Adv Jonathan Finklestone > Meitar Law Offices > Ramat Gan, Israel > Lawyer Profile
Meitar Law Offices Offices
16 ABBA HILLEL SILVER ROAD
RAMAT GAN 5250608
Israel
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Adv Jonathan Finklestone
Work Department
heads the firm’s Project Finance Group.
Position
Partner heads the firm’s Project Finance Group
Career
Jonathan Finklestone heads the firm’s Project Finance Group.
His practice covers a wide range of project and infrastructure financings in various project structures and delivery systems (BOT, BOO, DB, PPP, 3P, PFI and others) in transportation, water desalination, telecommunications, conventional energy, renewable energy and social infrastructure. He regularly advises project companies, banks, and financial institutions in the development and financing of infrastructure and energy projects.
Jonathan has extensive experience and has been involved in many of the largest project financings in Israel. His transactional work has been recognized by numerous legal publications, including Chambers Global, Legal500, Who’s Who Legal, and IFLR1000 where he is listed as a Band 1 practitioner in Israel Projects & Energy. Clients characterize him as an “amazing lawyer” with “excellent deal-making abilities” and “vast local and international experience” and cite his “commercial attitude” and the fact that he demonstrates “industry knowledge and has excellent connections”.
In the past, Jonathan was a project finance attorney at Chadbourne and Parke LLP in New York
Languages
Hebrew and English
Education
University College London, England (LL.B., 1990)
Lawyer Rankings
Israel > Infrastructure
(Leading individuals)Primarily active on behalf of sponsors and lenders, Meitar Law Offices’ infrastructure team advises a mix of domestic and multinational clients on project finance and project development matters. The group is well-versed across all key infrastructure sectors, with its recent experience encompassing roads, energy, defence, rail and water projects, among others. The group includes high-profile department head Jonathan Finklestone, who is widely recognised as a leading project finance specialist; Tani Zahavi, who is noted for her record in PPP projects; and Guy Kles, whose practice spans project finance, tender law and infrastructure. At associate level, Tal Bignitz and Inbal Perry are recommended.
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)
- Dispute resolution > Dispute resolution: local litigation and arbitration
- Dispute resolution > Dispute resolution: white-collar crime, investigation and fraud
- Energy
- Hi-tech and start-ups
- Infrastructure
- Intellectual property > Intellectual property: commercial/transactions
- Investment and venture capital funds
- Planning and zoning
- Tax
Firm Rankings
- Dispute resolution > Dispute resolution: mediation and international arbitration
- Employment
- Intellectual property > Intellectual property: disputes
- Real estate and construction
- Restructuring and insolvency
- Telecoms and media
- Healthcare and life sciences
- Transport
- Intellectual property > Intellectual property: filing/prosecution