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Gissin & Co., Advocates Offices
Habarzel 38B
TEL AVIV 6971054
Israel
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Guy Gissin
Work Department
Restructuring and Debt Settlements, Insolvency, Capital Markets
Position
Founder and Managing Partner.
Major (res.), at the Israeli Navy, was a partner at Zaltzman & Co., until the establishment of the firm in 1994.
Career
Guy specializes in commercial law, securities law, corporate law, insolvency, debt arrangements and commercial litigation. In the last decade, Adv. Gissin has been involved in complex debt arrangements and dissolution in the Israeli capital market. His personal involvement allowed the setting of significant legal precedents. Adv. Gissin has been appointed by courts and creditors as position holder in many corporations that have become insolvent. Adv. Gissin has been working pro bono as a legal advisor for Young Entrepreneurs (Israel) for over 20 years. He is a lecturer at the Netanya Academic College and a member of the Board of Directors of the Center for Business and Community Relations of the Netanya Academic Collage.
Languages
Hebrew and English
Memberships
Israeli Bar Association
Education
LL.B., Tel Aviv University 1991.
Lawyer Rankings
Israel > Restructuring and insolvency
(Leading individuals)Gissin & Co., Advocates advises bondholders and bond trustees on debt arrangements with insolvent companies. It also acts for distressed companies through court appointments (as a receiver, trustee or liquidator) and during the sales process, negotiations with shareholders and other forms of corporate restructuring. Guy Gissin remains highly active in the field, particularly in relation to representing bondholders in major debt settlements. He serves as local counsel to Urbancorp on a cross-border restructuring, which is novel in that it is the first time a court in Canada has adopted the decision of a court in Israel concerning a Canadian company. Yael Hershkovitz is also noted.