Gali Baharav-Miara has joined Tadmor & Co. Yuval Levy & Co law firm as a special counsel. She served for eight years (2008-15) as Tel Aviv District Attorney (civil affairs), which was, at that time, the largest district attorney’s office in the country. Baharav-Miara was responsible for managing the State’s civil proceedings in the Tel Aviv and central Israel District (and for some fields, the entire country) and led a team of 130 lawyers and 50 interns in 7 departments: civil/commercial; real estate; administrative affairs; labor disputes; defense and disability claims; torts and fiscal.
Earlier in her career (20012006), she was the head of the Administrative Affairs Department in the Tel Aviv DA’s office, which was established by her in 2001. In that position Baharav-Miara represented the state of Israel and the statutory authorities in various fields including: government tenders and contracts; freedom of information; planning and construction, and class actions
During her years in the Tel Aviv DA office, she specialized in complex, highly sensitive civil disputes, which involved a number of legal disciplines such as the liquidations of large banks and companies. Baharav-Miara possesses many years of experience, widespread work connections and adeep acquaintance with the regulatory and statutory authorities.
Baharav-Miara was also a member of the committee of the administrative courts, the committee of civil procedures (appointed by the Minister of Justice) and is now a member of the administrative tribunals committee and is the head of the committee of examining the appointments in municipal corporations (appointed by the minister of interior). She has been an adjunct professor at Tel Aviv University School of Law (administrative procedures and guarantee law) and served as a teaching assistant for Contracts for Prof. D. Friedman and Prof. M. Mautner.
Dr. David Tadmor welcomed the new addition to the office and said: "Gali is a brilliant and an experienced lawyer. She will add our firm her vast amounts of knowledge, ability and experience; I am sure that we will enjoy her abilities and experience, and we are very proud that she decided to join our ranks."
Tadmor & Co. Yuval Levy & Co. is a premier Israeli law firm with a global perspective, dedicated to providing effective and sophisticated legal services to clients operating in all sectors of the economy. The firm specializes in litigation, antitrust, project finance, energy and infrastructure, environmental law, banking, payments systems, mergers and acquisitions, administrative law and regulation, capital markets, securities and financial services regulation, high-tech and venture capital, real estate and employment law. The firm has had a Chinese representative office since 2007 and works in close cooperation with one of China’s leading full-service law firms which is located in Beijing and has branches all over China including in Shanghai, Guangzhou, Chengdu and Shenzhen.
Published by Globes [online], Israel business news - www.globes-online.com - on May 2, 2016
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