The firm’s Banking and Risk Management Department is one of Israel’s leading departments in this practice, and regularly represents both local and foreign banks and some of the largest financial institutions in the Israeli market, as well as cyber and fintech companies, to which the department provides the full array of legal services.

The Banking and Risk Management Department provides high quality services in all aspects of the practice area, and specializes in risk management, compliance and representation before the various regulators, including the Bank of Israel, the Banking Supervision Department, Israel Securities Authority, etc.

The department’s lawyers assist and advise on the implementation of new products aimed at the financial market, while examining and undertaking the necessary adjustments to comply with all relevant regulations. In addition, the department’s team provides our clients, mostly financial institutions, ongoing legal counsel on a myriad of issues, such as corporate governance and financial regulation, drafting internal and external legal documents, representing clients in agreements and cooperations with both local and foreign entities, as well as in engagement with service and outsourcing providers. Our team also assists clients in drafting bank documents, establishing privacy protection policies and supervising their implementation in accordance with the relevant regulations, and drafting legal opinion papers. 

The department, and the firm as a whole, has gained a sterling professional reputation for its representation of financial entities in matters of compliance, anti-money laundering, banking litigation and class actions, which involve legal matters, such as privacy protection, consumer protection, disclosure, credit, credit cards, etc. 

Our firm provides legal counseling services, and advises on developing strategies and on compliance issues, both routine and complex. We also represent clients before the different regulators in order to promote their endeavors and prepare accordingly.  

Among the department’s clients are some of Israel’s largest financial institutions, including Bank Hapoalim, Discount Bank, Mercantile Discount Bank and others.