Adv Avraham Well > FISCHER (FBC & Co.) > Tel Aviv, Israel > Lawyer Profile
FISCHER (FBC & Co.) Offices
146 MENACHEM BEGIN RD.,
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Adv Avraham Well
Work Department
Mergers & Acquisitions; Capital Markets; Insolvency & Restructuring; Banking & Finance; East Asia Desk; Telecom & Media
Position
Mr. Well is the head of FBC’s Corporate practice. With over 25 years of experience, he is ranked by international and domestic indices as one of Israel’s premier corporate attorneys, specializing in debt restructuring, capital markets, banking & finance, corporate governance, securities regulation and M&A.
Mr. Well has been involved in numerous high-profile M&A transactions, including representing the Government of Israel in the privatization of major banks in Israel, advising the Eurocom Group in the acquisition of the controlling interest in Bezeq for NIS 6.5 billion (one of the largest M&A transactions ever in Israel), and advising The Bright Food Group in its acquisition of the controlling intesret in Tnuva (one of the largest Chinese investments in Israel).
Mr. Well has been involved in virtually all of Israel’s most significant restructurings, aggregating to billions of NIS of debt, and he is the first and only Israeli member of the International Insolvency Institute.
Mr. Well is frequently consulted by major Israeli regulatory agencies to develop and comment on proposed legislation and regulations, and appears frequently at conferences organized by the Israeli Securities Authority and the Israeli Formal Receiver.
Mr. Well was selected as a member of a committee appointed by the Ministry of Finance to examine the regulatory framework of tailor-made lending by institutional investors.
Career
Prior to joining FBC, Mr. Well served as general counsel of the Clal group, then the largest holding concern in Israel. Mr. Well has been on the faculty of Israel’s two premier law schools, where he teaches courses on securities law and M&A. Mr. Well served as a law clerk to Prof. Aharon Barak, the former President of the Supreme Court and was also the editor of the Mishpatim Law Review at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem.
Languages
Hebrew, English
Memberships
Israel Bar Association, 1989
Education
The Hebrew University of Jerusalem (LL.B., Summa Cum Laude, first in his class), 1988
Lawyer Rankings
Israel > Capital markets
Praised by clients for its ‘unique experience in the field of listed limited partnerships’, notably in the oil and gas industry, FISCHER (FBC & Co.)‘s capital markets practice is a key name in the debt and equity markets, with considerable expertise in the real estate sector, where the team is routinely involved in complex IPOs on the Tel Aviv Stock Exchange. Practice head Boaz Noiman‘s capabilities are mostly concentrated on securities offerings, working with public offerings specialist Itay Brafman, while head of the corporate department Avraham Well
is the ideal choice for corporate and regulatory matters. Other key names include Sivan Omer, who is recommended for her knowledge of equity and debt offerings by energy companies; hi-tech and complex international transactions expert Eran Yaniv; and securities law specialist Vered Oren. With experience in securities law and corporate finance work, Michal Nissani Josefson is also recommended.
Israel > Commercial, corporate and M&A
(Hall of Fame)Another successful year for FISCHER (FBC & Co.)‘s team of corporate and M&A experts confirms the firm’s leading position in the Israeli market, where it continues to advise leading domestic and multinational clients on high-profile transactions, notably on the hi-tech M&A side. Heads of the hi-tech practice Raz Tepper and Eran Yaniv are noted for their unique expertise in technology-related, often cross-border, transactions, while Avraham Well, praised by clients as an ‘excellent dealmaker’, consistently leads major high-profile M&A transactions in the country, most notably the NIS20.73bn acquisition of Tower Semiconductor Ltd. by Intel Corporation in 2022. The team also includes Ronald Lehmann, whose broad practice spans private equity and venture capital transactions, public offerings, M&As, and cross-border litigation and arbitration, and commercial practice head Orit Israeli. Corporate and securities law expert Yoram Shiv and Sharon Klein-Manbar, whose focus is on the hi-tech and life sciences sectors, are also recommended.
Lawyer Rankings
- Capital markets Israel
- Commercial, corporate and M&A Israel
- Hall of Fame Israel > Commercial, corporate and M&A
Top Tier Firm Rankings
- Banking and finance
- Capital markets
- Commercial, corporate and M&A
- Competition/antitrust
- Dispute resolution > Dispute resolution: class actions (including derivative actions)
- Dispute resolution > Dispute resolution: local litigation and arbitration
- Dispute resolution > Dispute resolution: white-collar crime, investigation and fraud
- Employment
- Energy
- Healthcare and life sciences
- Hi-tech and start-ups
- Infrastructure
- Intellectual property > Intellectual property: commercial/transactions
- Intellectual property > Intellectual property: disputes
- Planning and zoning
- Real estate and construction
- Restructuring and insolvency
- Tax
- Telecoms and media
- Transport