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Gornitzky & Co. Advocates
Founded in 1938, Gornitzky & Co. has been
involved in many of the largest and most
complex transactions in the Israeli market
and plays a key role in the development of Israel’s
economy and legal practice. Gornitzky is known
for its experience in commercial law. Gornitzky’s
multi-disciplinary approach allows the firm to pro-
vide fully integrated legal services and a legal ‘one-
stop-shop’. The firm and its partners are highly
rated by leading Israeli and global legal guides,
such as Chambers Global, The Legal 500, IFLR
1000, BDICode and Dun’s 100. The firm’s expe-
rienced legal team provides clients with service
of the highest caliber. Our lawyers speak Hebrew
and English, as well as Afrikaans, Arabic, Farsi,
French, German, Italian, Portuguese, Russian and
Spanish. Some are also licensed to practice law
in other jurisdictions, while others are certified
public accountants or have additional academic
degrees. The firm’s chairman, Pinhas Rubin, con-
sidered Israel’s leading tax law expert and one of
the country’smost prominent commercial lawyers,
has been repeatedly named one of the ‘100 Most
Influential People’ in the Israeli economy by ‘The
Marker’ magazine; the firm’s managing partner,
Moriel Matalon, serves as the Chairman of the Is-
raeli Fund for UNICEF; senior partner, Zvi Ephrat,
serves as a director of Bank Mizrahi Tefahot and
as a senior advisor to the Ofer Group.
Fields of Practice (partial)
• Commercial &Corporate Law– representing Is-
raeli and global corporations and public entities
in commercial contracts, outsourcing agreements,
service contracts, development, production, mar-
keting, distribution and franchising agreements,
corporate governance issues, enforcement and
compliance.
• M&A – representing Israeli and foreign buyers,
sellers and target companies in large and complex
M&A transactions, including the sale of banks, in-
surance companies, large energy and communica-
tions corporations, holding companies, etc. The
firm provides legal counsel to the world’s largest
corporations and private equity funds and to lead-
ing global law firms, in their Israeli acquisitions
and transactions, as well as Israeli corporations
in their cross-border acquisitions.
• Tax– the firm’s tax practice is among the leading
in Israel, with widespread experience in intricate
global taxcases, creative taxplanning, writing com-
plex opinions, representing individuals & corpora-
tions before various judicial bodies, including the
Supreme Court and the Tax Authority.
• Capital Markets – providing legal services to
Israel’s largest and most active business groups,
handling offerings and private placements on capi-
tal markets in Israel and abroad, reaching billions
of shekels annually. The firm advises Israeli com-
panieswith offerings on foreign exchanges, foreign
companies with offerings on the TASE and leading
underwriters in offerings in Israel and abroad.
• Banking & Finance – representing lenders and
borrowers in the largest financing transactions
in the Israeli market, including some of Israel’s
largest commercial banks, insurance companies,
provident funds and other institutional lenders,
handling banking-related regulatory matters and
representing leading banks, their control holders
and foreign banks operating in Israel, before the
Bank of Israel.
• Real-Estate – handling real-estate transactions
in Israel and abroad, involved in many of Israel’s
largest and most complex real-estate projects.
• Litigation and Dispute Resolution – represent-
ing companies, corporations and individuals in
global intricate commercial disputes in the Su-
preme Court, the High Court of Justice and global
arbitration tribunals.
• Class Actions & Derivative Suits – leading in
the management of class actions and derivative
suits, Gornitzky has handled cases of substantial
financial scopes in the fields of insurance, restric-
tive trade practices, banking, consumerism, envi-
ronment and corporate law, etc.
• Restructuring & Insolvency – handling a wide
array of restructuring and insolvency cases, and
the partners have been appointed to serve as liq-
uidators, temporary administrators and receivers
for both public and private companies.
• Infrastructure &Project Finance –involved in a
majority of the high-profile infrastructure transac-
tions in Israel and in their financing, providing legal
services for the construction of all major desalina-
tion plants in Israel, Israel Police’sNationalTraining
Center, construction of IDF facilities, Carmel Tun-
nels, Highway 6, etc. The firm is experienced in
privatizations, tenders, BOT and PFI projects.
• Energy – known as Israel’s leading energy law
firm, Gornitzky provides services to leading Israeli
and foreign energy corporations, with extensive
experience in all aspects of the energy and natural
resourcesmarket, including natural gas, oil, refin-
eries, private power stations, electricity, solar en-
ergy, water desalination, BOT transactions, etc.
• Telecoms – specializing in all facets of the
communications sector, including infrastructure,
content, technology and regulation. The clientele
includes Israel’s largest wired and cellular telepho-
ny, internet and television corporations, start-ups
and satellite broadcasting.
• Technology & Life Sciences – representing
mature, start-up, hi-tech and biotechnology com-
panies and their investors in M&A transactions.
The clientele includes large venture capital funds,
hi-tech, biotechnology and telecommunications
companies.
• Trusts, Estates & Private Wealth Management
– providing comprehensive legal services relating
to trusts, estates and private wealthmanagement,
including preserving, protecting and planning fam-
ily wealth, and the transfer between generations.
• Antitrust – experienced in the restrictive trade
aspects of large M&A transactions, classification
of a company as amonopoly by the Israel Antitrust
Authority (IAA) and its implications, civil and com-
mercial litigation in this field and accompanying
clients throughout IAA investigations.
• Hotels – representing domestic and global
leading hotel chains, advising them on on-going
matters, acquisition and construction of hotels in
Israel, Europe and the US, and representing hotel
owners in management contracts with leading
global companies and brands.
pa rt n e r s
Jack Smith
Eyal Marom
Gur Y. Savir
Ofer Tzur
Itay Geffen
Eyal Raz
Erez Harel
Chaim Y. Friedland
Lior Porat
Yaron Elhawi
Sharon Werker-Sagy
Elite Elkon
Eli Elya
Shlomo Cohen
Daniel Paserman
Gil Grady
Noam Ronen
Eli Cohen
Kfir Yadgar
Yoram Arad
Yair Shiloni
Ari Fried
Joseph D. Gross
Orly Tenennbaum
Timor Belan
Idan Baki
Aviram Handel
Shiri Shani
Sagit Ohana-Livne
Harel Shaham
Avner Finkelshtein
Michael Ayalon
Nurit Traurik
Tamar Cohen
Lior Relevy
Ofer Fleischer
Itzchak Lazar
Ori Yitzhak
Ronit Rozenstein-
Barel
Itai Itzkovich
Shlomo Aviad
Zider
Yiftah Farber
Tel Aviv Branch: 45 Rothschild Blvd.,
Tel Aviv 6578403
Tel: 972-3-7109191 Fax: 972-3-5606555
Herzliya Branch: 1 Aba Even Blvd.,
Herzliya Pituach 4672519
Moriel Matalon
Managing Partner
Zvi Ephrat
Senior Partner
Pinhas Rubin
Chairman *
* See Top Executives Profiles - Page 582