencies Academy, as well as various events and conferences. Alongside the above, Sa’ar is a member of several professional associations in the intellectual property field, including INTA and the Israeli chapters of ALAI and AIPPI.

Adv. Sagiv Hanin specializes in advising some of the largest projects and ventures in Israel, providing legal counsel regarding various aspects related to the planning, licensing, construction and expropriation stages. In addition, he regularly advises on large scale commerce, office, hotel and residential projects, as well as infrastructure, energy, server farm and transportation projects. Sagiv advises clients from the initial statutory stages until its final completion. He specializes in representing landowners vis-à-vis planning councils and courts throughout the advancement of statutory plans and licensing. Sagiv is regularly ranked as one of Israel’s top attorneys in the planning, construction and zoning fields by local and international guides. Sagiv represents companies in dozens of infrastructure projects from their initial stages, including development and approval of plans, expropriation and construction stages. He serves as legal counsel in expropriation proceedings required for the completion of the projects, and represents corporations in all related legal proceedings and contracts with right holders. Among others, Sagiv represents clients in contracts with national infrastructure entities in relation to moving and consolidating infrastructure systems. Sagiv was an active partner in the legislative process of a major reform in the natural gas field, including the Arrangements Law and related secondary legislation. He advises energy ventures, including some of Israel’s largest power plants and natural gas distribution companies, regarding the statutory and legal aspects of the reform, including drafting plans according to the Natural Gas Law and various licensing proceedings. In addition, Sagiv possesses extensive experience in advising large scale national transportation projects in Israel, and is an expert in complex and innovative legal matters related to the field. Sagiv represents his clients in large scale claims of diminished value before local councils and appellate councils across Israel, as well as in compensation claims related to expropriation. He represents his clients before all courts of law, as well as planning and construction authorities, in various legal proceedings regarding master plans, construction licensing, development levies, and in civil and criminal proceedings relating to planning and construction proceedings. Among Sagiv’s clients are developers, private and public companies, real estate corporations and government infrastructure entities. Alongside his professional activities, he serves as a guest lecturer on his fields of expertise in several institutions, including the Afeka Tel Aviv Academic College of Engineering, the Israel Bar Association and the Real Estate Appraisers Association.

Adv. Sharon Aloni has over 25 years of experience in a wide range of international transactions in the fields of technology and intellectual property, including a variety of licensing transactions (in respect of software, algorithms, patents, trademarks, software as a service (SaaS), artificial intelligence (AI), machine learning (ML), apps, standards, content etc.); computerization, research and development, escrow, distribution, OEM and maintenance agreements; and feasibility surveys; strategic alliances, partnerships, and joint ventures; asset sales and spinouts; collaborations and co-development arrangements as well as agreements for the global supply and implementation of complex technology systems and global outsourcing transactions. In addition, Sharon advises various Israeli and foreign clients, including hi-tech and bio-med companies, startups and ‘mature’ companies, on various aspects of intellectual property law, including in the fields of copyright, open source, AI, ML, online policies (including terms of use and privacy policies), and various issues relating to internet law. Furthermore, Sharon is an expert and advises on privacy protection, information security and cyber related issues. Sharon represents entities on sophisticated matters relating to transactions that involve know how funded by the Israel Innovation Authority (IIA). Sharon handles investments, merger and acquisition transactions as well as IPOs from an intellectual property, privacy and IIA perspective. Sharon lectures at professional and educational conferences, including in depth seminars to professionals in respect of open source licenses, privacy know how funded by the IIA and various intellectual property related issues. In the past, Sharon served as the legal advisor of two leading hi-tech and communications companies.

Adv. Sharon Kadosh concentrates his practice in the area of corporate and securities law, with an emphasis on venture capital financing, public and private offerings, cross-border transactions, and M&A transactions. Sharon represents technology and international clients across a range of industries and fields, including software, cyber, fintech, social media, mobile apps, and telecommunications. Sharon has also been working closely with serial entrepreneurs and investors for many years, and assisting star-up companies with early stage start up corporate finance and incorporation (including founder agreements and founder’s vesting agreements, convertible notes, angel and VC financing rounds, and with other general corporate matters and commercial needs (such as licensing, commercial agreements, joint ventures, collaboration agreements, reseller and partner agreements. Sharon advises venture capital funds and major multinational companies regarding a wide array of finance and investment agreements and complex international transactions, including merger and acquisition transactions and corporate finance. Sharon is an Adjunct Lecturer at the Reichman University and College of Management teaching courses relating to hi tech law. Sharon’s love of basketball urged him to continue playing basketball as a hobby for several Israeli basketball teams (recently, Kiryat Ono basketball team). Sharon combines his professional expertise with his hobby, and provides clients legal advice in sports law, including Israeli basketball teams.

