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Hamish Annandale

Hamish Annandale is a counsel in Akin’s investment funds group. He focuses primarily on the investment management industry, advising managers on the structuring, formation and operation of their alternative investment products, including hedge funds, credit funds, hybrid funds and co-investment arrangements. He also provides advice on co-investment and standalone single-deal transactions, spin-outs and seed capital arrangements, “Upper tier” structuring, and investment manager restructurings. To learn more about Mr. Annandale, please visit his full profile: https://www.akingump.com/en/lawyers-advisors/hamish-annandale.html

Jenny Arlington

Jenny Arlington has more than 10 years’ experience in representing a wide range of clients in high-value, complex international arbitrations under most of the main arbitral rules. She also acts in top end, intricate cross-border commercial litigations in the English High Court and, in conjunction with local counsel, in off-shore jurisdictions. The international disputes she handles have a particular focus on Russia, CIS, Eastern Europe, Scandinavia and the Middle East. Native Bulgarian, she is fluent in English, Russian and German, trained at a Magic Circle firm and has a LL.M. in European Union law. Jenny also has long-standing expertise in data protection, privacy and cybersecurity matters and is a CIPP/E. She assists technology companies, clients handling Big Data and multinational conglomerates with compliance and in investigations involving cutting edge issues in this area, and advises multinational clients, including those developing and deploying machine-learning and AI technologies, on related UK and EU legislation and regulation. To learn more about Ms. Arlington, please visit her full profile here: https://www.akingump.com/en/lawyers-advisors/jenny-arlington

Robert Aulsebrook

Robert Aulsebrook’s practice focuses on international debt finance, project finance, capital markets and derivatives. Robert has particular experience providing advice on financing and investment in Russia and elsewhere in the Commonwealth of Independent States (CIS). He advises corporate borrowers, lenders, investment funds, investment fund managers, corporate investors, high-net-worth individuals and other market parties on a wide variety of finance and derivatives issues in the London market. For borrowers and lenders, Robert provides advice on terms of primary market loans, loan participations and secondary market trading of debt. He also provides advice to issuers and purchasers of equity and debt instruments, depository receipts, Eurobonds, convertible debt securities and commercial paper. To learn more about Mr. Aulsebrook, please visit his full profile: https://www.akingump.com/en/lawyers-advisors/robert-w-aulsebrook.html

Tom Bannister is a partner in Akin’s financial restructuring group. He focuses his practice on cross-border financial restructurings and workouts. Tom represents a broad range of institutional and distressed investors. His clients include private placement noteholders, senior secured noteholders, syndicated lenders, senior lenders, mezzanine lenders, ad hoc committees and official committees of unsecured creditors in Chapter 11 bankruptcy filings. To learn more about Mr. Bannister, please visit his full profile: https://www.akingump.com/en/lawyers-advisors/tom-bannister.html

Sam Brodie

Stephen has substantial experience advising private equity sponsors and public companies on the taxation and structuring of management equity and share incentive arrangements, among many other types of matters. He is also an experienced employment lawyer. Stephen leads on the negotiation, drafting and implementation of the management equity piece in private equity-backed acquisitions and focuses on aligning rewards for the leadership team with the creation of value for investors over a multi-year period. He develops innovative approaches to solve tax, legal and governance problems for leading funds and corporates. With extensive experience advising U.S. investors investing in U.K. and European assets, Stephen combines a deep knowledge of employment law and the tax, corporate law and structuring aspects of management incentive arrangements and share inventive plans. Stephen also has many years of experience guiding U.S.-based clients on the introduction of incentive arrangements in different jurisdictions including Europe, the Middle East, Asia and South America and finding solutions to the tax, employment and regulatory issues that arise in these jurisdictions.

Rob advises clients on a variety of projects and transactions in the energy and infrastructure sectors, with a particular focus on upstream and midstream oil and gas, LNG and LNG shipping matters. Rob assists clients with the structuring and development of projects, joint venture arrangements, asset sales and purchases, and corporate acquisitions, disposals and financings. His experience includes negotiating, drafting and advising on commercial arrangements including liquefied natural gas (LNG) sale and purchase agreements, LNG terminal use agreements, common facilities agreements, gas sale and purchase agreements, crude oil offtake agreements, pipeline transportation agreements, vessel charter agreements, joint venture agreements, and asset sale and purchase agreements.

