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    Dr. Eithan Y. Kidron Partner

    Contact Information

    16 Abba Hillel Silver Rd.
    Ramat Gan 5250608, Israel

    Tel: 972 3 610 3615 Fax: 972 3 614 8832

    Email: eithank@meitar.com

    Biography

    Dr. Eithan Y. Kidron, Advocate – Expert in White-Collar Crime, Regulatory Enforcement, Cross-Border Litigation, Internal Investigations and Military Law and Public Inquiries. He is a Partner in the Litigation and White-Collar Department at Meitar Law Offices, one of Israel’s leading firms in business criminal law.

    Eithan advises and represents corporations, directors, and senior executives in criminal, administrative, and regulatory investigations and enforcement proceedings in Israel and abroad. Over the years, he has handled complex investigation and enforcement cases involving public corruption, fraud and breach of trust, securities law violations, competition law, money laundering, taxation, cyber and privacy offenses, national security, environmental law, and labor law.

    In his international practice, Eithan represents clients in cross-border matters, including extradition proceedings, cooperation with foreign enforcement authorities (such as the DOJ, SEC, FCA, and UN-IAIG), handling Interpol notices, and Mutual Legal Assistance requests.

    Eithan is recognized as one of Israel’s leading experts in corporate internal investigations, leading complex internal investigations for multinational corporations and public companies in Israel and worldwide.

    In addition to his civilian practice, Eithan serves as a reserve military defense attorney, advising on some of Israel’s most complex and sensitive national security and governmental inquiry matters. His work includes providing strategic legal counsel in high-level governmental review and inquiry processes, as well as to senior defense officials and institutions.

    Eithan holds a Ph.D. in Law from Tel Aviv University. He was a Visiting Scholar at Harvard University, and has published articles in the fields of criminal law, corporate compliance, and economic enforcement. In addition, he lectures at Tel Aviv University’s Faculty of Law, where he teaches the courses “Criminal Law” and “Corporate Compliance and Enforcement”.

    Eithan also serves as a member of the Criminal Law Committee of the Israel Bar Association and is actively involved in policy development and legal reforms in the areas of enforcement and compliance.

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    Selected additional publications

    • “Exemption from Criminal Liability in the Organ Market”, Law Studies, Bar Ilan University Law Review (2015) (won “Law Studies” prize for best article). For the full article click here.
    • “Punitive Ambiguity: Rethinking the Limit between Criminal and Administrative Enforcement of Securities Law Violations”, Ph.D. diss., Tel Aviv University (2016). For the full article click here.
    • “Systemic Forum Selection Ambiguity in Financial Regulation”, American Criminal Law Review (2016). For the full article click here.
    • “Understanding Administrative Sanctioning as Corrective Justice”, Journal of Law and Reform (2017). For the full article click here.
    • “Moral Turpitude as Administrative Enforcement – The Doctrine of Limited Bar”, Mishpatim, Hebrew University Law Review (2020). For the full article click here.
    • “About Deputy Prime Minister Deri and About Moral Turpitude”, Iyunei Mishpat, Tel-Aviv University Law Review (2023). For the full article click here.
    • “Punish a Corporation that is Guilty – Review of the Criminal Responsibility of the Corporation”, Hapraklit, Israel Bar Law Review (2023). For the full article click here.
    • “New Agents in Criminal Law: Extending Crime Victims’ Rights to Corporations”, Mishpatim, Hebrew University Law Review (with Dana Pugach, expected in 2025). For the full article click here.
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