Mergers and Acquisitions, Securities and Corporate Law

Our law firm has in-depth and long-standing knowledge and experience in the field of mergers and acquisitions. The firm has been handling and handles a wide range of merger and acquisition transactions (both of companies and of assets and activities) in all areas of commerce and industry, including acquiring and selling companies (in whole or in part), purchase offers, and purchasing/selling activities, in Israel and abroad. Among others, the firm handled the following transactions:

• The sale of all of Amarz Romania’s assets (including handling the obtainment of a permit of the Antitrust Commissioner in Romania)
• Acquisition of “Yellow Pages” by the Australian fund Babcock & Brown, as well as the sale of the fund’s holdings in “Yellow Pages” to institutional bodies in Israel
• The sale of a cardboard activity of Orda Print Industries Ltd. to Amir Marketing and Investments Ltd.
• Acquisition of control in the public company Plastro Irrigation Systems Ltd. by the Australian Gandel Group (including handling the banking financing for the transaction)
• Handling the transaction for the acquisition of joint control in Glacon Bakarim Agricultural Cooperative Society Ltd.
• Acquiring by Galcon Bakarim Agricultural Cooperative Society Ltd., of the entire activity of the US company Cyber-Rain, Inc., in the field of designing, manufacturing, marketing and selling smart irrigation products

The firm provides comprehensive and ongoing services (“one stop shop”) to numerous public and private companies (some of which have become from public to private with the assistance of our firms). These services include, among others, all aspects related to corporate law, corporate governance, capital markets and securities and corporate secretary, including:

• Purchase offers
• Interested parties transactions
• De-listing traded companies
• Capital raising (including preparation of PPMs)
• Senior officers’ remuneration
• Reports to the authorities (including periodic and immediate reports)
• Disputes settlement in the above fields – see also under “Litigation”

In addition, the firm has handled and handles venture capital and securities transactions. These services are provided both to the recipients of funding, and (especially) to the financiers – institutional bodies, funds and private and business parties – from Israel and from abroad. These transactions include, among others:

• Investment transactions
• Venture lending transactions
• Convertible loans/convertible notes
• Warrants
• Incentive plans for issuing securities to employees, officers, consultants and more, including contracting with trustees, preparing issuance agreements, accompanying the execution of issuance according to the plan; and more.