Yair Geva
Partner
Yair Geva heads Herzog’s Startups and Emerging Companies Group. He is a New York & Israeli corporate transactional lawyer, whose practice includes extensive representation of tech companies, investors and acquirers in cross border mergers and acquisitions, private equity and venture capital investments, and general corporate counselling. Prior to joining the firm, he practiced at the M&A groups of Gibson Dunn and Davis Polk in New York.
Yair is ranked among the top M&A and Startup Lawyers in Israel by Chambers (Band 1), Legal500 and IFLR, and has led some of the most notable cross border transactions in Israel. He advises many of the most prominent startups and emerging growth companies in Israel in a range of industries including e-commerce, cyber, fintech, blockchain & web3, crypto, clean energy, and biotech. He works closely with entrepreneurs, CEOs and Boards of Directors on transactions, investments and other strategic matters.
Yair earned his LL.M from NYU School of Law and his LL.B from Tel Aviv University, both magna cum laude. He is a member of both the New York and Israel Bars and was a member of the Tel Aviv Law School Law Journal.
He is very pro-business and makes things happen. He comes up with pragmatic solutions rather than legal ones
Editorial member of the Tel Aviv University Law Journal as well as a research assistant.
- New York, 2003
- Israel Bar Association, 2004
- New York University, USA, LL.M (magna cum laude), 2003
- Tel Aviv University, Israel, LL.B (magna cum laude), 2002, (member of the TAU's Law Review)
- Founders’ Equity: Key Considerations for Israeli-Related Tech Startups
- Funding and Structuring Defense Tech Startups
- Can we finally see signs of optimism?
- The Corporate Transparency Act: Key Insights for Global Compliance
- 83(B) Election Update
- Spera is acquired by Okta
- Overview of NVCA Documents Updates – October 2023
- Congratulations Pinecone on your $100M funding by Andreessen Horowitz
- Yair Geva on tech12
- Congrats Dor, Ariel and Spera Security on your $10M Seed Round
- Congratulations CodiumAI
- Herzog is a leading law firm in Israel
- OpenWeb acquires a publisher tech firm for $100M
- American Express acquires 100% of the issued shares of Nipendo Ltd.
- Trends in Transactions Involving IIA-Funded Companies
- OpenWeb Technologies Ltd. raises 170M USD
- Wellfield Technologies, Inc. acquired all the issued and outstanding shares of New Bit Ventures Ltd
- Herzog client, Israeli Fintech company Finaro (formerly Credorax), has been sold to Shift4 for $575M.
- Herzog’s Hi-Tech Bootcamp- Join Now!
- Partner Yair Geva & associate Reggev Mechalovich’s contribution to the Chambers Technology M&A Guide 2022
- Our client Immunai inc. closed a major investment from Koch Disruptive Technologies as lead investor
- Fintech: Firing on All Cylinders
- Congratulations to our client, EJF Acquisition Corp., on the largest Israeli SPAC transaction to date!
- Our client Cynerio has raised $30M in its second funding round
- Our client Forter has completed its Series F round
- Our client Simplex has been acquired by Nuvei
- Our firm represented TWC Tech Holdings II Corp in its merger with Cellebrite
- Our client, Zoomin Software, has raised $52M in the C funding round
- Our clients, Kanabo Research, were the first cannabis-related company to go public on the London Stock Exchange
- Knowledge Series 2020 | Transformation in the Legal Industry
- Our clients Percepto raised approximately $45 million in consideration for Series B Preferred Stock.
- Our client Logz.io raised $23 million in a Series E round
- Congratulations to our client ,payment fraud prevention company, Forter
- Our client, Israeli startup Deci AI has raised $9.1M
- Our client, investment firm KKR, has acquired 1-800 Contacts, the largest ecommerce retailer of contact lenses in the U.S.
