OUR FOUNDER

Strategic Engagement & International Policy Experience

Sunny has developed his career at the intersection of legal business, strategic advisory, and institutional engagement, operating responsibly within the boundaries of law, ethics, and public policy.

He has explored the complex interface between private enterprise and public advocacy in order to support client objectives that align with national and international interests.

Through this work, he has had the opportunity to engage with senior decision-makers and representatives within international institutions, including the United Nations, contributing to discussions on security, stability, and strategic cooperation.

For Sunny, security is not limited to physical protection.

It encompasses:

• Prevention and early warning
• Strategic initiative
• Institutional coordination
• Legal and regulatory alignment
• Long-term geopolitical awareness

This comprehensive understanding enables him to advise clients across complex international environments.

Through long-standing professional relationships, Sunny has participated in high-level discussions on major geopolitical challenges, including regional security dynamics and Iranian strategic doctrine.

His advisory work has benefited from exchanges with senior policymakers and legal experts, including John Bolton, whose early assessments anticipated many of today’s security and defense challenges.

These professional dialogues have contributed to the development of informed, forward-looking strategic perspectives.

All international engagements are conducted:

• Within applicable legal frameworks
• Under formal and transparent mandates
• In respect of diplomatic and institutional protocols
• With strict confidentiality standards

Sunny’s approach emphasizes responsible influence, factual analysis, and institutional respect.

Through global engagement and strategic dialogue, Spoils of War Strategic Group delivers:

✅ Informed geopolitical insight
✅ Institutionally credible advisory services
✅ Lawful and ethical engagement
✅ Long-term strategic vision

We do not pursue influence for its own sake.
We pursue stability, clarity, and responsible leadership.

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Sunny has built long-standing professional relationships and institutional credibility across American and Israeli public-policy environments, while maintaining strict political neutrality.

His early engagement included participation in the Youth Jewish Republicans in New York and leadership roles within pro-Israel civic organizations, reflecting a long-term commitment to public affairs and democratic dialogue.

Over the years, he has had the opportunity to advise and engage with senior political leaders and campaigns, including the late Hon.John McCain, Hillary Clinton, and Donald Trump, prior to Mr. Trump’s presidency.

These relationships were developed in a professional, bipartisan context and focused on policy, governance, and institutional cooperation.

Sunny’s engagement across political lines reflects a core principle:

Effective security, compliance, and risk management require dialogue with all governing stakeholders.

Governments evolve.
Policies change.
Regulatory frameworks adapt.

But security obligations remain constant.

By maintaining constructive relationships across political environments, Spoils of War Strategic Group is able to anticipate regulatory shifts, understand legislative priorities, and align its services with evolving public policy.

Modern security operations are inseparable from:

• National legislation
• Licensing and authorization regimes
• Export controls
• Data protection laws
• Defense and security regulations
• Public procurement frameworks

Our leadership’s experience within political and institutional circles enables us to:

✔️ Navigate complex authorization processes
✔️ Anticipate regulatory risks
✔️ Ensure long-term compliance
✔️ Protect client operations from legal exposure
✔️ Maintain institutional credibility

Security is not only operational.
It is legal, political, and regulatory.

All major security, defense, and strategic initiatives require interaction with:

• Regulators
• Legislators
• Ministries
• Supervisory authorities
• International institutions

Our network allows Spoils of War to engage responsibly with these stakeholders worldwide, always within legal and ethical boundaries.

This ensures that client projects are:

• Properly authorized
• Politically neutral
• Institutionally supported
• Legally defensible
• Reputationally secure

Our approach recognizes a fundamental reality:

Security operates within political systems.

Ignoring this reality exposes clients to regulatory, legal, and operational risk.

By integrating legal expertise, policy awareness, and institutional engagement, we deliver security solutions that are sustainable and compliant over the long term.

Through bipartisan relationships and institutional understanding, Spoils of War Strategic Group provides:

✅ Responsible access to decision-makers
✅ Regulatory intelligence
✅ Policy-aware security planning
✅ Authorization-ready operations
✅ Long-term institutional trust

We do not lobby.
We comply.
We anticipate.
We protect.

 Our Founder’s Journey & Leadership Philosophy

Our founder, Sunny, embodies the core values of Spoils of War Strategic Group: resilience, discipline, and unwavering commitment.

His professional journey reflects both success and adversity. More importantly, it reflects tenacity, persistence, and the refusal to surrender in the face of challenges.

Never giving up is not a slogan at Spoils of War.
It is a mindset.

