Practice Areas
Commercial and corporate litigation
Restructuring and Insolvency
Capital
Markets
International commercial transactions
Real estate and the hotel industry
Financing transactions
The firm supplies litigation services in complex high-profile disputes. Our clients are represented at all judicial levels in Israel including the Economic Department of the District Court, the Supreme Court, arbitrations and mediation proceedings.
The firm has extensive experience in handling highly complex commercial and corporate disputes such as – claims by the securities holders, officers’ and directors’ liability, shareholder disputes, claims by disadvantaged minorities and high-value contractual claims and the like. The firm is also specializes in derivative actions and class actions in securities and consumer issues. The firm is frequently rated in the various legal guides as one of the leading and outstanding firms in the field of litigation.
The firm is rated annually in the Top Tier group of firms engaged in Restructuring and Insolvency in Israel and constituted a key player in significant debt arrangements in the market in the last decade particularly in international debt rescheduling arrangements of foreign bond companies.
The firm has broad experience in the field of receiverships, liquidations, as well as expertise as in insolvency proceedings including the representation of creditors, shareholders, banks and companies. The firm’s partners are frequently appointed by the courts as functionaries – liquidators, receivers, trustees in various insolvency proceedings and creditors arrangements.
The firm is ahead of the curve in the field of international insolvency proceedings and responsible for legal precedents in the field including a Supreme Court precedent allowing Israeli courts to decide on insolvency proceedings of a foreign corporation and the Supreme Court precedent which recognized the right of creditors to assign their rights as claimants to a court appointed trustee.
The firm is a member and exclusive representative in Israel of BTG Global Advisory, which is an international network in the world and is highly regarded in the field of international debt arrangements and insolvencies. The network enables our office and its clients to have direct and immediate access to leading professionals in the field of insolvency and distressed businesses worldwide, particularly in North America.
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The firm has been active since 1994 in the field of the capital market in which framework the firm provides ongoing support to corporations – proactive communication with the Securities Authority and the Tel Aviv Stock Exchange, underwriters and other parties active in the market. In 2021, the firm, together with Aviva Ben Moshe, CPA (who until 2020 was a senior member of the Israeli Securities Authority for over 31 years), founded a specialized company – Harpoon Capital Consulting Ltd.
Harpoon provides consulting services, ongoing guidance and expert opinions in the financial regulation, corporate governance, and accounting.
Harpoon advises in complex transactions, public and private offerings, intricate regulatory situations, formulating innovative financial instruments and more.
Harpoon’s activity in the capital market is based on the partners’ many years of experience as well as having a skilled team of professionals.
The firm provides ongoing support to diverse public corporations in various spheres, and in that framework, is retained to deal with their corporate activity including vis-a-vis the Securities Authority, the Capital Market Authority and the Stock Exchange, mergers and acquisitions of trading companies, listings for trading on the NASDAQ in the framework of SPAC transactions, merger transactions with dormant stock exchange companies in Israel, and provides creative solutions to complex issues in the corporate world and the capital market and is a leader in groundbreaking transactions in the framework of mergers in unique structures and the like.
The Firm maintains broad international activity in a range of fields consisting of complex M&A transactions, investments and/or the financing of assets that are managed by the office. In recent years, the office has been involved in transactions of significant volume in Canada, the US and Europe.
The firm provides consulting services and support in sales, leasing and rental transactions, financing and the purchase of income-generating assets, setting up and accompanying real estate projects including strengthening and structural reinforcement projects of existing buildings (known as TMA 38 projects), handling the legal aspects pertaining to the hotel industry, and more.
The Firm has significant experience in corporate financing transactions in all their aspects, and special expertise in advising Israeli and foreign clients regarding the legal aspects of creating, registering and enforcing securities in Israel.