Simon Weintraub Bio

Simon Weintraub is a partner in the international department and banking group at Yigal Arnon & Co., with a focus on cross-border lending transactions in general and specifically in the Oil and Gas space.  Simon regularly represents global banks and financial institutions investing in Israel and has been involved in some of the largest cross border transactions involving Israel in recent years including most recently where Simon acted for the joint book-running managers JP Morgan, CitiGroup and HSBC in a US$2 billion private placement of senior secured notes issued by Delek and Avner and also in the case of acting for Barclays Bank Plc, as arranger, Bank Mizrahi Tefahot, as facility agent and a number of Israeli institutional lenders in a US$225 million credit facility and re-financing transaction with Dor Gas Explorations Partnership, a partner in the Tamar field.