FISCHER (FBC & Co.) advises on large-scale project developments, financings and transactions, as well as related regulatory matters and disputes. The team has experience across road and rail infrastructure, water desalination projects, and mandates in the military and defence sectors, acting for a range of sponsors, developers and public bodies. Gilad Winkler has longstanding expertise in advising companies, project consortiums and institutional investors on infrastructure projects, while Hezi Kattan acts for domestic and international energy-related infrastructure companies. The group’s bench includes Reut Maor Kartowsky, an adviser on energy-related infrastructure projects; Katya Kravits, who assists institutional investors with cross-border infrastructure transactions; and project finance lawyer Laurence Elbaz-Avisar.
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Work Department
Project Finance & Energy; Mergers & Acquisitions; East Asia Desk
Position
Gilad Winkler serves as FBC’s Managing Partner and the Head of its project finance and energy practice, one of the leading practices in Israel. He advises many of the world's most prominent companies in Israel's most significant infrastructure, projects and energy matters, totaling billions of dollars.
Mr. Winkler is ranked by Chambers and Partners as an outstanding lawyer and one of the leading energy practitioners in Israel; he is also ranked as a leading lawyer by The Legal 500 and by IFLR 1000.
With over 15 years of experience, Mr. Winkler has been involved in many of the highest-profile and largest transactions in the Israeli market, and has represented leading Israeli and multinational companies in a wide range of industries and sectors, including energy, finance, infrastructure, transportation, natural gas, water and the photovoltaic (PV) energy field, with particular focus on the complex regulatory and real estate aspects that are integral to this sector.
Mr. Winkler has been involved in many large-scale infrastructure and energy projects in Israel and abroad, including projects concerning the construction and operation of roads, railways, power plants, and renewable energy facilities, such as the Tel Aviv Light Rail project, the Gilboa Pumped Storage Plant, as well as other various energy projects utilizing renewable energy technologies and gas infrastructure.
In addition to Israel, Mr. Winkler's countries of legal expertise in the infrastructure and energy field include England, Kazakhstan, South Africa, Zambia, Zimbabwe and Nigeria.
Languages
Hebrew, English
Memberships
Israel Bar Association, 2001
Education
Interdisciplinary Center Herzliya, LL.B, 2000; Interdisciplinary Center Herzliya, B.A, 2000
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Key clients
- IDE Water Technologies IDE Water Assets Israel Discount Bank Danya Cebus Harel Insurance Group Sunlight Assets AFI Group Bank Hapoalim; Poalim Equity Bank Leumi le-Israel Bank Mizrahi Tefahot Energean Noy Infrastructure Fund Nesher Israel Cement Enterprises Clal Insurance Company Clal Insurance Group The Phoenix Group Migdal Insurance Company Menora Mivtahim Insurance Meitav Dash Investments Amitim Pension Fund VID Desalination Company Dan Public Transportation Company Ormat Technologies Ormat Systems Jtrain Shikun & Binui Energy Shikun & Binui Housing and Construction - Etgal Electra Allied Infrastructure Colmobil SMS Galilee Helios Energy Investments Helios Renewable Energy 1 Generation Capital Hadarom Container Terminal Lapidoth Capital Negev Ecology Quadro National Infrastructures Starplast Industries (1987) Dor Alon Alma Yesodot Ltd.; Alma Infrastructure (KD) El-Mor Electric Installations & Services (1986) Solegreen
Work highlights
Acting for Jtrain, the selected bidder and awarded consortium for the NIS multi-billion PPP project for the design, construction, operation, maintenance, transfer, and financing of the Blue Line of the Jerusalem Light Rail Transit Network.