Consistently engaged to advise on major corporations’ restructurings and insolvencies, Lipa Meir & Co has enviable retail, education and aviation sector expertise. Lipa Meir specialises in insolvency, bankruptcy, receivership, liquidation and recovery proceedings, along with corporate debt restructuring, creditors' arrangements, and corporate reorganisations; and Zuriel Lavie acts for agricultural, telecoms and industrial corporations, as well as financial institutions, in high-stakes debt restructuring and insolvency proceedings. The practice further includes Shirley Ifrach-Azor, who is regularly appointed as a trustee in relation to insolvency proceedings. Yossi Mandelbaum and Tal Morag complete the team.
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- ‘Committed to the client and provides an excellent service package.’
- ‘Professional and experienced.’
Key clients
- Bank Leumi
- Dona Victoria
- Mor Cooper Textile Ltd
- Mor Cooper (2004) Ltd.
- Omiat Ltd. (“Wall Street” Israel)
- Hanan Mor Group
- Data443 Risk Mitigation
- Israel Land Development Company
- Yam Patuach
- Shaul Elovitch
- Klirmark Opportunity Fund III, LP
- J. Brosh S. & Marketing Ltd.
Work highlights
Assisted Hanan Mor Group Holdings (and eight subsidiaries), which filed for a stay of proceedings to negotiate a debt settlement of approximately NIS 2.7 billion.
Appointed as trustees for US real estate company Starwood West, which owes NIS 910 million to Israeli bondholders.
Representing Nochi Dankner in the ongoing restructuring and negotiation of a complex NIS 500 million personal debt settlement, involving multiple Israeli banks and an international financial institution.
Lawyers
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Tal Morag
Practice head
Lipa Meir; Zuriel Lavie; Shirley Ifrach-Azor
Other key lawyers
Yossi Mandelbaum; Tal Morag