Vance Chapman focuses his practice on special situations, equity offerings and equity investments. He also has considerable experience in financial restructuring and mergers and acquisitions. Mr. Chapman has advised hedge funds, private equity funds and other investors in numerous UK and cross-border transactions. He also has extensive experience in activist investments across a range of sectors. To learn more about Mr. Chapman, please visit his full profile: https://www.akingump.com/en/lawyers-advisors/vance-chapman.html

John Daghlian is a partner in Akin’s investment funds group. He has advised on some of the largest and most complex secondary transactions for over two decades. He acts on a broad range of international and domestic private equity-driven transactions, including the establishment of private funds; private equity portfolio transactions; management buy-outs; secondary buy-outs; publicly traded funds; mergers and acquisitions; and general partner removal. He specializes in problematic situations. To learn more about Mr Daghlian, please visit his full profile: https://www.akingump.com/en/lawyers-advisors/john-daghlian.html

Matthew Durward-Thomas

Matthew Durward-Thomas represents investment funds as well as private and multinational public companies on a broad range of corporate tax matters, including domestic and international corporate and finance transactions and investment fund structuring. He has a particular focus on UK and EU financial restructurings. These matters often involve the resolution of novel and complex tax issues. Matthew helps to develop and apply tax-efficient structures while achieving desired commercial outcomes for clients. To learn more about Mr. Durward-Thomas, please visit his full profile: https://www.akingump.com/en/lawyers-advisors/matthew-thomas.html

Davina Garrod is co-head of Akin's global antitrust & competition practice and head of Akin's international competition group. She advises multinationals, corporates and financial institutions on mergers, acquisitions, joint ventures, strategic alliances and restructurings. With more than 24 years’ experience, in addition to navigating and obtaining antitrust and regulatory approvals for complex transactions within and outside of Europe, and negotiating remedies packages, Davina represents sovereign wealth funds, private equity (PE) firms and banks in the context of their strategic and financial investments (transactional and contentious). Davina also represents companies active in, inter alia, technology, communications, chemicals, energy, transportation, defence, retail and industrials in behavioural EC Article 101/102 and UK Ch.I/Ch.II investigations, and other investigations by government agencies and regulators globally, including UK National Security & Investment Act/European FDI, EU/UK State aid/subsidies, competition/regulatory appeals, and private damages claims before the CAT/courts. To learn more about Ms. Garrod, please visit her full profile: https://www.akingump.com/en/lawyers-advisors/davina-garrod.html

Michael Gustafson

Michael Gustafson is a finance lawyer with significant experience leading complex debt financings across the credit spectrum. He focuses on institutional private placements, direct lending and financial restructuring matters. To learn more about Mr. Gustafson, please visit his full profile: https://www.akingump.com/en/lawyers-advisors/michael-gustafson.html

Alex is an energy lawyer who advises market participants on complex greenfield and brownfield project development, project and structured financing, electricity regulation and industry codes and mergers and acquisitions in the Renewable Energy and Power sectors. He has particular experience of Electricity Market Reform, Contracts for Difference, carbon capture and storage, solar, wind, tidal, energy from waste and electricity and heat power purchase, off-take and supply agreements, as well as regulated asset and PPP models.Alex also advises clients in the Transport, Utilities, Oil and Gas and Mining sectors.

Jasper Helder’s practice focuses on international trade and corporate compliance matters addressing economic sanctions, export controls, customs, anti-corruption and anti-money laundering. He also advises on other aspects of trade regulation, including customs matters, trade remedies, free trade agreements and rules of origin. Jasper frequently assists U.S. clients with their EU compliance issues, advising a range of multinationals on EU and U.N. sanctions compliance for countries such as Iran, Russia, Crimea, Venezuela, North Korea etc. and on the interaction between those restrictions and U.S. sanctions. Additionally, he provides advice on the interaction between EU and U.S. export control rules, including International Traffic in Arms Regulations (ITAR) and Export Administration Regulations (EAR). Jasper’s practice further comprises EU customs compliance, in particular, customs classification, including Binding Tariff Information, and customs valuation and transfer pricing. To learn more about Mr. Helder, please visit his full profile: https://www.akingump.com/en/lawyers-advisors/jasper-helder.html

