Team
Adv. Guy Gissin
(Head of the firm and managing partner)
Email: guy@gissinlaw.co.il
Adv. Guy Gissin, graduated with a bachelor’s degree in law (LL.B) from Tel Aviv University in 1991, is remarried to Sigal Rusk Gissin, and is the father of five. Adv. Gissin, a graduate of the Israeli Naval Academy, holds the rank of Lt. Commander (ret.) in the IDF, and was commander of a Dabur-class patrol boat. Adv. Gissin, formerly of Zaltzman & Co. law firm, where he was a partner until he left to start his own practice in 1994, specializes in commercial law, securities, corporate law, insolvency, debt arrangements and commercial litigation.
Since 1991, Adv. Gissin has represented dozens of publicly traded companies, including in public offerings of stock and bonds as well as providing ongoing legal counsel. Over the last decade, Adv. Gissin has been involved in some of the most significant and complex debt arrangements and liquidations in Israel, while also contributing to the creation of some of the most important legal precedents in the field. Adv. Gissin has been personally appointed many times by the courts and by creditors, to serve as court officer or trustee for corporations undergoing insolvency proceedings.
Adv. Gissin works voluntarily to support and promote education in Israel. As such, Adv. Gissin has been serving for nearly twenty-five years as legal advisor to Young Entrepreneurs (Israel) foundation.
Adv. Gissin also serves as the chairman of the Multidisciplinary Mediation Center Ltd. in collaboration with the Bar Ilan University. https://insolvency-center.com/
Laguages: Hebrew, English
LL.B from the Tel Aviv University 1991
Member of the Israel Bar Association since 1994
Advocate Yoel Freilich
(Senior partner, Head of Litigation and Dispute Resolution Department)
Email: yoel@gissinlaw.co.il
Advocate Freilich, a senior partner in the firm and head of the Litigation and Dispute Resolution Department has more than 25 years’ experience and has appeared in more than one thousand court cases. Advocate Freilich represents leading entities in the economy in legal proceedings relating to corporate matters and securities, directors’ and corporate officers’ liability and control disputes.
Advocate Freilich is responsible for a host of court precedents pertaining to directors’ and officers’ liability, fairness in capital raising procedures and dividend distribution.
Advocate Freilich has been recognized and is recommended in leading global international rating guides such as:
Legal 500
‘Yoel Freilich is probably the best litigator in the corporate scene. His cross-examination skills can take water out of the rock. If you want to win the case, better have him with you.’
Legal 500
‘Gissin’s litigation team, which is led by Yoel Freilich, is exceptionally creative, very trained and skillful. The judges pay attention and listen to them.’
Advocate Freilich is the author of: Temporary and Immediate Relief in Business Law which deals with common trading disputes seen from the standpoint of injunctive and temporary relief, which is considered an authority, and is quoted in dozens of judicial decisions.
Advocate Freilich also lectures in the areas of his expertise in scholastic courses for judges and lawyers.
He is married and has two children.
Languages: Hebrew, English
LL.M (Bar-Ilan University)
Member of the Israel Bar Association since 1998
Advocate Yael Hershkovitz
(senior partner and head of the Corporate and Financing Department)
Email: yael@gissinlaw.co.il
Adv. Hershkovitz is a senior partner and is the head of the Corporate and Financing Department. Adv. Hershkovitz specializes in financing and corporate law and handle debt arrangements, financing and debt restructuring, mergers and acquisitions and complex international transactions. Adv. Hershkovitz has been involved in recent years in debt arrangements and complex and significant liquidations in the Israeli capital market.
Legal 500 – Next Generation Partner
“Yael Hershkovitz‘s broad experience encompasses debt restructuring and cross-border insolvency proceedings.”
IFLR – Highly Regarded
Languages: Hebrew, English
The College of Administration (2005)
Member of the Israel Bar Association since 2006
Amir Paz
(Advocate)
Email: amir@gissinlaw.co.il
Adv. Paz is a partner in the firm’s Litigation Department.
