Nixon Peabody has launched an Israeli business practice group, to counsel companies in the Jewish State and those doing business with them.

The move may prove controversial, as there are calls to divest from Israel in the wake of the recent Gaza offensive.

Sam Feigin and Mark Kass, partners in the New York-based law firm’s Washington, DC office, will lead the practice.

  

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The office’s lawyers, who hail from 14 Nixon Peabody offices in the US and abroad, work in the high-tech, life sciences, interactive entertainment, digital media and other sectors.

The offerings will include legal and business services to companies and investors doing business in Israel, and to Israeli companies, investors and entrepreneurs with commercial interests abroad.

Nixon Peabody LLP is one of the largest multi-practice law firms in the United States, with offices in 17 cities in the United States and one in London, and more than 700 in 25 major practice areas.