Overview

We are pleased to bring you the 5th Israel Desks League Tables, showcasing international law firms that are major destinations for Israeli clients, and are a hub of valuable experience in Israel-related deals.

Today, there are an estimated 160 law firms with an Israel Desk, a striking 20% increase from the number of firms back in 2019. In 2022, Israel's economy grew 6.5%, slower than 2021's 8.6% expansion, but still much stronger than most Western countries, according to the Central Bureau of Statistics. With tech innovation continuing to scale new heights, the interest in deals and collaborations has far from waned, and the data bears that out in the Israel Desks League Tables.

With ranked law firms ranging from global powerhouses to smaller boutiques to new entrants, we have over 50 partners who shine across 11 practice areas and sectors, a testament to the amount of work carried out by international law firms involved in Israel-related matters.

As a regular fixture in the rankings, we continue to have both Value and Volume tables for M&A and Capital Markets to reflect those law firms that handle a large volume of general corporate and capital markets work, as well as those who are involved in high-value transactions and offerings. Law firms are ranked in order of volume or value but our “Elite” ranking spotlights those who particularly stood out with the largest number of matters and those with the highest value matters in what remains a competitive and vibrant market.

We reviewed the firms’ submissions, collected feedback and votes from the most prominent lawyers in Israel, and looked at factors including visits to Israel, local representatives, and relationships with domestic firms. This allowed us to identify those Leading, Prominent, Recognized, and Notable practitioners abroad, who take a proactive, instrumental, and hands-on role with respect to Israel. Furthermore, with such a huge raft of lawyers involved, those lawyers referenced in the editorial are recommended in Israel Desks rankings.

Congratulations to all!

Firms Ranking Table

Elite

Position Firm M&A
1 DLA Piper
26
2 Freshfields Bruckhaus Deringer
16
3 Greenberg Traurig
15
4 White & Case
14
5 Bryan Cave Leighton Paisner
8
5 Latham & Watkins
8
6 Gowling WLG
6
6 Goodwin
6
7 Allen & Overy
5
8 Bird and Bird
4
8 Cleary Gottlieb
4
8 Taylor Wessing
4
9 Davis Polk
3
9 CMS
3
9 Squire Patton Boggs
3
10 Clifford Chance
2
10 Dechert
2
11 Herrick
1
11 Carter Ledyard & Milburn
1
11 Ashurst
1
11 Herrick
1
Position Firm M&A Volume Value ($M)
1 Latham & Watkins
8 13,200
2 Freshfields Bruckhaus Deringer
16 10,307
3 Davis Polk
3 9,901
4 DLA Piper
26 8,992
5 White & Case
14 3,069
6 Greenberg Traurig
15 2,413
7 Cleary Gottlieb
4 1,925
8 Bryan Cave Leighton Paisner
8 840
9 Clifford Chance
2 500
10 Allen & Overy
5 480
Position Firm Volume
1 Greenberg Traurig
42
2 Asserson
36
3 DLA Piper
19
4 Herrick
15
5 Taylor Wessing
12
6 Chapman and Cutler
9
7 CMS
8
8 Bryan Cave Leighton Paisner
7
9 Zeichner Ellman & Krause
4
10 Bird and Bird
2
11 Allen & Overy
1
11 Carter Ledyard & Milburn
1
11 Dechert
1
11 Howard Kennedy LLP
1
Position Firm Volume
1 Asserson
61
2 Freshfields Bruckhaus Deringer
32
3 Greenberg Traurig
18
4 DLA Piper
15
4 Taylor Wessing
15
5 CMS
12
5 DAC Beachcroft
12
6 Bryan Cave Leighton Paisner
11
6 Zeichner Ellman & Krause
11
7 Fox Rothschild
8
8 Kobre & Kim
5
9 Allen & Overy
4
9 Cleary Gottlieb
4
10 Carter Ledyard & Milburn
3
11 Pillsbury
2
Position Firm Volume
1 Greenberg Traurig
126
2 DLA Piper
124
3 Asserson
49
4 Squire Patton Boggs
23
5 Bryan Cave Leighton Paisner
16
5 CMS
16
6 Bird and Bird
15
7 Fox Rothschild
11
8 Taylor Wessing
4
9 Allen & Overy
2
9 Goodwin
2
Position Firm Volume
1 DLA Piper
35
2 CMS
24
3 Greenberg Traurig
17
4 Bird and Bird
16
5 Freshfields Bruckhaus Deringer
12
6 Taylor Wessing
11
7 Pillsbury
6
8 Cleary Gottlieb
4
9 Bryan Cave Leighton Paisner
2
9 Goodwin
2
9 Gowling WLG
2
Position Firm Volume
1 Mathys & Squire LLP
29
2 Fox Rothschild
10
3 Pillsbury
9
4 CMS
8
4 DLA Piper
8
5 Greenberg Traurig
7
6 Bird and Bird
6
7 Goodwin
4
8 Bryan Cave Leighton Paisner
3
8 Allen & Overy
3
9 Taylor Wessing
2
10 Gowling WLG
1
Position Firm Volume
1 Sullivan & Worcester LLP
26
2 White & Case
12
3 Freshfields Bruckhaus Deringer
10
4 Davis Polk
8
5 Carter Ledyard & Milburn
5
6 Bryan Cave Leighton Paisner
4
6 Chapman and Cutler
4
6 DLA Piper
4
6 Greenberg Traurig
4
7 Allen & Overy
3
7 Cleary Gottlieb
3
7 Gowling WLG
3
7 Taylor Wessing
3
8 Latham & Watkins
2
8 Skadden
2
9 Clifford Chance
1
9 Dechert
1
Position Firm Volume
1 DLA Piper
187
2 Greenberg Traurig
176
3 Bird and Bird
54
4 Lowenstein & Sandler
51
5 Sullivan & Worcester LLP
41
6 Goodwin
37
7 Taylor Wessing
34
8 Squire Patton Boggs
22
9 Bryan Cave Leighton Paisner
20
10 CMS
18
11 Fox Rothschild
17
12 Freshfields Bruckhaus Deringer
10
13 Pillsbury
8
13 Zeichner Ellman & Krause
8
14 Allen & Overy
7
15 Ashurst
3
Position Firm Volume
1 Freshfields Bruckhaus Deringer
15
2 DLA Piper
12
3 Zeichner Ellman & Krause
8
4 Allen & Overy
7
5 Greenberg Traurig
6
6 Clifford Chance
5
7 Bryan Cave Leighton Paisner
4
7 Taylor Wessing
5
8 Herrick
3
9 Bird and Bird
2
9 Dechert
2
10 Ashurst
1
10 Fox Rothschild
1
Position Firm Volume
1 Freshfields Bruckhaus Deringer
17
2 DLA Piper
9
3 CMS
7
4 Allen & Overy
4
4 Howard Kennedy LLP
4
5 Pillsbury
3
6 Fox Rothschild
2
7 Ashurst
1
7 Clifford Chance
1
7 Dechert
1
7 Taylor Wessing
1
Position Firm Volume
1 DLA Piper
26
2 Herrick
16
3 Bryan Cave Leighton Paisner
3
4 Fox Rothschild
2
5 Bird and Bird
1
5 Taylor Wessing
1
Position Firm Volume Value ($M)
1 White & Case
12 4,728
2 Latham & Watkins
2 2,862
3 Davis Polk
8 2,287
4 Allen & Overy
3 2,500
5 Clifford Chance
1 2,500
6 Sullivan & Worcester LLP
26 1,831
7 Cleary Gottlieb
3 1,620
8 Bryan Cave Leighton Paisner
4 1,422
9 Chapman and Cutler
4 1,396
10 Skadden
2 1,113
11 Freshfields Bruckhaus Deringer
10 1,097
12 Cleary Gottlieb
3 500
13 DLA Piper
4 485
14 Taylor Wessing
3 474
15 Carter Ledyard & Milburn
5 195

