About Iryna
Iryna Berenstein is a distinguished lawyer with profound experience and exceptional legal knowledge in International Private Law, Financial Law, Corporate Law, investment regulation, Compliance, Data Protection, and Reputation Management.
Iryna has an impressive portfolio of private ultra-high net worth clients, predominantly from Israel, UAE, the United States, and the United Kingdom. She handles investment protection matters across several jurisdictions, together with substantial commercial litigation and corporate disputes.
Her Israeli client base and Hebrew language capability make her an ideal point of contact for Israeli nationals facing complex international legal challenges — from extradition proceedings to financial crime investigations and compliance-related issues.
Areas of Practice
- International private law
- Financial crime defence
- Corporate litigation
- Data protection and reputation
- UHNWI investment protection (Israeli clients)
Working with Iryna
Financial and commercial allegations produce the extradition requests where dual criminality is most often decisive. Conduct that is criminal in the requesting state is frequently not criminal in Israel — foreign tax evasion absent fraud is the clearest example, and certain securities and market offences follow the same pattern. Establishing that means putting the two penal codes side by side, provision against provision, rather than comparing the names of the offences. Alongside the criminal exposure sit asset questions: freezing orders, mutual legal assistance requests, and the practical problem of funding a defence while accounts are restricted. Where a corporate structure spans several jurisdictions, the request will usually be framed against the individual while the practical damage falls on the companies, and both have to be answered at once.