Esteemed litigation boutique Berkman & Co handles high-profile commercial disputes for domestic and international clients across a range of sectors. Founding partner Ron Berkman has a strong track record of securing favourable outcomes at the motions stage and at trial. Gilad Porat is noted for his strategic approach across the dispute lifecycle, including professional negligence defence, and for representing international corporates before the Israeli courts. Co-head Nachum Kobovsky works alongside Porat and Elad Chen, whose practice includes a significant volume of arbitration work.
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Work Department
Litigation
Position

Partner

Career

Adv. Porat represents individuals and companies in a broad array of complex commercial disputes in all the courts, as well as in arbitration and mediation proceedings, in all the civil and commercial litigation channels, including in matters of corporate law, contract law, intellectual property law, insolvency law, and class actions.

Adv. Porat also deals with international disputes. He has amassed extensive experience in representation of foreign clients (from the United States, Europe, Russia, Japan and elsewhere) in legal proceedings in Israel, and in advising Israeli clients conducting (or who may need to conduct) legal proceedings abroad, all the while maintaining close contact with their foreign attorneys.

Adv. Porat frequently represents corporations, shareholders and officers in corporate control conflicts and other legal disputes in the field of corporate law. As part of this practice area, Adv. Porat advises companies from all sectors of the business world, including high-tech companies and start-up companies, in the various stages of disputes and legal proceedings.

Alongside all the above, Adv. Porat advises clients in the early stages of disagreements, even before a full-blown dispute erupts, with the objective of preventing such dispute and thereby avoiding the need for legal proceedings by formulating creative legal and business solutions.

Languages
Hebrew; English.
Memberships
Member of Israel Bar Association.
Education

Holds an LLB cum laude from Tel Aviv University.

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Key clients

  • Dan Public Transportation Ltd.
  • Israel Chemicals Group

Work highlights

Acting for renowned billionaire brothers Moises and Mendi Gertner in a US$1.5 billion commercial dispute with sanctioned Israeli billionaire Dan Gertler, in the years’ long saga involving unlawful attempts to influence the legal proceedings and outcome in the case.|