עו"ד קפלן אלון

An International Authority on Trusts

Dr. Alon Kaplan is a member of the Israel Bar and was admitted as a member of the New York and Frankfurt Bars. He is the President and founder of the Society of Trust and Estate Practitioners “STEP Israel”. Academically, he holds a Ph.D. from Zurich University in Switzerland and LL.B. and LL.M. degrees from the Hebrew University of Jerusalem. Alon maintains a direct and close relationship with academia, and he was a lecturer on trusts in the Academic Management College, Reichman University, and the Law Faculty of Tel Aviv University, where he taught trust courses for LL.M. students. Alon is a popular lecturer on trusts in Israel and abroad and he constructed the academic program for the Trusts Diploma of STEP in Israel. Throughout his professional career, Alon has written numerous professional articles in legal journals, on matters of trusts, intergenerational asset transfers and selected commercial law topics such as agent and distributor laws, a topic which he researched for his LL.M. thesis. Alon has been a regular contributor of articles to “Trusts and Trustees “of Oxford Journals. Alon has written and edited numerous professional books, including on doing business in Israel, trusts in Israel and international trusts laws. His book – “Trusts and Estate Planning in Israel” is a professional and comprehensive guidebook for practitioners in this area in Israel. Another important book in English is “Trusts in Prime Jurisdictions” 5th edition 2020 which reviews trusts in various jurisdictions by 19 authors from various jurisdictions. In December 2020 he was co-editor of the book “Life Cycle of a Family Business” published in London