Shareholder arbitration — joint-venture breakdown (2024)
Lead counsel for claimant shareholders in institutional arbitration over alleged misappropriation of company funds, unfair competition and breach of non-compete obligations in a joint venture.
Est · 2014
Counsel
Founder, members, and advisors.
A boutique disputes practice. Senior advocate on every file. The firm grows by invitation.
Founder
Khaled N. Aun
Founder · Advocate
I argue commercial disputes in three languages, before the courts and in arbitration. In practice since 2014 — as partner and head of litigation at a regional commercial firm before founding this practice — I have acted as lead counsel in more than five hundred matters for corporates, public institutions, founders and counterparties, from first assessment through final hearing, including before the Supreme Court of Israel. I am a certified arbitrator of the Israel Bar Association; counsel who has sat in the arbitrator's chair argues differently.
AdmittedIsrael Bar Association, 2014 · Licence 70115
ArbitratorCertified Arbitrator, Israel Bar Association (2024)
EducationLL.B., Hebrew University of Jerusalem
AdvocacyDistrict courts · Supreme Court of Israel · institutional arbitration
LanguagesArabic · Hebrew · English
OfficesNof HaGalil · meetings in Haifa & Tel Aviv by arrangement
Representative experience
Matters of the kind the firm is retained for.
M&A arbitration — share purchase agreement (2024)
Lead counsel in a high-value institutional arbitration arising from alleged fundamental breach of a share purchase agreement.
Minority-shareholder dispute — structured exit (2023)
Acted for a shareholder in a contentious minority-oppression dispute; resolved without litigation through a negotiated, structured settlement.
Investment arbitration — med-tech v. global pharmaceutical company
Lead counsel for a med-tech company in a US$6m arbitration against a global pharmaceutical company concerning breach of an investment contract.
Municipal taxation — regulatory and contractual claims
Lead counsel in a US$10m dispute with a municipal authority involving intertwined regulatory and contractual claims; resolved by negotiated settlement.
Appellate advocacy — Supreme Court of Israel (2018–2025)
Argued appeals before the Supreme Court in construction-contract, regulatory and civil matters, for private and public-sector parties.
Matters are described in abbreviated, anonymised form to preserve client confidentiality. References are available in a privileged setting where appropriate.
The model
Senior advocate on every file.
The firm does not run a leverage model. The advocate you meet at first assessment is the advocate on the record at the hearing — supported, where the matter requires it, by specialist co-counsel and experts retained for the file. The firm grows by invitation; member profiles publish here on the date of admission.