Clifford is a partner at S. Horowitz & Co., where he co-chairs the International Corporate Practice Group. He specializes in cross-border and domestic mergers and acquisitions, leverage financing, corporate and banking law, providing comprehensive counsel to international and Israeli companies and financial institutions. His extensive practice spans multiple sectors including manufacturing industries, life sciences, retail, satellite communication, media, telecom and mobile telephony, hi-tech, medical devices, autonomous automotive technology, chemicals, energy, food and beverage, electrical goods, and insurance.
Drawing from extensive experience in both Israeli and international markets, Clifford advises on all aspects of local and multinational mergers and acquisitions, leverage buy-outs, joint ventures, venture capital and seed capital financings, IPOs, syndicated and non-syndicated bank financings and refinancings, and securities laws. He provides strategic legal counsel on matters relating to the operation, management, and development of his clients’ business and trading activities in Israel, combining technical expertise with practical business solutions.
In his corporate and transactional practice, Clifford representsmulti-jurisdictional corporates (both public and privately held), mature technology companies, angels, investors, and venture capital funds on acquisitions, corporate structuring, re-domestications, licensing, investment round financing, founder agreements, and exits. His finance practice encompasses advising Israeli and international borrowers, lenders, private equity firms, ECAs, and investors on all aspects of financing, including syndicated and non-syndicated loans, acquisition and leveraged buyout financings, refinancings, export credit financings, equipment financings, , asset and project finance.
Throughout his career, Clifford has been consistently recognized as one of Israel’s leading lawyers by numerous industry publications, including Chambers Global, The Legal 500, Who’s Who Legal, and IFLR 1000, in the fields of banking and finance, mergers and acquisitions, corporate governance, venture capital, and life sciences. According to Chambers Global 2025, he is ” an outstanding lawyer with vast international experience and enormous legal skills who is able to very quickly cut through a lot of issues “while The Legal 500 2025 describes him as “standing out for his expertise and commercial acumen” as well as being “without a doubt, a phenomenon among lawyers in Israel..”
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