Adv. Shay Fahima has extensive experience in both local and international taxation, covering a wide range of taxation areas such as income tax, VAT, and encouragement of capital investments. Shay regularly represents leading foreign and domestic clients, on a wide range of Israeli and international tax issues arising in connection with M&As, sale and financing of Israeli and foreign companies, disputes with the Israeli Tax Authority, taxation of options allocated to employees, executives and advisors, corporate reorganizations, taxation of trusts and high net-worth individual. Shay represents his clients both during the initial planning and the negotiation phase of the transaction, and during the execution and the post transaction stage. Shay represented multinational companies and technology companies in landmark acquisitions in the Israeli economy, and regularly engages with the relevant professional departments of the Israel Tax Authority to obtain pre-rulings, challenge tax assessments and settle other taxation disputes. Shay co-authored the trust’s taxation chapter of Trusts in Israel: Current practice (2017) by Dr. Alon Kaplan. Prior to joining our firm, Shay practiced with one of Israel’s leading law firms, and served as an academic assistant and visiting lecturer at prominent universities and colleges in Israel.

Adv. Shay Yanovsky counsels local and international clients across a range of industries, including software, internet, cyber and social media, blockchain technologies, cryptocurrencies, ICOs, ecommerce, telecommunications, biotechnology, medical devices, and cleantech. Shay advises these clients in a variety of issues, including intellectual property, internet and e-commerce, licensing, computer and information systems, telecommunications, open source, information security, privacy law and data protection regulations, as well as in various aspects relating to the Encouragement of Research and Development Law and to dealing with the Office of the Chief Scientist within the Ministry of Economics. In addition, Shay counsels a variety of local and international companies in the fields of investment advice and investment marketing regulations, as well as other securities related issues, and credit rating agencies activity in Israel. Among others, Shay actively participated in the Knesset’s Economic Committee discussions and various meetings with the Israeli Securities Authority and Ministry of Justice around the regulation of the activity of credit rating agencies in Israel. Shay joined our firm in 2008 as an articled clerk, and became an associate in 2009 and partner in 2017. During his studies, Shay was a teaching and research assistant in various courses at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Tel Aviv University, and Ono Academic Center, such as Biopharmaceutical Patents, Intellectual Property at the Technological Era, and Service Inventions. In addition, Shay is acting and acted in the past as a teaching assistant at the Hebrew University, Ben Gurion University, the College of Management Academic Studies and the Interdisciplinary Center in Herzliah in advanced courses to MBA students such as Business Strategy and Strategy Management.

Adv. Shay Hager specializes in corporate law, capital markets, mergers and acquisitions and commercial law and advises directors and officers of public companies and of partnerships on corporate, capital market, corporate governance and finance matters. Shay represents Israeli and foreign companies in investment transactions, acquisition and merger transactions of private and public corporations as well as in a wide range of corporate matters, including related party transactions, executive compensation, and fiduciary duties of directors and officers. He also has extensive experience in various aspects related to raising capital and debt in Israel, including initial IPOs and secondary IPOs, as well as the overall aspects of capital market law. Shay’s clients include leading Israeli public companies and partnerships, including companies registered for trading outside of Israel as well as private companies that offer bonds to the public in Israel. The corporations that Shay advises operate in a variety of areas, and in particular real estate, energy, holding companies, industry and services.

Adv. Shir Shalev represents private Israeli and international hi-tech companies in various fields and provides ongoing counsel to companies at all stages on a variety of issues related to corporate law and commercial law. She also accompanies the companies in commercial transactions (including service agreements of various types, mergers and acquisitions and investment transactions). In addition, Shir represents venture capital funds and private entrepreneurs in a variety of commercial transactions, including mergers and acquisitions, financing investments and venture capital investments.

For more than twenty-five years, Adv. Shlomo Farkas has been advising investors, entrepreneurs and corporate clients, starting from their establishment and initial business transactions and through their “exits”. The areas of Shlomo’s expertise include drafting and negotiating diverse commercial agreements, primarily focusing on financing transactions (including venture capital, debt and venture lending, angel, and corporate restructuring), licensing & technology related transactions, joint ventures and acquisitions, and providing day-to-day counseling in their commercial, corporate and legal affairs. Shlomo and his team of lawyers have developed a unique expertise in debt financing for start-ups in their growth and mature stages, and Shlomo has been the lead attorney in hundreds of Venture Lending and other forms of debt financing transactions. Shlomo and his team represent some of the most active investors in such type of transactions. Shlomo’s clients include entrepreneurs, local and foreign investors (local and foreign venture capital funds, commercial banks, institutional investors, private investors, and technology incubators) and companies in various fields of technology, including semiconductors, software, defense and security solutions, cyber, fintech, health care, IoT, Artificial Intelligence, and medical devices. Shlomo also lectures and mentors seed stage startups in various tech accelerators, and is active in introducing start-ups and investors.

