Banking and Financial Institutions


Overview

Broad Professional Experience

Goldfarb Gross Seligman has extensive experience in providing legal services to local and international banks and financial institutions, as well as investment houses. Our legal teams combine their expertise in capital market and M&A with expertise in financial regulation, advising prominent clients from ‘both sides of the table’. On the one side, we advise financial institutions, including foreign and local banks, credit card companies and other non-bank financial entities. On the other side, we represent the largest and leading concerns in the Israeli market, regarding their ongoing activities opposite local and foreign banks.

Comprehensive Legal Counsel

Our legal teams provide comprehensive counsel on all legal-banking aspects, including discussions and negotiations with the relevant regulators – the Bank of Israel, the Securities Authority, and the Anti-Trust Authority.
In this capacity, we handle sale transactions of banks and banking assets and advises international banking and financial institutions, as well as regulation and licensing of financial activities; financial derivative transactions based on ISDA documents (our firm is a member of the ISDA organization); and advise financial institutions on global services in the securities market (custody, brokerage, etc.), the credit cards field, payment systems and clearing charges, as well as network based financial services.
In addition, we advise banks and international financial institutions regarding their business in Israel, including financing transactions and the regulatory regime governing.

Prominent Clients

Among our clients in this field are some of Israel’s largest banks, insurance companies and credit card companies; Israel’s largest business groups and corporations; international banks and financial institutions; and others.