Joe Hewton is counsel in Akin's financial regulatory group. He advises financial institution clients on matters of regulatory compliance, with particular experience in defending clients in investigations and enforcement proceedings brought by the Financial Conduct Authority (FCA) and Prudential Regulation Authority (PRA). Joe’s recent contentious regulatory experience includes assisting clients (both corporates and individuals) in internal and regulatory investigations, including Regulatory Decisions Committee hearings; preparing for regulatory interviews; evaluating individual accountability, including fitness and propriety assessments; notifying and preparing reports for the FCA; and responding to information requirements. He also has experience advising on authorisations and approvals, including change of control; regulatory change projects, including the regime for individual accountability and associated post-implementation advice; cross-border compliance advice; market conduct and governance; and perimeter issues. To learn more about Mr Hewton, please visit his full profile: https://www.akingump.com/en/lawyers-advisors/joe-hewton.html

Inderveer Hothi

Inderveer Hothi’s practice focuses on finance and corporate transactions covering a wide variety of industries and jurisdictions, particularly in emerging markets. She represents corporate borrowers, high-net-worth individuals and financial institutions on a broad range of financing arrangements, including: cross-border acquisitions, project finance transactions, leveraged finance transactions, corporate finance transactions, private placements, Eurobonds and financial restructuring. To learn more about Miss Hothi, please visit her full profile: https://www.akingump.com/en/lawyers-advisors/inderveer-hothi.html

Harry Keegan’s practice focuses on international mergers and acquisitions and equity capital markets transactions, with a particular emphasis on emerging markets. He has considerable experience in equity offerings, stock exchange listings and UK Takeover Code governed transactions. The corporates in these transactions have operated in various industry sectors, including oil & gas, mining, telecommunications, technology, manufacturing, biotechnology/nanotechnology and financial services. Harry has previously been seconded to two investment banks. He also advises issuers on continuing obligations and corporate governance issues. He has considerable experience in international public and private mergers and acquisitions, joint ventures and private equity transactions, across a range of sectors, involving numerous countries including in Europe, Russia/CIS, Africa, the Middle-East, India and North America. To learn more about Mr. Keegan, please visit his full profile: https://www.akingump.com/en/lawyers-advisors/harry-keegan.html

Focuses on acquisition finance transactions, representing private equity sponsors in leveraged buyouts. Drives direct lending and special situation transactions, as well as leading the finance aspects of complex restructuring transactions. Experience structuring a range of fund financings, as well as investment grade and corporate lending. Co-leader of the firm’s environmental, social and governance (ESG) group. Amy Kennedy structures leveraged financing arrangements for complex leveraged buyouts and other private equity transactions. Her clients include private equity sponsors, banks and other financial institutions (including non-bank alternative capital providers and direct lenders) and corporates (including client portfolio companies). To learn more about Ms. Kennedy, visit her full profile here: https://www.akingump.com/en/lawyers-advisors/amy-kennedy

Melissa Kinsmore-Ward

Chiara Klaui is known for her pragmatic and to the point advice on EU trade compliance matters addressing anti-bribery, anti-money laundering, customs, export controls, foreign direct investment as well as economic sanctions. She provides compliance trainings, conducts internal investigations, assists with voluntary self-disclosures, and develops internal compliance programs for clients in the aviation, commodities, cyber-surveillance, defense, industrial, investment funds, IT, leisure, offshore, oil and gas, pharmaceuticals, and shipping sector. To learn more about Ms. Klaui, please visit her full profile here: https://www.akingump.com/en/lawyers-advisors/chiara-klaui.html

Kambiz Larizadeh

Kambiz Larizadeh is a partner in Akin’s litigation group. He focuses on civil fraud and complex, cross-border commercial litigation and arbitration. He has extensive experience in leading teams in a wide range of high-value, complex international disputes, often involving allegations of misconduct and fraud. He has acted for both claimants and defendants. His clients have included large international corporations, major financial institutions, media and technology companies, airlines and a number of high-net-worth individuals. Kambiz has also advised on a diverse range of commercial disputes, mandatory and prohibitive injunctions, international and domestic freezing injunctions, and anti-suit proceedings in support of domestic litigation and arbitration. He has acted in a number of “bet the company” litigations and arbitrations involving claims in excess of $1 billion. To learn more about Mr. Larizadeh, please visit his full profile: https://www.akingump.com/en/lawyers-advisors/kambiz-larizadeh.html

