Mr. Halfteck is an associate in Davis Polk & Wardwell’s Litigation Department. He joined Davis Polk in 2007.

Mr. Halfteck received his LL.B., magna cum laude, from the Hebrew University of Jerusalem in 1998, where he was editor in chief of the law review and the recipient of the Irving Isidor Prize for Contract Law Research. In 2000, he received his LL.M., magna cum laude, from Columbia Law School, where he was a Harlan Fiske Stone Scholar and editor of the Columbia Journal of Transnational Law. In 2003, he received his S.J.D. (oral exam passed with distinction) from Harvard Law School, where he was a John M. Olin Fellow in Law, Economics and Business, a fellow in the Program on Corporate Governance, a research fellow in the Harvard Program on Negotiation and a Clark Byse Graduate Teaching Fellow. From 2002 to 2003, Mr. Halfteck was a financial markets research fellow in the Financial Services Exchange, Kenan-Flagler Business School at the University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill. He clerked for the Honorable Tova Strasberg-Cohen of the Supreme Court of Israel from 1998 to 1999. He is admitted to the bars of New York, Israel and the U.S. District Courts for the Eastern and Southern Districts of New York.

Before joining Davis Polk, Mr. Halfteck was an associate at Milberg Weiss from 2003 to 2005 and of counsel to Weinroth & Co., Tel Aviv, Israel, in 2005. From 2005 to 2007, he was an Adjunct Professor of Law at Tel-Aviv University Law School and an independent legal and economic consultant. In his consulting practice, he advised clients on corporate governance and compliance, capital market, mergers and acquisitions, and securities litigation and forensic economic matters.

Mr. Halfteck was Vice-Commander of a naval patrol ship in the Israel Defense Forces’ Navy in Haifa, Israel, from 1991 to 1994, where he was the recipient of the Naval Award of Distinction in 1992 and the Naval Training Award of Distinction in 1991.

Mr. Halfteck is a member of the American Bar Association and the International Association of Jewish Lawyers & Jurists. He is a board member of American Friends of the Hebrew University of the Greater New York Metropolitan Region.

He is author of “Ethical Dimensions of Attorney-Client Relationships Entered into by ERISA Fiduciaries,” in S. Serota (ed.), ERISA Fiduciary Law 353 (2003) (with F. Brodie); “The Effects of Incentives to Invest and the Level of Investment in Class Action Law Enforcement on the Magnitude of Liability for Harm,” John M. Olin Discussion Paper No. 452, Center for Law, Economics, and Business, Harvard Law School (2004); “A General Theory Concerning the Social Value of Class Action Law Enforcement,” 3 Journal of Law & Business 247 (2005) (in Hebrew); “The Investment Theory of Class Actions,” in Litigating Conspiracy: An Analysis of Competition Class Actions 89 (Stephen Pitel, ed., Irwin, 2006) (also published in 3 Canadian Class Action Rev. (2006)); “Legislative Threats,” 61 Stanford Law Review (2008) (forthcoming); “Corporate Governance and Returns to Equity,” Social Science Research Network (2007); and “The Compliance Function of Executive Stock Options,” Social Science Research Network (2007).

In his pro bono practice, Mr. Halfteck was a pro bono lawyer for the Federal September 11th Victim Compensation Fund, Washington, D.C., from 2003 to 2004. He was a pro bono legal adviser on class action legislation to the Israel Parliament’s Judiciary Committee, from 2005 to 2006, and to The Israeli Association for Community Empowerment, Jerusalem, Israel, from 2005 to 2006.