Legal Education and Career
Shavit graduated from the Law Faculty of the Hebrew University of Jerusalem in 1984 and continued LL.M studies at that faculty. He was a lecturer in Public International Law in the Hebrew University Law Faculty and a member of the Law Review editorial board.
In 1983-1985, Shavit clerked at the Supreme Court of Israel under Justice Gabriel Bach and in Raveh, Abramson & Co. In 1985-1992 he worked as an associate lawyer with Raveh, Abramson & Co., Dan Cohen & Co. and Dan Cohen, Spigelman & Co, where he was a partner until the founding of Shavit, Bar-On & Co. in 1992. Shavit, Bar-On & Co. merged with Gal-On, Tzin & Co. in 2005.
Shavit's main spheres of activities are foreign and local corporate law and international transactions and corporate structures, commercial litigation, in court and arbitration, hi-tech, bio-tech and start-up corporate incorporation and financing, minority and majority shareholder rights and other fields of corporate law.
Shavit has practiced municipal law since 1989. In 2003-2005 he developed and proposed a two-tier municipal government structure, which was adopted by the Israeli Interior Ministry in Neve Monosson and Maccabim-Re'ut, in which the first boroughs in Israel were created. Shavit served as an elected member of the Yehud-Monosson City Council, representing the community of Neve Monosson and was a member of the City Planning Commission from 2003 to 2006. In 2007, Shavit was appointed by the City Council to the position of Mayoral Advisor for Community Administration.
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