Adv. Shmulik Atias has a diverse corporate practice, encompassing mergers and acquisitions, venture capital and private equity financing, venture lending and bank financing, cross-border transactions, securities laws, corporate governance and general corporate matters. Shmulik frequently represents clients across a full range of activity in corporate and commercial law. His practice includes representation of venture capital funds and private equity investors, private and public companies, in a variety of domestic and cross-border merger and acquisition transactions, spin-offs, tender offers, investments, joint ventures, securities transactions and other corporate matters. In addition, Shmulik works closely with founders and executives of emerging growth companies, providing strategic legal advice and general corporate representation, including in the fields of corporate governance, commercial transactions and intellectual property. Shmulik also has an active practice representing foreign clients and international companies in their business activities in Israel, including opening local branches, representative offices and subsidiaries. Shmulik specializes in entrepreneurship and technology company foundation, venture capital, venture lending and other debt financing transactions, mergers and acquisitions and private equity transactions, commercial law and commercial transactions and technology transactions.

Adv. Steven Kantor specializes in corporate law, mergers and acquisitions. Steven has many years of experience representing various types of clients in a range of transactions both domestic and international. Steven represents a variety range of investors (angels, strategic investors and venture capital funds) in investments in Hi-Tech Companies. Steven represents venture capital funds and other investment funds in their formation, management and investments. Steven provides ongoing representation to startup and Hi-Tech companies in all stages of their activities, including early stage and later stage investments, commercial agreements and exits (sale of shares or assets). He works closely with the founders and later with the board, providing them with his vast experience in all commercial, strategic, corporate structure and legal matters which they confront from time to time. Steven represents client in all types of M&A transaction (buyers and sellers) in domestic and international transactions. Steven served for ten years as the Chairman of the Israel Squash Association. As part of his Pro Bono activity, Steven representsnon-profit organizations, including theIsrael Squash Rackets Association, which is a non- profit organization dedicated to the promotion of the game of squash in Israel; The Israel National Therapeutic Riding Association (INTRA), which is a non-profit organization committed to teaching equine skills and horseback riding to people with a wide variety of disabilities; And theSouth-Up incubator – a non-profit organization with the purpose of development and promotion of the economic and social conditions in the Gaza area by the location of startup companies and assisting them to become technology based companies working and active in the education, community and working force in the Gaza area.

Adv. Tal Atsmon manages the firm together with Adv. Levy Amitay and Adv. Aya Yoffe. In his capacity as Managing Partner, Tal handles the managerial-strategic aspects of the firm, from daily management to formulating the firm’s vision and long-term commercial strategy for the firm’s continued growth. In addition, Tal serves Co-Head of the Tax Department (alongside Adv. Yaron Sever and Adv. Oren Biran). In this capacity, Tal, one of Israel’s top tax attorneys, advises corporate and high net worth private clients on complex Israeli and international tax matters relating to a wide range of domestic and foreign transactions. Tal is regularly ranked as one of Israel’s recommended tax attorneys by several international guides, including Chambers and The Legal 500, as well as by local guides such as BDICode and Dun’s 100. Tal serves as Head of the Tax Committee of the Israeli Bar Association and was a member of the International Tax Reform Committee and the Committee for Examining the Authorization and Attribution of Financing Expenses, nominated by the Director of the Israel Tax Authority to suggest tax reforms in these respective fields. Tal also serves as the tax counsel to the Israeli CFO Forum. In addition, Tal serves as Chairman of UNICEF Israel, the Israeli branch of the most important organization in the world for child welfare. Tal is also a member of the board of “Yad MeShoham” – a foundation for the benefit of unprivileged families.

Tal Danon Shenhav

Adv. Tal Danon Shenhav has vast experience providing legal services for complex tenders in local and international infrastructure projects (including BOT, BOO and PFI transactions) and their financing, mainly in the fields of transportation, roads, energy and technological procurement and deployment. Tal’s background as a corporate lawyer with expertise in hi-tech transactions as well as mergers & acquisitions, and representing both the public and private sector, provides her with a unique knowledge to advise on complex competitive procurement processes in accordance with the Israeli tender laws, cross border financing transactions, multinational joint ventures, technological agreements and project finance arrangements. Among Tal’s clients are the State of Israel, Ministry of Finance, Ministry of Transportation, Ministry of National Infrastructures, Energy and Water and the Geological Institute of Israel, Procurement Administration, governmental companies, municipalities, and large-scale international corporations and lenders. As part of her practice, Tal has the privilege to represent mega national projects, which are precedential in their field, such as, the Cross Israel Highway Project, the first toll road in Israel, the Red Line LRT, the First LRT Line in Tel Aviv Metropolitan Area and the Real Time Seismic Network with Earthquake Early Warning Compatibility, a unique system and the first of its kind worldwide. Tal has ample experience in commercial negotiations, drafting of legal documents, such as PPP Agreements, Finance Documents, EPC and O&M Agreements, including FIDIC documents. Tal also provides legal counseling to non-profit organizations. Prior to joining the firm, Tal was Founder and Managing Partner of Shenhav & Co., practiced law at Weil, Gotshal & Manges in New York in the Corporate and International Trade Departments and served as the General Counsel of the Israeli Economic Mission in New York. Tal is ranked as a leading Israeli Projects Finance Lawyer by many Israeli and international publications.

