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Lipa Meir & Co Offices

Lipa Meir & Co
2 Weizmann St
Beit Amot Hashkaot
Tel Aviv 64736
Israel
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Adv Uzi Mor

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+972-3-6070630 mor@lipameir.co.il View profile View profile

Work Department

Corporate Department

Position

Partner, Head of the Corporate Department

Career

Uzi is a senior partner in Lipa Meir and head of the Corporate Department. His practice focuses on a broad variety of corporate and finance practice areas.

Uzi has specialized expertise in mergers and acquisitions transactions. Uzi has led complex transactions that require professionalism, creativity and the ability to find common ground that can achieve successful completion of the transaction. Uzi handled, among other things, transactions in the food and dairy field, the field of beverages, the leasing field, the field of construction and entrepreneurship and many other areas.

Uzi also specializes in financing, collaterals and loans, including advising lenders such as private equity funds and other financial institutions and borrowers, on financing transactions. During his career, Uzi led large-scale financing transactions, including a complex collaterals mechanism and unique legal solutions. Uzi have represented both the financing institutions and the borrowers, on financing transactions amounting to hundreds of millions of dollars.

Another practice area in which Uzi has specialized expertise is the law of co-operative societies including advising major corporations in this sector, mergers and acquisitions of cooperatives, cooperative societies’ liquidation, disputes relating to cooperative societies and ongoing advice to enterprises that are incorporated as cooperative associations. Uzi has many years of experience and in-depth knowledge of the particular laws applicable to cooperative societies.

In addition, Uzi has been involved in many insolvency cases, including rehabilitation and restructuring of companies, creditor arrangements (through and out of court), receivership and liquidation. Uzi served as a liquidator and receiver in many insolvency proceedings and advised to insolvency practitioners in the largest insolvency cases that took place in the last two decades in Israel.

As part of his areas of practice, Uzi handles complex litigation, including class actions, appeals to the High Court of Justice and representation in proceedings before the civil courts, arbitrators, mediators and other tribunals. Uzi handled dozens of large scale class actions and represented plaintiffs and defendants in large legal proceedings.

Uzi served as a lecturer on Administrative Law at Tel-Aviv University and the Interdisciplinary Center Herzliya as well as on Insolvency Law at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem.

Uzi holds the rank of Colonel (reserve) in the Military.

Languages

English, Hebrew

Memberships

Israel Bar Association, 1996

Education

Tel-Aviv University, (LL.B, magna cum laude 1995)

Tel-Aviv University (LL.M., magna cum laude, 2000)

Lawyer Rankings

Israel > Infrastructure

With an emphasis on public sector-side mandates, Lipa Meir & Co frequently appears on behalf of various state ministries and government-owned entities in infrastructure projects. The group is particularly well-versed in the water sector, where it represents the Israeli Water Desalination Administration on major desalination plant projects. Key names include Zuriel Lavie, whose broad focus encompasses kibbutzim, tenders and infrastructure; David Weinstein, who specialises in agriculture and rural settlement systems; Michal Schwartz, who leads the infrastructure and BOT practice; and corporate head Uzi Mor.

Israel > Commercial, corporate and M&A

Noted for navigating complex M&A and corporate transactions across a wide range of sectors, including kibbutzim, real estate, energy, and healthcare, Lipa Meir & Co‘s recent highlights include the acquisition by Union Energy & Systems Operations Malta Ltd. of 11% of the shares of the Tamar reservoir for approximately $500m, in which practice co-head Ziv Preis played a leading role. Fellow co-head Gary Copelovitz is highly regarded for his international law expertise, while Uzi Mor focuses on advising cooperative societies on their M&A transactions.

Israel > Energy

(Leading individuals)

Uzi Mor – Lipa Meir & Co

Among Lipa Meir & Co’s practice strong suits, it is distinguished by its niche expertise in representing Kibbutzim in energy-related matters. Notably, the group advised Mishkey Hakibbutzim Group, the central financial organisation of Kibbutzim in Israel, on the acquisition of a 40% stake in Mei-Ram Electricity. The team also represents energy companies and public sector clients on tenders, project development and transactional work. Key contacts include Uzi Mor, who is active in energy transactions; Zuriel Lavie, who is noted for project finance; David Weinstein, who lends his experience as the key contact for the firm’s multidisciplinary Kibbutzim practice; and infrastructure head Michal Schwartz.

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