Dr. Eyal
Geva

Dr. Eyal Geva is a partner and Co-Head of the Israeli Securities and Capital Markets team in the Tel Aviv office of Naschitz Brandes Amir, where he focuses on corporate and securities law.

Dr. Geva advises public companies in listed in Israel and internationally on a broad range of corporate and securities law matters, including ongoing counsel in connection with initial public offerings and post-IPO matters, equity and debt financings, and, specifically, complex and crisis-driven situations. He regularly prepares legal opinions on these matters for corporations and courts.

Dr. Geva counsels boards of directors, board committees, and senior officers on corporate governance, compliance and enforcement programs, ESG matters, and executive compensation policies, with particular emphasis on advising boards and special committees established by boards of directors.

Dr. Geva has unique experience in controlling shareholder transactions, tender offers, and mergers and acquisitions, particularly going-private transactions, as well as in advising independent investigation committees and independent litigation committees. In this capacity, he has advised leading Israeli companies in sensitive and high-profile transactions and matters.

In addition, Dr. Geva advises and represents officers and directors before and during administrative enforcement proceedings, in class and derivative actions, and in matters before regulatory authorities. He also advises shareholders, institutional investors, and corporate officers on matters relating to shareholder activism, tender offers, and the duties of the company and its board of directors in the context of control contests.

Dr. Geva served as Head of the Securities and Capital Markets Practice at a leading Tel Aviv law firm, and as a senior legal advisor at the Israeli Securities Authority.

Dr. Geva lectures on corporate law and securities law at the Faculty of Law of the Hebrew University of Jerusalem.

Publications and Research:

• E.Z. Geva, “The Duty of Care towards Creditors in the Vicinity of Insolvency” in Gross Book, research in companies and commercial law in honor to Prof. Joseph Gross; Editors: AHARON BARAK, ITZHAK ZAMIR, DAVID LIBA (2015), at 197 (in Hebrew).
• E.Z. Geva, “The Trajectory of Labour Relations under Chapter 11” 10(3) DePaul Business and Commercial Law Journal (also translated into Chinese; PKU Press)
• E.Z. Geva, “The Secured Creditor and Corporate Rescue” 1 Taagidim (Corporations) (2011) (In Hebrew)
• E.Z. Geva, ‘The proposal to amend corporate insolvency reorganisation law in the perspective of the US Chapter 11’ 3 Taagidim (Corporations) 61(2011) (In Heberew)
• E.Z. Geva, “Convergence and Persistence in Corporate Insolvency Law: Employee Participation in Corporate Insolvency Restructuring” 12 European Business Organizations Law Review 315 (2011)
• E.Z. Geva, ‘Regulating Labour Voice: Path Dependency and Labour Participation in Corporate Restructures’. Working Paper Series, Global Public Policy Network (2009)
• E.Z. Geva, ‘National Policy Objectives from an EU Perspective: UK Corporate Rescue and the European Insolvency Regulation; A Note on Hans Brochier Holdings Ltd v. Exner and Re Collins & Aikman Europe SA’8 European Business Organizations Law Review 605 (2008).
• Editor: Vanessa Finch, Corporate Insolvency Law; Perspectives and Principles (Cambridge, Cambridge University Press, 2nd ed., 2009)