Biography
Norman Menachem Feder manages the firm’s international department. He focuses his practice on cross-border transactions, banking and finance, investment management, technology ventures, international higher education and global not-for-profit entities. Mr. Feder has won numerous industry awards and is commonly acclaimed by professional review publications.
Before joining the firm, Mr. Feder practiced law for six years with Cleary, Gottlieb, Steen & Hamilton in New York. Prior to embarking on his legal career, Mr. Feder enjoyed a Luce Scholarship, under the asupices of which he acted as a criminal investigator in Singapore for Singapore’s Ministry of Finance.
Mr. Feder graduated New York University School of Law with multiple honors. He is an Adjunct Lecturer on derivatives at the Tel Aviv University Law School and was an Adjunct Lecturer on derivatives at the Interdisciplinary Center Herzliya and an Adjunct Professor on international law at the Cardozo School of Law in New York. Mr. Feder has authored many professional and academic articles on law and finance and was editor-in-chief of the New York University Journal of International Law & Politics. He also was an editor of the 4-volume Hebrew to English translation Jewish Law: History, Sources, Principles.
Education
New York University, J.D. (1987)
Columbia University, M.A. (1984)
Columbia University, A.B. (1983)
Judicial Clerkships
Deputy President Justice Menachem Elon, Israeli Supreme Court
Hon. Roger J. Miner, US Court of Appeals for the 2d Circuit
Bar Admissions
Israel (1997)
New York (1988)
Practice Areas
Honors & Distinctions
Lawyer of the Year – Banking & Finance – Israel, Legal 100 Asia (2025)
Lawyer of the Year – Banking & Finance – Israel, M&A Today (2025)
Lawyer of the Year – Banking & Finance – Israel, Lawyer International, Legal 100 (2025)
Lawyer of the Year – Banking & Finance – Israel, Lawyers Worldwide Awards Magazine (2024)
Lawyer of the Year – Banking & Finance – Israel, Corporate America Today (2023)
Banking & Finance Lawyer of the Year – Israel, Lawyer International, Legal 100 (2022)
Banking & Finance Lawyer of the Year – Israel, Global 100 (2022)
Banking & Finance Lawyer of the Year – Israel, M&A Today, Global Awards (2022)
Banking & Finance Lawyer of the Year – Israel, Legal 100 Asia (2022)
Lawyer of the Year – Banking & Finance – Israel, EMG Publishing Group (2022)
Lawyer of the Year – Banking & Finance – Israel, Lawyer International, Legal 100 (2021)
Banking & Finance Lawyer of the Year – Israel, Legal 100 Asia (2021)
Leading Banking and Finance Adviser of the Year, Israel, Acquisition International (2018)
Banking & Finance Lawyer of the Year – Israel, Lawyer International (2018)
Lawyer of the Year – Banking & Finance – Israel, Corporate USA Today (2018)
Most Outstanding Banking & Finance Lawyer – Israel, Al’s Global Excellence Awards (2017)
Lawyer of the Year – Banking & Finance – Israel, The Lawyer International Global Awards (2017)
Best in Cross Border M&A – Corporate LiveWire Global Award (2017)
Lawyer of the Year – Banking & Finance, Israel, M&A Today Global Awards (2016)
Lawyer of the Year – Banking & Finance, Israel M&A Today (2015)
Lawyer of the Year – Banking & Finance, Israel, Global 100 (2014)
Lawyer of the Year, Banking & Finance – Israel, Lawyer Monthly Legal Awards Global Award 2014
Lawyer of the Year – Banking & Finance – Israel, M&A Today 2014
