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Efrat Shapira-Orren

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+972 3 7645480

efrat.s@arnontl.com

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Healthcare and Life Sciences Administrative Law Projects, Infrastructure and Energy

Bio

Efrat Shapira-Orren is a leading partner in the Healthcare Department at Arnon, Tadmor-Levy, and she is also the Chief Legal Counsel of Assuta, Israel’s largest chain of private hospitals, which encompasses eight hospitals and medical centers throughout Israel.

Year after year, Efrat is recognized as a ‘Leading Individual’ in The Legal 500 directory in the field of Healthcare and Life Sciences, and is ranked as a ‘highly regarded’ by IFLR1000. Clients have described her as “an exceptionally brilliant, assertive, and highly professional attorney.” Under Efrat’s leadership, the firm’s Healthcare team has been ranked in the top tier (Tier 1) by The Legal 500 in the Health and Life Sciences category.

In her role as Chief Legal Counsel of Assuta, Efrat oversees all legal and regulatory aspects of the network’s entire operations, including in relation to regulatory matters and all commercial and business activities, both domestically and internationally.

Efrat provides extensive advice to healthcare providers, pharmaceutical and medical device companies, startups and other companies in the Healthcare and Life Sciences sector, on a wide range of legal matters. These include regulatory issues, liaising with regulators and governmental bodies on strategic matters, legislative changes, commercial transactions, international operations, clinical research, research and development collaborations, fundraising and more.

Efrat’s expertise also covers a wide range of public tenders for infrastructure projects, including various BOT/ PFI/ PPP models.

EXPERIENCE HIGHLIGHTS

Developed innovative models in the realm of digital health and innovation, especially concerning secondary use of health data and strategic collaborations between healthcare institutions, startups and investment funds.

Represented clients in international transactions related to the development and establishment of hospitals and strategic collaborations with international health entities.

Provided strategic representation of a hospital regarding two cases of alleged genetic mismatch between parents and a child born following IVF treatments.

Advised and represented healthcare institutions vis-a-vis various public committees and governmental bodies in relation to inspections, reviews, legislative changes and other regulatory processes.

Represented bidders and the State of Israel in a series of infrastructure PPP projects, including with respect to hospitals, toll roads, seawater desalination plants, power stations, renewable energy facilities and more.

Recognition

Healthcare & Life Sciences

Project finance, PPP/PFI

Healthcare & Life Sciences

Project finance, PPP/PFI

LEGAL500

“I consider her as a standout brilliant lawyer, a real healthcare expert, with analytic thinking, high creativity, deep business and economic understanding and very high managerial capabilities.”

“She is one of the smartest people I know, with structured and organized thinking, deep understanding, decision-making ability, and a talent to go into the details and come up with the most important resolutions and creative mechanisms and solutions. I believe no other lawyer possesses such a deep and broad understanding of the entire healthcare market as she does.”