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Legally Israel – News Roundup July 23rd 2021
With the Olympic games officially underway and our attention turns to the sporting world, there is still plenty of action in the Israeli market - mainly cross-border transactions. Two interesting Israel/UK transactions - Israeli content company, advised by Bryan Cave Leighton Paisner buys UK software company and Israeli energy and infrastructure fund [...]
Israel Market Intelligence – Now at Your Fingertips
Track clients and the Israeli law firms representing them, compare ranking results of selected firms and cross reference legal departments. A new business intelligence tool, analyzing the Israeli Legal market, offers a competitive advantage for international law firms with an Israel Desk. Data gathered from 155 Israeli law firms, showcasing 3,902 companies [...]
Land of Milk and Honey – Legal Business Israel Focus 2021
The Covid-19 pandemic hit Israel about as hard as anywhere else but local lawyers are confident operating in an ultra-resilient market. Few, if any, national economies escaped 2020 with a clean bill of health, and Israel was no exception. As per the Central Bureau of Statistics, the country’s economy contracted [...]
Legally Israel – News Roundup July 15th 2021
With SoftBank, one of the world’s biggest VC firms, opening an office in Israel and the latest IVC and Meitar Tech Review for the first half of 2021 showing record investments, there were more encouraging signs for the Israeli hi-tech sector. In Capital Markets, Erdinast, Ben Nathan, Toledano & Co. With Hamburger [...]
Legally Israel – News Roundup July 9th 2021
Another busy week at the startup nation. Erdinast, Ben Nathan, Toledano & Co. With Hamburger Evron advised HIVE2040 R&D Ltd. on an IPO and follow-on investments. White & Case and Horn & Co. act for Israeli cancer drug developer Biosight Ltd. as it merges with US immunotherapy company Advaxis - represented by Herzog, Fox & Neeman [...]
Israel Desks Leaders Give Insight on New Norm
According to the Bank of Israel, it is high-tech’s ‘notable share in Israel’s economy’ [that] is one of the factors in the ‘moderate adverse economic impact’ of the COVID-19 crisis in Israel relative to that in many other advanced economies. Since the turn of the year, as the vaccine rollout [...]
Legally Israel – News Roundup July 2nd 2021
With the uptick in M&A deal activity in Israel, Mergermarket this week published a table for the Middle East and Africa showing that seven Israeli law firms feature in the top 20 table by volume, while, Meitar, Herzog, Fox & Neeman and Yigal Arnon take the top 3 spots. New [...]
Women in Business Law Awards Europe 2021 – Israel Winners Announced
Congratulations Agmon & Co. Rosenberg Hacohen & Co. for winning Israel Firm of the Year - Women in Business Law Awards 2021. Terrific results for Herzog, Fox & Neeman for picking up the Pro Bono Firm of the year, Europe. According to research conducted, by Legal-BI, while %47 of all lawyers in Israel are [...]
7 Israeli firms in Mergermarket top 20 for Middle East and Africa (by volume)
M&A deal activity in the Israel market has rebounded, boosted by the resilience of its high-tech sector, while the increase in value can be partly attributed to the recent abundance of US SPACs who have been exploring markets outside of the US for their targets. In a table this week [...]
IsraelDesks Magazine – Legally Israel 100 Special Edition
It's a perfect time, mid-way through 2021 and days into a new Government, to bring you the latest Israel Desks magazine. In this edition, we showcase those law firms and lawyers who shone during 2020, one of the most challenging years in recent memory. In the 3rd Israel Desks League [...]
Legally Israel – News Roundup June 19th 2021
With new PM Naftali Bennett having achieved great success in the ever-vibrant and growing fintech sector, we also look at 11 Israeli fintech unicorns helping to change the world and note how Yigal Arnon & Co. has helped to achieve a vital step on the way to regulating blockchain activity in Israel. In [...]
Women In Innovation Network – Invite
We are delighted to participate and sponsor the Women in Innovation Program 2021. This online event is the first in a series of sessions of WIIN2021, hosting 12 leading speakers from 7 countries, exploring why Diversity matters and how it can boost Innovation. According to the European Commission, female entrepreneurs are changing [...]