Adv. Tomer Levy advises international and local clients from a wide range of industries, including companies in the fields of software, information security and cyber, social media, e-commerce, and life sciences, regarding commercialization, management, and protection of intellectual property, alongside privacy related matters. Furthermore, Tomer accompanies international transactions of investment and acquisition in which start-ups and technology companies in Israel and abroad are involved.

Adv. Tzahi Halio specializes in a broad litigation practice encompassing general commercial litigation, intellectual property; computer and internet law. His expertise extends to complex areas such as trademark and copyright disputes, commercial torts, and defamation. Tzahi offers strategic, ongoing legal counsel to a diverse clientele, guiding them through high-stakes litigation and dispute resolution processes. His representation spans across all judicial forums, including trial and appellate courts, as well as alternative dispute resolution mechanisms. Additionally, Tzahi advises and advocates for both Israeli and multinational corporations before the Israeli Patent Office, ensuring comprehensive protection and enforcement of intellectual property rights. His deep understanding of both domestic and international legal landscapes enables him to navigate multifaceted legal challenges with precision and insight.

Adv. Uri Porat specializes in competition and antitrust law. Uri regularly advises clients on competition and antitrust matters, providing ongoing counsel related to compliance programs, regulations and day to day commercial activity. In addition, Uri represents clients in contentious competition and antitrust cases (civil, administrative and criminal) before the Israeli Competition Authority, Competition Tribunals and Israeli courts. Between 2020-2023, Uri served as Head of the Competition Law and Privacy Protection Department at Bank HaPoalim. Among Uri’s clients are numerous leading local and international corporations from a wide variety of sectors, including banking, transportation, telecommunications, retail, and more.

Vered Gitterman

Adv. Vered Gitterman specializes in providing legal consulting regarding real estate transactions and various complex projects, including combination transactions, compensation transactions, commercial projects (commercial centers and shopping malls), office projects, industrial projects and large-scale residential projects, including urban renewal projects. Vered provides her clients with comprehensive legal services with regards to their transactions and projects, while handling all aspects of the transaction’s various stages (entrepreneurship stages, land acquisition, betterment, establishment, management, leasing and when required- the sale and acquisition). She handles all aspects and issues arising from the transaction, including taxation and financing. Among other, Vered specializes in complex transactions for the sale and acquisition of property investments (during which she represents insurance companies and other companies, some of the largest in Israel), as well as real estate entrepreneurship and providing legal consulting regarding financing. Among Vered’s clients are some of Israel’s largest public and private companies, insurance companies, private entrepreneurs and public entities.

Yael Flatau Bilu

Adv. Yael Flatau Bilu has vast practical experience accompanying clients in a wide variety of real estate transactions and projects. Within an extensive practice, she advises on a wide variety of real estate projects, sale and purchase transactions, combination deals, contracting and execution agreements, consultancy agreements, finance agreements, urban renewal projects (Evacuation and Construction, TAMA 38), target cost projects, income-yielding property management, and residential and commercial projects. Yael handles transactions in all stages of the process, from the purchase stage until the construction and execution of the projects, and in light of her innovation, creative mind, professionalism and shrewdness, she succeeds in successfully closing deals. Over the years, Yael represented a variety of clients, including developers, public companies and institutional entities leading the Israeli real estate market. Yael is a licensed notary.

Adv. Yael Zhout specializes in the commercial law field, advising on a wide variety of commercial transactions, including M&A transactions and founding agreements. In addition, she possesses significant experience in advising on the relationship between shareholders as well as tender proceedings, advising both issuers and offerors. Yael regularly provides ongoing counsel to leading Israeli entities, and accumulated extensive experience in composing comprehensive legal opinions in a variety of fields, including contract law, tenders and infrastructure. Yael authored the book “Shareholder’s Conflict – Shareholder Oppression In Private And Public Companies” (Bursi, 2017), often mentioned in rulings by the Supreme Court and various Economic Departments in relation to shareholder obligations and rights.

