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Herzog Fox & Neeman Offices
Herzog Tower
6 Yitzhak Sadeh St.
Tel Aviv 6777506
Israel
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Ms Irit Roth
Work Department
Banking and Finance
Corporate
Financial Regulation
Position
Partner, Co-Head of Banking & Finance
Career
Irit has unparalleled experience on all domestic and cross-border financing, regulatory and compliance issues arising in the Israeli banking and finance sector.
Irit has worked in the banking and finance sector since 1995. After qualifying as a lawyer, Irit worked in the legal department of First International Bank of Israel, and then for over 11 years as General Counsel for Citigroup in Israel. In this role, Irit was involved in establishing the Citibank branch in Israel and in developing Citi’s operations in Israel. Irit subsequently joined our firm as a partner, where she worked for six years, before joining Bank Leumi (one of Israel’s two major banks) as General Counsel.
Irit focuses her practice on banking, financial regulation and finance, covering financial services regulation and transactional matters, including corporate finance, derivatives, financial instruments, anti-money laundering and compliance as well as a number of legislative initiatives.
Languages
Hebrew, English
Memberships
Israel, 1994
Education
Tel Aviv University, LLB, 1993
Lawyer Rankings
Israel > Banking and finance
Herzog Fox & Neeman advises banks, financial institutions, borrowers and lenders on complex financing transactions and regulatory matters, spanning acquisitions, loan sales, and securitisation transactions. The team is headed up by cross-border transaction and acquisition finance specialist Roy Nachimzon, and banking and financial markets law and regulation expert Irit Roth. Noted for his cross-border expertise, Alan Sacks
has acted for most of the Israeli international financial institutions, while Natalie Jacobs has recently led on a first-to-market synthetic securitisation. Other key names are Esti Hadar, who is also notably experienced in the securitisation and sale of debts; Nir Miller, who focuses on international acquisitions; and aviation financing expert Ben Kanter.
Lawyer Rankings
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)
- Employment
- Energy
- Healthcare and life sciences
- Hi-tech and start-ups
- Infrastructure
- Investment and venture capital funds
- Real estate and construction
- Tax
- Transport
Firm Rankings
- Dispute resolution > Dispute resolution: local litigation and arbitration
- Insurance
- Intellectual property > Intellectual property: commercial/transactions
- Intellectual property > Intellectual property: disputes
- Planning and zoning
- Restructuring and insolvency
- Telecoms and media
- Dispute resolution > Dispute resolution: mediation and international arbitration
- Dispute resolution > Dispute resolution: white-collar crime, investigation and fraud
- Intellectual property > Intellectual property: filing/prosecution