Ms. Nuna Lerner is a partner at Gornitzky & Co.
Nuna is a partner in the International Arbitration and Transnational Litigation Practice Group based in Tel Aviv, as part of the Tier 1 International Arbitration team (The Legal 500).
She has extensive experience representing clients in international commercial and investor-state arbitrations under the rules of the major arbitral institutions, as well as in ad hoc proceedings and before Israeli courts.
She is recommended for international arbitration by The Legal 500, inter alia, for being described by clients as “one of the best legal partners for us, one that anyone would like to have next to them“ “a great professional” “particularly diligent and resourceful” “fully committed to excellence” “knowledgeable, professional, and sophisticated” “Always up to date to the smallest detail and any legal factual information that can support our case”.
Nuna is ranked as a ‘Leading Individual’ in the field of ‘Dispute Resolution: Mediation and International Arbitration’ (Legal 500) and as an ‘Arbitration Future Leaders – Partners’ (Who’s Who’s Legal), and is the Israeli winner of the Lexology Client Choice Awards for Arbitration & ADR (2024).
Nuna has been the ICC YAAF representative in Israel since 2021, and she is a founder of the Israeli ICC National Committee.
Prior to joining the firm, Nuna worked as a litigation associate and as a foreign-qualified lawyer at the Dispute Resolution teams of Herbert Smith Freehills and Slaughter and May, respectively.
Nuna’s recent engagements include:
- Successfully acted and settled a $400 million renewable energy multiparty, multijurisdictional dispute.
- Successfully acted in a 350 million THB Thai Arbitration Institute arbitration for a Thai construction company and then successfully achieved the enforcement (against a setting aside motion) of the TAI award in Bangkok, Thailand.
- Successfully acted for the minority shareholders of an international cosmetics company, ultimately securing clients with compensation of over $50 million.
- Successfully settled an ICC London seat arbitration and mediation between a large US military facilities company and an Israeli public construction company.
- Successfully acted for the legal estate of a high net-worth individual in a dispute under the rules of the Commercial Arbitration Court in Hungary;
- Successfully settled an ICC insurance arbitration for one of the largest insurance companies in Israel against multiple respondents;
- Acting for an Israeli construction company in a multi-million dollar ad hoc arbitration pertaining to the construction of three data centres in Israel.
- Acting for a European sovereign in objecting to the enforcement of an American judgement before the Israeli courts;
- Acting for a German company for the enforcement of a EUR 48 million ICSID award before the Israeli courts.
- Acted for the Claimant in a EUR 883.7 million SCC investor-state arbitration against the government of a European country;
