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Michael Safran

Michael Safran

Global 2026

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S. Friedman, Abramson & Co
 S. Friedman, Abramson & Co

Ranked in 1 practice area

Transportation: Shipping

Israel

8 years ranked

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Practice Areas

Adv. Michael Safran, Managing Partner and head of the Shipping Finance Department, has extensive experience in shipbuilding transactions, ship sale and purchase, complex lease and sale-and-leaseback arrangements for vessels and marine containers and other shipping finance transactions, as well as trade finance.

His expertise includes negotiating, structuring, and drafting complex cross-border financial deals, asset-backed finance, lending, syndicated lending, receivables securitization and factoring transactions.

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Transportation: Shipping - Israel

Band 1
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Michael Safran is renowned as an expert on vessel charter financing and represents a broad range of financial institutions active in the maritime sector. He also has experience in litigation and documentation drafting in the shipping sector.

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Strengths

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  • He is dedicated, proactive and always keen to assist and to bring his added value.

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  • Michael Safran is an open-minded, outside-the-box thinker, who is very positive and solution-oriented.

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  • His ability to handle complex matters, interact with multiple other international legal teams, propose creative solutions and deliver all the way to the final execution is impressive.

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Ranked Individuals at S. Friedman, Abramson & Co (5)

Israel

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