Adv Amir Tzafrir > Goldfarb Gross Seligman & Co. > Tel Aviv, Israel > Lawyer Profile

Goldfarb Gross Seligman & Co.
ELECTRA TOWER
98 YIGAL ALON STREET
TEL AVIV 67891
Israel

Work Department

Co-Chairman

Position

Adv. Tzafrir is Chairman of the firm and a member of its Executive Committee.

Adv. Tzafrir handles a variety of complex corporate and finance transactions, including public offerings in stock exchanges in Israel, London, New York, and Warsaw, as well as other foreign stock exchanges. In addition, Adv. Tzafrir also handles cross border merger and acquisition transactions, private placements, franchise agreements and complex infrastructure agreements, including unique public funded BOT and BOO projects.

Adv. Amir Tzafrir is an international expert in the capital markets field, and has accrued considerable expertise in the issuance of securities by Israeli companies on various stock exchanges worldwide, particularly NASDAQ, the New York Stock Exchange (NYSE), and the London Stock Exchanges (LSE, AIM). In recent years, Adv. Tzafrir has been leading numerous American real estate companies’ issuances in the Tel Aviv Stock Exchange (TASE). He maintains extensive working relations with various entities in this sector, and is the first contact of choice for companies seeking to issue bonds in Israel.

Among Adv. Tzafrir’s clients are public and private companies in Israel and abroad, ranging from real estate and retail companies to hi-tech, life sciences, desalination, and textile companies.

Languages

English and Hebrew.

Memberships

Israel Bar Association, 1990.

Education

Doctoral Candidate in Finance, Kings College, University of London, England. MS.c., Management Research, University of Bradford, England, 2004. MBA, Kellogg-Recanati International Executive MBA Program (IEMBA), Northwestern University and Tel Aviv University, 2001. LL.B., Tel Aviv University, 1988.

Lawyer Rankings

Israel > Capital markets

Goldfarb Gross Seligman & Co. routinely handles high-value capital markets transactions in Israel, including debt and equity securities work, IPOs, equity and debt offerings, derivatives issues and securitisations. A range of corporations, issuers and underwriters regularly turn to the team for its expertise in managing cross-border transactions; international capital markets expert Amir Tzafrir excels in handling a variety of complex, often cross-border corporate and finance transactions. Securities and finance specialist Aya Yoffe focuses on raising public and private capital and debt, an area in which Gur Nabel is also particularly well versed. Head of the corporate and capital markets department Dubi Zoltak assists major private and public listed companies in Israel and abroad, and David Hodak advises the Israeli government on privatisation and debt financing mandates. Other prominent names include corporate and securities law specialists Renana Lev and Yuval Eden, capital markets and financial regulation expert Roy Reiss, hi-tech specialist Ashok Chandrasekhar, and Aaron M. Lampert, who is the key contact for international securities offerings.