Amir Wasserman serves as the General Counsel and Head of the Legal Department at the Israel Securities Authority (ISA). As General Counsel he has the overall responsibility for all legal matters and activities performed within, or involving, the ISA.
Mr. Wasserman started working at the ISA in 2001 as a lawyer at the Corporate Finance Department, where he dealt with diverse subjects related among others to the regulation of public companies, the work of gatekeepers, the legal framework for adopting IFRS, and the legislation and interpretation of the Companies Act.
In 2005 Mr. Wasserman left the ISA and joined Rosenberg, Hacohen, Goddard and Efrat Law Offices, where he worked as a lawyer and a partner dealing with capital market issues. He returned to the ISA in 2011, and started his current position. In this capacity, Mr. Wasserman inter alia initiated and promoted the ISA's plan for regulatory reliefs, led the legislation to supervise new fields such as rating agencies, trading platforms, financial information services and payment services, and handled major reforms of the ISA such as the demutualization of the Tel-Aviv Stock Exchange and the regulation of ETFs.
Mr. Wasserman is the author of the book "Corporations and Securities", on the subject of regulation applying to corporations that offer their securities to the public, and teaches courses on securities laws and corporate governance at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem.
Mr. Wasserman holds a LLB & BA in Law and Economics and a Master in Economics and Business Administration, both degrees from the Hebrew University of Jerusalem, as well as a Master in Public Administration from Harvard University.