In the course of his work, Advocate Paz handles complex high-profile litigation cases at all judicial levels, inter alia, in the following fields: shareholder disputes and control struggles, directors’ and officers’ liability, class actions, derivative actions, financial disputes, intellectual property disputes, cases having international elements and diverse actions conducted incidental to insolvency proceedings.
Adv. lectures in professional academic institutions and forums in the fields of civil procedure and in the firm’s areas of activity.
Advocate Paz was an trained in this firm before qualifying and is responsible for recruiting interns at the firm.
Languages:
Hebrew, English.
LL.B. cum laude graduate of the Academic College of Law and Science, 2012
Member of the Israel Bar Association, 2013
Simon Keidar
(a partner – is responsible for liquidations and receiverships)
Email: simon@gissinlaw.co.il
Adv. Keidar (CPA) specializes in restructuring and insolvency proceedings, corporate rehabilitation and economic recovery, debt settlements and commercial litigation, and is appointed as functionary on behalf of the court in restructuring and insolvency proceedings.
Adv. Keidar (CPA) handles insolvency proceedings in diverse areas including representation of shareholders and creditors, analyzes the situation of corporations and individuals and formulates a recovery program, debtors arrangements, operates companies under restructuring and insolvency proceedings, liquidations and receiverships, and has also acquired experience, know-how and exclusive skill in the complex and high-profile prominent cases in which he was involved.
Adv. Simon Keidar (CPA) represents the firm’s clients in complex litigation proceedings in the fields of insolvency, commercial litigation, shareholders disputes, class actions etc.
Langauges:
Hebrew, English.
Adv. Simon Keidar (CPA) earned an LLB degree at the Herzliya Interdisciplinary Center, in 2014 and a B.A. in Business Administration specializing in Accountancy from the Herzliya Interdisciplinary Center, in 2014
Member of the Israel Bar Association since 2015
Roni Shema Rimon
(Advocate)
Email: ronis@gissinlaw.co.il
Roni is a partner in the firm’s Real-estate and Hotel Department.
Roni specializes in commercial transactions and real-estate transactions and possesses special expertise in the field of hotels, financing, lease and management agreements in addition to purchase and sale transactions of different classes of real estate assets (sites, income-producing assets, buildings et cet.).
Prior to joining our firm, she served as chief legal advisor to one of Israel’s leading hotel groups.
Langauges:
Hebrew, English.
Education: Bar-Ilan University (2015)
Member of the Israel Bar Association (2016)
Oren Sharabani
(Advocate)
Email: oren@gissinlaw.co.il
Oren joined the firm in 2018. His main areas of expertise are commercial law, Restructuring and Insolvency and litigation, and he has handled a variety of legal cases with significant financial volumes in these areas.
Prior joining the firm, Oren was an associate and partner at the Haim Zadok & Co., Law Office
Languages:
Hebrew, English.
LL.B – The Hebrew University of Jerusalem (2012)
LL.M – Bar-Ilan University (2018)
Member of the Israel Bar Association since 2013
Idan Danino
(Advocate)
Email: idand@gissinlaw.co.il
Adv. Danino is a member of the firm’s Restructuring and Insolvency Department and the Litigation Department.
Adv. Danino represents creditors and court appointed functionaries in many insolvency proceedings. Adv. Danino has been approved by the Commissioner for Insolvency and Economic Rehabilitation as a candidate on its list of trustees in the district of Tel Aviv.
In this context, Idan has taken part in handling insolvency proceedings and complex debt arrangements of corporations (including corporations that raised debt from the public and collapsed financially) in substantial financial volumes handled by the firm. In addition, Adv. Danino handles various and diverse litigation procedures such as Directors’ & officers’ liability claims, corporate control disputes and complex contractual commercial claims of the firm’s clients.