Shaun Lascelles

Shaun Lascelles has more than 20 years of experience advising on cross-border M&A and private equity transactions. He focuses on transactional public and private cross-border mergers and acquisitions, private equity and international joint ventures. He advises private equity firms, infrastructure investors and corporates in relation to complex, high-end transactions and has deep knowledge of the oil & gas and energy sectors, often across emerging market jurisdictions that include Africa and Russia. To learn more about Mr. Lascelles, please visit his full profile: https://www.akingump.com/en/lawyers-advisors/shaun-lascelles.html

Qasam Mahmood

Mark Mansell has represented noteholders, bondholders and other investors in numerous cross-border private placements and other financings. Mark also advises creditors on complex UK and cross-border workouts and financial restructurings. To learn more about Mr. Mansell, please visit his full profile: https://www.akingump.com/en/lawyers-advisors/mark-mansell.html

Helen Marshall is a partner in Akin’s financial regulatory group. She has over 25 years of experience advising on UK financial regulatory investigations and enforcement proceedings by the Financial Conduct Authority (FCA) and Prudential Regulation Authority (PRA). She provides assistance to her clients in a number of areas, including FCA and PRA compliance issues, authorisations and approvals, information requests, FCA thematic reviews, FCA investigations and enforcement, Regulatory Decisions Committee hearings and Upper Tribunal hearings. Helen helps clients to implement effective strategies to meet regulatory requirements and anticipate future obligations. She also assists clients in forging a positive and cooperative relationship with the relevant regulator to ensure they are well-positioned to engage with the FCA and/or the PRA. Helen was a Former Head of Enforcement at the Financial Services Authority (FSA) and has an excellent knowledge of the UK regulatory system. To learn more about Ms Marshall, please visit her full profile: https://www.akingump.com/en/lawyers-advisors/helen-marshall.html

Jeff McMillen is one of the premier tax lobbyists in Washington, D.C. advising domestic and major multinational companies on a variety of tax policy and regulatory issues. To learn more about Mr. McMillen, please visit his full profile here: https://www.akingump.com/en/lawyers-advisors/jeffrey-d-mcmillen.html

Yujin Kim McNamara

Yujin advises U.S. and foreign clients in trade litigation before U.S. agencies and international organizations. She has significant experience representing foreign companies in trade remedy proceedings before the U.S. Department of Commerce, U.S. International Trade Commission, the U.S. Court of International Trade, U.S. Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit. Yujin also advises governments and companies on U.S. and international trade policy issues, and has represented several governments before the World Trade Organization on trade remedy and other issues. To learn more about Ms. McNamara, please visit her full profile here: https://www.akingump.com/en/lawyers-advisors/yujin-kim-mcnamara.html

Ian Meade is a partner in Akin’s investment funds group. He advises asset managers, particularly hedge fund managers, on a broad range of issues relevant to their businesses. He is particularly experienced in structuring and establishing hedge funds and in the ongoing operations of those funds. He provides advice to asset managers on the negotiation of investments in funds and other products by institutional investors, including sovereign wealth funds, pension funds, insurance companies and a range of other institutional investors. Ian also advises clients on transactions involving asset management businesses and financial services regulatory matters. He is a frequent writer and speaker on hedge funds and related topics at industry conferences internationally. To learn more about Mr. Meade, please visit his full profile: https://www.akingump.com/en/lawyers-advisors/ian-meade.html

Tim Pearce is a partner in Akin’s investment funds group. He works with alternative fund managers, particularly hedge and credit managers, and other asset managers ranging from the largest global houses to smaller start-ups. He assists clients as they launch and manage funds in key jurisdictions around the world. He also provides general investment management support and advice on the regulatory obligations that alternative fund managers face. Tim advises on a wide variety of issues connected with alternative investment vehicles, including launching of hedge funds, credit funds and funds of hedge funds; legal considerations for segregated account agreements and managed account platforms; fund restructurings; side-letter and investment negotiations; distribution arrangements; regulatory advice; and structuring of asset management businesses. To learn more about Mr. Pearce, please visit his full profile: https://www.akingump.com/en/lawyers-advisors/tim-pearce-1.html

