Career
Elite Elkon is a partner at Gornitzky GNY, specializing in mergers and acquisitions (M&A), financial regulation, and financing. Elite possesses extensive experience in handling large-scale international M&A and financing deals, and in providing regulatory advice within the financial sector. Her expertise includes guiding private equity funds, investors, financial institutions, and their controlling shareholders.
Elite consistently leads high-profile and precedent-setting M&A transactions and investments in the Israeli market. She advises leading international and Israeli clients on complex and significant deals with a substantial impact on the local market. Additionally, she represents Israeli financial institutions in their domestic and international investments and provides legal counsel to a wide range of financial entities, including banks, institutional investors, and non-banking financial institutions, both in Israel and abroad.
In her practice, Elite handles investment transactions, mergers and acquisitions, and financing deals. She is highly skilled in various aspects of financial regulation and represents controlling shareholders and stakeholders in leading Israeli and international financial institutions. Her expertise extends to control permits, holding permits, banking regulations, and related legislation, including regular engagement with the Israeli financial regulators- Bank of Israel and the Israel Capital Market, Insurance, and Savings Authority. She also supports international banks in their activities in Israel, including establishing and managing local representative offices.
Elite has earned recognition as a “Leading Individual” in M&A and in Banking & Finance by LEGAL 500, where she is notably the only woman on a list of 15 honorees. She is also ranked as a Market Leader by IFLR1000 and has received the Women Leaders distinction from the same guide in both Banking and Financial Services.
Moreover, Elite has been awarded a “Spotlight” ranking by Chambers in the category of Banking & Finance: Regulatory, positioning her as one of the few practitioners in Israel recognized in this emerging area.
Clients describe Elite as “highly experienced and intelligent,” with a rare combination of expertise in M&A and financial regulation. She is praised as “technically brilliant, exceptionally intellectual, deeply knowledgeable, and solution-oriented”.
