Background
Ilan Shavit was born in London, England and studied at Barclay House School and JFS.
Ilan Shavit was born in London, England and studied at Barclay House School and JFS.
He immigrated to Israel in 1972 and studied at the Gymnasia Rehavia in Jerusalem from which he graduated in 1976. Shavit graduated from the Law Faculty of the Hebrew University of Jerusalem in 1984 and continued Master of Laws studies at that faculty.
In 1986 he relocated with his family to Tel Aviv. Shavit, Bar-On & Company merged with Gal-On, Tzin & Company in 2005. Shavit"s main spheres of activities are foreign and local corporate law and international transactions and corporate structures, hi-technical bio-tech and start-up corporate incorporation and financing, private equity, real estate equity, shareholder rights and other fields of corporate law.
Shavit practices municipal law and in 2003-2005 he developed and proposed a two-tier municipal government structure, which was adopted by the Israeli Interior Ministry in Neve Monosson and Maccabim-Re"ut, in which the first boroughs in Israel were created.
In 2007, Shavit was appointed by the City Council to the position of Mayoral Advisor for Community Administration. Shavit is the Chairman of Ryyty, a multi-national group of trading companies which continued the Asian businesses of the Butonia group.
Shavit is one of the investor-founders of Medigus (TASE: MDGS), a medical devices company. Shavit served in the regular Israel Defense Forces from 1977-1981, in the Paratroopers Brigade, with which he participated in the 1978 Litani Operation, and in the 932 Nahal Battalion as a platoon and deputy company commander in the Jordan Valley.
Shavit served in the Israel Defense Forces reserves, from 1981–2003, as a Platoon Commander in the 1982 First Lebanon War and 1988-1993 First Intifada, and as a Battalion Intelligence Officer and Comptroller Officer in the Inspection and Supervision Division of the General Staff, reaching the rank of Rav Seren (Major).
He was a lecturer in Public International Law in the Hebrew University Law Faculty and a member of the Law Review editorial board. Shavit served as an elected member of the Yehud-Monosson City Council, representing the community of Neve Monosson and was a member of the City Planning Commission from 2003 to 2006.