Stephen Peppiatt

Stephen Peppiatt is a finance lawyer with significant experience advising lenders in relation to domestic and international financings. He advises financial institutions in relation to debt restructurings, as well as derivatives and other financial instruments. To learn more about Mr. Peppiatt, please visit his full profile: https://www.akingump.com/en/lawyers-advisors/stephen-peppiatt.html

Scott Pettifor advises on merger cases (at an EU, U.K. and multijurisdictional level), behavioral issues and the application of sectoral regulations. Scott’s understanding of the merger control landscape is significant and affords him the ability to provide succinct, actionable advice. He provides multijurisdictional advice on large global transactions for merging parties as well as for the financial institutions with related exposure. Scott regularly obtains merger control approvals for clients before the U.K. Competition and Markets Authority (CMA) and is well placed to assist clients in a post-Brexit environment. He acted for a client on one of the first transactions to be approved by the CMA under the revised de minimis regime introduced in 2017. His work has spanned myriad industry sectors, including: Telecommunications Food and retail Investments Pharmaceutical Aviation Energy services Media Insurance To learn more about Mr. Pettifor, please visit his full profile: www.akingump.com/en/lawyers-advisors/scott-pettifor.html

Daniel Quinn is a partner in Akin’s investment funds group. He has extensive experience advising private equity funds, and their investors, on a wide range of investment funds work. Daniel has advised fund managers across the private equity, credit, and infrastructure sectors in both established and developing markets. In addition, Daniel is a market-leading adviser on secondary transactions having been lead adviser on the largest unsyndicated secondary deal, and the largest GP-led restructuring to date. Daniel also acts for investors in funds, regularly counselling sovereign wealth funds, pension funds, government agencies and others on various aspects of their investment program including participation in funds, co-investments and managed accounts. To learn more about Mr Quinn, please visit his full profile: https://www.akingump.com/en/lawyers-advisors/daniel-quinn.html

Sebastian Rice is the partner in charge of Akin’s London, Geneva and Hong Kong offices. Mr. Rice’s practice focuses on providing advice on cross-border mergers and acquisitions and private equity transactions.

James Roome is the senior partner of the London office and a member of the firm’s management committee and financial restructuring group. An English lawyer who concentrates on complex and cross-border insolvency, restructurings and disputes, James has advised on numerous restructurings of distressed bonds, notes and loans in Europe. He possesses a wealth of experience spanning more than 35 years, acting for investors on some of the largest and most high-profile UK and cross-border restructurings, as well as litigation and a wide range of debt and equity investments. To learn more about Mr. Roome, please visit his full profile: https://www.akingump.com/en/lawyers-advisors/james-roome.html

Simon Rootsey works with private equity firms, infrastructure investors and corporates on complex cross-border M&A (both public and private) and private equity transactions across a broad range of sectors and in multiple regions. He frequently represents clients in the energy (especially downstream and midstream), infrastructure and healthcare / life sciences sectors where he has particularly deep experience. Mr. Rootsey regularly works with clients on transactions across Africa (where he has worked on deals covering over 30 African jurisdictions), Latin America and transatlantic take private transactions or other transactions where U.S. clients are investing (often for the first time) in Europe. To learn more about Mr. Rootsey, please visit his full profile: https://www.akingump.com/en/lawyers-advisors/simon-rootsey.html

Stephen Rosen

Barry Russell is a partner in Akin’s financial restructuring group. Representing noteholders, bondholders and other creditor groups, Barry is a leading force in the cross-border financial restructuring and institutional private placement market. For more than 25 years, he has advised on many of the most significant cross-border workouts and financial restructurings—some involving complex political and economic issues—of European companies. Insurance companies, pension funds, investment funds and other institutional investors rely upon Barry’s highly commercial, pragmatic approach and his ability to reach beneficial and successful outcomes for his clients. Barry focuses his practice on complex workouts and financial restructurings, as well as cross-border institutional private placement issuance. To learn more about Mr. Russell, please visit his full profile: https://www.akingump.com/en/lawyers-advisors/barry-g-russell.html

David Sewell is an English lawyer who concentrates on cross-border corporate transactions. He focuses on cross-border mergers and acquisitions, joint ventures and private equity transactions. David has advised on a number of high profile cross-border transactions in the energy and telecoms sectors in Europe, Asia, Africa, South America and the United States. To learn more about Mr. Sewell, please visit his full profile: https://www.akingump.com/en/lawyers-advisors/david-n-sewell.html

