Israel | Freshfields

We specialise in innovative, cross-border transactions and dispute resolution, supporting growth in key sectors within Israel.

Our multi-jurisdictional team of Freshfields lawyers is dedicated to advising Israeli clients and businesses with interests in the country. We’ve played pivotal roles in landmark deals for some of the world’s largest corporations, leveraging our extensive network to deliver comprehensive legal and transactional services while collaborating with top local firms as needed.

Our Israeli practice excels in high-value mergers and acquisitions, with a strong focus on the thriving tech, pharma, and life sciences sectors. We also frequently work with foreign investors in Israel – from oil and gas majors to private equity and tech investors

We are also recognized leaders in international dispute resolution, adeptly representing our clients in complex disputes. We operate across key jurisdictions and sectors, offering unparalleled expertise and strategic solutions in high-profile cases worldwide.

By blending our global perspective with nuanced local insight, we enable you to capitalize on Israel’s prominence in innovation and international business. We support you in navigating complex cross-border deals, overcoming regulatory hurdles, and resolving high-stakes disputes.

Whether you’re addressing antitrust issues in China, structuring a joint venture in India, developing a real estate project in Spain, or managing litigation in New York, our team is committed to helping Israeli companies grow and protect their interests worldwide.

Other Middle East locations

Bahrain

UAE

Saudi Arabia

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Awards & recognition

Chambers Global 2025

Band 1 in Corporate/M&A (Expertise Based Abroad) Global. We have held this position for 15 consecutive years.

Chambers Global 2025

Dispute Resolution (Expertise based abroad) Global. We are the only law firm currently ranked in this category and have been ranked for 7 years now.

Chambers Global 2025 – Corporate/M&A

Freshfields maintains a premier reputation for its work advising blue-chip multinational companies on high-value transactions in Israel. The team is highly knowledgeable in assisting clients with investments and projects, and very experienced handling high-profile financings in the oil and gas and energy sectors. It advises private equity funds as well as public companies on inbound and outbound M&A in the technology, life sciences, real estate, construction and engineering sectors.

Chambers Global 2025 – Dispute Resolution

Freshfields has a dedicated team serving Israeli clients. The department advises multinationals with business in Israel, as well as acting for Israeli companies conducting business abroad, on a range of contentious matters. Its lawyers have notable expertise in representing clients in international arbitration and litigation, with extensive experience handling intellectual property and competition-related disputes. The group's clients include major banks and energy companies.

Contacts

We specialise in innovative, cross-border transactions and dispute resolution, supporting growth in key sectors within Israel.

Other Middle East locations

Other Middle East locations

Highlight experience

Advising East Mediterranean Gas in four parallel multi-billion-dollar arbitrations against the government and the national gas companies of Egypt, relating to the failure to deliver gas to Israel.

Advising the government of Israel in an ad hoc international arbitration brought against it by a foreign company operating in Israel.

Advising an Israeli party to a JV on successfully executing a put/call option, including with respect to threatened litigation in New York courts.

Advising a US cybersecurity company on the multi-hundred-million-dollar acquisition of an Israeli cybersecurity company.

Advising the portfolio company of an international private equity fund on its acquisition of an Israeli telecommunications startup.

Advising ICL on its acquisition of an agricultural chemicals company located in Brazil for a total consideration of approximately £348 million.

Advising a middle eastern sovereign wealth fund in relation to the acquisition of a significant stake in an Israeli gas field for $1 billion.

Advising Chevron (the operator of the Tamar and Leviathan gas fields) in relation to various corporate and regulatory matters.

Advising Sotheby's on a complex, multi-party transaction involving the loan of items from Jerusalem's L.A. Mayer Museum for Islamic Art to the Al Thani Collection Foundation.

Advising Knaan Ltd on the ‘Eva Stories’ project (a project based on the diary of a thirteen-year-old Hungarian Jewish girl during WW2), which was released worldwide on Instagram and working with Knaan on other similar projects.

Awards & recognition

Band 1 in Corporate/M&A (Expertise Based Abroad) Global. We have held this position for 15 consecutive years.

Dispute Resolution (Expertise based abroad) Global. We are the only law firm currently ranked in this category and have been ranked for 7 years now.

Contacts

Adir Waldman

Noah Rubins KC

Richard Lister

Juliane Hilf

Alon Gordon

David Livshiz

Boris Feldman

Menachem Kaplan

Natascha Doll

Taryn Zucker

We specialise in innovative, cross-border transactions and dispute resolution, supporting growth in key sectors within Israel.

Other Middle East locations

Other Middle East locations

Highlight experience

Advising East Mediterranean Gas in four parallel multi-billion-dollar arbitrations against the government and the national gas companies of Egypt, relating to the failure to deliver gas to Israel.

Advising the government of Israel in an ad hoc international arbitration brought against it by a foreign company operating in Israel.

Advising an Israeli party to a JV on successfully executing a put/call option, including with respect to threatened litigation in New York courts.

Advising a US cybersecurity company on the multi-hundred-million-dollar acquisition of an Israeli cybersecurity company.

Advising the portfolio company of an international private equity fund on its acquisition of an Israeli telecommunications startup.

Advising ICL on its acquisition of an agricultural chemicals company located in Brazil for a total consideration of approximately £348 million.

Advising a middle eastern sovereign wealth fund in relation to the acquisition of a significant stake in an Israeli gas field for $1 billion.

Advising Chevron (the operator of the Tamar and Leviathan gas fields) in relation to various corporate and regulatory matters.

Advising Sotheby's on a complex, multi-party transaction involving the loan of items from Jerusalem's L.A. Mayer Museum for Islamic Art to the Al Thani Collection Foundation.

Advising Knaan Ltd on the ‘Eva Stories’ project (a project based on the diary of a thirteen-year-old Hungarian Jewish girl during WW2), which was released worldwide on Instagram and working with Knaan on other similar projects.

Awards & recognition

Band 1 in Corporate/M&A (Expertise Based Abroad) Global. We have held this position for 15 consecutive years.

Dispute Resolution (Expertise based abroad) Global. We are the only law firm currently ranked in this category and have been ranked for 7 years now.

Contacts

Adir Waldman

Noah Rubins KC

Richard Lister

Juliane Hilf

Alon Gordon

David Livshiz

Boris Feldman

Menachem Kaplan

Natascha Doll

Taryn Zucker