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Gornitzky & Co. Offices

Gornitzky & Co.
Vitania Tel-Aviv Tower
20 Haharash St. TLV Israel 6761310
Israel
Visit website 972 3 710 9191 972 3 560 6555

Adv Harel Shaham

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+972 3 7109191 harels@gornitzky.com

Work Department

Litigation & Dispute Resolution; Corporate; Commercial; Restructuring & Insolvency; Class Actions & Derivative Suits; Restructuring & Insolvency

Position

Partner

Career

Harel Shaham is a partner at Gornitzky & Co. 

Harel specializes in diversified and complex civil and commercial litigation cases in a wide range of legal disputes, including, inter alia, in the fields of capital markets, shareholder disputes, real estate, tenders, insurance, slander, administrative law and labor law, as well as in class actions and derivative actions.

Harel has experience in litigating major complex cases before different legal instances, including all Israeli courts, arbitrators and mediators. He is also involved in representing clients before various authorities and regulators.

Among Harel’s clients are dominant Israeli companies and individuals, including insurance companies, real estate and construction companies, major underwriters, leading businessmen and senior officers in major companies. In addition, Harel represents the Tel Aviv Stock Exchange in various legal proceedings, including those before the Israeli Supreme Court. He has also represented the Institute of Certified Public Accountants in Israel before the Israeli Supreme Court.

Additionally, Harel coordinates the activities of the firm’s professional “Litigation Forum”.

In his Corporate and Commercial practice, Harel provides legal advice to the firm’s corporate clients regarding their ongoing commercial and corporate activities, including drafting of business agreements and commercial contracts. In his Bankruptcy and Insolvency practice, he is involved in complex cases, including the representation of liquidators and arrangements between companies and debenture holders.

During his legal studies, Harel was a member of Tel Aviv University Law Review, “Iyunei Mishpat”.

Languages

Hebrew and English.

Memberships

2006, Israel Bar Association

Education

LL.M. in Commercial Law, Tel Aviv University (2005); LL.B., magna cum laude, Tel Aviv University (2005) – Dean’s list (2003) – Scholarship for Excellence in Academic Ability (2003).

Lawyer Rankings

Israel > Dispute resolution > Dispute resolution: class actions (including derivative actions)

Over the past year alone, Gornitzky & Co. represented clients in 187 class action certification motions and 89 derivative certification motions. The team is well-placed to handle matters involving all of Israel’s core industry segments, but it has been particularly active on behalf of clients in the financial services sector of late, including Israel Discount Bank, Harel Group and Menora Mivtachim Group. It also recorded a significant uptick in consumer protection and accessibility class actions. Ofer Tzur heads the overarching litigation department and ‘triumphs over the most complex trials’. The team additionally includes Noam Ronen, who specialises in class actions and derivative claims; Maya Sabari, who is noted for complex derivative actions; and ‘great litigator’, Harel Shaham.

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