Achiad Harel is a founding partner of the firm and an attorney with extensive experience in managing complex legal and financial crises. His practice focuses on corporate restructuring and insolvency, commercial litigation, and ongoing strategic counsel to shareholders and officers on corporate and commercial matters.
In the field of insolvency and corporate restructuring, Achiad represents companies in financial distress, as well as creditors, shareholders, and officers, in rehabilitation, liquidation, and receivership proceedings. He also serves as an administrator in insolvency proceedings and brings practical experience in navigating complex situations under constraints of time pressure and uncertainty.
His approach is grounded in an integrative perspective – combining rigorous legal analysis with financial and accounting insight, as well as a deep understanding of human dynamics, incentives, and decision-making under crisis. This perspective enables the development of informed, creative solutions aimed at achieving effective outcomes in complex credit and restructuring situations.
Commercial Litigation and Corporate Law
Achiad advises and represents clients in complex commercial and financial disputes, including shareholder conflicts, control struggles, oppression claims, insolvency-related litigation, disputes between entrepreneurs and investors, and matters involving securities, intellectual property, and officers’ liability.
Alongside his litigation practice, he provides ongoing legal counsel to companies, entrepreneurs, and shareholders, with an understanding of the broader business context and the long-term implications of legal strategy.
His work reflects a comprehensive view of each matter – addressing both its legal and strategic dimensions, while recognizing the real-world impact that complex proceedings have on decision-makers and stakeholders.
In addition, Achiad specializes in managing complex commercial and financial disputes, including control struggles, shareholder disputes and oppression claims, disputes surrounding insolvency events, disputes between entrepreneurs and investors, as well as disputes relating to technology, securities, intellectual property, and officers’ liability.
Alongside his activity in litigation, Achiad has extensive experience in commercial and corporate law, and he accompanies companies, entrepreneurs, and shareholders in ongoing legal counsel, with an understanding of the broader business context and the client’s needs throughout the life cycle of the activity.
The legal guidance provided by Achiad is characterized by a comprehensive view of the case – both on the professional and strategic level, and on the personal level – מתוך understanding the material impact that complex legal proceedings have on decision makers and on the well-being of clients.
Special Counsel (Of Counsel)
Dikla is an attorney and certified mediator with over 15 years of experience representing clients in complex commercial and financial matters.
She brings practical experience in commercial law, insolvency, and economic litigation, combined with a broad understanding of the legal, business, and financial dimensions of each case. Her work focuses on developing practical solutions in situations of uncertainty, managing complex negotiations, and guiding proceedings toward effective resolutions.
Her experience includes handling liquidation and insolvency proceedings, complex claims against officers and directors, intricate financial disputes, and commercial and corporate litigation. She has also represented parties in mediation proceedings and conducted negotiations with banks and commercial entities, including the structuring of settlement agreements and creditor arrangements – both personal and corporate.
Dikla approaches crisis management as a strategic process, grounded in a thorough analysis of the legal framework, underlying incentive structures, and available business alternatives.
Special Counsel (Of Counsel)
Adv. Shahar Iluz specializes in complex civil and commercial litigation, including class actions and derivative claims. He gained significant experience through his work at leading law firms in Israel.
Shahar represents clients in disputes involving substantial financial and corporate dimensions, with careful analysis of risk structure, legal exposure, and the business implications of each strategic decision. His practice includes representation before various courts, as well as in arbitration and mediation proceedings, alongside ongoing strategic counsel in civil and commercial matters, including contracts, corporate law, securities, banking, consumer protection, and privacy.
His experience encompasses representing private individuals, private companies, and public corporations, both in Israel and internationally, in large-scale, multi-party disputes.
Shahar’s work reflects the firm’s approach, which views litigation as a strategic instrument for managing complex situations – not an objective in itself.
Adv. Iluz is a graduate of the Faculty of Law at Tel Aviv University (LL.B.) and studied corporate law, banking, and finance at Fordham University School of Law in New York.