Avraham Well
Partner
Adv. Avraham Well is a partner and head of our firm’s Corporate practice. Adv. Well is one of Israel’s leading lawyers in the field of commercial and corporate law, with over 35 years of experience.
He has unique expertise in advising on complex capital markets matters and leading some of the largest M&A transactions in the Israeli market. His extensive experience, broad practice and well-established reputation make him a first choice for investment funds, institutional investors, public companies, boards of directors and senior executives dealing with complex and novel corporate issues.
Over the years, Adv. Well has led a series of high-profile M&A transactions, advised the boards of directors of Israel’s largest insurance companies and banks, and represented a significant number of TA-35 and TA-125 companies on transactions, regulatory matters and capital markets issues. He has also advised on many of the largest debt restructurings in the Israeli market.
Adv. Well has led a number of groundbreaking, innovative initiatives, including establishing the reverse triangular merger as the preferred structure for acquisitions, developing the legal model for the operation of listed REITs, and laying the legal foundations for Israel’s debt restructuring framework following the collapse of Lehman Brothers.
In addition, Adv. Well represented the Association of Banks in Israel before the parliamentary commission of inquiry into the conduct of Israel’s banking system (the “Kabel Committee”); the Association of Insurance Companies in Israel in connection with the corporate governance reform before the Capital Market, Insurance and Savings Authority; and the Association of ETF Issuers before the Israel Securities Authority in connection with the reform of the regulation of the ETF sector.
Adv. Well lectures on M&A law at Tel Aviv University’s Faculty of Law (alongside Prof. Assaf Hamdani). He regularly speaks at judicial training programs and before government authorities on his areas of expertise. He served as a member of a committee appointed by the Ministry of Finance to regulate the extension of credit by institutional investors, and was the first Israeli representative to the International Insolvency Institute.
Adv. Well is a Lieutenant Colonel (res.) and graduated with honors from the Faculty of Law in Jerusalem, ranking first in his class and as the Faculty’s top student. He served as editor of the “Mishpatim” law review and clerked for the Honorable Justice Aharon Barak.
Corporate/M&A – Leading Individual (Band 1)
Capital Markets – Leading Individual (Band 1)
Commercial, Corporate and M&A – Hall of Fame
Capital Markets – Leading Partner (Band 1)
Capital Markets – Market Leader
Banking – Market Leader
Private Equity – Market Leader
M&A – Market Leader
Capital Markets
Israel, 1989
The Hebrew University of Jerusalem, LL.B. (Summa Cum Laude), 1988
