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 Generation Capital, represented by Yigal [...]
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 and derived from 7,400 matters, [...]
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 by 2.4% across the year, the [...]
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 Evron acted on the largest [...]
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 and Morgan, Lewis. Yigal Arnon represented [...]
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 became the envy of many [...]
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 Israeli Foreign Minister, Yair Lapid [...]
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 female, only 23% of the [...]
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 published by Mergermarket, five Israeli [...]
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 Tables, read about which firms [...]