Adv. Yael Dolev has many years of experience in all aspects of the labor law field. She has extensive knowledge in the private labor law field: litigation, injunctions, class actions, legal opinions and ongoing counsel; and in the collective labor field: collective agreements, collective disputes, negotiations with worker unions, advising on organizational proceedings and more. Among her clients are a wide variety of the largest corporations in Israel, including government companies, public and private corporations, industrial companies and companies active in the fields of services, finance, low-tech and hi-tech. Yael serves as co-chairman of the Israel Bar Association’s Labor Law Forum; a representative of the Israel Bar Association in the Judicial Selection Committee for Rabbinical Courts; and as a member of the Executive Committee of the Academic Center for Law and Science. As part of her expertise, Yael regularly publishes professional labor law articles in leading economic newspapers and journals. In the past, she authored a guidebook for Israeli employers dealing with the prevention of sexual harassment, its implications and implementation of programs by employers in large organizations. Yael regularly gives media interviews, and lectures at professional conferences and seminars in the field of law and labor relations, and at other professional forums. Beyond her professional activity, Yael is very engaged in giving back to the community and currently leads the Bat Mitzvah Project named after the late Adi Farber. This project takes place in about 16 schools in Ramat Gan, and aims to bring together religious and secular girls through women empowerment. Yael is also a forum member of the “Dawn” Project, which focuses on the development and promotion of the Ethiopian youth community in Israel, as well as a member of the Bnei Akiva Friends Youth Forum which focuses on the promotion of the peripheral society in Israel. She is also a management member of the Yedidey Nefesh Abarbanal association, which promotes the well-being of mental patients.

Yael Mirone Mezamer

Adv. Yael Mirone Mezamer specializes in representing contractors, entrepreneurs and private clients in a variety of real estate transactions in Israel and abroad, including representing contractors in residential projects around the country and providing ongoing consulting and guidance of contractors and developers at all stages of the project, from acquisition of real estate to registration of rights, handling of transactions and purchase, handling of renting transactions of all kinds, handling large purchasing groups, representation in combination transactions and transactions in the field of urban renewal, handling of expansion projects in agricultural settlements, representation of entrepreneurs and contractors in financing agreements and assistance with banks, representation of financing agents in various loan agreements with entrepreneurs and contractors, tenders, planning and construction, representation with the various authorities, The Ministry of Construction and Housing, the Land Registry, Local Authorities and more. Yael coordinates the handling of contractors and entrepreneurs in various residential, commercial and office projects across the country as well as the field of acquisition groups and accompanies these projects on their various stages. In addition, Yael coordinates the department’s financing and loan transactions, sometimes representing the side of the developers and contractors and sometimes the financing agencies. Yael has a wealth of experience in all areas of real estate and accompanies the firm’s clients in all stages of the business, including consulting on the stage of the transaction, conducting due diligence regarding the transaction, negotiating the agreements, escorting the construction and development phases to registering the rights. Prior to joining our firm, Yael worked as an attorney in leading and recognized real estate offices in Tel Aviv.

Adv. Yaron Sever specializes in tax consulting on a wide range of domestic and international transactions, including merger and acquisition transactions, investments, joint ventures, corporate restructuring, public offerings and private allocation of capital, debt and complex financial products; as well as the establishment of venture capital funds, hedge funds and private investment funds. Yaron also specializes in tax litigation, including representing multinational clients in complex contentious tax issues. Yaron possesses extensive experience in tax consulting and tax planning for high net worth individuals and families, relating to various investments and trusts, and in tax planning prior and subsequent to relocations. He specializes in inter-generational transfer of capital and family businesses, providing innovative solutions to the challenges these proceedings often pose. In addition, Yaron possesses a unique expertise in advising Israeli and international clients on legal issues and tax aspects relating to compensation for executives and employees. Yaron is ranked by international guides such as Chambers & Partners and The Legal 500 as one of Israel’s leading tax and private wealth attorneys. Yaron also serves on the Tax Forum of the Israel Bar Association. Yaron is a member of the firm’s Executive Committee.

