Lawyers in Israel

Sharon Aloni

Partner, Head of the Technology and Intellectual Property Transactions Practice

Goldfarb Gross Seligman & Co.

Sharon Amir

Sharon Amir, Name Partner and Head of M&A Practice at Naschitz Brandes Amir, is widely recognized as one of Israel's most distinguished M&A attorneys. His expertise lies in domestic and international cross-border mergers and acquisitions, formation of private equity funds (including venture capital, venture lending, mezzanine, and buy-out funds), and representing funds in their ongoing activities and investment transactions. Throughout his impressive career, Mr. Amir has advised on notable and complex multijurisdictional M&A transactions in Israel. He has also played a crucial role in structuring and representing major venture capital, buyout, and investment funds in the country. His clients encompass various investment funds, as well as domestic and international public and private companies across diverse sectors. Before joining the firm, Mr. Amir clerked for the Israel Supreme Court and gained corporate and tax experience as an associate at Skadden, Arps, Slate, Meagher & Flom in New York. In addition to his legal practice, he lectures on "M&A – From Theory to Practice" at the Law Faculty of Tel-Aviv University. Mr. Amir's exceptional contributions to the field of M&A have been acknowledged by respected professional publications, including Who's Who Legal, Chambers Global, The Legal 500, and IFLR1000. Who's Who Legal consistently recognizes him as a "Global Thought Leader" in M&A, while Chambers Global quotes clients praising his negotiation skills and deep understanding of business and legal aspects. Clients have described him as a "smart cookie – experienced and responsive," and IFLR1000 quotes a client calling him "the best M&A lawyer I've ever worked with." The Legal 500 describes him as "superb."

Naschitz, Brandes, Amir & Co.

Sharon Friedman

Partner

Vinograd & Co

Sharon Gazit

Ms. Sharon Gazit is a partner in FBC Hi-Tech, Technology and Venture Capital practice. Ms. Gazit specializes in corporate finance, mergers and acquisitions, and technology and commercial transactions, and represents a broad array of start-up companies in their day-to-day legal and business activities. Ms. Gazit represents Israeli startups and top-tier venture capital funds in Israel and abroad, as well as international corporate and strategic investors, in a wide variety of private equity financings. Ms. Gazit has been recognized as a leading partner in the Israeli private equity and hi-tech field since its early days, and advises companies from their early stages on all legal, business and commercial activities, including corporate governance, finance, commercial, employment, compensation and intellectual property matters. She advises companies from a wide array of industries, including food-tech, fin-tech, cyber security, AI, fem-tech, and more, and provides continuous consulting to entrepreneurs and company founders regarding their ongoing and evolving relations with their companies, as well as matters relating to company formation, recruitment of service providers, compensation matters, shareholder relations, financing and complex restructuring. She plays an active role in helping companies tackle daily challenges in all aspects of their operations and business. Ms. Gazit possess significant expertise relating to transactions involving intellectual property licensing, especially in the life sciences fields, and has represented companies in this field for many years, including pharmaceutical companies, medical instruments companies, technology incubators and research centers. Ms. Gazit is a member of the International Bar Association (IBA) (“officer” in official IBA nomenclature) and served as Co-Chair of the Healthcare and Life Sciences Law Committee of the IBA. Alongside her professional work, Ms. Gazit lectures before various professional and academic forums, including the International Bar Association, the Coller Ignite Entrepreneurship Club and the Tel Aviv University, where she teaches a course on legal and financial principles for entrepreneurship.

FISCHER (FBC & Co.)

Sharon Kadosh

Partner

Goldfarb Gross Seligman & Co.

Sharon Katz

Attorney

Liad Whatstein & Co. Law Office

Sharon Klein-Manbar

FBC - Sharon Klein Manbar Ms. Klein-Manbar is a partner in FBC's Corporate Department, with a diverse corporate practice encompassing mergers and acquisitions, securities law, corporate finance, and general corporate matters. Ms. Klein-Manbar has represented both public and private acquirers, target companies, and private equity firms in a variety of domestic and cross-border mergers and acquisitions transactions, joint ventures, restructurings, and other corporate matters.

