Efi, founding member and managing partner of the firm, is an eminent specialist in corporate and securities law. His practice covers all aspects of corporate life, including incorporation, corporate structuring, financing, private and venture capital investments, public and private offerings, governance, regulatory compliance, antitrust issues, bank financing and commercial agreements. Efi’s expertise in the field of telecommunications is a result of many years of transactional, regulatory and government-relations work in fixed-line, fiber-optic cable, submarine cable, satellite, and cellular systems. Efi is also one of Israel’s foremost experts in structuring, negotiating and documenting privatization transactions, representing both governmental entities in their divestitures as well as private investors in privatization acquisitions.

Efi has been for many years a Lecturer in corporate and securities law at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem. He is a legal advisor to the Hadassah Medical Organization Board of Directors (1996-present), a Director of the Hadasit Medical Research Services & Development Company Ltd. (1991-present) and a former member of various committees of the Tel-Aviv Stock Exchange and the Israeli Securities Authority. After receiving his LL.B. with honors from the Hebrew University of Jerusalem in 1971, where he served on the Editorial Board of the Mishpatim law review, Efi received his LL.M. in corporate and securities law from New York University in 1978. Prior to that, he was an associate in the New York office of Wachtel, Lipton, Rosen & Katz from 1976-77, and was a law clerk to Chief Justice Moshe Landoy of the Israeli Supreme Court.

• LL.B. (1971, with honors) from the Hebrew University of Jerusalem

Tamar specializes in advising public organizations – government ministries, regulation authorities and government companies, providing counsel regarding infrastructure projects and preparing legislation that regulates emerging sectors of the Israeli economy or sectors undergoing reforms. Specifically, she has been involved in preparing legislation, public tenders and concessions in fields such as water and sewage, ports, the dairy industry, oil and natural gas exploration, production and transmission, oil products storage and transmission, oil pollution preparedness and response, television broadcasting, legal metrology, and the telecommunications sector. Tamar also provides counsel to the largest Israeli guardianship entity.

During the 1990s, Tamar was instrumental in the sale of the Israeli government’s shareholdings in banks. Tamar was also at the helm of the privatization of Bezeq, Israel’s largest telecommunications company, when she drafted the prospectuses and coordinated all the regulatory work for its PO in 1998 and 2004.

Tamar’s involvement in these matters is the natural outgrowth of her extensive experience in government service before joining our firm. She worked in the Legal Department of the Ministry of Finance from 1974-1981, was the chief legal draftsperson for the Ministry of Justice (1981-86). Tamar then served as a Senior Deputy to the State Attorney from 1986-87, and was the Legal Advisor of the Ministry of Finance from 1988-1996. During this time, she also served as a Member of the Israeli Delegation to the Israeli-Palestinian Interim Agreement on the West Bank and the Gaza Strip. Tamar has also served as a director of several government companies, and from 2000-2003 as an External Director of a leading Israel retail chain. For many years Tamar served as a Member of the Restricted Trades Advisory Committee.

Avraham heads the firms real estate and commercial practice, specializing in domestic and international transactions, restructuring and management of public and commercial entities, and real estate ventures. He represents large foreign businesses in Israel and structures the flow of foreign investment into Israeli companies, advises various import/export businesses, conducts mergers and acquisitions, facilitates the expansion of retail chains and franchises in Israel and abroad, supervises the management of hotel chains, and counsels companies regarding marketing, manufacturing, and distribution concerns.

Avraham specializes in negotiating and overseeing complex transactions involving a broad spectrum of industrial, commercial, and private building projects. He supervises the management and operation of commercial centers, and advises clients regarding commercial real estate investments and sales and acquisitions of commercial properties in Israel and abroad.

Avraham serves as a court-appointed and private arbitrator and mediator, presiding over a wide range of matters in those capacities. He also serves as general counsel and business advisor for several non-profit organizations and educational institutions, and is the General Counsel and Board Member of a social services non-profit organization. Avraham received an LL.B. with honors from the Hebrew University of Jerusalem, where he was the Editor-in-Chief of the Mishpatim law review.

LL.B. (with honors) from the Hebrew University of Jerusalem

Yair heads the firm’s litigation department. In his 25-plus years of litigation experience, Yair has argued thousands of cases, before courts at all levels of the Israeli court system, as well as in arbitration proceedings. Most notably, Yair has argued hundreds of times before the Israeli Supreme Court, in cases involving constitutional law issues such as freedom of speech and expression in the commercial broadcasting context, administrative law, and a broad array of commercial law issues. Yair also regularly tries cases in companies and commercial law, real estate cases, anti-trust, intellectual property, environmental, and criminal law. In addition, Yair specializes in drafting and litigating government tenders, on behalf of both governmental bodies and bidders, and has been active in advising clients regarding major infrastructure projects and other large-scale endeavors.

Yair also heads the firm’s telecommunications department and has been advising Israel’s Second Television Authority, for well over a decade, in all aspects of its activities, including commercial broadcasting, television and radio laws, administrative law, advertising law, and telecommunications ethics. Yair also advised the Israel Audience Research Board as well as a leading cellular telecommunications company, and is an expert in the field of telecommunications law in Israel.

