Meir Linzen, one of Israel’s leading tax experts, heads Herzog, Fox & Neeman’s tax team, the largest and best known in Israel. He specialises in tax planning for international and cross border transactions, tax issues pertaining to international mergers and acquisitions in Israel, and governmental and regulatory tax matters, including customs and currency control.

Meir provides tax advice with respect to acquiring local corporations, transfer pricing, benefits for investors, and employee benefit taxation to most of the major transactions of the firm and most of the multnational corporations active in Israel, including acquisitions by Microsoft, GE, Nortel Networks, 3Com, and BMC Software Inc.

Meir also heads the administrative law team to which he brings considerable experience working with government ministries. He represents clients from a variety of sectors, including health and agriculture, regarding legislative, fiscal, and regulatory issues and advises foreign, Israeli, and Palestinian companies that are acting in Palestinian Authority areas.

In addition, Meir acts as manager of the professional staff. In this capacity, he is in charge of the recruiting, hiring, and training of new members of the firm.

Admitted to Practice:
Israel, 1982

Education:
Tel Aviv University, LL.B. honours

Organisational Affiliations:

Senior Member, Tax Committee of the Israel Bar Association, and member of subcommittees on international taxation and mergers and acquisitions

Member, Tax Committee of the International Fiscal Association

Volunteer Legal Counsel, Economic Corporate Foundation, a not-for-profit organisation that helped facilitate the Oslo Accords

Volunteer Legal Counsel, Peres Centre for Peace in the Middle East

Additional Professional Experience:

Prepared the Israel Bar Report regarding the Tax Reform and represented the Bar Association before the Government

Represented the Bar in the reform legislation concerning mergers and spin-offs and in discussions with the Income Tax Authority, and contributed significantly to the process of this reform legislation in the Knesset

Within the framework of the World Bank, the International Monetary Fund, and the Norwegian Government, composed the model for cooperation between Israel and the Palestinian Authority

Under the auspices of the Dutch Government and in conjunction with Palestinian, Jordanian, and Israeli colleagues, designed the model for a Triangular Tax Treaty

Lecturer in Tax Law at Tel Aviv University, Bar Ilan University, and Ben Gurion University and former member of the Editorial Board of the Tel Aviv University Law Review

Former Deputy Head of the International Law Department of the Office of the Judge Advocate General of the Israel Defence Forces, holding the rank of Lt. Colonel (reserves). Meir specialised in public international law and the articles of war and peace, and represented the government in negotiations with Lebanon and the Palestinians.