Banking and finance in Israel

‘A very good knowledge and understanding of the banking and capital market regulatory regimes in Israel.’

‘The team is very professional and available.’

‘Adv. Yona Goshen-Gottstein is our partner and provided support in regulatory matters.’

‘Demonstrates perfect understanding in finance and banking. Yona is a great specialist in banking and finance.’

‘Ms. Yona Goshen-Gottstein (partner) and Mr. Itamar Shimonovitz (associate) give us full support at any time needed. Yona is super professional and has high-level knowledge in the relevant area of our activity.’

‘The team is very experienced in banking and finance transactions and regulation. They are very attentive, responsive and exact in their legal advice as well as proactive and original in their proposed solutions to various problems.’

‘Open-minded and think out of the box. Availability around the clock. Extremely professional.’

‘Professional people, available, creative, operate to promote transaction and find solutions. Managers of rough but responsible negotiations, which protects us.’

‘Miri Kimhi, the head of the financing team is super professional, with a lot of knowledge and ability to find creative solutions.’

‘When it comes to legal advice regarding banking and finance issues – FISCHER is always our first choice! Miri Kimhi and Dikla Lavy-Fischer’s professionalism is impeccable, they are highly dedicated, are always available for us and have profound understanding of both the legal and business aspects of each transaction.’

‘I have mostly been advised by partners Miri Kimhi and Dikla Lavy-Fischer and their team. They are both brilliant lawyers, a pleasure to work with both professionally and personally, provide the best service and always available. They excel in what they do, and it makes our experience with FISCHER an excellent one.’

‘Dikla Lavy-Fischer is an enthusiastic, results-oriented, highly talented legal professional. She has a strong and deep business understanding and extensive hands-on experience. Her understanding of the law and in particular of commercial financing enables her to accurately understand our needs as a lender.’

‘The primary work is with the lawyer Adv. Dikla Lavy-Fischer. Highly experienced and professional. Her work is excellent and at a very high level, and she is dedicated, precise, service-minded and accessible.’

‘Gornitzky’s banking and finance team is one of the best practices I have worked with in the space. They are responsive, quick thinking and commercial.’

‘What I like about Gornitzky’s credit team is their deep knowledge in credit transactions, their ability to foresee potential risk issues and avoid them or address them ahead of time, their responsiveness and their thoroughness.’

‘Very knowledgeable about the local regulatory landscape, with personal relationships with the key regulators.’

‘Great firm with coverage across the key practice areas – M&A, private equity, capital markets, banking and project finance. Only 2-3 other firms in Israel have that broad coverage at high level.’

‘Extraordinarily knowledgeable about Israeli law, the market for domestic and cross-border financings, and the intersection between Israeli law and practice and the international capital markets.’

‘Eli Elya and Dubi Gross are the best finance lawyers I have come across in Israel, really strong client focus, both very thoughtful and constructive lawyers.’

‘Dubi Gross and Eli Elya stand out for their client commitment and innovative/creative problem solving. They do not rest until the issues are fully vetted and resolved in a mutually satisfactory manner.’

‘Elite Elkon is excellent — she knows the regulatory landscape and knows how to get deals done.’

‘My impression is very positive. The team handled the deal, the negotiations, the problem solving with high attention. Professional discussions, with each lawyer contributing from their skills and experience. Very accessible.’

‘The Herzog banking team is excellent. Very knowledgeable and experienced. They have strong international and domestic practices and are particularly good on cross-border transactions.’

‘The strength of the staff in this office is their great professionalism in the field, the very high focus on clients, the desire to help at all times and the personal and dedicated care.’

‘Natalie Jacobs and Esti Hadar have been providing legal services on derivatives to us for over five years. During this period they accompanied the legal closure of many ISDA agreements. All in a very thorough, in-depth and professional manner, and also while ensuring the business good of the company.’

‘Natalie Jacobs was amazing. Robust financial knowledge of derivatives and logistics. A strong negotiator.’

‘I work mostly with Roy Nachimzon. He is an outstanding attorney. He is very smart and genuinely understands the business side. He has great negotiation skills and is always able to find solutions to complex issues.’

‘The firm provides professional service in complicated financing transactions, with high understanding of international practices in corporate finance.‘

‘Lawyers display high-level negotiation skills and commitment to the client.’

‘Unparalleled knowledge of the complex issues facing borrowers and lenders in the Israeli market. Other firms struggle with the myriad of issues, this firm leads on them.’

‘The range of banking instructions I have given the firm or received from the firm covers all aspects of this practice area – from export credit financing to leverage financing, from factoring to regulatory work, from trade financing to synthetic financings – they seem to me the only firm that professionally and at a consistently high standard covers all the bases.’

‘Anthony Bloch, is, domestically, one of the best lawyers I have come across in Israel. He is the number one external counsel for Bank Hapoalim (largest Bank in Israel) and, having worked with him, I can understand why he is so trusted.’

‘I have found Clifford  Davis to be perennially excellent – he is one of the only lawyers in Israel I know who can work on cross-border financings and is aware of not only Israeli law issues but English law, New York law and so on. He’s like a walking Wikipedia (except accurate)! A truly fantastic lawyer and a pleasure to work with.’

‘Cliff Davis – cool, calm and collected. Can drive the deal and pull others along with him. Always delivers.’

‘Very experienced team that also knows “international” standards in M&A and financing transactions very well. Highly committed and commercial lawyers with a “refuse-to-lose” attitude, who really solve problems for their clients.’

