Shai Kuttner

Partner, BWK Partners

Shai Kuttner studied law at the Hebrew University in Jerusalem and qualified as a lawyer in 1984. He worked as a lawyer in the United States from 1986 to 1991. Shai came to the Netherlands in 1992 and studied European law and tax law at the University of Amsterdam. Shai speaks fluent Hebrew and English, and he is a member of the New York Bar Association and the Israeli Bar Association.

Shai was the founding partner of a midsize international law firm in Amsterdam in 1994. He and a team of his colleagues joined forces with BWK Partners in 2014. Shai is the international practice coordinator at BWK Partners and he is also managing partner of the firm’s branch office in Israel. Shai’s practice mainly concentrates on international structuring, mergers & acquisitions, and related legal matters.

Shai has extensive experience in cross-border mergers & acquisitions as well as finance and  investments transactions. He has close ties with multinational companies in Europe, Israel and the United States and with large private companies and investors operating in a number of sectors including high-tech and medical equipment, energy, manufacturing and real estate.