Adv. Yaron Herman has more than 30 years of experience as an active lawyer. Yaron specializes in complex transactions and has unique expertise in corporate law and in providing strategic legal counsel to corporations, including corporate governance, accompanying legal proceedings and litigation, re-organization, ownership changes, planning structural and intra-organizational changes. He accompanies companies during IPO’s and any going public procedures, throughout their day-to-day activity, as well as advises leading private corporations in their respective fields. Yaron has extensive experience in regulation and administrative law and is a leader in the field of communications law (Telecom), and provides clients with advice on regulatory matters, enforcement programs, , corporate law and corporate governance, communications law, cyber and computers, encryption and more. Yaron advises on procurement, infrastructure projects such as BOT and complex projects, and coordinates the tenders’ law in our firm for both public entities who publish tenders, and for private entities that participate in tenders. He served as a legal counsel to the State Administration in the establishment of the new public hospital in Ashdod, local authorities and many other public and commercial entities. Yaron has extensive experience in representing organizations in the social sector (non-profit organizations, associations and public benefit companies and funds), their founders, donors, board members and management, and foreign and international organizations operating in Israel. He also accompanies social businesses and works to promote legislation in this area. For over 20 years, Yaron served as external legal counsel for the Institute of Certified Public Accountants in Israel. He is the legal counselor for the Institute of Internal Auditors in Israel (IIAI), and has developed unique expertise in counseling accountants and internal auditors in their fields of expertise, liability non-dependence and conflict of interests’ regulation, as well as involvement in the legislative processes of laws, regulations and guidelines. In addition, Yaron is a member of the Corporations Committee and the Non-Proft Committee of the Israel Bar Association. Until 1997, Yaron served in a variety of positions in the Counseling and Legislation Department in Judge Advocate General Headquarters of the IDF (Israel Defense Forces), including legal counsel regarding security, telecommunications, electricity, energy and infrastructure, transportation and more. He served as a Commanding Prosecutor and as a Legal Advisor to the Intelligence Corps as the Deputy Head of the Consulting and Legislation Branch. Yaron is a frequent contributor to the Israeli press on new developments in his fields of practice.

Yehuda Rosenthal

Adv. Yehuda Rosenthal specializes in complex litigation proceedings, specifically in representing respondents in class actions and derivative actions, advising Special Litigation Committees, advising Transaction Committees and managing commercial disputes. Yehuda possesses unique expertise in representing directors and company executives, and accumulated significant experience advising on directors and officers liability in insolvency proceedings. In this capacity, he advises and represents companies, directors and company executives in insolvency situations and proceedings, and has vast expertise in advising companies, boards and shareholders in debt (debenture) restructuring proceedings and conduct in the zone of insolvency. Yehuda is equally comfortable in the court room and in the board room. His clients include the senior management and boards of directors of various leading corporations, whom he advises regarding a variety of legal issues, including corporate governance. He regularly represents his clients in legal proceedings in his fields of expertise, utilizing innovative legal tools focused on achieving the clients goals in the most efficient way, based on his long years of experience. In addition, Yehuda specializes in administrative law, including legal proceedings related to tenders and advising on tender offers, as well as legal and administrative proceedings related to the energy sector. Yehuda represents his clients, Israeli and international companies, public authorities and individuals, in all stages of the legal proceeding, in all courts of law and tribunals, arbitrations and mediation proceedings. Yehuda is recognized by international rankings such as The Legal 500 as a recommended lawyer in the litigation field. Yehuda routinely lectures at professional advanced study courses by the Israel Bar Association and Director Training programs.

Yehuda (Yudi) Levy

Adv. Yudi Levy, a Founder of the firm, is respected as one of Israel’s dominant corporate attorneys. He has been leading the firm since its inception and played a major role in bringing the firm to its current status as Israel’s largest and most dominant firm. In addition to his functions in the management and policy making of the firm, Yudi handles a wide range of complex corporate transactions, including mergers and acquisitions, public offerings and reorganizations, and provides ongoing counsel to boards of directors. He also engages in trust and estate counseling and planning for high-net-worth individuals. Yudi is highly involved in Israel’s business community and is repeatedly called upon to advise boards of directors regarding crisis management. Alongside his legal and professional activities, he has been serving a Member of the Boards of Directors of several corporations, including Fire & Gas Detection Technologies Ltd. (TASE) (2024-present); Global Knafaim Leasing Ltd. (TASE) (present); Sanlakol Ltd. (TASE) (present); Dori Media Group Ltd. (present); Knafaim Holdings Ltd. (TASE) (Chairman, 2007-2024); El Al Israel Airlines Ltd. (TASE) (Chairman and Vice Chairman, 2008-2020); and Maman Cargo Terminals Ltd. (TASE) (2010-2020). In addition, Yudi is a Member of the Executive Committee of Shalem Academic Center Ltd. and a Member of the Board of Trustees of the Shalem Foundation, as well as Member of Management of the Cegla High Center for Interdisciplinary Research of the Law at the Faculty of Law, Tel Aviv University.

