S. Horowitz & Co has extensive experience in bilateral and syndicated lending, as well as acquisition, leveraged, project, asset and venture finance. The team also advises on derivatives, trade and export credit finance, and consumer finance matters, alongside banking regulation, restructuring, debt rescheduling and insolvency-related work. Aharon Bloch leads the practice and specialises in cross-border and domestic banking law; co-head Clifford Davis is ‘without doubt the most talented finance lawyer in this jurisdiction’; and co-head Michelle Liberman’s practice encompasses aircraft, project, corporate and distressed financing. Guy Firer‘s broad workload includes financial services regulation.

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‘Refreshingly, Horowitz has a large number of banking and finance partners covering the A to Z of financings with excellent associates.’
‘Clifford Davis - without doubt the most talented finance lawyer in this jurisdiction.’
‘Clifford Davis is one of (if not the only) finance lawyers who can easily navigate US, European and Israeli law banking and finance documentation.’
‘Clifford Davis is always available and extremely quick with his responses, and his humour and affability make him a joy for clients (and other parties) to work with.’
‘Aharon Bloch is a veteran of the banking scene and for complex project financing or innovative asset or credit financing, Aharon is excellent.’
‘Michelle Liberman is a very capable lawyer.’

Key clients

Bank Hapoalim
Israel Discount Bank
First International Bank of Israel
Mizrahi Tefahot Bank
Ellomay Capital
Ellomay Pumped Storage (2014)
TA Associates
Fortissimo Fund V
Priority Software
Alter Domus (US)
Highbridge Tactical Credit Master Fund
Whitebox Multi- Strategy Partners

Work highlights

Advising TA Associates, Fortissimo Fund V, and Priority Software on the debt financing aspects of the acquisition of an approximately 70% controlling interest in Priority Software by Blackstone Growth Fund.

Advising Alter Domus (US) (as agent), Highbridge Tactical Credit Master Fund, Whitebox Multi-Strategy Partners, Whitebox Relative Value Partners, Pandora Select Partners, Whitebox GT Fund, and Onex Capital Solutions Holdings on the acquisition, corporate financing, and refinancing for the purchase of an Israeli company by a NASDAQ-listed US company.

Advising a syndication of lenders, led by Bank Hapoalim, on a financing to El AL Israel Airlines, in relation to an Israel-registered Dreamliner aircraft.

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