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“excellent deal-making abilities and vast local and international experience”

Legal500

“one of the leading project finance experts in Israel”

IFLR1000

 “a deal maker”

Chambers and Partners

Jonathan Finklestone heads the firm’s Project Finance Group.

His practice covers a wide range of project and infrastructure financings in various project structures and delivery systems (BOT, BOO, DB, PPP, 3P, PFI and others) in transportation, water desalination, telecommunications, conventional energy, renewable energy and social infrastructure. He regularly advises project companies, banks, and financial institutions in the development and financing of infrastructure and energy projects.

Jonathan has extensive experience and has been involved in many of the largest project financings in Israel. His transactional work has been recognized by numerous legal publications, including Chambers Global, Legal500, Who’s Who Legal, and IFLR1000 where he is listed as a Band 1 practitioner in Israel Projects & Energy. Clients characterize him as an “amazing lawyer” with “excellent deal-making abilities” and “vast local and international experience” and cite his “commercial attitude” and the fact that he demonstrates “industry knowledge and has excellent connections”.

In the past, Jonathan was a project finance attorney at Chadbourne and Parke LLP in New York.