Yaniv Azran

Partner

Adv. Yaniv Azran is a partner in the Dispute Resolution Department and the Banking and Finance Department at S. Horowitz. Yaniv specializes in complex commercial litigation, corporate disputes, banking law, and insolvency and corporate rehabilitation proceedings.

Yaniv’s experience includes the management of numerous diverse and complex disputes, intricate arrangements carrying significant economic implications, and particular expertise in insolvency proceedings – both as an office -holder and in the provision of ongoing advice, including the representation of office-holders -across all aspects of insolvency proceedings, including liquidation, receivership, bankruptcy, debt arrangements, stays of proceedings, and more.

In addition, Yaniv has many years of legal experience and particular expertise in the law of bank guarantees and documentary letters of credit, together with extensive knowledge of banking contracts, collateral and liens, financing, and related matters.

Yaniv represents most of Israel’s banking corporations and their subsidiaries, as well as financial institutions and a range of commercial entities, across all areas of substantive law, including corporate law, contract law, property and security law, banking law, and securities law.

Throughout his career, Yaniv has led significant matters in corporate rehabilitation and liquidation and in shareholder disputes, and has advised on legislative processes and taken an active part in the Knesset Constitution, Law and Justice Committee (Amendment No. 4 and Amendment No. 9 to the Insolvency Law).

Core Capabilities

  • Complex civil and commercial litigation.
  • Banking and finance: representation in complex litigation in the field, including derivative actions.
  • Corporate recovery and rehabilitation: advising and representing in legal proceedings both as an office-holder and as counsel to major creditors.
  • Insolvency proceedings : strategic guidance in significant debt-arrangement proceedings; service as an office-holder in insolvency proceedings (both as receiver and as company trustee); and ongoing advice and support in complex insolvency proceedings, including the representation of office-holders.
  • Advisory work and expertise in foreign-trade transactions, documentary credit, bank guarantees, banking contracts, and related matters.

Notable Representations

  • Representing Bank Hapoalim Ltd. in insolvency proceedings brought against Nochi Dankner.
  • Representing Bank Leumi le-Israel Ltd. in insolvency proceedings brought against the Hanan Mor Group in respect of debts of hundreds of millions of ILS.
  • Serving as trustee of four operating companies in the Eurocom Communications group, including Eurocom Cellular Communications and Eurocom Digital Communications, and operating them until the sale of their various activities, including the rights to the Panasonic, TCL, and Nokia brands for a range of products.
  • Representing the First International Bank in the insolvency proceedings of the Eurocom Communications group.
  • Serving as temporary receiver and trustee of Maadanei Miki Food Industries (Fish and Salads), engaged in the manufacture, marketing, and sale of salads and fish products, and operating it until the sale of its activities.
  • Serving as receiver of a diamond company and selling an inventory of approximately 16,000 carats of diamonds.
  • Serving as receiver on behalf of Bank Leumi le-Israel Ltd. over a Heftziba project, completing the development works and the construction of approximately 190 housing units.
  • Advising and representing the Association of Banks in legislative proceedings before the Knesset Constitution, Law and Justice Committee in connection with Amendments No. 4 and No. 9 to the Insolvency and Economic Rehabilitation Law.
  • Representing the controlling shareholders of an investment house (managing financial assets of approximately ILS 10 billion on behalf of others) in mutual claims filed to compel a “separation of powers” under Section 191 of the Companies Law.
  • Representing Discount Bank in a motion to certify a derivative action and a motion for interim relief, in which the “business judgment rule” was addressed.
  • Representing Bank Mizrahi and Bank Hapoalim in a claim brought against them to set aside option-grant agreements with an aggregate value of ILS 100 million, on grounds of vitiating factors  and illegality.
  • Representing various financial corporations in proceedings brought by applicants for documentary letters of credit or autonomous international bank guarantees seeking to prevent payment thereunder, whether by way of a motion for an injunction or a motion for a temporary attachment order.
  • Representing Bank Leumi in a claim for tens of millions of ILS alleging that the bank had delayed the release of collateral provided in its favor to secure repayment of a third party’s debts.
  • Representing Union Bank (Bank Igud) and a number of its senior officers in a claim relating, inter alia, to the management of diamond-denominated accounts and the realization of deposited pledges.

Education

  • Staffordshire University, England, LL.B., 1998
  • Bar-Ilan University, LL.M., 2002
  • Mediation course focusing on insolvency proceedings, 2023

Admission

  • Israel Bar Association, 1999

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