- Our Client TOKA GROUP successfully completed a $25M funding round
- Partner Yair Geva Interview to i24NEWS
- Our clients, the Swiss fund Forestay Capital SA and the investment fund Genesis Partners, are the leading investors in the latest capital raise by Israeli startup K2View
- Herzog Fox & Neeman Represents Contentsquare in Acquisition of Clicktale
- Herzog Fox & Neeman Represents AI Startup Dynamic Yield
- Alibaba Buys Israeli Augmented Reality Startup InfinityAR
- Chambers 2019 | Herzog Fox & Neeman Ranked Band-1 in 8 Practice Areas!
- Herzog Fox & Neeman Represents Entera Bio in $270m Amgen Licensing Deal
- Herzog Fox & Neeman Represents CodeMonkey Studio Inc. in Buy-Out
- Team8’s Sygnia bought by Singaporean Temasek
- Herzog Fox & Neeman Represents Tapingo in Sale to Grubhub
- Herzog Fox & Neeman Represents Forter in Series D Funding Round
- TheMarker: Yair Geva and Ofer Toledano Discuss Founders Agreements
- Herzog Fox & Neeman Represents PepsiCo in SodaStream Acquisition
- Herzog Fox & Neeman Represented Fosun in Investment in The Floor
- Herzog Fox & Neeman Advises Carbyne through Investment by Founders Fund
- Germany and Israel: New Opportunities Await | 16.1.18
- Herzog receives top rankings in the Legal 500 EMEA 2024 directory
- Herzog is ranked Tier 1 in 15 practice areas by The Legal 500 EMEA 2023
- Herzog Fox Neeman is ranked in all 24 practice areas by The Legal 500 EMEA 2022
- Herzog Fox & Neeman is Ranked by Chambers Global for 2022
- Herzog Fox Neeman is Ranked by The Legal 500 for 2021
- Herzog Fox & Neeman is Ranked by Chambers Global for 2021
- Herzog Fox & Neeman is Ranked 1st by Value in Mergermarket’s Israel League Table for 2020
- Herzog Fox & Neeman is ranked by the IFLR 1000 2021 Guide (30 Edition)
- Herzog Fox Neeman is Ranked by The Legal 500 for 2020
- Herzog Fox & Neeman is Ranked by Chambers Global for 2020
- Herzog Fox Neeman Won Cross Border M&A of the Year 2019 at the Atlas Awards
- Herzog Fox & Neeman is ranked Top Tier Firm by IFLR 1000 2020 Guide
- Herzog Fox & Neeman is Ranked by Chambers Global for 2019
- Herzog Fox & Neeman is ranked Top Tier Firm by IFLR 1000 2019 Guide
- Herzog Fox & Neeman is ranked Top Tier Firm by IFLR 1000 2018 Guide
- Herzog Fox & Neeman is Ranked by Chambers Global for 2017
- Herzog Fox & Neeman is ranked by the IFLR 1000 2017 Guide
- Leading Individual in Hi-Tech and Start-Ups (The Legal 500 2024).
- Band 1 in Startups & Emerging Companies (Chambers Global 2024).
- Highly Regarded in M&A (IFLR1000, 2023).
- Recommended in Fintech 2023 by WWL.
- Leading Individual in Hi-Tech and Start-Ups (The Legal 500 2023).
- Band 1 in Startups & Emerging Companies (Chambers Global 2023).
- Recommended in Fintech 2022 by WWL.
- Highly Regarded in M&A (IFLR1000, 2022).
- Leading Individual in Hi-Tech and Start-Ups (The Legal 500 2022).
- Band 1 in Startups & Emerging Companies (Chambers Global 2022).
- Recommended in Fintech 2021 by WWL.
- Leading Individual in Hi-Tech & Start-Ups (The Legal 500 2021).
- Ranked in Startups & Emerging Companies (Chambers Global 2021)
- Highly Regarded in M&A (IFLR1000, 2021).
- Leading Individual in Hi-Tech & Start-Ups (The Legal 500 2020).