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Krispin Rubinstein Blecher Law Offices Offices
B.S.R 4 TOWER
7 MASADA STREET
BNEI BRAK 5126112
Israel
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Adv Noga Rubinstein
Work Department
Regulation, Competition, Telecom & Media and Administrative Law
Position
Adv. Noga Rubinstein is the Head of the Regulation and Competition Team and possesses unique expertise relating to legal consulting and representation in the various regulatory fields. She is known as a leader and expert in all aspects of regulation, competition and antitrust.
Adv. Rubinstein advises clients from the early stages of the regulatory process, in legislative and policy proceedings. Adv. Rubinstein assists in the forming of strategies relating to the relevant regulator, in initiating actions and in responding to various authorities’ decisions. Among others, she represents clients in administrative enforcement proceeding, and in proceedings for obtaining required approvals and permits from various authorities, and provides regulatory consulting relating to transactions, public offerings, mergers and transfer of control.
Career
Adv. Rubinstein served for six years as the Legal Advisor of the Ministry of Communications, where she led legislative and regulatory processes in the fields of telecommunication media and broadcast, postal services and the postal bank. Among others, Adv. Rubinstein took part in the cellular pricing reform, the privatization of the national telecom company, the major tenders for the selection of telecom and media providers, and more.
Adv. Rubinstein dedicated most of her years of work at the Israeli Communications Ministry to the issue of competition. During the incumbency of then-communications minister Moshe Kahlon, currently finance minister of the State of Israel, Adv. Rubinstein led comprehensive reforms that encouraged the opening of the cellular market to competition.
The result of this course of action was that, if prior to 2012 there were three cellular operators in Israel, after 2012 there were nine operators and the cellular companies’ rates decreased by approximately 80%, the most substantial reduction made in the cellular field among the OECD member states, as the OECD itself noted (see coverage: http://www.ynetnews.com/articles/0,7340,L-4201227,00.html).
In addition, Adv. Rubinstein served for six years at the Consulting and Legislation (The Economic-Fiscal Law Department) Department of the Ministry of Justice, Attorney General where she was responsible for the fields of energy and water, transportation, communications, and more. Adv. Rubinstein’s clients are public and private companies, Israeli and international, which operate in various fields including transportation, defense, food, health care, medical devices, energy, telecom and communications, retail, research and development, and financial services Among others, her professional work included oversee, from a legal standpoint, the formulation of Government policy pertaining to the principal economic processes in the national economy, including the Budget Law and the Arrangements Law, structural reforms and privatization processes, the opening up of markets to competition, regulation of the activity of economic entities and their supervision. In addition, she attended Government Cabinet Meetings, of Committees of Ministers and Knesset Committees.
Languages
English; Hebrew
Memberships
Israel Bar Association, 1996
New York Bar Association, 1998
Education
LL.M. (magna cum laude), Columbia University, 1998
LL.B. (magna cum laude), Tel Aviv University, 1995
B.A., Accounting, Tel Aviv University, 1995
Lawyer Rankings
Israel > Banking and finance
Alongside its specialist expertise in venture lending, Krispin Rubinstein Blecher Law Offices is noted for acting for some of the major Israeli banks in proceedings before the Ministry of Treasury and the Knesset Finance Committee. The team includes banking and financial regulation expert Noga Rubinstein, venture capital fund specialist Emmanuel Kadouch, and Avrumi Monderer, who notably advises on cross-border transactions and corporate investments.
Israel > Telecoms and media
(Hall of Fame)‘The best telecoms team in Israel’, according to some, Krispin Rubinstein Blecher Law Offices stands out for its dominant regulatory practice. The full-spectrum media, communications and telecoms group is also equipped to advise on litigation and transactional matters, including complex and highly regulated investment deals. Firm co-founder Noga Rubinstein is a go-to partner in the field due to her ‘unparalleled regulatory and commercial insight’. Mohannad Nasser, who co-heads the practice alongside Rubinstein, is recommended for his broad commercial and regulatory expertise. Other key contacts include corporate partner Ortal Klein and talented associate Yael Kobrovsky, who is noted for her ‘extensive experience in representing all the major Israeli broadcasters’.
Israel > Competition/antitrust
(Leading individuals)Krispin Rubinstein Blecher Law Offices‘ competition and antitrust practice provides comprehensive advice on competition-related issues, most notably regulation. Here practice head Noga Rubinstein is the go-to choice for clients from the public and private sectors, while Andrey Nickel is praised as ‘one of the best competition law lawyers’ in Israel and focuses his capabilities on restrictive trade practices, abuse of dominant power, and mergers.
Lawyer Rankings
- Hall of Fame Israel > Telecoms and media
- Leading individuals Israel > Competition/antitrust
- Telecoms and media Israel
- Competition/antitrust Israel
- Banking and finance Israel