Sunny built his career working with high-level executives, investors, and institutional partners as a former international lawyer and strategic advisor.

Throughout his career, he has operated in demanding environments where performance, discretion, and accountability were essential.

Like many leaders who operate at high levels, he has faced professional opposition, pressure, and unfounded accusations. These challenges tested his resolve—but never his principles.

He chose transparency over compromise.
Integrity over convenience.
Persistence over resignation.

He never yielded.

Rather than allowing setbacks to define him, Sunny transformed them into sources of strength.

These experiences reinforced:

• Strategic patience
• Risk awareness
• Legal and regulatory discipline
• Crisis management skills
• Ethical leadership

They shaped a leader who understands both success and pressure—and who can guide others through complex situations.

Spoils of War Strategic Group was founded on this philosophy:

✔️ Resilience under pressure
✔️ Loyalty to principles
✔️ Discipline in execution
✔️ Accountability in leadership
✔️ Long-term vision

We believe that true strength is not measured by the absence of difficulty, but by the ability to overcome it.

Under this leadership, Spoils of War Strategic Group delivers an integrated suite of high-level services, including:

• Geopolitical and strategic advisory
• Defense and security consulting
• Cybersecurity and digital resilience
• Institutional and executive training
• Risk management and compliance
• Business and strategic development

Each engagement is approached with rigor, discretion, and responsibility.

Sunny’s journey—marked by achievement, challenge, and perseverance—forms the foundation of our corporate culture.

He leads by example:

Through discipline.
Through transparency.
Through persistence.
Through results.

At Spoils of War Strategic Group, we do not retreat in difficult moments.
We analyze.
We adapt.
We execute.
We prevail.

Our clients benefit from leadership forged through experience, tested by adversity, and guided by principle.

Sunny’s academic background and professional certifications reflect a rare combination of legal rigor, financial expertise, and strategic leadership.

He holds an LL.M. in Banking and Financial Law from Boston University, and a “Top Negotiator” certification from Harvard Law School’s Program on Negotiation.

His professional training includes advanced instruction under Ambassador John Bolton, and summer judicial training under the late Justice Conrad Duberstein of the U.S. Eastern District of New York.

Sunny has also contributed to academic instruction as an Adjunct Professor of Investment Banking at Baruch College, where he taught for one semester before launching his own securities law practice.

This experience reflects his ability to bridge theory and real-world financial practice.

He was recognized as a leading securities attorney in New York by Super Lawyers in 2014 and 2015, ranking in the top 10% of practitioners in his field.

This distinction reflects peer recognition for excellence in complex financial and corporate matters.

Sunny’s understanding of European legal and regulatory systems is rooted in his academic and professional training in France.

He holds a Master’s degree in Private Law from the University of Avignon and is recognized as a French Jurist at Law.

This dual legal background enables him to operate effectively across US and European jurisdictions.

As a former Wall Street and international corporate attorney, Sunny has structured and executed multi-million-dollar transactions for:

• Fortune 200 corporations
• Institutional investors
• High-growth startups
• Cross-border ventures
• Private equity and capital markets clients

His practice has included complex mergers, securities offerings, PIPE transactions, restructurings, and strategic financings.

This experience provides deep insight into how financial, legal, and operational risks intersect.

His military discipline is complemented by an advanced understanding of:

• International finance
• Securities regulation
• Corporate governance
• Cross-border taxation and structuring
• Regulatory compliance
• Risk management

In parallel, his experience as a former Wall Street lawyer has given him strong familiarity with lobbying dynamics and policy-influence networks in Washington, particularly during the Donald Trump administration.

This enables Spoils of War to anticipate how political, regulatory, and financial environments affect client operations.

Sunny’s extensive professional network and strategic credibility are reflected in past collaborations with:

• Senior legal practitioners
• Financial institutions
• Government advisors
• Policy specialists
• Defense and security consultants
• Technology and cybersecurity experts

These relationships enhance the Group’s ability to deliver integrated, multi-jurisdictional solutions.

Sunny’s background uniquely combines:

✔️ Advanced legal scholarship
✔️ High-level financial structuring
✔️ Academic instruction
✔️ Military discipline
✔️ Policy and regulatory awareness
✔️ International business experience

This multidisciplinary profile positions Spoils of War Strategic Group at the intersection of finance, law, security, and governance.

Through academic rigor, professional excellence, and international experience, Sunny provides leadership grounded in competence, credibility, and integrity.

His journey reflects a commitment to building legally sound, financially aligned, and strategically resilient solutions for complex global environments.