FISCHER (FBC & Co.)

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.

AYR – Amar Reiter Jeanne Shochatovitch & Co

Sharon Lubezky-Hess

Partner and Head of Class Action and Litigation Department

Amit, Pollak, Matalon

Sharon Peer

Partner

Goldfarb Gross Seligman & Co.

Sharon Petel

Partner, Head of Municipal Planning and Zoning

Herzog Fox & Neeman

Sharon Rosen

Ms. Rosen is a partner in FBC's Corporate practice and leads the firm’s U.S. capital markets practice. Her practice focuses primarily on international capital markets, private and public M&A transactions, with an emphasis on cross-border transactions, and corporate governance advice. Ms. Rosen provides ongoing corporate and securities law advice to Israeli companies publicly traded in the United States as well as dual-listed companies. Prior to joining FBC, Ms. Rosen was an associate in the Corporate and Securities department of a prominent law firm in New York and was a member of its Israeli Practice Group, representing Israeli NASDAQ-listed companies on their U.S. securities law compliance and public and private debt and equity offerings.

FISCHER (FBC & Co.)

Sharon Strauss

Partner

Gornitzky & Co.

Sharon Werker-Sagy

Partner

Gornitzky & Co.

Shaul Grossman

Partner

Meitar Law Offices

Shaul Hayoun

Partner

Meitar Law Offices

Shaul Shimron

Associate.

ES Shimron, I Molho, Persky & Co

Shaul Zioni

Founding & Managing Partner

Zioni Pillersdorf Phillip Advocates

Shay Bar-Nir

Shay Bar-Nir is a partner at Firon Law Firm, focusing on insolvency and commercial litigation. Shay specializes in liquidation processes, reorganization, credit and debt settlements, receivership and bankruptcy. Over the past several years, he has represented creditors and various stake holders in liquidation suits involving private and publicly traded companies. While at their peak, some of these companies employed hundreds of employees, but over time had gotten into debt of hundreds of millions of shekels. Shay has been serving as a liquidator for several real estate and start up companies. Furthermore, as part of debt settlement processes, he provides consultation to bond holders, aimed at safeguarding their financial rights. Shay represents a vast range of companies and private clients in his field of expertise, including all types of creditors. Alongside his position as partner at Firon Law Firm, he is a member of the National Liquidation and Reorganization Committee of the Israel Bar Association. Moreover, Shay practices litigation and is highly experienced in representing commercial companies and private business entities before the courts in a wide range of disputes relating to commercial law and insolvency.

Firon Law Firm

Shay Berger

Meir Mizrahi with A. Rafael & Co.

Shay Cohen

Shay Cohen, a partner in the firm's Litigation & Dispute Resolution practice, specializes in complex litigation, with a particular focus on insurance and tort law (predominantly product liability, professional negligence, and mass torts), civil and commercial litigation (constructions litigation and contractual disputes), and various class actions (as defense counsel on insurance, product liability, environmental and consumer protection class actions). In addition, Shay has considerable expertise in advising and representing domestic and foreign companies on all aspects of product compliance and recalls in Israel. Shay’s extensive track record includes representation of some of the largest Israeli public companies and international insurers and reinsurers, in complex proceedings, before all courts and arbitration panels in Israel. In this capacity, Shay has been involved in some of the largest cases tried in Israel.

Naschitz, Brandes, Amir & Co.

Shay Dayan

Partner, Corporate and M&A Department, Co-Heads the Telecoms and Media Department

EBN – Erdinast, Ben Nathan, Toledano

Shay Fahima

Partner

Goldfarb Gross Seligman & Co.

Shay Gimelstein

Partner

S. Horowitz & Co