Adv. Yigal Kava specializes in litigation and dispute resolution, including commercial litigation, administrative law and tenders. Yigal represents clients in complex and sensitive litigation proceedings in the commercial litigation field. Among others, he manages litigation proceedings related to contract law, corporate law, antitrust, partnerships, tenders and administrative law, real estate, planning and construction, intellectual property and libel. In addition, Yigal possesses extensive experience in advising on complex, large scale litigation cases, as well as real time crisis management. Among Yigal’s clients are leading local and international companies, including leading international clients from the UK, France, Russia, Italy, Turkey and more. He advises clients active in a variety of sectors, including telecoms and media, infrastructure, retail and hi-tech, as well as administrative authorities and public entities.

Yigal Binyamini

Adv. Yigal Binyamini specializes in the fields of corporate law, securities law, and various aspects of financial regulation. Yigal is experienced in representing Israeli banks, bank holding corporations, public companies and other local and international financial institutions in connection with diverse financing and commercial transactions as well as various aspects of Israel’s capital market. Prior to joining our firm, Yigal served for 5 years in the Advisory and Legislation department of the Military Advocate General Office of IDF and, among others, advised on real estate, commercial and financing transactions.

Adv. Yitzchak Kovos specializes in complex real estate transactions, in Israel and abroad, and advises on transactions regarding large scale residential, office, and commerce and industry projects. Yitzchak advises clients through all stages of development, construction and marketing. This includes planning the outline of the land acquired; financing the acquisition and establishment of the project; managing negotiations and finalizing agreements with contractors and service providers; advising on relations with financing financial institutions, municipal councils and planning authorities, land taxation authorities, acquiring and leasing parties, and more. Among Yitzchak’s clients are Israel’s leading real estate companies, leading financial entities which invest in real estate, as well as high net worth individuals.

Adv. Yoav Friedman specializes in M&A transactions, corporate law, securities law and capital markets, corporate governance and commercial transactions. Yoav has extensive experience in various domestic and cross-border M&A transactions, representing both Israeli and international clients. Over the years, Yoav played a dominant role in complex, high-profile multi-billion-dollar transactions. Yoav also led mid-size M&A transactions, including asset purchase transactions, investment transactions and joint ventures, representing both Investors and target companies. In addition, Yoav advises Israeli Start-Ups (both in early and advanced stages) in their day-to-day operations, including investment rounds and exit transactions. Yoav regularly counsels and advises Israeli corporations on a wide range of corporate and securities matters, including, corporate governance, D&O fiduciary duties, ESOPs and executive compensation, corporate reorganization, capital raisings, dividends and capital reduction, etc. He is highly experienced in representing public companies, whose securities are publicly traded, with respect to regulatory matters, public filings, etc.

Adv. Yoni Henner’s practice focuses on a variety of Israeli and cross-border corporate and finance transactions, including mergers and acquisitions (including public and private transactions and De-SPAC transactions), private equity and venture capital investments, public offerings, tender offers, PIPEs (including as part of a De-SPAC transaction), corporate reorganizations and spin-offs. Yoni also advises entrepreneurs and start-ups. Yoni also advises Israeli and non-Israeli SEC-registered companies, as well as companies that are dual-listed on Israeli and US exchanges with respect to their filing and corporate governance requirements. He also advises foreign companies on their acquisitions, financings, investments and business activities in Israel. In recent years, Yoni advised on some of the largest cross-border M&A transactions in Israel, in which he represented both target companies and strategic and private equity purchasers. He also represented a number of foreign purchasers and sellers of real estate in Israel. Prior to joining the firm, Yoni was an associate in the General Corporate Department of Sullivan & Cromwell LLP, New York.

Adv. Yori Nehushtan is recognized as one of the leading lawyers in the field of commercial litigation in Israel. Over the years, Yori has represented many clients, both private and business, in a variety of activities and areas of practice. In recent years, Yori has professionally conducted of hundreds of large and complex cases. He has gained a reputation as an expert in commercial litigation in an array of fields and as one who handles commercial disputes entrusted to him with creativity and initiative. Yori was one of the founders of the law firm of Nehushtan, Zafran, Scharf & Co. in 1999, and previously has been an associate and partner in the firm Dr. J. Segev & Co.

Adv. Yotam Leshem is an expert in the field of energy and project financing and has accumulated extensive legal experience and knowledge in tenders. In this capacity, he advises on tender procedures, including PPP tenders, purchase and marketing of natural gas (GSPA agreements), financing agreements and EPC and O&M agreements, electricity and energy sales and purchase agreements and more. Yotam’s experience includes advising private, financial and governmental entities in the energy and infrastructure market, as well as in the field of transportation, security, water desalination and other areas. Yotam accumulated significant experience accompanying significant projects in the field, including the acquisition of the Alon Tavor power plant, the debt turnover of the northern stations, the Rapac Group gas transactions, solar power plant financing and other considerable gas transactions. Among his prominent clients are the leading energy corporations, prominent energy and infrastructure investment groups, banks, institutional investors and more.

