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Profile
Yuval is a partner in EBN’s Dispute Resolution Department and the head of its international arbitration practice.
Yuval specializes in international dispute resolution and complex commercial litigation, in the areas of corporate law, securities, and capital markets, intricate contractual disputes, class actions, appellate litigation before the Israel Supreme Court, High Court of Justice petitions, and administrative petitions.
He has represented clients in various international arbitral proceedings, both institutional and ad-hoc arbitrations.
Yuval is also an adjunct professor at Tel Aviv University Law School, teaching the primary course on international arbitration.
Yuval clerked for the President of the Israel Supreme Court, the Honorable Justice Asher Grunis.
Prior to his clerkship, he graduated first in his class at Tel Aviv University Law School (valedictorian), and also first in his class at the Tel Aviv University School of Economics.
Yuval earned his Master of Law degree (LL.M.) from the prestigious Yale Law School.
Representative Experience
- Representation of a prominent global German corporation in the field of international commerce in a complex ICC international arbitration, for an amount of hundreds of millions of USD.
- Representation of PwC in a class action in the amount of hundreds of millions of NIS, with respect to financial advisory and valuation issues regarding a merger of two major oil and gas partnerships in Israel, Avner and Delek Drilling.
- Representation of the Edmond de Rothschild Group in legal proceedings for an amount of more than NIS 100 million in the field of alternative investments.
- Representation of a major hydro-electric corporation in an intricate contractual dispute with its operation and maintenance provider, in an ICC international arbitration in the amount of tens of millions of USD.
- Representation of a leading renewable energy corporation in an LCIA international arbitration in London against a global supplier of solar panels.
- Representation of Bloomfield Investment Resources Corporation in its cross-border efforts to secure the enforcement of a US court judgment in the amount of tens of millions of USD.
- Representation of Klirmark, a private equity fund, in a corporate dispute in the amount of hundreds of millions of NIS, involving precedential issues with respect to directors’ and officers’ liability to debtors of a corporation.
- Representation of an automobile importing company in an international ad-hoc arbitral proceeding in Italy, with respect to a complex dispute concerning the valuation of a purchased enterprise.
- Representation of one of the leading businessmen in Israel in a significant lawsuit filed against eight Israeli banks for an amount of more than NIS 1 billion.
- Representation of shareholders of a food production company in an intensive corporate battle for control, valued at an amount of hundreds of millions of USD.
- Representation of Israeli Aerospace Industries in various legal proceedings.
- Representation of Bezeq, the largest telecommunications company in Israel, in a significant dispute with another telecommunications provider in the amount of tens of millions of NIS.
- Representation of the Nisko Group in a class action regarding a “going-private” tender offer.
Biography
Bar Admissions
Israel, 2014
Education
LL.M., Yale Law School, U.S.A., 2015.
LL.B. (Magna cum Laude; Ranked 1st in class; Valedictorian), Adi Lautman Program for Outstanding Students, Tel-Aviv University Law School, 2013.
B.A. in Economics (Summa cum Laude; Ranked 1st in class), Tel Aviv University, 2013.
Prior Experience
Adjunct Professor of Law, Tel Aviv University Law School, 2022-Present.
Attorney, Department of the Deputy Attorney General (Economic and Fiscal Affairs), 2015-2016.
Law Clerk to the Honorable Justice Asher Grunis, President of the Supreme Court of Israel, 2013-2014.
Editor-in-Chief, Tel Aviv University Law Review, 2011-2013.
Research Assistant to Professor Eyal Benvenisti in the field of international Law, 2010-2011.
Languages
Hebrew, English, German
