Ben Kanter

Expert practioner in banking and finance work across multiple practice sectors, with emphasis on large cross-border transactions. Ben regularly represents leading global banks, financial institutions, private equity houses, large corporations and high-net-worth individuals across a wide range of transactions. Ben also specialises in aviation financing acting principally for foreign purchasers, lessors and lenders, including in connection with all of El Al’s recent and ongoing fleet upgrade.

• Advising HSBC Bank plc on its up to USD 250,000,000 demand guarantee and term loan financing of Coca Cola Israel for the joint purchase of Clover Industries, a South African public listed company.
• Advising Vista Equity Partners on its acquisition of Starhome Mach from Fortissimo and the related USD 105,000,000 acquisition financing provided by, among others, Tennenbaum Capital Partners.
• Advising Cerberus and JPMorgan on a large-scale complex refinancing of ECI Telecom Ltd’s indebtedness.
• Advising Citibank, Goldman Sachs, HSBC, Morgan Stanley and other leading global banks on various high value margin loans to large Israeli public listed and private companies.
• Advising AFIC, BNP Paribas, ING, UK Export Finance, Citibank, DVB Bank on separate financings and registrations in conection with El Al Israel Airline’s new Boeing 787 fleet of aircraft and advising ACG, Apollo, Banc of America, Blackrock, CMB Financial Leasing, ELFC, Falko, Fortress, Macquarie, MG Aviation Nordic Aviation Capital and others on various aviation financings, leases and aircraft title transfers and registrations.

• Banking
• Financial restructuring
• Restructuring and insolvency

• Aviation
• Banking
• Financial services

• England & Wales: 2011
• Israel: 2017

• BPP Law School, England | LPC | 2009
• Kings College London, England | LL.B | 2007