Attorneys at Yuval Levy & Co. represent and provide ongoing consult to several of Israel’s foremost banking institutions, as well as to leading international financial entities. Yuval Levy’s 15-year service on the Board of Directors of Mercantile Discount Bank, and Opher Levy’s participation as director on the Board of an Israeli factoring company and an Israeli affiliate of an international credit rating company provides a solid infrastructure of information and experience, which provides a highly sophisticated level of service to its clients.

The firm is perhaps best recognized for its representation of the wholly owned credit card company of Israel’s second largest bank, and the issuer of Visa and MasterCard credit cards. As outside legal counsel for this company, Yuval Levy & Co. provides legal support in all areas of the company’s business; an exemplary list would range from negotiations for a domestic agreement between members of Visa and MasterCard organizations and in proceedings before the Antitrust Tribunal regarding the inter-change fees between issuing and acquiring banks, defense in a substantial class action suit, representation in joint venture negotiations on both domestic and international business opportunities, obligations under and adherence to Israeli banking and anti-money laundering laws and regulations, commercial negotiations with suppliers and business partners, and litigation arising from business disputes with suppliers and customers.

Additional clients of the firm in the banking arena include a joint venture with one of Israel’s leading automotive importers, for the financing and leasing of vehicles in Israel, an Israeli factoring company that provides sources of credit for small and medium-sized businesses offering financial solutions in the arena of funding, credit insurance and collections, and extensive legal opinions issued to a leading NY bank seeking legal advice on securities matters in Israel, as well as to a leading German bank.

The firm’s litigation practice provides first-class courtroom representation for the disputes of its banking clients. An exemplary list would include the representation of a major Israeli bank and its trust company in all (and extensive) proceedings regarding the financing of steel and wheat shipments by a number of US and European banks (raising complex issues in banking, and in particular, fiduciary duties), representation of an internet payment facilitator against internet merchants, and representation in numerous class actions suits brought against inter alia, one of Israel’s largest mortgage banks.