Individual Rankings

Name Law Firm
Michael Kaplan Davis Polk
Joshua Kiernan Latham & Watkins
Jeremy Lustman DLA
Jonathan Morris Bryan Cave Leighton Paisner
Joey Shabot Greenberg Traurig
Adir Waldman Freshfields
Name Law Firm
Colin Diamond White & Case
Louis Glass CMSx
Nathan Krapivensky Taylor Wessingx
Lee Noyek Allen & Overyx
Mark Selinger Greenberg Traurigx
Ben Strauss McDermott Will Emery
Daniel Turgel White & Casex
Yossi Vebman Skadden
Name Law Firm
Guy Ben-Ami Carter Ledyard & Milburn
Ari Berman Pillsbury
Gary Emmanuel Greenberg Traurig
Meira Ferziger Greenberg Traurig
Josef Fuss Taylor Wessing
Etay Katz Ashurst
David Metzger Clifford Chance
Tali Sealman White & Case
Name Law Firm
Trevor Asserson Asserson
Baruch Baigel Asserson
Yariv Ben Ari Herrick
Tom Beaudoin Goodwin
Clarissa Coleman DAC Beachcroft
Adam Fleisher Cleary Gottlieb
Michael Friedman Chapman and Cutler
Steven Glusband Carter Ledyard & Milburn
Oded Har-Even Sullivan & Worcester LLP
Kenneth Henderson Bryan Cave Leighton Paisner
Lee Hochbaum Davis Polk
Daniel Ilan Cleary Gottlieb
Odia Kagan Fox Rothschild
Mayan Katz Goodwin
Stuart Kurlander Latham & Watkins
Miriam Lampert Squire Patton Boggs
Adam Levin Dechert
Daniel Rubel Zeichner Ellman & Krause
Michael Sabin Clifford Chance
Jason Saltzman Gowling WLG
Chaim Seligman Freshfields Bruckhaus Deringer
Richard Scharlat Fox Rothschild
Bill Schnoor Goodwin
Adam Snukal Greenberg Traurig
Lawrence Sternthal Greenberg Traurig
Michael Sweet Fox Rothschild
Louis Tuchman Herrick

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