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Adv. Amir Amar is one of the founding partners and serves as Head of the Firm. Amir advises senior leading market executives in Israel and abroad and accompanies commercial activities of corporations and leading businesspeople in Israel. Amir is one of Israel’s leading and renowned lawyers in the field of real estate and planning and construction, and is an expert on aspects of regulation in the cellular communications industry and related fields. Amir leads the handling of significant and central transactions, including in the fields of financing, real estate, infrastructures, communications and retail. Amir has led complex transactions for housing, industry and commerce, entrepreneurial projects, preservation projects, land betterment and designation change projects in many areas in Israel, and more. In addition, Amir represents, formulates strategy and tactics, advises and accompanies the firm’s clients on aspects related to property management, as well as on complex disputes, including arbitration, mediation and court proceedings. Due to his extensive experience in managing and resolving complex crises, Amir possesses knowledge and can lead to the conclusion of legal disputes with the best possible results for his clients, and at the best and most appropriate timing. Amir also represents the firm’s clients on core issues at Knesset committees and in legislative amendments. Amir serves as an arbitrator and mediator for complex commercial disputes, concerning corporations as well as between shareholders and business partners. Amir’s talent at recognizing the interests of the parties concerned, and in understanding the sensitivities and complexities of any dispute, most mediation proceedings he conducted were concluded with satisfactory settlements to the benefit of all parties involved. His clients describe Amir as: “Not only a lawyer, but a businessman. He counsels us on all our affairs“; “A wonderful lawyer who provides excellent advice“; “Very sharp and very experienced“; “Has the ability to think strategically and to understand his client’s requirements“. (THe LEGAL 500 and Chambers and Partners ranking guides). Amir served for many years as a member of the board of directors for Amot Investments Ltd – a company with a portfolio of income generating properties of the largest on the economy, and which is included in the Real Estate Index 15 and the Tel Aviv Index 35 – traded on the Tel Aviv Stock Exchange. Amir has been recognized by international ranking guides: The LEGAL 500 recommended his work in the fields of real estate, urban renewal and planning and construction. Chambers and Partners ranked him as a leading lawyer in the field of real estate. Amir serves as chairman of The International Award for Young People Association (registered), which is part of an international programme established in Britain in 1956, by the Duke of Edinburgh. Education:

Amit Lederman

Amit Lederman is a partner in our firm, heading the Insolvency, debt settlement, restructuring and Corporate Rehabilitation Department. Amit has two decades of experience in counselling and accompanying companies during insolvency proceedings, formulating and executing debt settlements, managing, and operating companies in rehabilitation and receivership as well as conducting complex litigation proceedings relating to companies in crisis. The team under his management is among the leading teams in Israel for handling insolvency proceedings, of the largest and most complex in the country, with emphasis on corporate rehabilitation. Amit is regularly appointed by various district courts as officer for companies and corporations under insolvency and settlement proceedings, including infrastructure, retail, real estate, communication, commercial and industrial companies. Amit is also appointed as mediator on behalf of the court on complex disputes related to insolvency, as well as commercial disputes. Amit and his team cooperate with an economic-managerial team to handle cases from all angles, combining legal, economic, accounting and management aspects. Amit has extensive experience in rehabilitating companies, including formulating debt settlements outside of court, with far reaching expertise in counselling financial entities that provided credit to companies in difficulty, as well as in representing creditors in insolvency proceedings and investors interested in purchasing companies under debt settlement. Amit is an expert at complex commercial litigation and in accompanying real estate ventures, and has extensive experience in court appearances in Israel, including the Supreme Court. Amit has won international recognition for his activities in the field of insolvency and company rehabilitation: The international esteemed Chambers and Partners ranking guide personally ranked Amit as a leader in his field. The international IFLR1000 ranking guide commended the firm’s activities in insolvency and company recovery.

Dana Amir-Fried

Dana Amir-Fried is a partner at our Class Actions and Litigation Department, specializing in class action suits and civil commercial law. Dana represents clients in complex and high-profile litigation cases conducted in courts, in arbitration and mediation proceedings in a variety of practice areas and issues including communications, contracts, intellectual property, corporations, consumer protection, antitrust, privacy protection, labour law and regulation. Dana specializes in representing defendants in class action lawsuits in various fields (food and retail, telecommunication, software). Dana represents our clients in proceedings before government ministries, including the Ministry of Communications, the Ministry of Health, the Ministry of Agriculture and the Consumer Protection and Fair-Trade Authority. Dana provides ongoing consultation and legal support to the firm clients in their day-to-day business, on regulation, commercial engagements, labour law, franchising, intellectual property and consumer protection. Dana participates as a speaker at conferences, panels and lectures in the field of class actions, inter alia, on panels of the Bar Association, before members of the ACC Israel – Association of Corporate Counsels, and before students at academic institutions. Dana co-heads the firm’s intern recruitment and training programme. Dana was recognized as a recommended lawyer by The LEGAL 500 international ranking guide for her achievements in the fields of Dispute Resolution – Class Actions and Communications Law.