Structured Finance and Securitisation Lawyer of the Year: Israel – Lawyer Monthly Legal Awards (2014)
Most Outstanding in International Litigation Law – Israel, M&A Awards – Corporate LiveWire 2017
Lawyer of the Year – Banking & Finance, Israel, Global 100 (2013)
Banking & Finance Lawyer of the Year, Israel – Finance Monthly Global Award Winner (2013)
Lawyer of the Year – Banking & Finance, Israel, M&A International Award (2013)
Best Lawyers® list for Israel in practice area of Derivatives (2012)
Best Banking & Finance Lawyer of the Year – Israel, Corporate LiveWire Global Award (2012)
Banking & Finance Lawyer of the Year for Israel – ACQ (Acquisition Finance) Magazine (2012)
Banking and Finance Lawyer of the Year in Israel – Corporate INTL Magazine Global Award (2011)
Best Lawyers® list for Israel in practice area of Derivatives (2011)
Publications
Journals and Law Blogs
ICC Prosecutor Tapped External Panel to Review Evidence: Is that Even Allowed?, LAWFARE (July 9, 2024)
Market in the Remaking: Over-the-Counter Derivatives in a New Age, 11 Va . L. & Bus. Rev. 309 (2017)
Structured Finance and Derivatives: Growth and Paradox, Int’l Fin. L. Rev 117 (Mar. 2005) [co-author]
Deconstructing Over-the-Counter Derivatives, 2002 Colum. Bus. L. Rev. 677 *Cited by US Second Circuit Court of Appeals
The Evolution of Israel’s Capital Markets, 2 J. Int’l Fin. Mrkts. 80 (2000)
The Impropriety of Class Action Tolling for Mass Torts Statutes of Limitations, 64 Geo. Wash. L. Rev. 532 (1996) [co-author]
Increased U.S. Barriers for Grey Market Goods: Customs Hears the Supreme Court, 5 Canada-U.S. Bus. L. Rev. 97 (1991) [co-author]
Reading the U.N. Charter Connotatively: Toward a New Definition of Armed Attack, 19 N.Y.U. J. Int’l L. & Pol. 395 (1987) *Prize Winner
Newspapers and Periodicals
A Securitization Incentive Might Backfire, Globes, Aug. 3, 2020 at (Hebrew); reprinted in English at LinkedIn
How Biotech Startups Survive the Funding Crunch: Option Deals, Ha’aretz (Int’l Ed.), May 21, 2014
A New Financing Model, Ha’aretz – Innovate-Tech Supplement, May 2014 (Hebrew)
The Ministry of Justice Distances Foreign Capital, Ha’aretz – The Marker, July 4, 2013 (Hebrew)
Fix the Broken Partnerships Ordinance, Globes, Mar. 4, 2013 at 23 (Hebrew)
What is the Future of the Sovereign CDS Market? Banking, Apr. 2012 at 26 (Hebrew)
Think Again about Your Sovereign Hedge, Ha’aretz – The Marker, Nov. 20, 2011 at 37 (Hebrew)
A Trillion and a Half Dollars of CDO Obligations Exposed, Ha’aretz – The Marker, Aug. 13, 2007 at 56 (Hebrew)
Let a Thousand Hedge Funds Bloom, Ha’aretz – The Marker, Feb. 20, 2007 at 60 (Hebrew); reprinted in English in Ha’aretz (Int’l Ed.), Feb. 22, 2007 at 12
Hedging as a Fiduciary Obligation, Globes, June 28, 2004 at C-3 (Hebrew)
To Hedge or Not to Hedge, That is the Fiduciary’s Question, Derivatives Week, Apr. 26, 2004 at 8; reprinted in Corporate Financing Week, Apr. 26, 2004 at 9
Give Credit Risk Protection a Chance, Ha’aretz, Aug. 5, 2003 at C-2 (Hebrew) reprinted in English in Ha’aretz (Int’l Ed.), Aug, 6, 2003 at 8
They Came to Help, They Left Injurious, Globes, Dec. 23, 2002 at C-2 (Hebrew);
Now is the Time for Catastrophe Bonds, Ha’aretz, Jan. 22, 2002 at C-2 (Hebrew); reprinted in English in Ha’aretz (Int’l Ed.) Jan. 24, 2002 at 7
Brave New World of Securitization,Ha’aretz (Int’l Ed.), Nov. 26, 2001 at 6
