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Meitar Law Offices
16 ABBA HILLEL SILVER ROAD
RAMAT GAN 5250608
Israel

Work Department

Taxation and Corporate/Securities

Position

Partner

Career

Dr. Michael Bricker is a partner in the firm’s Taxation and Corporate/Securities groups. Michael has unique global and executive business experience, having been in senior executive legal and tax roles for the last two decades at public and private companies and having worked out of Tel Aviv, New York, Munich, Frankfurt, and London. Michael has vast experience in developing legal and tax strategies, domestic and international,  and has structured numerous corporate, financing, M&A and commercial transactions involving many different jurisdictions. Michael has unique expertise in transfer pricing, an area in which he completed his doctoral thesis, and international tax and he represents multinationals in tax controversies at court and in administrative proceedings with the Israeli tax authority.

Prior to joining Meitar, Michael was the General Counsel and member of the executive board at a London-based privately-owned principal investment company and the General Counsel and Head of Tax and member of the executive management at Amdocs (Nasdaq: DOX).  From 2011 to 2017, Michael was an independent director on the board of Israel Corporation (TASE: ILCO), Israel’s largest publicly-traded holding company, serving on the compensation and audit committees, chairing the independent board committee overseeing the restructuring of the company into two holding companies, and serving as a member of the independent board committee overseeing the debt restructuring of its shipping subsidiary Zim. Michael also served on the board of directors of Welltec, a Denmark-based privately-held multinational company, from 2015 to 2019.

Michael has also served as an adjunct professor at the law faculty at the University of Tel Aviv, teaching classes in tax and corporate law, and has published articles in the areas of international tax and transfer pricing that have been cited in court decisions and the tax literature.

Languages

Hebrew, English and German

Education

New York University School of Law, (JSD, 1998);

New York University School of Law, (LL.M. in Taxation, 1995);

University of Tel Aviv, Israel, (LL.B. magna cum laude, 1993)

Lawyer Rankings

Israel > Tax

(Leading individuals)

Michael BrickerMeitar Law Offices

Meitar Law Offices handles tax work including litigation, transfer pricing and corporate restructuring. The firm is known for its specialist expertise in the tech industry, but also represents major multinationals in several other sectors, including British Petroleum, General Motors and JP Morgan. The team is led by the well-regarded Eldar Ben-Ruby, an expert in taxation regarding international investment, who also advises the Israel Tax Authority on tax issues facing Israel’s high-tech industry. Tax structuring and transfer pricing specialist Michael Bricker, who has experience working in business as head of tax for a large multinational corporation, is also key, as is the ‘technically very strongOmri Davidov. Shaul Grossman and Keren Shitrit are also integral practitioners in the department.