EDI Arranges 60+ Meetings During the Visit

Holland & Knight (http://www.hklaw.com/), one of the US' largest law firms and the largest such company in Florida, visited Israel during the week of January 15^th to explore the potential for further developing the firm's Israel practice.  The firm engaged EDI to plan its itinerary and organize high-profile meetings with major players in Israeli business and government.

The mission was led by former US Congressman Ronald J. Klein, a member of Holland & Knight's Public Policy & Regulation Group, who has worked in the private sector as a business and transactional attorney for over 25 years, as well as the public sector as an elected official in both Tallahassee and Washington. From 1992 through 2006, Mr. Klein served consecutive terms in the Florida House of Representatives and Florida State Senate, where he participated actively in cleantech, transportation and healthcare committee and legislative work. In 2006, Mr. Klein was elected to represent Florida's 22nd Congressional District (Broward and Palm Beach Counties), where he served two terms, continuing his focus on cleantech, transportation and healthcare, as well as Middle East and Latin American issues.

Accompanying Klein was Janis B. Schiff, a partner in the Washington, DC office of the firm; David Allswang, a partner in the Chicago office; and Joshua Krumholz, a partner in the Boston office.  Zehava Zevit, the firm's associate in their Israel Office participated as well.  

EDI arranged more than 60 meetings during the week with CEOs of groups as diverse as attorneys, accountants, venture capital funds, technological incubators, banks and tech companies in addition to government ministries involved in areas of Holland & Knight's interests.