Ilan Shavit

Ilan Shavit Ilan Shavit ( , born 31 July 1958) is an Israeli lawyer and businessman.¹ He was born in London , England and emigrated to Israel in 1972.² Shavit is a founding partner of the commercial and corporate Tel Aviv law firm Shavit Bar-On Gal-On Tzin Yagur, Law Offices . He graduated from the Law Faculty of the Hebrew University of Jerusalem in 1984 and continued advanced Law studies at that faculty. He was a lecturer in Public International Law in the Hebrew University Law Faculty and a member of the Faculty's law review editorial board. In 1983-1985 he clerked in the Supreme Court of Israel under Justice Gabriel Bach and in Raveh, Abramson & Co. In 1985-1992 he worked as an associate lawyer with Raveh, Abramson & Co., Dan Cohen & Co. and Dan Cohen, Spigelman & Co, one of Tel Aviv's major firms, where he was a partner until the founding of Shavit, Bar-On & Co. in 1992. Shavit, Bar-On & Co. merged with Gal-On, Tzin & Co. in 2005. Shavit's main spheres of activities are foreign and local corporate law and international transactions and corporate structures, commercial litigation, in court and arbitration, hi-tech, bio-tech and start-up corporate incorporation and financing, minority and majority shareholder rights and other fields of corporate law. Since the late 1990s, Shavit has been active as a founder, investor and corporate director in technological, medical and trading enterprises. Shavit is the Chairman of Ruby Enterprises India , a multi-national group of trading companies which continued the Asian businesses of the Butonia group, the Chairman of MedexScreen , an advanced diagnostic medical devices company, and the Chairman of Jojoba Cosmetics , a British distributor of advanced hair care products which he founded with UK partners. Shavit is also a founder and director of UTC - Underwater Technology Center , an advanced underwater communications company, and of the Shamdon Globe real estate group, founded in 2009 in the wake of the sub-prime crisis . Shavit is also one of the investor-founders of Medigus ( TASE : MDGS), a medical devices company. In 2003-2005 he developed and proposed a two-tier municipal government structure, which was adopted by the Israeli Interior Ministry in Neve Monosson and Maccabim-Re'ut , in which the first boroughs in Israel were created. Shavit served as an elected member of the Yehud-Monosson City Council , representing the community of Neve Monosson and as member of the City Planning Commission from 2003 to 2006. In 2007, Shavit was appointed to the position of Mayoral Advisor for Community Administration.³