Simon Weintraub is a partner in the firm’s Banking and Finance Group as well as the High Tech Practice Group. He specializes in banking and finance, venture lending, venture capital and start-ups. Simon also has extensive experience in oil and gas financing transactions and other complex cross-border structured finance transactions. Simon is also one of the heads of our firm’s Asia Practice. In addition, Simon is a member of the firm’s Executive Management Committee.
Simon specializes in representing foreign clients in their investment activity in Israel including clients from the United States, Canada, United Kingdom, China, Singapore, Japan, South Korea, Azerbaijan, South Africa and many other places. Simon has been an integral part in Israel’s largest oil and gas project finance transactions, as he navigated precedential issues within a new regulatory landscape.
Simon also played a prominent role in the first-ever IPO of an Israeli company on the Hong Kong Stock Exchange. He also advises clients in cross-border lending transactions, global bond offerings, mergers and acquisitions, and in private placements and joint ventures. In addition, Simon routinely advises promising start-up companies particularly in the area of life sciences and represents several foreign venture capital funds and multinational corporations investing in Israel.
IFLR1000 ranks Simon as ‘Highly regarded’ in the Banking, Project Finance and Oil & Gas fields. The Legal 500 recommends Simon Weintraub in the Banking and Finance and Venture Capital fields and describes him as “business minded and straightforward”, “excellent communicator” and “very responsive and commercial.
Simon joined the firm in 2000 and became a partner in 2008. Simon received a degree magna cum laude in political science from York University of Toronto in 1995. He received his business law degree from Bar Ilan University in 1999.