Daniel Chinn

Daniel Chinn is a partner and Head of our High-Tech Department. Daniel specialises in representing venture capital and private equity funds, as well as companies in the technology industry. Daniel represents early-stage technology companies from the initial stages of conception and ideation through the establishment of the company, raising capital from investors, contracting with employees, including compensation plans and options, drafting development, product manufacturing, licencing, marketing and distribution agreements, and all the way through public offerings to a possible ultimate exit. Daniel was a partner in the commercial and corporate department of leading law firms, and a partner in Israel Seed Partners, a Jerusalem-based venture capital fund with close to $300m under his management. In addition, he served as the CEO of an Agrotech company. Daniel also served as CEO and the executive Chairman of the Board of Directors of Finjan Holdings, Inc. (NASDAQ: FNJN) where he worked with management to lead the company to significant revenues before being acquired by Fortress Capital. His extensive and varied experience, which enables him to provide legal, business and strategic advice to his clients places him in a unique position in the Israeli hi-tech landscape. Daniel was recognized by the following international ranking guides: The LEGAL 500 recommended his achievements in hi-tech and start-ups,and in commercial law – mergers and acquisitions. Chambers and Partners ranked him a prominent lawyer in technology. IFLR1000 chose him as a leading lawyer in technology and telecom.

Eyal Roy Sage

Eyal Roy Sage is one of the firm’s founding partners and heads our Law and Technology Department, which concentrates in data protection and security, telecommunications and media, intellectual property and competition law. Eyal’s practice concentrates in data protection and security, telecommunications and media, intellectual property and competition. He draws on his technical background to provide practical commercial and regulatory advice, helping bridge the gap between often outdated laws and modern technology. Eyal’s clients include industry leaders in the technology, banking, insurance, financial services and telecommunications and media sectors. He represents the firm’s clients before the Privacy Protection Authority, other regulators, and parliamentary committees, participates in the defence teams of complex class action lawsuits in the areas of privacy, consumerism, and competition. Eyal regularly advises on Israeli law for foreign companies and is experienced in bilingual handling of litigation cases of foreign companies that are plaintiffs or defendants in Israel. He has extensive expertise in handling the engagements of broadcasters for the production of content and for licencing the use of musical and audio-visual works on a collective basis. He lectures, writes articles and provides instruction at conferences, in webinars and in courses on privacy protection and information security. Eyal was recognized by local and international ranking guides: The LEGAL 500 has recommended his work continuously since 2003, in the fields of intellectual property, high-tech and start-ups, telecom and media; as a leading lawyer on the Israeli law market in the field of telecom and media, he has been awarded the accolade of ‘Leading Individual’. Chambers and Partners has ranked Eyal a leading lawyer in the areas of IT & Data Privacy, Intellectual Property, Telecom and Media. Global Data Review, which ranks the world’s most prominent firms in the fields of Data Privacy, Cyber Security, IP, IT and TMT, has recommended Eyal as a leader in his domain. DUN’S100 and BDi mentioned him as a leading lawyer in his field of expertise.

Gidon Even-Or

Partner, Head of International Arbitration

Mati Rosenbaum

Partner

Ram Jeanne

Adv. Jeanne heads the Litigation and Dispute Resolution Department, consistently ranked at the top of the leading litigation departments in Israel. Adv. Jeanne is one of the firm’s founding partners and serves as its managing partner. Adv. Jeanne is an expert in the representation of various entities on large scale and complex lawsuits in all fields of commercial law. His clients comprise of leading commercial companies, including infrastructure, retail, computing, real estate, communication companies and public institutions. Adv. Jeanne is an expert in the representation of shareholders on complex corporate disputes; directors on derivative class actions; partnership and joint ownership disputes and consultation; representation on administrative and supreme court petitions; representing public institutions and corporations on communication and libel claims; representing companies and authorities on tenders; representation on disputes in the fields of computing, economic competition, real estate, privacy, retailing, intellectual property and more. Adv. Jeanne serves as a reserve military defense attorney, representing senior officers on training accident cases. Adv. Jeanne formerly served as the chairman of the Israeli Bar Association Litigation Committee and he also lecturers at various legal forums and study programs. Adv. Jeanne is one of Israel’s leading litigators and is regularly ranked as a top legal professional and is recognized by local and international ranking guides, including: The LEGAL 500 and Chambers and Partners.

