Where We Work
Global Reach,
Personal Service
Israeli financial law. International perspective. Gilinsky & Co. brings a distinguished British legal tradition to the heart of Israel's capital markets.
Bernie Gilinsky was admitted as an English Lawyer in 1956 after studying law at LSE in London and training in Birmingham, and subsequently qualified in Ontario and British Columbia in Canada, and New South Wales in Australia.
Gilinsky joined City of London firm Davies, Arnold Cooper (DAC), where he became one of the six equity partners. In 1972, Gilinsky left DAC and established S. B. Gilinsky & Co., Solicitors and Commissioners for Oaths, in London.
The current firm was established in 2023 by his son, David Gilinsky in Israel, and seeks to provide the highest level of client service and quality legal advice to clients from Israel and around the world who wish to undertake business in Israel, or to get involved, in whatever way, in the financial markets in Israel.
Our priority is to understand the client's needs and to provide the most appropriate solution to meet that need, something which is not necessarily what it appears to be on first sight.
Our team regularly travels abroad either on behalf of, or in order to visit clients, for example, to the UK, Ireland, Holland, Germany, Spain, Hungary, and the GCC jurisdictions.
We are a small boutique Israeli law firm that offers top quality advice, and personal service that is attuned to the commercial and specific circumstances and needs of our client.
Unlike some of our larger competitors, we are able to charge a reasonable, affordable fee for our work, and we can offer our clients direct access and service from an experienced, dual qualified, native English-speaking lawyer.
If you want a lawyer who can manage your legal affairs in perfect native English, and work opposite your other professional advisers and service providers in the UK, North America and elsewhere on the basis of a level playing field of experience, then we should be your first point of call.
Where appropriate we are able to offer a fixed price for a piece of work, instead of charging on an hourly basis. On fund establishment work we are able to consider working on the basis of an abort fee and success fee method.
We provide advice for:
We do not act for clients on litigation, family, property or criminal law matters, however, we know some excellent law firms who do work in these areas, both in Israel and in England, and we can introduce clients to a suitable legal advisor.
David was educated at Cambridge University. After a ten-year career in merchant banking – eight years with the NM Rothschild Group in London, and two years as Head of International Investments at Excellence Investments Ltd. in Ramat Gan, David trained in the law at Allen & Overy LLP in London, where he specialized in capital markets, funds and financial regulatory work.
David has deep and broad experience of the financial markets, which he is able to bring to support his clients. David has particular expertise in derivatives markets, and has regularly handled ISDA documentation for clients. David is adept at advising clients on the requirements of Israeli financial regulation, whether from the Israel Securities Authority (ISA), the Bank of Israel (BOI) or the Capital Markets Authority (CMA).
During his fifteen-year career in the law, David has worked in major law firms in both London (e.g. Beachcroft, Howard Kennedy) and Tel Aviv (e.g. Barnea, Caspi), focusing on the field of financial regulation, investment funds, derivatives and capital markets.
David has acted for GCC sovereign wealth funds, advising them on their proposed investments in hedge funds and private equity funds. David has also negotiated ISDA agreements for Canadian mutual fund groups to deal OTC with the major US investment banks. More recently, David has advised Israeli investment houses on ISDA and MIFID2, all manner of clients on AIFMD, and Swiss and French banks and global investment houses and major global securities exchanges on their compliance with the Israeli financial regulation, and Canadian pension funds on their reporting obligations to the Bank of Israel.
David is experienced at establishing off-shore private investment funds, and has best friend firm relationships in all the major off-shore fund jurisdictions.
David is equally at home advising individuals, and family trusts and offices on all manner of commercial contracts.
David can advise in any of English, Arabic or Hebrew, and also speaks Spanish, Farsi and French. David is currently studying German, and is aiming to reach B1 level.
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