In its recent survey of leading israeli law firms, The Marker, Israel's leading economic magazine, wrote the following: "FBC could well be the 'firm of the decade'."... "How did the firm succeed in its meteoric rise? It appears that FBC was just ahead of the competition in every field. The firm was one of the pioneers in the securitization sector when it assisted local municipalities in securitizing their tax receipts; the firm handled an international debt restructuring for Nochi Dankner at 013 Barak several years ago, a transaction that brought to it the current surge of restructurings with great experience and the ability to handle some of the largest debt restructuring arrangements in the market; and the firm demonstrated its innovation in the real estate sector, having established the first real estate investment fund, "Reit 1". Leading clients include Nochi Dankner, Sheldon Adelson and recently Shaul Elovitch, who retained the firm to represent him in the "deal of the year" – the acquisition of a controlling interest in Bezeq and the numerous resulting regulatory issues. In many ways, FBC is the Usain Bolt of the legal industry in Israel." (The Marker, 29/12/2009) |