Sharon Kohane

Sharon Kohane is a partner in our firm, heading the White-Collar Crime Department. Sharon is an expert in economic oriented white-collar crime, securities laws violations, money laundering, public corruption, tax cases, antitrust, corporate violations and administrative and public law – including cases with highly confidential classification. Sharon accompanies high profile clients, public figures, officials, business persons and leading companies on the market, on a wide range of subjects at the forefront of public and legal discussion in Israel. Prior to joining AYR, she served for 15 years as a senior prosecutor in the Tel Aviv Prosecution (taxation and economy), inter alia as the department manager responsible for combined economic enforcement in the district. Within this capacity she managed cases of public and legal importance in the field of criminal-economic law. Through her many years of service in senior positions at the prosecution, Sharon has gained considerable experience and expertise in managing criminal economic cases (white collar crimes), that are complex and far reaching, at courts of all instances, including property seizure and foreclosure. Sharon is well acquainted with enforcement and prosecution factors and the decision-making methods in these entities after having for many years instructed, counselled and accompanied them. The department managed by Sharon specializes in criminal law, particularly economic and white-collar crimes, with emphasis on tax violations (income tax, VAT, customs, purchase tax), securities, economic competition law, money laundering, bribery, deceit and breach of trust. Sharon provides the firm’s clients, corporations and individuals alike, with a broad spectrum of legal services that combine civil, criminal and administrative handling, including, inter alia, counsel, representation before authorities, accompaniment during interrogation, hearing procedures and conducting procedures before legal instances. Sharon possesses a unique expertise in the field of money laundering prohibition, including representation of clients, providing expert opinions, assimilating procedures, lectures and training. Sharon served as (joint) chair of the Money Laundering Prohibition Committee at the Bar Association. Sharon was recognized by ‘The LEGAL 500’ international ranking guide that recommended her work in the field of Dispute Resolution – White-Collar Crime, Investigations and Fraud. Our white-collar crime department, under Sharon’s leadership, is consistently ranked in the high-quality group among Israel’s leading firms by the Israeli Dun’ 100 and BDi ranking guides.

Yaron Reiter

Yaron Reiter is one of the firm’s founding partners, and heads our Class Actions and Litigation Department, which is consistently ranked by both local and foreign ranking guides as a leader in its field. Yaron is a highly esteemed and venerated litigator, whose appearances in courts have secured him a solid reputation. He is recognized for his creative approach to complex litigation. Yaron serves as an arbitrator and mediator, and appears before all courts, including the Supreme Court and Appellate Courts. Yaron has in-depth knowledge and expertise in local and international litigation and particularly in the field of class actions; in addition, he possesses extensive experience in partner and shareholders disputes. Over the years, Yaron has acquired considerable and unique experience in representing companies and entities sued in class actions in a wide variety of areas, such as insurance, banking, labour law, lotteries and gambling, antitrust, privacy protection, data and cyber processing, environmental nuisance (noise, odour, air pollution, etc.), taxes, capital markets and securities, real estate, accessibility and prevention of discrimination, spam, sports, consumerism, intellectual property, local authorities and councils, corporations, transport, tourism, aviation, and communication (computers, internet, cable, TV, media, cellular, wired, international, etc.). Yaron provides his clients with legal as well as strategic advice. In addition, Yaron has substantial experience representing companies, businesspersons, executives and seniors in derivative claims, managing corporate control struggles, shareholder disputes and minority shareholder oppression claims, as well as administrative petitions, financial sanctions, the Freedom of Information Act, and petitions to the High Court. With experience in managing complex transactions in a variety of fields, Yaron advises and accompanies processes for the formation and formulation of investment transactions in private and public companies, traded in Israel and the United States. Yaron has also accumulated a great deal of experience in representing and operating with venture capital funds and investment banks – and has been a partner to debt settlements and corporate recovery procedures. Yaron is one of Israel’s most prominent and respected lawyers in litigation in general and in the field of class actions in particular; our firm’s class actions department, which he heads, is consistently ranked by the Israeli ranking guides as top tier in the field of class actions. He appears in seminars and professional conferences for various forums, including, on behalf of the Israel Bar Association. Yaron is also known to the Israeli media; having published articles on litigation and been interviewed for articles on topics related to his areas of expertise. Yaron has won recognition by international ranking guides for his achievements: ‘The LEGAL 500’ recommended him as a leading lawyer for his achievements in the field of Dispute Resolution – Class Actions and the field of Transportation. Chambers and Partners ranked him as a leading class action lawyer.

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