Press Release | Feb 2, 2026Honigman Expands Israel Office to 13 with U.S. Investment Funds and U.S. Real Estate Partners

DETROIT - Honigman LLP announced today that Arik Hirschfeld and Daniel (Doni) Kessler have joined the firm as partners who will be based in the firm's Israel office.

Hirshfeld, who joined from Paul Weiss's New York office, is an investment funds regulatory attorney with Investment Advisers Act, Investment Company Act, Commodity Exchange Act, and federal securities laws expertise.

Kessler, who joined from Seyfarth Shaw's New York office, is a transactional real estate attorney who counsels lending institutions, institutional investors, Fortune 100 companies, family offices, contractors, developers, and hospitality and resort operators.

"As it was designed to do, our Israel office continues to provide us a path to recruit exceptionally talented attorneys from beyond our U.S. office footprint. Arik and Doni, two impeccably credentialed attorneys, expand our capacity to serve our clients throughout the US and otherwise under US law in our longstanding real estate practice and in our newly launched investment funds practice comprised of Big Law laterals," said Joshua Opperer, of Honigman's Executive Committee.

Hirshfeld earned his J.D. from Brooklyn Law School and his B.A. from Yeshiva University. Kessler earned his J.D. from Touro College Jacob D. Fuchsberg Law Center and his B.A. from City University of New York, Queens College.

About Honigman

Honigman LLP is an Am Law 200 full-service, general business law firm with approximately 400 attorneys counseling clients on complex issues across the country from offices in Chicago, Michigan (Ann Arbor, Bloomfield Hills, Detroit, Grand Rapids, Kalamazoo and Lansing), Washington, D.C. and Israel (through Honigman Law Israel). Honigman lawyers counsel clients on complex issues in more than 60 areas of law. For more information, visit www.honigman.com.

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