Bartov & Co., Law firm

Bartov & Co., Law Firm is a leading boutique law firm specializing in insolvency and corporate recovery, with a particular focus on corporate restructurings and capital market debt arrangements, commercial litigation and shareholder disputes, mergers and acquisitions agreements, and financing transactions. 

The firm was established in 2022 by Adv. Amir Bartov, following his years as an integral and prominent partner at Shimonov & Co. 

Adv. Bartov has nearly 28 years of extensive professional experience in handling distressed companies, creditors’ arrangements, and a wide range of insolvency proceedings, including stays of proceedings, liquidations, receiverships, and the representation of companies, shareholders, investors, and creditors in these matters. The firm employs four attorneys, all committed to providing dedicated, responsive, and highly personalized legal services, with the direct personal involvement of Adv. Bartov in every matter handled by the firm, alongside the professional and experienced teamwork of the firm’s legal staff.

The firm is recognized for its uncompromising professional excellence, thoroughness, and deep legal expertise, which it applies to every case it undertakes. 

The firm’s clientele includes leading corporations and prominent businesspeople in the Israeli market. Adv. Bartov has been involved in dozens of major corporate and personal crisis events, including some of the most significant financial restructurings in Israel. Among others, he represented Africa Israel Investments in both of the group’s debt arrangements — in 2009 as counsel to the bondholders and in 2016 as counsel to the company itself. 

In addition, Adv. Bartov has represented, among others, the Zeevi Group, IDB Group, Kardan N.V., Delek Real Estate, Hadassah Medical Center, Israel Post, the majority of the investors in the Kela Fund, the Kal Auto leasing group, the Luzon Group, and Dori Construction. He has also served as a court-appointed office holder in several highly complex cases, including as trustee of Mega Retail Ltd., leading complex recovery, restructuring, receivership, and liquidation proceedings on behalf of the firm’s clients. 

The firm also represents numerous companies holding assets in the United States and that issued bonds on the Israeli capital market, including All Year Holdings, which issued bonds in Israel totaling approximately ILS 2.5 billion, as well as Zarasai and Pacific, each with debt obligations of approximately ILS 1 billion. The firm advises these clients in restructuring and recovery proceedings, including ongoing cross-border insolvency proceedings in the United States and the British Virgin Islands. 

In addition, the firm is engaged in bankruptcy proceedings involving private individuals, some representing businesspeople facing financial difficulties, while others are handled entirely on a pro bono basis for underprivileged clients. Bartov & Co. Law Firm is committed to providing pro bono representation to bankrupt individuals who cannot afford adequate legal representation and who are referred to the firm by nonprofit organizations, recognizing the importance of contributing to the community. 

Adv. Amir Bartov

Amir Bartov holds an LL.B. degree from Bar-Ilan University, which he completed with highest honors, as well as an LL.M. degree with honors from the same university. 

Adv. Bartov completed his pre-internship clerkship at the Tel Aviv District Court under the Honorable Judge Esther Kovbo. Between 1996 and 2016, he served as an attorney and senior partner at Lipa Meir & Co., and between 2017 and 2021, he served as a senior partner at Shimonov & Co.. In 2022, he founded Bartov & Co. Law Firm, where he currently serves as founding partner. 

Adv. Bartov lectures regularly at professional forums, academic colleges, the Israel Bar Association, and the Institute of Certified Public Accountants in Israel.