Attorneys
Tamar Hacker, Partner
Tamar specializes in advising public organizations, providing counsel regarding infrastructure projects and preparing legislation that regulates emerging sectors of the Israeli economy or sectors undergoing reforms. Specifically, she has been involved in preparing legislation, public tenders and concessions in fields such as municipal water and sewage projects, ports, the dairy industry, natural gas transmission, oil products storage and transmission, television broadcasting, legal metrology, and the telecommunications sector. During the 1990s, Tamar was instrumental in the sale of the Israeli government's shareholdings in banks. Tamar was also at the helm of the privatization of Bezeq, Israel’s largest telecommunications company, when she drafted the prospectuses and coordinated all the regulatory work for its PO in 1998 and 2004.
Tamar’s involvement in these matters is the natural outgrowth of her extensive experience in government service. She worked in the Legal Department of the Ministry of Finance from 1974-1981, was the chief legal draftsperson for the Ministry of Justice (1981-86), and was also an Assistant to the State Inquiry Commission on the Regulation of Bank Shares from 1985-86. Tamar then served as a Senior Deputy to the State Attorney from 1986-87, and was the Legal Advisor of the Ministry of Finance from 1988-1996. During this time, she also served as a Member of the Israeli Delegation to the Israeli-Palestinian Interim Agreement on the West Bank and the Gaza Strip. Tamar has also served as a director of several government companies, such as the Inbal Insurance Company Ltd. and M.I. Holdings Ltd., and from 2000-2003 as an External Director of Blue Square Israel Ltd., a leading Israel retail chain which is traded on both the New York and Tel Aviv Stock Exchanges. For many years Tamar served as a Member of the Restricted Trades Advisory Committee. Tamar received an LL.B. from the Hebrew University of Jerusalem.
Admitted: Israel (1973)
Languages: Hebrew and English
Email: thacker@abramson-law.com
Practice Areas: Corporate and Securities, Government/Legislative Practice, Media and Telecommunications, Litigation, Project Finance.