Ilan Shavit
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i lawyer
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and businessman. Shavit is a founding partner of the commercial and corporate Tel Aviv
Tel Aviv
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law firm Shavit Bar-On Gal-On Tzin Yagur, Law Offices.
Biography
Ilan Shavit was born in LondonLondon
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, England
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and studied at Barclay House School and JFS. He immigrated
Aliyah
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to Israel
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in 1972 and studied at the Gymnasia Rehavia
Gymnasia Rehavia
Gymnasia Rehavia is a high school in the Rehavia neighborhood in Jerusalem, Israel.-History:Gymnasia Rehavia was the country’s second modern high school, after Gymnasia Herzliya in Tel Aviv. The school was first established in Jerusalem's Bukharan Quarter in 1909. The building on Keren Kayemet...
from which he graduated in 1976. From 1977-1981 he served in the IDF
Israel Defense Forces
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, in the Paratroopers Brigade, with which he participated in the 1978 Litani Operation, and the 932 Nahal Battalion as a platoon and deputy company commander in the Jordan Valley
Jordan Valley (Middle East)
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from 1979-1980. Shavit served in the IDF reserves, from 1981-2003, as a Platoon Commander in the 1982 First Lebanon War and 1988-1993 First Intifada
First Intifada
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, and as a Battalion Intelligence Officer and Comptroller Officer in the Inspection and Supervision Division of the General Staff, reaching the rank of Rav Seren
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(Major
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).
Legal education and career
Shavit graduated from the Law Faculty of the Hebrew University of JerusalemHebrew University of Jerusalem
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in 1984 and continued LL.M studies at that faculty. He was a lecturer in Public International Law
Laws of war
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in the Hebrew University Law Faculty and a member of the Law Review editorial board.
In 1983-1985, Shavit clerked at the Supreme Court of Israel
Supreme Court of Israel
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under Justice Gabriel Bach and in Raveh, Abramson & Co. In 1985-1992 he worked as an associate lawyer with Raveh, Abramson & Co., Dan Cohen & Co. and Dan Cohen, Spigelman & Co, where he was a partner until the founding of Shavit, Bar-On & Co. in 1992. Shavit, Bar-On & Co. merged with Gal-On, Tzin & Co. in 2005.
Shavit's main spheres of activities are foreign and local corporate law and international transactions and corporate structures, commercial litigation, in court and arbitration, hi-tech, bio-tech and start-up corporate incorporation and financing, minority and majority shareholder rights and other fields of corporate law.
Shavit has practiced municipal law since 1989. In 2003-2005 he developed and proposed a two-tier municipal government structure, which was adopted by the Israeli Interior Ministry in Neve Monosson
Neve Monosson
Neve Monosson , also known as Neve Efraim and Neve Efraim Monosson, commonly called Monosson by its residents, is a communal settlement in central Israel with the autonomous status of a municipal borough within the joint municipality of Yehud-Monosson...
and Maccabim-Re'ut, in which the first borough
Borough
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s in Israel were created. Shavit served as an elected member of the Yehud-Monosson
Yehud-Monosson
Yehud-Monosson is the joint municipality of the town of Yehud and the neighboring communal settlement of Neve Monosson in central Israel, created by their partial municipal merger in 2003, under the terms of which Neve Monosson retained municipal autonomy under a Local Administration ...
City Council, representing the community of Neve Monosson
Neve Monosson
Neve Monosson , also known as Neve Efraim and Neve Efraim Monosson, commonly called Monosson by its residents, is a communal settlement in central Israel with the autonomous status of a municipal borough within the joint municipality of Yehud-Monosson...
and was a member of the City Planning Commission from 2003 to 2006. In 2007, Shavit was appointed by the City Council to the position of Mayoral Advisor for Community Administration.
Business career
Since the late 1990s, Shavit has been active as a founder, investor and corporate director in technological, medical and trading enterprises. Shavit is the Chairman of RyytyRyyty
Ryyty is an Asian group of companies trading in garment trimmings and supplying accessories to the textile industry with a direct family history of 146 years. Ryyty Apparel Resources India is a rebrand of Butonia Ltd. The Butonia group originated in mid-19th century Germany and spread throughout...
, a multi-national group of trading companies which continued the Asian businesses of the Butonia
Butonia
Butonia is a multi-national European group of companies trading in garment trimmings and supplying accessories to the textile industry. The group originated in mid-19th century Germany and spread throughout Western Europe and Asia in the 20th century. Butonia offers a range of buttons, zippers,...
group. Shavit is also a founder and director of UTC - Underwater Technology Center, an advanced underwater communications company, and of the Shamdon Globe real estate group, founded in 2009 in the wake of the sub-prime crisis
Subprime mortgage crisis
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. Shavit is one of the investor-founders of Medigus (TASE: MDGS), a medical devices company.
External links
- Shavit Bar-On Gal-On Tzin Yagur, Law Offices
- MedexScreen
- UTC - Underwater Technology Center
- Borough of Neve Monosson (Hebrew)
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