Regularly during the school year, the Dean hosts roundtable discussions with prominent guests who have utilized their law degrees in a variety of nontraditional ways. Over lunch with a small group of students, guests speak autobiographically about their work experiences, sharing valuable insight about how they found their chosen path. Please note that the roundtables are informal and off-the-record.
Itai Horstock LLM ’95, who will be the Dean’s guest on Thursday, October 15, is a venture capitalist and also the executive director of Luxembourg Trade and Investment Office in Israel. Luxembourg Trade offers comprehensive information about Luxembourg as a business location as well as a tailor-made settlement support and other cost-free inbound investment consultancy services for companies interested in setting up in Luxembourg. In his current role, Mr. Horstock works to promote Luxembourg as a desirable business location in addition to acting as advisor to the Ministry in attracting relevant and interested companies to Luxembourg, among various other responsibilities.
In addition to his role at the Luxembourg Trade and Investment Office, Mr. Horstock is founding partner and advisor at Excaliber Capital, the largest multi-family office in Israel. Excaliber acts as the trusted advisor to a small number of families. Shortly after founding Excaliber Capital, Mr. Horstock joined Evolution Venture Capital Fund as Excaliber’s representative, managing partner, and director. Evolution Fund is a venture capital fund for small and medium size, revenue generating, technology based, Israeli and Israel-related companies. He is also a member of the Investment Committee at Evolution Fund.
Prior to joining Excaliber, Mr. Horstock co-founded and managed the US based Sherpa Group and the Hawkeye Group, both venture capital funds focused on Israeli hi-tech companies. At Sherpa, Mr. Horstock invested in and acted as director of Exalink Ltd., which was then sold to the multi-billion dollar NASDAQ traded company Comverse Technology Inc. for 550 million dollars. Prior to that, Itai was a mergers and acquisitions attorney at Shearman & Sterling in New York and legal advisor to the Government of Israel Economic Mission to the US.
Mr. Horstock received his LLM from New York University in 1996 after receiving his LLB from Tel Aviv University in 1989.
The Dean’s roundtables are open to 18 interested NYU School of Law JD and graduate students. In order to achieve a representational mix of students, we will designate a proportionate number of seats to JD students and graduate students, respectively, to be assigned on a first-come, first-served basis. The roundtables will begin at 12:30 PM in Snow Dining Room. If you would like to attend a roundtable, please sign up in advance by emailing Ken Seagreaves at ken.seagreaves@nyu.edu. Please indicate whether you are a JD or graduate student, and whether you have any dietary restrictions.