Adv. Danino is a graduate of the IDF paratrooper patrol and serves in the reserves as a combat soldier and commander of a combat soldiers team.
Languages:
Hebrew, English.
LL.B. (The College of Law and Business) , 2013
Member of the Israel Bar Association, 2014
Katy Bronstein
(Advocate)
Email: katy@gissinlaw.co.il
Adv. Katy Bronstein specializes in liquidations and receivership cases, bankruptcies, civil and commercial litigation and in the framework of her activity, provides ongoing counselling and support to our clients in these fields.
Advocate Bronstein has considerable experience in the field of insolvency, and in operating companies and the sale of their corporate assets and activity, creditors arrangements, and conducting complex investigations and proceedings against the former officers of companies that have collapsed.
Prior to qualifying, Advocate Katy Bronstein clerked for Justice Kochava Levy in the Tel Aviv Magistrates Court specializing in the fields of civil and commercial litigation and bills of exchange.
Languages:
Hebrew, English.
Education: LL.B. – from the Academic Centre for Law and Business
Member of the Israel Bar Association since 2012
Offir Gantz
Advocate
Email: ofir@gissinlaw.co.il
Adv. Gantz specializes in insolvency, debt arrangements, commercial law and civil and commercial litigation.
His activities include, amongst others, the representation and handling a broad range of insolvency proceedings, formulating, and representation in the execution and implementation of debt arrangements, represents individuals and companies in the courts at all levels, civil and commercial arbitrations, and the formulation of commercial agreements in diverse fields.
Prior to joining our firm, Advocate Gantz worked in some of the leading law firms in the field of insolvency and commercial litigation.
LL.B from the Academic Center for Law and Science
LL.M from the Tel Aviv University
Member of the Israel Bar Association since 2018
Koby Meshi
(Advocate)
Email: kobym@gissinlaw.co.il
Adv. Meshi specializes in commercial litigation, class actions, administrative petitions, provides ongoing legal counsel to corporations and advises on commercial transactions.
Adv. Meshi is experienced in litigating complex and high-profile disputes in a broad range of fields and before the courts at all levels, inter alia shareholder disputes and corporate governance disputes, officers’ and directors’ liability claims, commercial and contractual disputes, representation of international corporations and civil actions deriving from insolvency proceedings.
Adv. Meshi completed his internship in the firm’s litigation department.
Languages: Hebrew and English (mother tongue).
Education: LL.B. (Hebrew University of Jerusalem), 2019
Member of the Israel Bar Association, 2020
Yuda Druck
(Advocate)
Email: yehuda@gissinlaw.co.il
Adv. Druck is a member of the capital market department team. As part of his work, he is responsible for the ongoing handling of public corporations in a variety of aspects, including from the commercial corporate aspect, provides ongoing legal advice in all matters related to regulatory guidelines, compliance and enforcement.
As part of his professional activity, Adv. Druck represents the companies in his charge vis-a-vis the Securities Authority and the Tel Aviv Stock Exchange, underwriters, trustees and other regulators.
Adv. Druck trained in our firm in the capital market department.
Laguages: Hebrew, English
LL.B from the Academic Center for Law and Science
Member of the Israel Bar Association since 2023
Anastasia Schiff
(Advocate)
Email: anastasiia@gissinlaw.co.il
Adv. Schiff is a member of the Capital Market Department. In her professional capacity she is responsible for handling the ongoing conduct of public and private companies in all aspects relating to corporate law, securities and the capital market, and representing them vis-a-vis the relevant authorities and regulatory bodies.
Prior to qualifying Adv. Shiff was an intern in our office’s Capital Market Department.
Languages:
Hebrew, English, Russian, Ukrainian
National Academy of Internal Affairs, Ukraine (LL.B, 2016)
National Academy of Internal Affairs, Ukraine (LL.M, 2018)
Member of the Israel Bar Association since 2023
Member of the Ukrainian Bar Association since 2018