Legal 500
"Elite Elkon is excellent — she knows the regulatory landscape and knows how to get deals done."
IFLR
IFLR
Elite Elkon was recognized as one of IFLR’s Women Leaders in Banking and Finance for 2021
Legal 500
Elite Elkon is an excellent lawyer in the area of financial services regulation.
IFLR
Chambers Global
Elite Elkon was ranked as 'Market Leader' in the fields of Banking and Financial Services by the international ranking guide IFLR.
Chambers Global
"technically brilliant and intellectually exceptional".
Legal 500
"very experienced and knowledgeable, smart, cooperative and solutions-oriented".
Chambers Global
"Elite Elkon is highly experienced and smart. I’ll choose any day to work with her."
"She brings a rare combination of experience in M&A/corporate law, as well as regulatory experience."
"Elite has an incredible ability to build trust and dialogue and appreciate that she is very practical."
The Legal 500
"Elite Elkon is excellent in dealing with financially regulated companies."
Chambers Global
Chambers Global 2017 identified Elite Elkon as Up and Coming in the field of Banking and Finance, saying, "Elite Elkon's reputation continues to grow in this sphere as sources characterize her as "devoted to the client, results-driven" and "a very talented lawyer."
The Legal 500
IFLR1000 2017 identified Elite Elkon as a Leading lawyer in the fields of Banking and Finance, and
Financial services regulatory.
Chambers
"Elite is a wonderful M&A attorney and a deal maker."
Chambers
"She really knows banking and finance as she has good contact with the regulators. A good adviser like Elite always helps a lot."

ABOUT

Elite Elkon is a partner at Gornitzky GNY, specializing in mergers and acquisitions (M&A), financial regulation, and financing. Elite possesses extensive experience in handling large-scale international M&A and financing deals, and in providing regulatory advice within the financial sector. Her expertise includes guiding private equity funds, investors, financial institutions, and their controlling shareholders.

Elite consistently leads high-profile and precedent-setting M&A transactions and investments in the Israeli market. She advises leading international and Israeli clients on complex and significant deals with a substantial impact on the local market. Additionally, she represents Israeli financial institutions in their domestic and international investments and provides legal counsel to a wide range of financial entities, including banks, institutional investors, and non-banking financial institutions, both in Israel and abroad.

In her practice, Elite handles investment transactions, mergers and acquisitions, and financing deals. She is highly skilled in various aspects of financial regulation and represents controlling shareholders and stakeholders in leading Israeli and international financial institutions. Her expertise extends to control permits, holding permits, banking regulations, and related legislation, including regular engagement with the Israeli financial regulators- Bank of Israel and the Israel Capital Market, Insurance, and Savings Authority. She also supports international banks in their activities in Israel, including establishing and managing local representative offices.

Elite has earned recognition as a “Leading Individual” in M&A by LEGAL 500, where she is notably the only woman on a list of 15 honorees. She is also ranked as a Market Leader by IFLR1000 and has received the Women Leaders distinction from the same guide in both Banking and Financial Services.

Moreover, Elite has been awarded a “Spotlight” ranking by Chambers in the category of Banking & Finance: Regulatory, positioning her as one of the few practitioners in Israel recognized in this emerging area.

Clients describe Elite as “highly experienced and intelligent,” with a rare combination of expertise in M&A and financial regulation. She is praised as “technically brilliant, exceptionally intellectual, deeply knowledgeable, and solution-oriented”.

Executive MBA, Kellogg-Northwestern University and the Tel Aviv University (joint degree) (2005)

LL.B., magna cum laude, Tel Aviv University (1999)
Dean’s List (1996)

Israel Bar Association, 2000

Research Assistant, Property Law (Prof. Nina Zaltzman) – Buchman Faculty of Law, Tel Aviv University (1997-1998)

Member of the editorial board of “Tel-Aviv University Law Review”.

E. Elkon, “Opportunity blows in on the wind of change,” published in The Lawyer – UK  (2016)
E. Elkon and E. Elya, “Recent Developments in Israeli Banking and Financial Markets,” published in Global Banking and Financial Policy Review (2014/2015)

Hebrew, English and French

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