Adv. Keren Ogintz has over 20 years’ experience in insolvency, real estate, creditor arrangements and business and corporate rehabilitation. Since 2004, she has served as an officeholder appointed by the Ministry of Justice and courts, with experience in litigation, negotiation, settlements and complex agreements.
Alongside her legal practice, she combines an extensive background in higher-education teaching and supervision with training in organizational innovation management and entrepreneurship. Her experience includes managing and training professional teams and making complex legal material accessible to varied audiences.
Practice Areas
- Insolvency and Corporate Rehabilitation: Handling insolvency proceedings, creditor arrangements and business and corporate rehabilitation, with ongoing work involving the Ministry of Justice, financial institutions and public authorities.
- Real Estate: Real estate legal practice, alongside Technion training in construction project management and residential development.
- Litigation and Negotiation: Experience in legal representation, drafting complex pleadings, negotiation, settlements and agreements.
- Enduring Power of Attorney: Qualified to prepare enduring powers of attorney, advance instructions for the appointment of a guardian and documents expressing wishes under Israeli law.
Professional Experience
In her roles since 2004, Adv. Ogintz has worked regularly with government ministries, tax authorities, insurers and financial institutions. Her work includes cooperation with the Official Receiver’s districts and the Administrator General at the Ministry of Justice, and with governmental bodies and authorities in Israel and abroad.
Her experience includes professional team management, setting objectives and assignments, staff training, and drafting, reviewing and editing legal documents. In 2019, she served as legal adviser to the Lion of Judah Israel fund.
She completed her legal internship in 2003–2004 at Haim Zadok & Co. in Tel Aviv–Yafo.
Education and Qualifications
- LL.B. with honors, College of Management Academic Studies.
- LL.M., Bar-Ilan University, concentrating in commercial law.
- Chief Innovation Officer – Practitioner (CINO-P) training and certification in effective organizational innovation systems management (2026).
- Construction project management training, Technion (2026).
- Residential construction entrepreneurship training, Technion (2024).
- Courses in representation of disabled IDF veterans and victims of hostile acts (2024).
- Ministry of Justice qualification to prepare enduring powers of attorney, advance instructions for appointing a guardian and documents expressing wishes (2022).
- Directors’ training, Israel Bar Association (2020).
- Training for Ministry of Justice-appointed officeholders (2014).
Teaching, Research and Lectures
From 2009 to 2017, she coordinated teaching for the Foundations of Business Law course at the Open University. In 2010–2012, she taught Labour Law and Foundations of Law at the Open University and in its continuing education program.
In 2008–2013, she was a teaching assistant in Labour Law at Netanya Academic College. In 2002–2009, she was a teaching assistant at the College of Management Academic Studies in Foundations of Law, Labour Law, Commercial Law, Law of Obligations and Communications Law.
She served as a teaching assistant in Constitutional Law and a research assistant in human rights, constitutional law, and biotechnology and law. In 2000–2002, she participated in HaMishpat law journal and the Shamgar Book project, produced in cooperation with the Supreme Court.
Her experience includes supervising student seminar papers and research and giving professional lectures in Israel and abroad. In 2015, she gave a presentation on creditor arrangements at Poznań University of Economics in Poland, and in 2014, she lectured at a lawyers’ seminar organized by Legal Aid in the Haifa District.
She also develops and delivers experiential lessons for young people on entrepreneurship and innovation, from idea to product.
Professional and Academic Publications
- Creditor’s Arrangement in a Changing World.
- “Migrant Workers in Israel: The Desired and the Actual,” with Y. David (2011).
- “Parenthood and Work in Israel — Current Trends,” with H. Bar-Mor, in Working Families — Parents in Israel’s Labour Market, edited by V. Milbauer (2010).
- “The Court Stakes a Claim: The Right to Education and Equality in Education in the Field of Special Education,” with Y. Rabin, published in volume 8 of HaMishpat.
Languages
Hebrew and English