Jason Harel is a co-founding partner of BLC and boasts substantial experience in corporate M&A, workout transactions as well as taxation. He generally practises in the areas of corporate and commercial law, mergers and acquisitions, corporate insolvency, real estate, tax but also advises on litigation matters.

Consistently identified as a ‘leading practitioner’ in his field by legal directories, Jason has acted for public and private companies, banks, hotels and real estate on a range of acquisitions and other corporate transactions. Jason regularly represents investment dealers on fairness opinions, valuations and complex commercial advisory assignments. Jason sits on a number of boards of directors including JP Morgan Investments Ltd and African Legal Network (ALN).

Prior to joining BLC and after completing his pupillage with Grays’ Tax Chambers, the leading tax chambers in the UK, Jason was a senior associate within the Trade Finance and Project Finance Group of Denton Wilde Sapte LLP in London from 2000 to 2005. Jason is also a Chartered Accountant who worked at Kingston Smith and Arthur Andersen SC, in their corporate insolvency and restructuring divisions. He is qualified as a Barrister both in England and Wales and the Republic of Mauritius.

The Chambers Global Guide describes Jason as someone who “blends accounting knowledge with an in-depth knowledge of private international law” and client feedback in the Chambers Global Guide describes him as “extremely responsive, applying a western work ethic and with world class experience.”