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Position: Partner, Co-Head of Banking & Finance
Rating:
  • Highly regarded
Practice Areas:
Banking
Jurisdictions:
Languages:
English
Hebrew
Biography

Irit has unparalleled experience on all domestic and cross-border financing, regulatory and compliance issues arising in the Israeli banking and finance sector.

Irit has worked in the banking and finance sector since 1995. After qualifying as a lawyer, Irit worked in the legal department of First International Bank of Israel, and then for over 11 years as General Counsel for Citigroup in Israel. In this role, Irit was involved in establishing the Citibank branch in Israel and in developing Citi’s operations in Israel. Irit subsequently joined our firm as a partner, where she worked for six years, before joining Bank Leumi (one of Israel’s two major banks) as General Counsel.

Recent transactional highlights
  • Represented Fox-Wizel, one of the large retail groups in Israel, on an EUR 119,000,000 ECA backed loan from HSBC.
  • Represented Israel Discount Bank in the US$195 million acquisition financing of a 24.99% stake in Shufersal Ltd.
Practice areas
  • Banking
  • Capital markets: Derivatives
  • Financial services regulatory
  • Structured finance/securitisation
  • Trade finance
Sector expertise
  • Banking
Bar admissions
  • Israel 1994
Association memberships
  • Israeli Bar Association
Academic qualifications
  • LL.B, Tel Aviv University, 1993
Address:
Tel Aviv
Tel:+972 3 692 5520 Email:Contact this practitioner Website:https://herzoglaw.co.il/en/our-team/irit-roth/