Zuriel Lavie

Practice Areas

Zuri has a unique specialization in Insolvency and restructuring practice areas, including corporate rehabilitation and reorganization, creditors' arrangements, stay of proceedings, receivership and liquidation. In the last two decades Zuri has led some of the most complex and significant insolvency proceedings and creditors arrangements in Israeli. Among others, Zuri handled Zim's creditors' arrangement (in the sum of USD 3 Billion), the debentures holders' arrangements of Delek Real Estate Ltd (In the sum of NIS 2 Billion), Scorpio and Kardan and represented IDB Development in the creditors' arrangement of IDB.

Zuri has specialized expertise in the areas of infrastructures, projects, BOT and PPI agreements and he advises, among others, to the State of Israel (the Ministry of Defense) with regards to a BOT project in the scope of Billions of NIS. Zuri also represents clients in transactions of establishing power plants, water desalination plants etc.

Zuri handles complicated transactions requiring the conclusion of multi-dimension agreements among numerous parties having different interests. Zuriel has led, inter alia, the privatization process and sale of the "Tnuva" Group to APAX Fund (a USD 1 Billion transaction).