Before joining Ephraim Abramson & Co., Yair was an associate at another Jerusalem law firm and served as a clerk to Menachem Elon, then the Deputy Chief Justice of the Supreme Court of Israel. Yair received an LL.B. (with highest honors) from Bar Ilan University, where he was class valedictorian and served on the Editorial Board of the Bar Ilan Law Studies Journal.

LL.B. (with highest honors) from Bar Ilan University

Harry is co-chair of the firm’s international department, and maintains a diverse corporate and commercial practice, with a focus on venture capital and private equity fund activity. His practice includes fund formation and portfolio investments in Israeli and U.S. based companies. Harry’s practice has involved structuring and negotiating local and cross-border mergers, acquisitions and joint ventures, and the representation of technology start-up companies from initial seed financing through acquisition or initial public offering. He has also advised clients on a number of large corporate acquisitions, including the sale of the largest advertising group in Israel, and complex telecommunications transactions. Harry also has expertise in negotiating commercial agreements, including joint-venture partnership, distribution, licensing, and marketing arrangements.

Before arriving in Israel and becoming a partner at Ephraim Abramson & Co., Harry was a corporate law partner with a well-known Melbourne law firm from 1986-1995. He was also admitted as an associate member of the Australian Society of Certified Practicing Accountants. Harry received his LL.B. and B.EC. from Monash University in Victoria.

• LL.B. from Monash University in Victoria
• B.EC from Monash University in Victoria

Osnat’s practice focuses on counseling public sector clients in connection with regulatory issues and public tenders, and specializes in drafting and litigating government tenders in Hebrew and in English (including tenders for radio broadcasting concessions and television broadcasting licenses) and advising her public sector clients with respect to all stages of public tenders. She also offers counsel to commercial clients interested in submitting a proposal to government tenders. Osnat manages commercial business transactions as well and offers her counsel on a broad array of issues such as investments, mergers and acquisitions, share purchases, and corporate employment issues. Osnat is a member of the firm’s litigation department, and is involved in commercial litigation, including cases involving misrepresentations, torts, breach of contract, as well as tender law litigation. She is also a certified notary specializing in notarized translations.

Osnat was a Visiting Researcher at Harvard Law School from 1998-99, and completed the Harvard University Mediation Program in 2000. Prior to her studies at Harvard, Osnat was an associate at another Jerusalem-based firm from 1995-98. Osnat also served as an Assistant Lecturer in Criminal Procedure at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem Law School from 1993-97, and as a research assistant in Constitutional Law and Property Law. Before entering private practice, Osnat was a Law Clerk to the Jerusalem Deputy District Attorney from 1993-94 and the Honorable Justice Moussia Arad of the Jerusalem District Court from 1992-93. She received her L.L.B. and L.L.M (both with honors) from the Hebrew University of Jerusalem, and was on the Editorial Board of the Mishpatim law review. She published an article entitled “Compensation for Victims of Crime – A Proposed New Model” in the Bar Ilan Law Studies Journal, vol. 19(1), 2002.

• L.L.B. (with honors) from the Hebrew University of Jerusalem
• L.L.M (with honors) from the Hebrew University of Jerusalem

Ami is a member of the firm’s international department, and focuses his practice on corporate financings and commercial transactions. Ami represents both private and institutional investors in making portfolio investments, as well as high-technology and bio-technology companies in financings, mergers and acquisitions, and a variety of other corporate transactions and matters. Drawing on his valuable experience, Ami works together with clients to build an effective strategy regarding the legal and business aspects of developing, protecting, and commercializing their intellectual property and then negotiates agreements that reflect this collaborative vision. Ami also has developed expertise in negotiating a broad array of other commercial transactions, including joint venture, licensing, service and distribution agreements. Prior to joining Ephraim Abramson & Co., Ami served as a law clerk to Justice Tzvi Tal of the Israeli Supreme Court. He graduated with high honors with a B.A. in Economics from Yeshiva University in 1993 and received his J.D. from the University of Pennsylvania Law School in 1996, where he was a Senior Editor of the Journal of International Business Law.

• B.A (1993, with high honors) in Economics from Yeshiva University
• J.D. (1996) from the University of Pennsylvania Law School

With over twenty years of experience handling hundreds of legal cases, Haya developed an expertise in all aspects of commercial-civil litigation, in a variety of legal fields, including contracts, corporations and class actions.
Haya’s practice focuses on high level commercial litigation. She has successfully handled various types of lawsuits, occasionally involving multi-million dollar claims, and has argued before all levels of the Israeli court system, including the Supreme Court.
In recent years, Haya has developed arbitration mediation practices with a view to assist people to solve their commercial disputes while achieving significant cost saving. A very high rate of the mediations Haya is involved in are resolved in a mediation arrangement.
Through years of working with corporate clients, Haya has gained know-how in negotiating and drafting agreements and providing ongoing legal advice to corporations. Throughout her career, Haya has worked closely with CEOs and boards of directors on business law issues as well as corporate law.
As an expert on labor law, Haya mostly represents employers both in the labor courts and in negotiations with trade unions.

• LL.B. (1999) from the Hebrew University of Jerusalem