Antitrust & Competition; White Collar Crime; Litigation & Dispute Resolution.

Partner

Avner Finkelshtein is a partner at Gornitzky & Co.

Avner’s main practice areas are Competition & Antitrust and White Collar Crime. In this capacity, he advises our domestic clients on a wide variety of competition law matters, such as mergers and acquisitions, criminal cartel investigations, joint ventures, abuse of dominance, distribution and pricing practices and other legislations governing foreign investments in Israel. In this respect, Avner has acted as counsel on several leading cases before the Israel Antitrust Authority.

Prior to joining the firm and over the course of ten years, Avner held a variety of positions at the Israel Antitrust Authority:

Deputy Director and legal counsel of the Investigations Department. Team leader in the Legal Department in the areas of banking, insurance and capital markets; Director of the Health Division of the Legal Department; Legal counsel to the Tenders Committee of the Israel Antitrust Authority; Head of the computer-related offenses division; Investigator and Senior Investigator of anti-competition related offenses in the Investigations Department;

In serving in these positions, Avner was responsible for many cartel investigations conducted by the IAA over the past decade, including the bread cartel investigation, and represented the IAA’s general director before the District Court of Jerusalem and the Competition Tribunal on several leading cases, including criminal cartels and merger cases.

Throughout his legal studies, Avner served as a member of a legal clinic, providing free legal counsel to underprivileged individuals. In addition, Avner served as the Law School Representative in Bar-Ilan University’s Student Union and as a director of Issta Lines Ltd

Hebrew and English.

2001, Israel Bar Association Chairman of the Antitrust committee, Tel-aviv District, Israel Bar Association (since 2015)

LL.M., Commercial Law, Bar-Ilan University (2005) LL.B., Bar-Ilan University (2000)