Beyond his civilian professional career, Sunny — our founder — is also a seasoned warrior whose leadership has been forged through real operational service.

He served as a Staff Sergeant in the elite Golani Brigade and in the Egoz Unit reserve formation (Unit 7810). He is a combat veteran and active reservist who has recently served as a sniper support team member in the Israel Defense Forces reserves during Operation Iron Swords.

His military experience is grounded in discipline, precision, responsibility, and respect for command structures — qualities that continue to inform his leadership today.

Sunny is also a trained Israeli “Bariah” (border and airport combat security agent), having completed advanced security training at Sdot Yam.
This training focuses on:

• Aviation and border security
• Threat detection and behavioral analysis
• Access control and perimeter defense
• Prevention and rapid neutralization protocols (within legal frameworks)

This expertise strengthens his understanding of high-risk environments and critical infrastructure protection.

Sunny’s commitment to service is deeply rooted in family history.

He is the grandson of Joseph Barkats, a Brigadier-Chef of the French Police in Marseille, who served during World War II and helped preserve France’s honor as a combat medic with the French forces at Battle of Monte Cassino, under the command of Alphonse Juin.

This legacy of duty, courage, and service across generations continues to shape Sunny’s values and sense of responsibility.

Sunny is openly committed to his convictions as a Zionist, while maintaining professional discipline, political neutrality in operations, and full respect for legal and institutional frameworks.

His worldview is shaped by experience — not ideology alone — and by a clear understanding of the cost of conflict and the importance of restraint, law, and structure.

Sunny’s profile reflects a rare duality:

• Not only a jurist, strategist, and financial expert
• But also a combat-tested soldier with elite operational experience

He is not a “bookworm” disconnected from reality, nor a warrior detached from law and governance.

He represents the convergence of:
✔️ Intellectual rigor
✔️ Military discipline
✔️ Operational realism
✔️ Ethical responsibility

This combination of battlefield experience and high-level professional expertise defines the spirit of Spoils of War Strategic Group:

Strategy informed by reality.
Security guided by law.
Leadership tested under pressure.

To strengthen its capabilities in high-risk and complex environments, Spoils of War Strategic Group integrates a network of seasoned Israeli and French security, defense, and international affairs professionals.

This multidisciplinary structure enables a nuanced understanding of emerging threats, geopolitical dynamics, and strategic opportunities on a global scale.

Our approach is advisory, analytical, and compliant with all applicable national and international regulations.

Through long-standing professional relationships, Spoils of War maintains access to former senior professionals from:

• Intelligence and internal security services
• Counter-terrorism and crisis response units
• Special intervention and protective services
• Strategic defense and policy advisory circles
• International security and risk management institutions

This network includes retired officers and specialists who now operate as consultants, trainers, and strategic advisors.

All engagements are conducted under formal authorization and within legal frameworks.

For clients exposed to elevated security, political, or reputational risks, our structure allows the mobilization of senior advisors with extensive operational and strategic experience.

These experts support:

• Threat environment analysis
• Crisis anticipation and response planning
• Protective strategy design
• Institutional resilience programs
• High-level risk mitigation frameworks

Our role is to advise, structure, and coordinate—never to replace sovereign authorities.

The Group maintains strong professional ties with Israeli and European institutional circles.

Our founder has recently been honored in Israel’s Knesset by members and former senior military leaders, in recognition of his commitment to security, resilience, and international cooperation.

Among those who have publicly expressed their respect and support is Uzi Dayan, former Major General of the Israel Defense Forces and prominent public figure.

This recognition reflects the credibility and seriousness of our institutional engagement.

All international advisory activities are governed by:

• National security legislation
• Export control regulations
• International humanitarian law
• Defense cooperation agreements
• Professional ethics standards

We operate exclusively through authorized, transparent, and contractually defined mandates.

Our international advisory model is based on:

✔️ Legality before action
✔️ Strategy before tactics
✔️ Intelligence before escalation
✔️ Prevention before reaction
✔️ Stability before confrontation
✔️ Accountability before discretion

We provide insight, not interference.
We deliver structure, not improvisation.

Through our international network, we offer:

✅ Access to senior-level expertise
✅ Multinational risk analysis
✅ Institutional-grade advisory services
✅ Lawful and ethical operations
✅ Discreet and responsible engagement

Our mission is to strengthen security, resilience, and strategic clarity—while fully respecting sovereign authority and legal boundaries. We help clients achieve security and protection all within CNAPS compliant framework in the French Riviera and beyond !