Ilan Shavit (Hebrew: אילן שביט, born 31 July 1958) is an Israeli lawyer and businessman. Shavit is a founding partner of the commercial and corporate Tel Aviv law firm Shavit Bar-On Gal-On Tzin Yagur, Law Offices.
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Ilan Shavit was born in London, England and studied at Barclay House School and JFS. He immigrated to Israel in 1972 and studied at the Gymnasia Rehavia from which he graduated in 1976. From 1977-1981 he served in the IDF, in the Paratroopers Brigade, with which he participated in the 1978 Litani Operation, and the 932 Nahal Battalion as a platoon and deputy company commander in the Jordan Valley from 1979-1980. Shavit served in the IDF reserves, from 1981–2003, as a Platoon Commander in the 1982 First Lebanon War and 1988-1993 First Intifada, and as a Battalion Intelligence Officer and Comptroller Officer in the Inspection and Supervision Division of the General Staff, reaching the rank of Rav Seren (Major).
Shavit graduated from the Law Faculty of the Hebrew University of Jerusalem in 1984 and continued LL.M studies at that faculty. He was a lecturer in Public International Law in the Hebrew University Law Faculty and a member of the Law Review editorial board.
In 1983-1985, Shavit clerked at the Supreme Court of Israel under Justice Gabriel Bach and in Raveh, Abramson & Co. In 1985-1992 he worked as an associate lawyer with Raveh, Abramson & Co., Dan Cohen & Co. and Dan Cohen, Spigelman & Co, where he was a partner until the founding of Shavit, Bar-On & Co. in 1992. Shavit, Bar-On & Co. merged with Gal-On, Tzin & Co. in 2005.
Shavit's main spheres of activities are foreign and local corporate law and international transactions and corporate structures, commercial litigation, in court and arbitration, hi-tech, bio-tech and start-up corporate incorporation and financing, minority and majority shareholder rights and other fields of corporate law.
Shavit has practiced municipal law since 1989. In 2003-2005 he developed and proposed a two-tier municipal government structure, which was adopted by the Israeli Interior Ministry in Neve Monosson and Maccabim-Re'ut, in which the first boroughs in Israel were created. Shavit served as an elected member of the Yehud-Monosson City Council,[1] representing the community of Neve Monosson[2] and was a member of the City Planning Commission from 2003 to 2006. In 2007, Shavit was appointed by the City Council to the position of Mayoral Advisor for Community Administration.
Since the late 1990s, Shavit has been active as a founder, investor and corporate director in technological, medical and trading enterprises. Shavit is the Chairman of Ryyty, a multi-national group of trading companies which continued the Asian businesses of the Butonia group.[3] Shavit is also a founder and director of UTC - Underwater Technology Center, an advanced underwater communications company, and of the Shamdon Globe real estate group, founded in 2009 in the wake of the sub-prime crisis. Shavit is one of the investor-founders of Medigus (TASE: MDGS), a medical devices company.[4]