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Roy Engel
Roy has extensive international experience in providing legal advice to private investment funds at all stages of their operations, as well as to institutional investors investing in these funds.
Adv. Roy Engel counsels fund managers primarily regarding funds’ formation and as to the funds’ ongoing operations. He also advises on financing and regulation. In addition, Roy has extensive experience in all aspects of the investments and various transactions made by funds.
Roy serves as the lead legal advisor to one of the largest institutional investors in Israel and advises this investor as to its private equity and venture capital fund investments. In this capacity, Roy assisted this investor in building the largest portfolio of such funds in Israel.
Over the years, Roy developed a global network of service providers in this field, including in the Caribbean and in other jurisdictions, both offshore and onshore.
Roy gained his unique experience working for 10 years in New York. He was employed at Debevoise & Plimpton LLP (where he specialized in representing funds in mergers and acquisitions) and Skadden, Arps, Slate, Meagher & Flom LLP (where he specialized in fund formation and investment management). In Israel, Roy was a partner at a large Tel Aviv law firm (where he set up the funds department). He was also a founding partner of a boutique law firm in the field.
Education:
New York University School of Law, LL.M. 1997
Hebrew University, LL.M. Corporate Law 1994
Hebrew University, LL.B. 1994
Admission:
Member of the New York State Bar Association since 1996
Member of the Israel Bar Association since 1994
Insights & News - Roy Engel:
$175 Million Investment in the Data Centers Market
Advs. Roy Engel, Yana Zilbershtein, and Yakov Vilenski from our firm advised Menora Mivtachim on significant investments totaling $175 million in two companies operating in the data center sector, as part of the company’s strategy to expand its presence in this growing market.
These include a $100 million investment in the U.S.-based fund IPI Partners, which specializes in developing custom-built data centers for global technology giants such as Google and Amazon, and an additional $75 million investment in Aligned Data Centers, a leading U.S. technology infrastructure company.
Conference: Innovations and Updates for Hedge Fund Managers
Our firm’s attorneys, Dr. Zvi Gabbay and Roy Engel, are speaking this morning at a conference hosted by the Israeli Hedge Fund Association (IHFA) at the offices of PwC. Their lecture focuses on key considerations and insights from a fund manager’s perspective during due diligence processes.
Comprehensive comparison between closed-end funds and open-end funds
Investment funds have a variety of legal structures customized to investors’ various needs and investment policies. The two main fund structures are closed-end funds and open-end funds, which differ in several material parameters, as explained below.