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Arnon, Tadmor-Levy Offices
132 Menachem Begin Road, Azrieli Center, Tel Aviv 6702101
31 Hillel Street, Jerusalem 9458131
Israel
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Simon Weintraub
Position
Partner, Banking and Finance, HighTech and Energy
Career
Simon Weintraub is a partner in the firm’s International Corporate Group and Co-head of our China Practice and Oil & Gas Practice. He specializes in high-tech, life sciences, venture capital, private equity, M&A and banking.
Simon regularly represents Israeli and international venture capital funds, angel investors, private equity funds, Israeli and foreign banks, emerging growth companies, entrepreneurs and multinational corporations. He also represents both lenders and borrowers in a wide range of financing transactions, especially with respect to complicated cross-border lending transactions. Simon specializes in representing foreign clients in their investment activity in Israel including clients from the United States, China, South Korea, Canada, United Kingdom and many other places.
Simon has been involved in Israel’s largest oil and gas project finance transactions and played a role in the first-ever IPO of an Israeli company in Hong Kong. He lectures regularly on investing in startups and doing business in Israel.
Simon’s honors include a “highly regarded” recognition from IFLR1000, both in Banking and Project Finance, and recognitions in those areas as well from The Legal 500.
Simon received a degree in Political Science, magna cum laude, from York University of Toronto in 1995 and a Business Law degree from Bar-Ilan University in 1999. Simon was admitted to the Israel Bar Association in 2000, joined the firm that year as an associate and became a partner in 2008.
Languages
English, Hebrew
Lawyer Rankings
Israel > Banking and finance
With work spanning cross-border financing transactions, restructuring and insolvency debt collection, and regulatory advice to both domestic and foreign banks, credit card companies, major insurance and pension funds, Arnon, Tadmor-Levy houses a team of experienced practitioners, which includes ‘top professional’ Shiri Shaham
, banking and financial services expert Yuval Shalheveth, and credit card specialist Aviad Lachmanovich. A key contact for issues related to capital markets and securities is Amir Scharf, while Simon Weintraub notably focuses on venture lending and venture capital work.
Israel > Energy
Arnon, Tadmor-Levy has been primarily active on the procurement side of late, where it has been representing the public sector on various matters, including conventional and renewable power projects and waste-to-energy projects. Key contacts include Doron Tamir, who focuses on transport and infrastructure and enjoys close relationships with state clients; project finance specialist Noa Meidan, who has significant energy expertise; Aharon Osborne, who has a growing reputation for power and natural gas-related matters; and transactional partners David Schapiro and Simon Weintraub.
Lawyer Rankings
Top Tier Firm Rankings
- Commercial, corporate and M&A
- Competition/antitrust
- Dispute resolution > Dispute resolution: class actions (including derivative actions)
- Healthcare and life sciences
- Hi-tech and start-ups
- Infrastructure
- Intellectual property > Intellectual property: commercial/transactions
- Planning and zoning
- Real estate and construction
- Restructuring and insolvency