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Published on: 3/22/2009
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Odia Kagan
Odia Kagan is a foreign legal consultant in the Corporate and Securities Practice Group of Pepper Hamilton LLP, resident in the Philadelphia office.
Ms. Kagan's experience includes the representation of Israeli and foreign companies in stock and asset acquisitions, mergers, joint ventures, BOT projects and various commercial transactions, as well as Internet and IT law, including the representation of technology and start-up companies from formation in various aspects of doing business in cyberspace.Prior to joining Pepper, she was a partner in the Tel Aviv, Israel Shavit Bar-On Gal-On Tzin Nov Yagur Law Offices and a managing partner of a boutique law firm.
Ms. Kagan authored the Israeli chapter in Cybercrime and Security, a textbook on cybercrime published by Oceana Publications, a division of Oxford University Press.
She also writes a regular column on "Law and Internet" in Ynet, the leading Israeli online daily newspaper and has published numerous articles on leading Israeli Web sites, in New York State Bar Association and American Bar Association publications, and in IBLS, an Internet law news journal.
Ms. Kagan was a frequent guest on Israeli national television and radio programs.
She also lectured on these subjects before forums of law and technology professionals, including in Tel Aviv University and at the John Bryce Technological Institute, at the Center for Technological Entrepreneurship.
A First Lieutenant in the Israeli Defense Forces, Ms. Kagan served as a military advocate in the Military Advocate General's Unit.
She served as a legal advisor to Military Advocate Generals Menachem Finkelstein and Uri Shoham.
Among her other positions, Ms. Kagan was a prosecutor in the IDF Air Force Prosecution, the head of the Legal Supervision Branch, and a member of the editorial board of Military and the Law, the IDF's law periodical.
Ms. Kagan also was an advisor on comparative telecommunications law to the head of the Council for Cable and Satellite Broadcasting of the Israel Ministry of Communications.
A 1999 graduate of Tel Aviv University School of Law, she served as a teaching and research assistant to Prof. Baruch Bracha on Israeli and U.S. constitutional and administrative law and was on the editorial board of the University's Law Review, Tel Aviv University Studies in Law.
Ms. Kagan is admitted to practice law in the state of New York as well as in Israel, England and Wales, and New South Wales, Australia.
She is licensed to practice as a foreign legal consultant in Pennsylvania and Delaware.
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Odia Kagan
Foreign Legal Consultant
Phone: 215.981.4647
Fax: 215.981.4750
kagano@pepperlaw.com