‘The team at EBN is an outstanding team, super professional and up-to-date. The team’s strength is its wide scope of knowledge of new and changing regulations and the ability to serve various issues.’

‘Strong capabilities and knowledge in various types of financing transactions with a special expertise in real estate financing and cross-border financing. Wide experience in representing institutional investors (insurance companies, provident funds, pension funds, etc.) in financing transactions and deep knowledge of the relevant regulatory applied to such institutional investors.’

‘The individuals are knowledgeable and extremely creative in their thinking. I see them as deal makers who are committed to the success of any transaction they handle. I also noticed the high level of availability.’

‘Doni Toledano, Dan Sella, Shay Dayan . All are super lawyers and I almost always try to work with them. There were deals where their office did not lead the M&A part, but I asked that the credit agreement part will be done by them.’

‘I worked with banking partner, Adv. Roy Gross. Adv. Gross has a high level of service and a good ability to manage high volumes of work in a short time.’

‘Roy Gross is a very professional, experienced and creative problem solver. Calm but determined.’

‘Roy Gross and his team at EBN are very responsive, pleasant to work with and highly skilled in the financing field. He is very business-oriented and always aims to find a creative solution for his clients.’

‘Excellent practical approach. High level of professionalism and acquaintance with the legal framework and the regulatory environment, particularly Ofer Hanoh.’

‘The team is very qualified and professional and has great knowledge in legal and regulatory matters, as well as market practices.’

‘Amir Scharf, the head of the team, stands out and is very knowledgeable and helpful in finding solutions to complex matters. We trust in the legal advice provided by the team, which has never failed us with inaccurate or incomplete information.’

‘Local market expertise, with deep knowledge and experience of the US markets (where many international deals in Israel happen).’

‘ERM has the professional abilities of a well-established international firm with the personal attention of a boutique firm. It has all the necessary expertise to advise a full process in various projects in the financial arena. My group enjoyed their services in processes such as M&A, hedge fund establishment, options of employees, real estate deals, and more.’

‘The team at ERM was recommended to me by a colleague and I also had a very positive experience dealing with them. They were very responsive and provided practical and commercial solutions throughout.’

‘They manage the process rapidly and efficiently. They protect me as a client from costly mistakes. They are fully available, including in night hours, later than the usual working day, and always with a very personal attitude.’

‘Jeremy Seeff has deep industry knowledge and is very responsive and commercially-oriented. I would highly recommend Jeremy.’

‘Extremely experienced and well coordinated. They know how to create the best legal product in terms of financial, commercial and legal aspects and close it with all the parties involved.’

‘We use M. Firon as our focal law office. I managed a business that managed funds as a GP and LPs giving finance and the firm served us in all aspects thereof of the business – regulation and financing. I manage my own business today in the fields of financing and other business and M. Firon continues to give me legal services in all the aspects of the business.’

‘We have worked with M. Firon for at least three years. They give us services for everything we need regulation-wise as well as corporate and agreements and so forth – in essence, everything! The team is professional and serves us very well in real time and we find them very commercially aware and certainly fair in tariffs.’

‘Our only team in infrastructure and project finance. We chose them carefully many years ago and never had any regrets. They have the best combination of knowledge, legal skills, deep understanding of the market, meeting the client’s needs, availability and a pleasant attitude.’

‘Tamar Firon-Smorodinsky is an unbelievable super-lawyer. When it comes to infrastructure projects, as well as all related finance and banking matters, she really knows how to get things done and she is also a master of the business and the legal aspects of such complicated projects.’

‘The project finance team headed by Tamar Firon-Smorodinsky is unique because of its ability to quickly collect the relevant information, analyze it, go to the bottom of things, connect all the dots and compose with a legal document which includes every aspect and covers all bases.’

‘Oded Ofek is simply the best lawyer you can ask for in the field of financial services and fintech companies, I cannot count the number of times his words and advice of wisdom paved the right track for our company to walk in. I cannot believe any other would do or have the knowledge to do the same – as simple as that.’

‘Oded Ofek is top notch, a maverick, full of expertise and know-how, and we are rendered full legal services that answer all of our needs to the fullest, including legal novel legal opinions concerning the new law and of how to operate in these novel times.’

‘Provides a personal service, answers all questions in various legal subjects.’

‘Lawyer Assaf Lapid works with our group of companies and gives a personal service in every hour of the day via email, work phone and personal phone.’

‘Barnea assisted me in complex legal matters regarding financial services, banking & fintech. This required Barnea team to dive into the bits and bytes of all of our activities and services alongside maintaining a high level of proficiency, deep understanding and vast knowledge of financial laws & regulations and regulatory procedures.’

‘The team has a well rounded practice, with a particular expertise in financial crimes compliance and data privacy.’

‘We are delighted to work with Zvi Gabbay and Niv Polani. We find them very responsive and they also think “outside the box”. They bring vast knowledge and work very fast and efficiently.’

‘I’ve been working primarily with partners Adv. Zvi Gabbay & Adv. Anat Even-Chen – and they stood out for their unique expertise.  I enjoyed a high level of availability (in any time of the day) and client service, rare expertise in numerous fields of laws and regulations, deep commercial understanding and a general feeling of accomplishment.’

‘I have worked with Anat Evan-Chen. Anat is a very responsive, strategic thinker who takes a practical approach to complex issues.’

‘The team is incredibly strong, with great business insight — they go beyond legal skills, particularly Simon Jaffa Zvi Gabbay and Anat Even-Chen.’