Gornitzky & Co.

About this office:

Founded in 1938, Gornitzky & Co. has been involved, in the more than seven decades of its activities, in many of the largest and most complex transactions in the Israeli economy, and it has played a key role in the development of Israel's economy, law and legal practice. Gornitzky & Co. is consistently rated by leading international legal directories as one of Israel's leading law firms in the various fields of law in which it operates, and it has earned many recommendations in these fields.

Gornitzky & Co. is well-known for its reputation and the extensive experience which it has acquired in all of the legal, business and commercial fields, which allow it to provide its clients the full gamut of legal services for their business activities, whilst serving in its capacity as a legal 'one-stop-shop'. Thanks to the unique, multi-disciplinary approach which characterizes the legal team at Gornitzky & Co., the firm provides its clients with service of the highest quality, while integrating legal creativity and originality, allowing it to deal with complex business and legal challenges. The firm and its partners are consistently recognized as leaders and recommended in the various commercial areas of law by leading legal directories, such as Chambers Global, Legal 500, IFLR 1000, PLC Which Lawyer?, BDi code, Dun's 100, and others.

The firm's practice areas include M&A, international transactions, taxation, capital markets and securities, banking and financing, real-estate and hotels, commercial litigation and dispute resolution, class actions and derivative suits, white-collar crime, receiverships and liquidations, project and infrastructure financing, energy, communications, high-tech and bio-tech, private equity, trusts & estates and private clients, competition and antitrust, labor law, and more.

The firm's clients - The firm's clientele includes a significant number of Israel's key players, including Israel's leading concerns and corporations, as well as international corporations and entities operating in Israel. The firm provides legal services to over one-third of the largest and most influential business groups in Israel in various fields. The services range from regular commercial services to a broad range of complex multinational and financial transactions.

The legal team - The firm's attorneys possess extensive experience in a broad range of practice areas, due in part to their involvement in some of the largest and most complex projects undertaken in Israel in recent years. The firm's attorneys speak Hebrew and English, as well as Arabic, Russian, French, Italian, Spanish, German, Portuguese and Afrikaans, and some of them are licensed to practice law in other jurisdictions. The firm's chairman, Advocate Pinhas Rubin, who is considered to be one of Israel's leading tax and corporate law experts, was named by 'The Marker' magazine, in 2010, for the ninth consecutive year, as one of the '100 Most Influential People' in the Israeli economy; the firm's managing partner, Advocate Moriel Matalon, serves as a director of Bank Hapoalim (Switzerland) and as the Chairman of the Israeli Fund for UNICEF (the United Nations Children's Fund); senior partner, Advocate Zvi Ephrat, serves as a director of Bank Mizrahi Tefahot and as a senior advisor to the Ofer Brothers Group.

Corporate Social Responsibility values of community action and social involvement are of the cornerstones of Gornitzky & Co.'s organizational culture and they are manifest in various activities, including pro bono representation, volunteering activities and donations to social organizations. As part of its CSR policy, the firm invests a great deal in its employees' well-being, leisure activities and special events. Gornitzky & Co. is considered to be one of the most sought-after workplaces in the Israeli legal world.

Ethical Code as an integral part of its legal practice, the firm's goal is to foster an internal culture that emphasizes values, comradery and friendship. Every single member of the firm's legal team has signed the 'Gornitzky Code', which expresses the norms and values based on which the legal service is provided, and by virtue of which the social environment at Gornitzky & Co. is shaped.