Securities Finance Collides with Israeli Law, Ha’aretz, Feb. 18, 2001 at C-3 (Hebrew); reprinted in English in Ha’aretz (Int’l Ed.), Feb. 20, 2001 at 6
Sophisticated Capital: Over-the-Counter Derivatives Transactions, in Privatization and Increasing Competition in the Israeli Economy at 3 (Milken Institute 2000) (Hebrew)
Wanted: Legislation to Unbind Derivatives, Ha’aretz, Sept. 15 1998 at C-8 (Hebrew); reprinted in English in Ha’aretz (Int’l Ed.), Sept. 15, 1998 at 5
The Secondary Mortgage Market – What is it all About?, Ha’aretz, July 21, 1998 at C-9 (Hebrew); reprinted in English in Ha’aretz (Int’l Ed.), July 23, 1998 at 5 (English)
Can You Say Constitution? 40 Cleargolaw News 1 (1998) [review of Israel’s quasi-constitutional laws]
History Will Survive Demjanjuk, L.A. Times (Nat’l ed.), Apr. 6, 1993 at A-11
A View from the Compound, 33 Cleargolaw News 1 (1991) [account of year at Israeli Supreme Court]
Book Chapters
Israel, in Securitisation 2016 at 250 (Global Legal Group) [co-author]
Israel, in Product Liability 2016 at 141 (Global Legal Group) [co-author]
Israel, in Hedge Funds at 183 (The European Lawyer 2011)
Israel, in Directors’ Liability and Indemnification at 271 (Global Bus. Publishing 2011) [co-author]
Books
Menachem Elon, Jewish Law: History, Sources, Principles (Eng. transl., B.Aurbach & M. Sykes transl. 4 vols. 1994), Assistant Editor
Public Engagements
Public Lectures
Derivatives & Risk, Judges Conference, Neve Ilan (June 23, 2015)
Extra-Bank Financing By Way of Securitization, Institute for Continuing Legal Education, Tel Aviv University, Tel Aviv (Dec. 19, 2005)
Hedging, Hedge Funds and Speculation, Institute for Continuing Legal Education, Tel Aviv University, Tel Aviv (Dec. 12, 2005)
The Law and Practice of Derivatives, Institute for Continuing Legal Education, Tel Aviv University, Tel Aviv (Dec. 5, 2005)
Conferences – Invited Presenter
Financing Solid Waste Management, FINANCIAL INNOVATION LAB: SOLID WASTE MANAGEMENT, Milken Institute, Jerusalem (Jan. 10, 2011)
Revolving Water Fund, FINANCIAL INNOVATION LAB: WATER REVITALIZATION, Milken Institute, Jerusalem (Nov. 5. 2008)
Structured Credit Products in Israel: Consumption without Production, ADVANCED FINANCIAL PRODUCTS: INTERNATIONAL AND LOCAL TRENDS, Caesarea Center for Capital Markets and Risk Management, Inter-Disciplinary Center, Herziliya (Feb. 20, 2007)
The Complexity and Simplicity of Securitization, THE NEXT FINANCIAL REVOLUTION, Maariv Congress, Tel Aviv (June 29, 2006)
Structured Credit Products: The Experience in Israel, SYNTHETIC ASSET-BACKED SECURITIES: NEW RISKS, NEW OPPORTUNITIES, Caesarea Center for Capital Markets and Risk Management, Inter-Disciplinary Center, Herziliya (Sept. 18. 2005)
Sophisticated Capital: Over-the-Counter Derivatives Transactions, PRIVATIZATION AND INCREASING COMPETITION IN THE ISRAELI ECONOMY, Jerusalem Center for Public Affairs, Jerusalem (Oct. 15, 1999)
Conferences – Panel Participant
FINANCING THE FUTURE: FINANCIAL INNOVATIONS AND GOVERNMENT POLICY FOR GROWTH AND SOCIAL COHESION, Israel Business Conference for Growth and Social Cohesion, Tel Aviv (Nov. 12, 2011)
ETHICS IN INTERNATIONAL DISPUTE RESOLUTION, Annual ABA Section of International Law Joint Conference with the Israel Bar Association – Law & Business, Eilat (May 31, 2011)
FINANCING MUNICIPAL DEVELOPMENT IN ISRAEL: GENESIS IN TEL AVIV?, Municipal Development Strategies, Tel Aviv University, Tel Aviv (June 14, 2001)