Emma Simmonds is a partner in Akin ’s financial restructuring group. She has advised creditors on numerous high-profile restructurings of distressed bonds, private placement notes and loans in Europe. She has more than 15 years of experience working with a broad range of financial institutions on complex cross-border restructuring and insolvency matters across various industries and jurisdictions. Emma is a member of the firm’s Diversity and Inclusion Council and chair of the London office’s Inclusion Council. To learn more about Ms. Simmonds, please visit her full profile: https://www.akingump.com/en/lawyers-advisors/emma-simmonds.html

Aimee Smart is counsel in Akin’s litigation group. She has experience conducting complex cross-border commercial litigation and arbitration. Aimee advises companies and individuals on a wide range of commercial and financial matters, with a particular focus on cases involving allegations of misconduct, fraud and money laundering. To learn more about Ms. Smart, please visit her profile here: https://www.akingump.com/en/lawyers-advisors/aimee-smart.html

James Terry is a partner in Akin's financial restructuring group. He practices in the areas of cross-border and domestic financial restructuring, workouts and insolvency, and advises clients in relation to strategic and legal issues concerning their distressed debt and special situations investments. James has broad knowledge in a range of different business sectors including telecommunications, packaging, paper, transport, mining, automotive, energy and power. James is known as the leading practitioner in the London market for Norwegian and other Scandinavian restructurings, as well as restructurings in the offshore, oil and gas and shipping sectors. His clients include hedge funds, bondholders, institutional lenders, secondary market investors and creditor committees. To learn more about Mr. Terry, please visit his full profile: https://www.akingump.com/en/lawyers-advisors/james-terry.html

Daniel G. Walsh

Daniel Walsh represents both acquirors/investors and their targets/investees in acquisitions and investments in major markets around the world. His clients span industries including energy, telecommunications, technology, mining and manufacturing. He also handles public and private international and U.S. equity and debt offerings, representing both issuers and underwriters. Key Experience: Handles international and U.S. domestic acquisitions, joint venture and private equity transactions, as well as public and private international and U.S. equity and debt transactions. Assists with transactions in Europe, Latin America, Russia and the CIS, Africa, Asia and the United States. Counsels boards and management of public companies on corporate governance matters. Member of the firm’s management and compensation committees. To learn more about Mr. Walsh, please visit his full profile: https://www.akingump.com/en/lawyers-advisors/daniel-g-walsh.html

Justin Williams

Justin Williams is an English qualified solicitor with 25 years’ experience of handling complex international disputes, both in international arbitration and before the English High Court. He heads Akin’s London international arbitration practice and has a broad practice, but with particular focus on energy and on technology. He has acted in numerous complex and high-value international arbitrations in Latin America, North America, the Caribbean, Europe, CIS countries, sub-Saharan Africa, the Middle East and Asia. His practice includes both commercial and treaty arbitration. In addition, Justin has acted in some of the largest and most complex litigation cases in England and (together with local counsel) in off-shore and other jurisdictions, including Scandinavia, Eastern Europe, the Caribbean and the Indian subcontinent. To learn more about Mr. Williams, please visit his full profile: https://www.akingump.com/en/lawyers-advisors/justin-williams.html

Ezra Zahabi is a partner in Akin’s financial regulatory group. She advises on relevant developments and considerations regarding changes to the UK and EU financial regulatory framework, particularly with regard to the UK financial services regulatory framework, including the Financial Services and Markets Act 2000, the rules of the Financial Conduct Authority (FCA) and the EU legislative and regulatory framework, including MiFID II; AIFMD; the Market Abuse Regulation; EMIR; the revised Shareholder Rights Directive (SRD II) and the new EU ESG rules. Ezra counsels investment managers across strategies and geographies on regulatory compliance and provides strategic advice in connection with new or forthcoming regulatory requirements, including trading queries; market abuse and market conduct issues; interactions with regulatory authorities, regulatory applications and approvals; fund marketing and distribution; regulatory issues relating to the structuring of investment advisory platforms, and remuneration. To learn more about Ms, Zahabi, please visit her full profile: https://www.akingump.com/en/lawyers-advisors/ezra-zahabi.html