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Herzog Fox & Neeman
Herzog Tower
6 Yitzhak Sadeh St.
Tel Aviv 6777506
Israel

Work Department

International Tax Planning
Tax

Position

Partner, Head of Corporate Tax Group

Career

Dr. Yuval Navot is a tax partner, who leads our firm’s corporate tax group, with more than 20 years of experience.

Yuval focuses his practice on international tax planning and corporate tax matters serving both corporate and individual clients. Throughout his career, Yuval has been the principal tax lawyer on many of Israel’s largest M&A transactions. He also has a great deal of experience in tax audits, rulings and tax litigation.

Yuval is ranked among the top tax lawyers in Israel by independent guides such as Chambers Global, Legal 500, ITR World Tax, WhoseWhoLegal and the Client’s Choice Award.

 

Yuval co-heads the tax committee of the Tel Aviv Branch of the Israel Bar Association. He is an adjunct professor at Tel Aviv University where he teaches a course on corporate tax, and is widely published on tax matters.

 

Prior to joining Herzog Fox & Neeman, Yuval spent five years as a tax lawyer in the New York office of Cleary Gottlieb Steen and Hamilton LLP, and previously served for several years as an attorney at the Office of Chief Counsel of the Israel Tax Authority. 

Yuval earned his Ph.D in Law from Tel Aviv University School of Law, an LL.M. in Taxation from New York University School of Law, where he was awarded the Harry J. Rudick Memorial Award for Distinction, and has an LL.B. and a B.A. in Accounting (magna cum laude), from the Hebrew University of Jerusalem. He is a member of botht he Israel and New York Bars.

Languages

Hebrew, English

Memberships

New York, 2005
Israel, 2001

Education

Tel Aviv University School of Law, Israel, Ph.D., 2022; New York University School of Law, USA, LL.M, (Harry J. Rudick Memorial Award), 2004; Hebrew University, Jerusalem, Israel, LL.B. and B.A (Accounting) (magna cum laude), 2000

Lawyer Rankings

Israel > Tax

(Leading individuals)

Yuval NavotHerzog Fox & Neeman

Herzog Fox & Neeman handles a broad variety of taxation work, including corporate tax matters relating to M&A and financing, indirect taxes, customs and tax litigation. The firm is recommended for providing a ‘very personal and dedicated service that is business oriented‘. The team is headed up by Meir Linzen, a specialist in cross-border mergers and tax planning. He is supported by the private client-focused deputy head of the team Guy Katz, experienced corporate taxation expert Yuval Navot and Ofer Granot, who has a notable specialism in government incentives and research and development tax relief. At the associate level, tax litigator and trusts expert Sophie Matatyaho is a further name to note.