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Law Firms - Insolvency Law
Shaul Kotler, Law Firm
Shaul Kotler Law Firm specializes in com-
mercial litigation stressing legal pro-
ceedings in banking, representing bank
customers, commercial litigation, companie’s
law and insolvency proceedings, liquidation, re-
ceivership, contracts law, notes law, liability law,
creditors’ arrangements, bankruptcy and stays of
proceedings.
The firm is renowned for its unique expertise in
representing bank customers and has gained
years of profound know-how and much ex-
perience in this field. The firm is engaged in
substantial cases of large amounts of money
and high complexity, and strives towards full
availability for clients and personal attention
for all clients who enjoy legal services of the
highest professional standard provided by the
firm’s experienced staff and personally by Shaul
Kotler himself.
Shaul Kotler Law Firm’s clients, both in the pri-
vate and business sectors, conduct through the
firm their complex and range of legal proceedings
that require focus and expertise, and personal
attention and involvement. The firm is routinely
engaged in representing shareholders, execu-
tives, controlling shareholders in insolvency and
liquidation proceedings. The firm is appointed by
court rulings in many exceptional scale cases to
positions in insolvency proceedings.
The firm is renowned for professional excellence
and makes sure to act with precision, personal
attention, and adapting conduct of the case to spe-
cific client needs. The firm’s staff is experienced
and knowledgeable and provides swift, effective,
personal and relevant legal services. The firm
believes in identifying with the interests of the
client and incentive-oriented goals and charges
fees based on results and according to the client’s
circumstances.
Practice Areas
The firm specializes in and handles commercial
litigation on a daily basis, representing clients in
all courts in: banking law (representing banks’ cus-
tomers in suits against the banks, countersuits,
self-protection, foreclosure procedures, debt ar-
rangement talks, etc.), insolvency law (managing
liquidations in high-tech, finance, industry, sport,
etc.), companies law, receivership, bankruptcy,
commercial and contractual suits, notes law etc.
Commercial Litigation
The firmspecializes in representing clients in com-
plex, large financial scale cases including handling
suits for Israeli and overseas suppliers, business-
people, public company controlling shareholders,
in complex litigation stressing personal attention
and full availability, at all times. The firmprovides
the highest level legal services in complexlitigation
proceedings involving substantial financial sums.
The firm’s tight, focused structure provides clients
the added value of personal service by the firm’s
founder and representation by him in court.
Banking Law
As part of banking law, the firm specializes in
the specific area of representing banks’ cus-
tomers against the banks in suits, countersuits,
self-protection, foreclosure procedures and debt
arrangement talks, receiverships, liquidations, rep-
resenting guarantors andmore, mainly in complex
cases involving major sums of money against the
banks’ special credit and finance departments.
Banking law is clearly divided into two areas:
representing banks, and representing banks’
customers. In the second area Shaul Kotler Law
Firm is one of Israel’s leading firms. The relation-
ship between banks and customers are based on
those between loaners and borrowers and com-
posed of commercial, contractual and legal layers.
Due to the huge gap between customer and bank
regarding information, know-how and economic
strength, the legal system has set a rigid frame-
workfor banks’ actionswith customers. To restrain
themajor power of banks and their economic and
legal strength over customers, restrictions and bal-
ances are set in Israeli law as well as regulatory
limitations on the banks and their actions. In this
field the firm is a center of expertise, familiarity
and experience.
Insolvency Law
The firm’s specialization includes liquidating high-
tech and advanced technology companies (such
as Better Place group, Go Networks Ltd., Exsodius
Ltd., etc.), industrial companies (low-tech, sports
organizations, such as the liquidation of Hapoel
Tel Aviv basketball team and Hapoel Ashkelon
soccer team) both in a court’s appointed capac-
ity and as representative of controlling owners and
executives in these cases. The firmalso represents
financial bodies in coping with insolvency for them
or their customers. The firm receives many court
appointments in this field.
The Firm’s Overseas Activities
The firm specializes in international aspects of
commercial litigation and conducts collaborations
withSwiss and US litigation firms. The firmspecial-
izes in the influence of liquidation and insolvency
proceedings overseas and enforcing them in Israel,
and the influence of liquidation and insolvency
proceedings in Israel and enforcing themoverseas,
in instances involving multinational companies.
The firm is engaged in the issue of enforcing and
recognizing insolvency proceedings and the re-
ciprocal relations between Israel and other coun-
tries. The firm deals with issues in this field such
as taking steps to enforce proceedings according
to Chapter 15, Title 11, United States Code, and
liquidation proceedings conducted in Israel as in
the case of the Better Place international group in
which Shaul Kotler was appointed as liquidator.
Pro Bono
The firm is engaged in many pro bono legal
activities.
Shaul Kotler
Born 1965, Shaul Kotler has specialized in com-
mercial litigation since 1995 representing banks’
customers and a range of insolvencies including
suits and countersuits, self-protection in financial
suits and foreclosures by banks, receiverships,
liquidations and debt arrangement talks. He has
gained many years’ experience and substantial
know-how in his areas of specialization and is rec-
ognized as an expert and authority in his field.
Esta b l i s h e d
1995
L i n e o f b u s i n ess
Commercial Litigation - Representing Bank
Customers - Liquidations and Insolvency
Proceedings
Shaul Kotler
Firm Founder *
10thFloor, Amot Investments House,
2 Weizmann St., Tel Aviv
Tel: 972-3-6935644
Fax:972-3-6955565
* See Top Executives Profiles - Page 582