The win fully vindicates the almost three-year battle fought by Fieldfisher s client Joseph Benkel, the Israeli court-appointed trustee in bankruptcy, to prove that high-profile bankrupt Israeli businessman Eliezer Fishman had deliberately sought to put German real estate assets out of reach of his creditors.
Daniel Hayward and
Simon Colton QC and
Sam O Leary of One Essex Court have secured an important judgment for Mr Joseph Benkel, the Israeli court-appointed trustee in bankruptcy of Mr Eliezer Fishman.
Mr Fishman is a prominent Israeli businessman and real estate investor who was declared bankrupt in June 2017. At the time, his bankruptcy was rumoured to be the largest private bankruptcy in Israel s history.