Kfir Yadgar is a Managing Partner at Gornitzky.
Since joining Gornitzky in 2002, Kfir has represented some of the firm’s most notable clients in a wide range of practice areas. His areas of expertise are broad and diverse and include the provision of legal and consulting services. Kfir’s experience spans a broad range of practices such as commercial and corporate law, litigation and dispute resolution both in and out of the courtroom, resolving shareholder activism and proxy fights, insolvency and financing, and much more.
Kfir has unique and extensive experience in a broad range of issues pertaining to the hospitality and transport industries in Israel. He has represented our clients in some of the most noteworthy deals and disputes in these practice areas over the years. Moreover, Kfir regularly provides consulting services for Israeli market leaders on regulatory and commercial issues, such as lease and sale deals, joint ventures, tender offers, and infrastructure projects.
He provides commercial legal advice to Israeli and international clients on a broad spectrum of practice areas. His holistic view of our clients’ affairs is guided by the interplay between legal and commercial considerations, providing tailor-made solutions. His highly skilled insight propells our clients’ interests forward while still delivering the optimal legal outcome.
Kfir represents some of the largest entities in the Israeli economy, including leading private and public corporations, such as the Fattal Group, the Dan Public Transportation Group, the Discount Investments Group, the Ofer-Melisron Group, the Nitsba Group, the Emilia Development Group, the Brown Group, the Hotel Association, the Brosh Fund, the Israel Football Association, and many others.
Some of Kfir’s most notable recent work includes:
- Representation in shareholder activism battles for control in various companies such as Alcobra, Kamada, Can-Fite Biopharma, B.O.S. and Brack NV.
- Representated and provided legal services to IDB Development, including in the realm of regulatory and litigation concerns. Appeared in petitions to the High Court of Justice against the Israeli Capital Market, Insurance and Savings Authority, in petitions for injunctions to halt swap transactions, in bankruptcy proceedings filed against the company, and in the restructuring of their outstanding debt;
- The sale of significant holdings in Clal Holdings and Insurance Business, a prominent institutional investor traded on the Tel Aviv Stock Exchange, in three separate transactions for a total value exceeding hundreds of millions of shekels.
- Representated Shufersal, Israel’s largest retail chain, in litigation proceedings in connection with the termination of its joint venture with Leumi Card, with respect to the issuance of credit cards for Shufersal’s Members Club, and the establishment of a new venture with CAL.
- Representated the Property and Building Corporation (PBC), and the filing of a claim for NIS 100 million asserting a breach of an agreement for the acquisition of Ispro ltd.
- Representated one of Israel’s leading real-estate companies in the proceedings to dissolve the co-ownership of a significant division of land and commercial space and enforce complex real-estate agreements.
- Representated and provisided legal services to Fattal, the largest hotel chain in Israel, in transactions to acquire hotels in Israel and overseas, the management and operation of a VIP terminal at Ben Gurion International Airport, lease transactions, hotel management and operation agreements worth hundreds of millions of shekels, and the sale of the Royal Berlin Hotel.
- Representatedand provided legal services to the Israel Hotel Association, spanning various regulatory aspects, including in a petition tothe High Court of Justice against both the Israel Tax Authority and Airbnb, with respect to the failure to enforce the State’s income- tax laws and regulations on apartment owners with regards to short-term leases.
- Represented the Israel Football Association in a petition for a derivative action in the amount of NIS 40 million, and a claim that was filed by the liquidators of Hapoel Tel Aviv, for NIS 80 million).
- Representated and provided legal services to Dan Public Transportation, including an investment transaction with Dan Europe Israel and the Value Base Group, in formulating a collaboration agreement with Via Transportation, Inc. for the implementation and operation of the “Bubble” project, collaborating with Electreon Wireless for the operation of transport lines powered solely by wireless electricity, various tenders for obtaining a license to operate service routes on public thorougfares throughout Israel, and drawing up financing agreements for the purpose of setting up and operating these transport clusters.
- Representated the Nitsba Group, the owners of the Princess Hotel, in a long-term lease transaction to lease the hotel to a leading international hotel group.
- Represented the Rimonim hotel chain, in the sale of its rights in the hotels Rimonim Eilat, Ruth Rimonim Safed, Rimonim Hamayan Nazareth, and Rimonim Neve Ativ.
- Representated the Brown Group in various lease transactions.
- Representated private entities in significant transactions, including acquisition, capital raising, and the sale of their assets and commercial operations.
