Banking and Finance
‘We hold Firon as premium law firm: best services, best know-how, best staff, and leaders in real estate and finance.’
The Legal 500
Key Contacts
Firon Law Firm is one of the leading law firms in Israel in banking and finance. Over the years, the firm has led numerous substantial financing deals, handling their high sensitivity and complexity with expertise. The firm’s clients include the largest Israeli and international banks, financial institutions, and insurance companies, as well as the biggest Israeli corporations.
The legal team’s proficiency and experience in banking and finance give it a significant advantage in supporting the legal and business aspects of any transaction in these fields. These strengths are backed up by the team’s outstanding abilities in related sectors such as real estate, infrastructure, and projects, energy, mergers and acquisitions, antitrust, receiverships, liquidations, and insolvencies.
The department advises its clients in all the legal aspects of this sector, including complex public and private capital raising and financing deals, issuing convertible bonds to the public as new or recycled debt, and unique offerings by private bodies to investors registered to trade on the institutional systems of the Tel Aviv Stock Exchange, bonds issued with liens registered for the bondholders, and more.
The department specializes in supporting clients in complex bond deals, including the sale of loan portfolios to banks and other institutions or listing for trade on the Tel Aviv Stock Exchange. The department also supports its clients with banking transactions and in agreements with the banking system.
The department supports the structuring, negotiating, and closing of finance for infrastructure and energy projects, representing both developers and financing parties. In addition, it provides routine support to various financial organizations, including banks and institutional bodies in deals in real estate, infrastructure, projects, and energy. The firm also frequently handles the financing aspects of mergers and acquisitions and arrangements between creditors and debtors for both Israeli and foreign financial institutions.
Comprehensive and Full Service includes:
- Due diligence;
- Financing agreements;
- Guarantee agreements and tracking registration;
- Supporting the preliminary terms for entering a valid financing agreement;
- Representation before accompany bodies;
- Representation and support before the ratings agencies;
- Representation and support before the various regulators – Israel Capital Markets Authority, Israel Securities Authority and the Bank of Israel;
- Representation before advisory bodies and financial support;
- Representation of trustees and financing agreements.
30.03.2025
The Legal 500 ranking guide has recognized our firm as a leader in 22 practice areas, with 57 individual rankings
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20.02.2025
Once again – our firm was ranked as one of Israel’s leading law firms by Chambers and Partners
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20.02.2025
We are proud that Chambers, one of the world’s most prestigious legal directories, has recognized our partners as leaders in their fields for 2025
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08.12.2024
This year as well the prestigious guide Chambers and Partners FinTech included Our firm and adv. Oded Ofek among the leading law firms and partners
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09.06.2024
IFLR 1000 ranked Firon law firm among the leading law firms in Israel this year
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31.03.2024
THE PRESTIGIOUS GUIDE DUN’S 100 RANKED OUR FIRM AS ONE OF THE LEADING LAW FIRMS IN ISRAEL
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15.05.2023
ADV. ODED OFEK WAS RECOGNIZED BY THE 2023 LEGAL 500 PRESTIGIOUS GUIDE AS A LEADING INDIVIDUAL
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15.05.2023
ADV. TAMI FIRON–SMORODINSKY WAS RECOGNIZED BY THE 2023 LEGAL 500 PRESTIGIOUS GUIDE AS A LEADING INDIVIDUAL
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15.12.2022
Adv. Oded Ofek was recognized by the 2022 Chambers and Partners prestigious FinTech guide
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18.09.2022
IFLR 1000 hails M. Firon & Co., again, as one of Israel’s leading firms in its 2022 edition
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22.04.2021
M. FIRON & CO. CONTINUES TO LEAD! WE’RE PROUD OF OUR FIRM’S LEGAL TEAM WHO HAVE ONCE AGAIN LED US TO INTERNATIONAL APPRECOATION AND RECOGNITION
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01.09.2021
Our banking and finance department was awarded top tier ranking by BdiCode for 2021
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30.08.2021
The prestigious guide IFLR1000 has recommended our Banking and Finance department in its 2021 edition
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20.04.2021
The prestigious guide The Legal 500 has, again, in its 2021 edition, recommended our banking and finance department
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28.05.2023
The prestigious guide The Legal 500 has, again, in its 2023 edition, recommended our banking and finance department
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20.04.2021
Adv.Oded Ofek was recognized by The 2021 Legal 500 prestigious guide in Banking and Finance law
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20.04.2021
Adv.Tamar Firon-Smorodinsky was recognized by The 2021 Legal 500 prestigious guide
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06.04.2021
WE ARE PROUD TO HAVE BEEN RECOGNIZED, AGAIN, AS ONE OF ISRAEL’S LEADING LAW FIRMS
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01.09.2020
Our banking and finance department was awarded top tier ranking by BdiCode for 2020
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03.09.2023
Our banking and finance department was awarded top tier ranking by BdiCode for 2023
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04.09.2023
Our banking and finance department was awarded top tier ranking by BdiCode for 2020 Copy
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04.09.2023
Ourbanking and finance department was awarded top tier ranking by BdiCode for 2020 Copy
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30.08.2020
The prestigious guide IFLR1000 has recommended our Insolvency department in its 2020 edition
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20.04.2020
THE PRESTIGIOUS GUIDE THE LEGAL 500 HAS, AGAIN, IN ITS 2020 EDITION, RECOMMENDED OUR BANKING AND FINANCE DEPARTMENT
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15.03.2020
THE PRESTIGIOUS GUIDE CHAMBERS AND PARTNERS INCLUDED IN ITS 2020 EDITION, OUR BANKING AND FINANACE DEPARTMENT
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21.03.2019
DUN’S 100 RANKED M. FIRON & CO. AMONG THE BEST LAW FIRMS IN ISRAEL IN ISRAEL IN 21 PRACTICE AREAS
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02.03.2019
THE PRESTIGIOUS CHAMBERS AND PARTNERS RANKED OUR FIRM IN 9 DIFFERENT PRACTICE AREAS
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30.03.2025
The Legal 500 ranking guide has recognized our firm as a leader in 22 practice areas, with 57 individual rankings
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09.06.2024
IFLR 1000 ranked Firon law firm among the leading law firms in Israel this year
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03.12.2023
Av-Gad Company Negotiates with Phoenix for an Investment of Up to 400 Million Shekels in the Company
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26.10.2023
IRON SWORDS – SPECIAL UPDATES – Regulation; Banking and Finance; Capital markets; Commercial law and Municipal taxation
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20.08.2023
Adv. Meirav Leshem of the Association of Legal Advisors in Israel (ACC) hosts Adv. Oded Ofek in 3 podcast episodes: Everything you need to know about the world of non-bank credit
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06.05.2023
Please join the ACC – Association of Corporate Counsels in Israel and Firon law firm at a series of webinars on nonbank finance sector
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10.02.2023
Please join the ACC – Association of Corporate Counsels in Israel and Firon law firm at a series of webinars on nonbank finance sector
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21.08.2022
You are invited to a special WEBINAR – “What’s going on in the world of non-banking credit?”
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29.12.2020
We invite you to take part in an online Facebook event held by the Israel Bar Association, discussing the challenges of the banking and non-banking credit systems in light of the Corona virus
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08.12.2021
A financing agreement for the construction of the dormitories in the College of Management was signed with Discount Bank
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25.10.2020