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Gornitzky & Co. Offices

Gornitzky & Co.
Vitania Tel-Aviv Tower
20 Haharash St. TLV Israel 6761310
Israel
Visit website 972 3 710 9191 972 3 560 6555

Adv Kfir Yadgar

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+972 3 7109191 yadgar@gornitzky.com

Work Department

Litigation & Dispute Resolution; Hotels, Travel & Leisure; Restructuring & Insolvency; Commercial. 

Position

Managing Partner

Career

Kfir Yadgar is a managing partner at Gornitzky & Co. Kfir leads a diverse and versatile commercial practice, which allows him to provide his clients with full legal coverage from both legal and business perspectives.

Kfir’s practice includes, inter alia, the following areas:

Litigation & Dispute Resolution and its various subtopics – representation before courts and arbitrators in complex, large-scale commercial disputes. Among others, Kfir represented clients in cases involving:
Complex corporate and securities issues;
Legal disputes regarding control in companies;
Financial claims;
Rights of first refusal;
Shareholder claims;
Minority oppression;
Derivative actions and other proceedings according to the Israeli Companies Law and Securities Law;
Investment banks and accounting firms in civil and regulatory disputes.

Restructuring and Insolvency –  Kfir leads complex insolvency cases. His experience also includes handling a wide range of bankruptcy, debt arrangements and corporate restructuring related cases.

Hotels, Travel & Leisure – Kfir has broad experience in a variety of hotel-related matters, including management issues, rental contracts, purchase agreements, joint ventures, and the purchase of hotel chains. He also leads the team that provides ongoing legal advice to Israel’s largest hotel chain.

Mergers & Acquisitions – share purchase agreements, asset purchase agreements, mergers, “spin-offs”, reorganizations and acquisitions out of bankruptcy.

Banking & Finance – Kfir has extensive experience in the representation of both borrowers and lenders in various finance transactions, including syndication loans, the financing and refinancing of large business groups and factoring transactions.

Kfir’s wide and diverse practice enables him to provide thorough legal advice and guidance to his clients, covering both commercial and legal aspects

Languages

Hebrew and English.

Memberships

Israel Bar Association, 2004

Education

LL.B., cum laude, The Hebrew University of Jerusalem (2003); B.A., Business Management, cum laude, The Hebrew University of Jerusalem (2003).

Lawyer Rankings

Israel > Transport

Gornitzky & Co.’s transport practice benefits from the firm’s close relationship with Dan Public Transportation and it provides ongoing advice to the bus company on day-to-day matters, project tenders and corporate transactions. The team also has a presence in tech-driven transport work, where it acts for start-ups and funds. Managing partner Kfir Yadgar handles a mix of contentious and corporate work and oversees the group together with transactional partner Yiftah Farber.

Israel > Dispute resolution > Dispute resolution: local litigation and arbitration

Commended as being ‘highly respected by the judicial system and its judges’, Gornitzky & Co.’s dispute resolution group is equipped to handle high-stakes cases in the commercial, civil and administrative law fields. Considered by some as a ‘strategic genius’, group head Ofer Tzur continues to raise his profile in the market and was at the helm for several key matters over the past year, including representing Property and Building Corp and Hadarim Properties in a multimillion-dollar dispute with Mega Or Holdings and Big Shopping Centers. Other experienced partners include firm chairman Pinhas Rubin; Kfir Yadgar, who possesses niche expertise in hospitality and transport-related matters; and commercial litigator Ofer Fleischer. The team also draws on Shirin Gabbay-Metzger, Eli Cohen and ‘creative’ senior associate Inbal Ronel.

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