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Shlomi Bardugo co-heads the Corporate Law Department and leads the field of Crypto and Blockchain.
He is proficient at representing clients on local and international business arenas, in a wide range of fields, including mergers and acquisitions, transaction and project financing, investments, payment services, blockchain technology and commercial litigation. Alongside this expertise Shlomi is known for his mastery in multiple fields of law, including securities laws, antitrust, company and partnerships taxation and international taxation laws.
Shlomi’s multi-disciplinary approach derived from his erudition enables him to provide his clients with tailor-made comprehensive counselling.
Shlomi is an expert at legal consultation and representing leading local and foreign clients on cross-border merger and acquisition transactions involving large scale funds. Shlomi is unique in his ability to represent complex transactions combining different fields of industry, from the business planning and negotiations stage to the actual execution stage.
In addition, Shlomi is experienced in accompanying clients on financing large scale transactions with banks, financial institutions and institutional investors, including complex financing of land acquisitions and construction projects inside and outside Israel.
Over recent years Shlomi has represented leading companies in Israel in the field of blockchain and has extensive understanding of blockchain technology and its applications. He is experienced in providing legal counsel on a wide range of subjects related to the field, including blockchain development agreements, commercial agreements related to cryptographic coin trading, agreements related to joint ventures with artists and mining creators and sale of NFT products, trade agreements related to token issues and token grants to workers and service providers, agreements related blockchain joint ventures, consultation on money laundering and terror funding, counsel and accompaniment of companies in the field with banks, legal counsel and accompaniment on taxation aspects of cryptograph coins and working with tax authorities in the field, as well as legal accompaniment and counsel with the securities authority.
Shlomi is an expert in companies and partnerships law and as such provides ongoing consultation to shareholders, directors and CEOs of private and public companies, including on matters of corporate governance. Shlomi also has extensive experience in all aspects pertaining to investment agreements in veteran and start-up companies, shareholders agreements, joint ownership and joint venture agreements.
Shlomi is highly experienced in litigation on complex commercial matters, shareholder disputes and derivative actions. He is also an experienced expert in class action suits, particularly in representing companies being sued in the fields of tourism and aviation.
Shlomi has vast experience in the hotel industry, including the acquisition and sale of hotels, drafting rental and hotel management agreements, in Israel and abroad, and in representing leading clients in the hotel and tourism industries in Israel on large scale, complex transactions in many countries around the world, including Israel, Cyprus, Greece, Portugal, Germany, Georgia and New York.
Shlomi is also experienced in all types of agreements related to payment services and fintech, including acquisition and gateway agreements with banks, Merchant Agreements, credit card issuers (BIN Sponsorship Issuing) and cellular telephone operators (MNOs and Mobile money).
For a long time Shlomi has been serving as the leading legal advisor for the largest payment services company in Africa.
He has lectured at the Business Management Faculty of the College of Administration on companies’ law, securities and contracts, and has served as Chairman of the Employment Committee pursuant to the Discharged Soldiers Law, as well as serving as Appeals Committee Chairman pursuant to the Property Tax Law.
Education:
NYU New York University, LL.M. in taxation, 1991.
Tel Aviv University, LL.B., 1988.
Bar admission:
Israeli Bar Association, 1989.
New York Bar Association, 1992.
Shlomi Bardugo co-heads the Corporate Law Department and leads the field of Crypto and Blockchain.
He is proficient at representing clients on local and international business arenas, in a wide range of fields, including mergers and acquisitions, transaction and project financing, investments, payment services, blockchain technology and commercial litigation. Alongside this expertise Shlomi is known for his mastery in multiple fields of law, including securities laws, antitrust, company and partnerships taxation and international taxation laws.
Shlomi’s multi-disciplinary approach derived from his erudition enables him to provide his clients with tailor-made comprehensive counselling.
Shlomi is an expert at legal consultation and representing leading local and foreign clients on cross-border merger and acquisition transactions involving large scale funds. Shlomi is unique in his ability to represent complex transactions combining different fields of industry, from the business planning and negotiations stage to the actual execution stage.
In addition, Shlomi is experienced in accompanying clients on financing large scale transactions with banks, financial institutions and institutional investors, including complex financing of land acquisitions and construction projects inside and outside Israel.
Over recent years Shlomi has represented leading companies in Israel in the field of blockchain and has extensive understanding of blockchain technology and its applications. He is experienced in providing legal counsel on a wide range of subjects related to the field, including blockchain development agreements, commercial agreements related to cryptographic coin trading, agreements related to joint ventures with artists and mining creators and sale of NFT products, trade agreements related to token issues and token grants to workers and service providers, agreements related blockchain joint ventures, consultation on money laundering and terror funding, counsel and accompaniment of companies in the field with banks, legal counsel and accompaniment on taxation aspects of cryptograph coins and working with tax authorities in the field, as well as legal accompaniment and counsel with the securities authority.
Shlomi is an expert in companies and partnerships law and as such provides ongoing consultation to shareholders, directors and CEOs of private and public companies, including on matters of corporate governance. Shlomi also has extensive experience in all aspects pertaining to investment agreements in veteran and start-up companies, shareholders agreements, joint ownership and joint venture agreements.
Shlomi is highly experienced in litigation on complex commercial matters, shareholder disputes and derivative actions. He is also an experienced expert in class action suits, particularly in representing companies being sued in the fields of tourism and aviation.
Shlomi has vast experience in the hotel industry, including the acquisition and sale of hotels, drafting rental and hotel management agreements, in Israel and abroad, and in representing leading clients in the hotel and tourism industries in Israel on large scale, complex transactions in many countries around the world, including Israel, Cyprus, Greece, Portugal, Germany, Georgia and New York.
Shlomi is also experienced in all types of agreements related to payment services and fintech, including acquisition and gateway agreements with banks, Merchant Agreements, credit card issuers (BIN Sponsorship Issuing) and cellular telephone operators (MNOs and Mobile money).
For a long time Shlomi has been serving as the leading legal advisor for the largest payment services company in Africa.
He has lectured at the Business Management Faculty of the College of Administration on companies’ law, securities and contracts, and has served as Chairman of the Employment Committee pursuant to the Discharged Soldiers Law, as well as serving as Appeals Committee Chairman pursuant to the Property Tax Law.
Education:
NYU New York University, LL.M. in taxation, 1991.
Tel Aviv University, LL.B., 1988.
Bar admission:
Israeli Bar Association, 1989.
New York Bar Association, 1992.
