Timor Belan Bio

Timor Belan is a Partner with Gornitzky & Co. and has been a member of the firm’s management committee since 2020. Timor’s fields of activity are diverse and focus on representing private and public companies, investment funds of various types (including private equity funds, venture capital funds, and growth funds), as well as private investors from Israel and abroad, in mergers and acquisitions and investment transactions across various fields and industries. Within this framework, Timor has led and participated in significant transactions in the Israeli economy. Alongside his work in the field of corporate and commercial law, Timor specializes in compliance and international investigations. He advises private and public companies, including banks, financial institutions, fintech companies, and their officers, on issues relating to compliance with anti-money laundering legislation, prohibition of foreign corruption acts, cyber, and privacy. In these contexts, Timor represents clients in complex legal proceedings—civil, criminal, and regulatory—in Israel and abroad. He has extensive experience in representing financial institutions and international companies in sensitive regulatory matters conducted before law enforcement authorities in Israel and abroad, as well as in accompanying entities in internal investigations and audits. Over the past few years, Timor has led internal investigation proceedings conducted across several continents in collaboration with some of the leading law firms in the world. Timor also has experience in the field of banking and finance. In this context, he has participated, among other things, in representing major banks in Israel in a wide range of local and cross-border financing transactions, as well as in representing companies in debt settlement procedures with their creditors. Prior to joining Gornitzky, Timor served for eight years in the Military Advocate General’s Corps and held various positions within it, including senior legal advisor in the Legal Advice and Legislative Affairs department and legal assistant to the Chief Military Advocate General. Timor was chosen as one of The Marker magazine’s 40 promising young people in 2015.