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Efrat Cohen
Efrat Cohen is a Senior Partner in the Regulation Department at our firm.
Efrat has extensive experience in regulatory matters across a variety of industries, with a particular focus on the financial, pharmaceutical, and healthcare sectors. Efrat represents shareholders, large companies, and business organizations in complex regulatory proceedings and provides ongoing counsel to management teams and boards of directors on strategic issues and crisis management.
In her practice, Efrat provides advice on regulatory and business issues, including assisting with structural changes, the opening of markets to competition, offering legal opinions and formulating positions on emerging regulations, implementing new regulations within organizations, advising on policy development, and drafting internal procedures. She also supports transactions and assists with the obtaining of regulatory approvals, represents clients before public and governmental committees, participates in Knesset committee discussions, and represents clients in hearings, enforcement actions, financial penalties, and administrative petitions.
Prior to joining the firm, Efrat served as the Head of the Regulatory and Public Policy Division at the Legal Division of Bank Leumi, alongside holding other senior positions at the bank. Before that, she served as the CEO of “Pharma Israel” (the Association of Multinational Pharmaceutical Companies) and headed the Regulatory Department at a leading and well-known law firm in Israel.
Education:
LL.B., The Hebrew University of Jerusalem, 2002
MBA, The Hebrew University of Jerusalem, 2004
LL.M. in Commercial Law, Tel Aviv University in collaboration with UC Berkeley, 2007
Admission:
The Israeli Bar Association, 2004
Insights & News - Efrat Cohen:
Webinar: July 2025 - Status and Future Outlook
Our firm hosted a webinar focused on the current situation in Israel, following nearly two years of ongoing conflict and the recent removal of some of the major threats facing the country, most notably from Hezbollah and Iran. The discussion addressed Israel’s entry into a new geopolitical reality and explored pressing questions regarding the country’s future direction in the Middle East, as well as its diplomatic and security positioning on the global stage.
Speakers included Maj. Gen. (res.) Yaakov Amidror, former National Security Advisor to the Prime Minister of Israel and former Head of the Research Department in the IDF Directorate of Military Intelligence; Prof. Yossi Shain, former Member of Knesset (24th Knesset), founding head of Tel Aviv University’s School of Government, and Emeritus Professor of International Affairs at Georgetown University and author of several internationally acclaimed books; and Mr. Jeffrey Kahn, an international strategy expert who has held senior positions across global institutions and industries.
The webinar concluded with a lecture by Prof. Amichai Cohen, Special Counsel on International Law at our firm, on extending the Abraham Accords and new opportunities in the Middle East.