Adv. Yuval Eden specializes in capital markets, corporate law and corporate finance and advises companies on varied aspects of securities law, corporate law, corporate governance, and financing. Yuval advises both Israeli and foreign companies on aspects related to securities and corporate laws as well as raising capital and debt in Israel and has extensive experience advising public companies boards on those aspects, as well as IPO’s and secondary offerings of Israeli and foreign companies seeking to raise equity and debt on the Tel-Aviv Stock Exchange. In addition, Yuval represents private and public companies in M&A transactions, financing agreements and debt restructuring. Yuval’s clientele includes some of Israel’s leading public companies, foreign dually listed companies, and private companies, operating in a variety of sectors such as infrastructure, healthcare, real estate, logistics, financing services and industrial companies.

Adv. Zohar David specializes in antitrust and competition law, and possesses significant experience and expertise in the field. She accumulated extensive experience advising local and international corporations on complex, large scale M&A transactions, commercial agreements, co-operations and joint ventures. Zohar provides ongoing counsel from the initial stages of the transactions, through the filing of merger notices and to representing clients before the Israel Competition Authority and Competition Tribunals, as required. Zohar provides comprehensive legal counsel to her clients, covering all aspects of their activity, and possesses an in-depth understanding of various sectors in the Israeli market. She regularly advises leading corporations operating in the fields of banking, insurance, media, transport, real estate, retail, infrastructure, and telecommunications. In the retail field, Zohar possesses unique expertise regarding the Promotion of Competition in the Food Industry Law, 2014 and other competition laws. In addition, Zohar advises her clients regarding the impact of the Law for Promotion of Competition and Reduction of Concentration, 2013 upon their commercial activity. She also advises clients on building and implementing internal compliance programs in the competition field, tailoring programs to meet the unique needs of each client. Zohar’s long years of experience, alongside her deep understanding of the client’s commercial and regulatory environment and broad expertise in competition law, enable her to provide comprehensive legal counsel tailored to the needs of the client.

Adv. Zvi Baranes provides legal representation to some of the leading private and public organizations in Israel in the field of real estate and holds many years of experience in handling diverse complex transactions, large-scale residential real estate, and commercial projects, as well as providing ongoing legal services involving real estate transactions legal guidance in various projects in the fields of yielding real-estate and housing. Among other things, Zvi specializes in the fields of real estate tax, and represents entrepreneurs and corporations in the real estate market before all court instances and tax authorities. Zvi holds many years of experience in the fields of commercial law, and he represents different corporations (including cooperative societies and foundations) in mergers and acquisitions of corporations, commercial litigation, establishment and support of business enterprises, and more.

Adv. Zvi Bar-Nathan is a renowned expert in the various fields of commercial litigation and handles litigation in the civil-commercial field, including in the fields of corporate law, contract law, tax, banking law, communications, libel, tender law, and more. Zvi is involved in a prominent share of the complex commercial disputes held in Israel, and possesses extensive experience in the representation of clients in international disputes. in this capacity, he represents foreign plaintiffs and respondents in legal proceedings in Israel, represents clients in enforcement proceedings of foreign verdicts and of international arbitration, assists foreign entities to receive temporary and permanent verdicts against Israeli entities, and represents Israeli plaintiffs and respondents in legal proceedings held abroad. Zvi possesses unique expertise relating to alternative dispute resolution, including complex arbitration and mediation, with an emphasis on international commercial-business arbitration involving public figures and prominent businesspeople. In 2012, Zvi was appointed as a member of the International Court of Arbitration of the International Chamber of Commerce in Paris (ICC) and as the Head of the International Arbitration Committee of ICC Israel, positions he held until 2018. In July 2016, he was admitted as a member of the Singapore International Arbitration Centre (SIAC) arbitration panel. Zvi serves as an arbitrator in numerous complex local and international arbitrations. In addition, Zvi possesses significant reputation relating to sensitive proprietary disputes in the family law field which involve capital and assets. In this capacity, he represents high net worth individuals in complex personal status and inheritance disputes. Zvi’s extensive experience and significant expertise in the international arbitration field is consistently recognized by international guides, including The Legal 500 and Chambers & Partners, which rank him as one of the leading attorneys in the field. As part of his public activities, Zvi served as the Head of the Legislative Committee on Contract Law in the Israel Bar Association, as a judge at the Israel Bar Association’s Disciplinary Regional Tribunal and National Tribunal, and as the Chairman of the New Codification Committee of the Israel Bar Association, as well as a member of the International Court of Arbitration of the ICC in Paris (as stated above) and Head of the Arbitration Committee of the Israel Chamber of Commerce. In addition, he lectures at various academic institutions. Zvi is a member of the firm’s Executive Committee.