Nadav Lev, Law Office

Nadav Lev Law Office is a boutique law firm specializing in insolvency, cross-border insolvency, commercial litigation, and real estate. The firm combines focused expertise in its core practice areas with the professional standards of leading Israeli firms. Its partners and attorneys are graduates of major firms and maintain a first-rate professional standard while providing personal, partner-led representation. Established in 2011 by Adv. Nadav Lev, the firm was founded on values of professionalism, integrity, ethics, and respect. Since its establishment, it has grown steadily and is entrusted with significant, high-profile matters of substantial financial scope. The firm is known for combining strategic legal thinking with practical commercial solutions, and for its ability to manage complex, multi-party proceedings while safeguarding clients’ interests.

The firm has extensive experience in commercial litigation before all judicial instances, including the Supreme Court and the Economic Departments of the District Courts. It represents clients in complex civil and corporate disputes, monetary claims, interim relief applications, and shareholder conflicts, whether between shareholders themselves or between shareholders and the company. Its litigation practice frequently intersects with insolvency and corporate governance matters. The firm’s approach emphasizes efficient dispute management, careful procedural strategy, and a clear focus on achieving commercially sound outcomes.

A central pillar of the firm’s activity is insolvency and corporate rehabilitation. The firm represents creditors, investors, employees, and companies in financial distress in large-scale proceedings involving debt arrangements, corporate restructuring, stays of proceedings, asset realization, and bankruptcy matters. Adv. Lev is regularly appointed by the Official Receiver and by the District Courts as trustee, receiver, liquidator, and special manager in complex cases. These appointments reflect the courts’ confidence in his professional expertise and judgment. In addition to acting as an office holder, the firm represents stakeholders in insolvency proceedings, including secured creditors and financial institutions, in matters involving realization of security interests, filing and examination of proofs of debt, and court motions within insolvency frameworks.

The firm also leads sophisticated cross-border insolvency proceedings involving debtors, creditors, and assets located in multiple jurisdictions. This practice requires mastery of Israeli insolvency law, including the provisions governing recognition of foreign proceedings, alongside deep familiarity with foreign insolvency regimes, particularly in the United States and Europe. The firm handles matters involving coordination between parallel proceedings, examination of the debtor’s center of main interests (COMI), questions of international jurisdiction, and issues of recognition, cooperation, and enforcement of foreign judicial decisions in Israel.

Within this context, the firm has managed global restructurings involving aggregate debts of tens of millions of dollars, with creditors and financial entities in multiple countries and assets spread across jurisdictions. Such matters require coordination between legal systems, multi-party negotiations, strategic assessment of cross-border securities, and bridging normative differences between legal frameworks. In additional proceedings, the firm has accompanied liquidation and restructuring processes of significant financial scope, requiring structured management of claims and assets in several jurisdictions while balancing creditor recovery with preservation of business value.

The firm further represents foreign office holders—trustees, liquidators, and administrators—in applications before Israeli courts for recognition of foreign proceedings, interim relief, asset tracing, and enforcement measures in respect of debtors and assets located in Israel. This includes applications for recognition as main or non-main proceedings, obtaining protective orders restricting actions in assets, conducting investigations and information gathering, and initiating complementary local proceedings where necessary to protect the global estate. The firm’s accumulated experience in complex cross-border matters enables it to formulate integrated strategies that connect domestic legal tools with the economic realities of multinational insolvency cases.

In real estate, the firm represents private and commercial entities in commercial transactions, including acquisition and sale of income-producing assets and long-term lease arrangements. It advises on planning and construction matters, regulatory issues, and financing structures related to property transactions. The firm’s real estate work is frequently intertwined with insolvency and restructuring contexts, particularly where distressed assets are involved or financing structures require strategic planning.

Adv. Nadav Lev, the firm’s founder and managing partner, specializes in civil law with emphasis on insolvency, commercial litigation, and real estate. He has extensive experience in managing proceedings before various judicial instances, particularly in corporate rehabilitation, restructuring, and complex commercial disputes. He regularly represents commercial entities, including public companies, in proceedings before the Economic Departments of the District Courts concerning control disputes, share transactions, tender offers, and directors’ liability matters.

As an office holder, Adv. Lev serves as trustee, receiver, liquidator, and special manager in complex insolvency proceedings. He represents a broad range of stakeholders, including secured creditors, investors, employees, and unsecured creditors. He is included on the designated list of trustees handling complex and high-profile insolvency proceedings in Israel. Alongside his role as office holder and counsel, Adv. Lev is active in the international insolvency arena. He lectures and leads seminars on cross-border insolvency, including academic lectures addressing recognition of foreign proceedings and COMI issues, and participates in professional conferences concerning global insolvency cooperation and regulatory developments. This combination of practical court appointments, cross-border expertise, and academic involvement reinforces his standing as a leading practitioner in the field.