Member Profiles

Peggy has several precedents of the Supreme Court on her name. In addition, Peggy has published and lectured extensively in seminars of the Israeli Bar Association and educational institutes managed by Tel Aviv University. Her publications include the Israeli chapter in International Execution Against Judgment Debtors; Attacking Foreign Assets, published by the Center for International Legal Studies (Lloyds of London Press); International Franchising (part of the 2007 Comparative Law Yearbook series), Israeli chapter, published by Wolters Kluwer; and the Israeli section in Enforcement of Foreign Judgments (comparative reviews), published by LLP Limited; co-author of the Israeli chapter of the comparative book on World Class Action edited by Baker Law. The Israeli chapter of Transparency in Insurance, AIDA Research Series, published by Springer, 2019.On a regular basis Peggy publishes articles in ILO and Lexology. Peggy regularly lectures on various insurance topics to insurance companies, members of the Israel Bar Association, AIDA World, and in academic forums. Peggy was involved in crisis management, as well as product contamination claims .The recent claim relating to product recall was a claim whereby the product (frozen food) was recalled due to Listeria. Peggy is involved in subrogation claims of Insurers who paid under the Terrorism policy. The claim was filed against the Israeli Tax Authority. Peggy was appointed as an outside Counsel for the Governmental Company “Kanat” – The Government Fund for the insurance of Natural Disasters in Agriculture. Peggy was appointed (in October 2018) as the President of AIDA World – The International Association of Insurance Law, which comprises more than 44 countries and led to comparative researches in Insurance and the initiation of an Insurance Encyclopedia. Peggy is a co-chairman of the Insurance Committee of the Israeli Bar Association. Practice Areas: Litigation Department, Class Action claims and international complex litigation. Education: Graduate (Summa Cum Laude) of the Tel Aviv University Status: Legal 500 , 2022 - Hall of Fame WWL (Who's Who Legal) Insurance & Reinsurance – leading individuals - for 2022: "Peggy Sharon from Levitan, Sharon & Co is a market leader for coverage litigation in a variety of insurance disputes, from professional liability claims to class actions." Membership: The Israel Bar Association, Co-Head of the Bar Committee of Torts and Insurance. Since October 2018, President of AIDA World, the international association of insurance Law (Association International de Droit D' Assurance) and President of the AIDA Israel Branch.

Adv. John Harris established the legal firm of Harris & Co. Maritime law in 1977. The firm is dedicated to the practice of Maritime Law and Admiralty Law including ship-arrests, charterparty disputes, cargo claims, sale and purchase of ships and the financing of ship purchases, arbitration. The firm is also dedicated to Commercial Law and Corporate Law including litigation.

Marc Zell, founder of the firm, regularly assists clients in cross border mergers and acquisitions, asset protection and corporate finance, commercial transactions, technology transfer, project finance and investment and technology development enterprises. He is also an experienced trans-national litigator, successfully representing business clients in complex litigations and arbitrations around the globe. Marc is a graduate of Princeton University and University of Maryland School of Law and is a member of bars of the State of Maryland, District of Columbia, Virginia, United States Supreme Court, Israel as well as various United States appellate, district and bankruptcy courts. Marc has also been special admitted to both state and federal courts throughout the United States and other English speaking countries. Marc is also Vice President of Republicans Overseas, Inc. and Co-Chairman of Republicans Overseas Israel. Marc also serves a senior member of the executive committee of Ariel University. Marc is a regular commentator in Israeli media on Israeli and U.S. law.

Born in Bologna in June 1960, she graduated in Law magna cum laude from the University of Bologna in February 1984. She also studied at the University of Münster and Hannover, and was admitted to the bar in 1986. She has been involved in research and lecturing in the department of Constitutional Law at the University of Bologna and at the departments of Administrative Law of the Universities of Milan and Pavia, publishing various essays and contributing entries to legal encyclopedias. Throughout the course of her practice - both judicial (mainly before the Regional Administrative Tribunals and the Council of State) and extrajudicial (stipulating agreements with Public Administrations and providing counsel in the administrative areas of M&A and joint ventures) - she gained expertise in the sectors of public procurement (also concerning the German legal system), environment, telecommunications, healthcare compliance and regulatory, and town-planning. She also has extensive experience as a member of Arbitration Panels. Since 2017, she has published “The Energy Regulation and Markets Review” and “The Environment and Climate Change Law Review” for the Italy-related section of “TheLawReviews.co.uk”. She is involved in the professional network of the online Administrative Law review “GiustAmm.it” and of the group “GiustiziaCivile”. Chambers Europe and Legal 500 place her among the most prominent Italian lawyers in the field of public law. Foreign languages: German, English.

Marcello Gioscia, senior partner of the Firm Ughi e Nunziante, works at the Rome office. He is in charge of the banking and finance sector as well as an expert in M&A and privatizations. Marcello Gioscia obtained his diploma in Literature and Philosophy at the University of Grenoble and graduated in Law at the University of Genova. After attending a course in American Law at Brown University, Providence, Rhode Island, Marcello Gioscia attended a Master of Laws at Columbia University School of Law, New York where he obtained his LLM. Marcello Gioscia has gained considerable experience in this sector, having dealt with a number of significant transactions: he represented Hermes Asset Management Europe in an action filed by Parmalat worth 5 billion Euro and Banco Bilbao Vizcaya as leader of the group within the framework of the privatization of BNL; he assisted Banco Bilbao Vizcaya Argentaria in relation to the public takeover bid of Banca Nazionale del Lavoro (BNL); he represented JP Morgan in an equity derivatives transaction aimed at facilitating the public offering of Telegate AG (listed on the German stock exchange); he assisted Banca Commerciale Italiana (BCI) and Warburg Dillon Read in the privatisation of BCI; he acted as co-ordinator in the IPO for Autostrade-. He is regularly asked to act as speaker at conferences and seminars on Banking and Finance Law matters. He was co-chairman of the International Bar Association Banking Committee, member of the Association Européenne de Droit Bancaire et Financier as well as of the Board of the Unidroit Foundation. He is fluent in Italian, English, French and Spanish.