Mergers & Acquisitions

Our M&A department is an industry leader that is consistently involved in the most significant and complex M&A transactions. Our M&A team has decades of experience in a broad range of M&A deals, with particular expertise in advising North American, European and Asian investors in their M&A transactions with Israeli companies.

Within our department, we also have a number of dedicated specialist teams, each focussing on a different key M&A field, such as publicly traded companies, foreign investors and multi-nationals, technology companies as well as teams with specific sector expertise.  Our overall strength and this specialist knowledge distinguishes our M&A department and allows us to advise clients from a position of strength with detailed knowledge of the specific issues involved in the particular deal.

Our M&A team offers comprehensive legal services to acquirers, sellers, targets, investors, special committees and financial institutions, including:

• Negotiating share and asset purchase transactions;
• Advising on statutory mergers; reverse triangular mergers; exchange and cash tender offers; spin-offs; recapitalisations, leveraged buyouts, joint ventures and court approved arrangements among shareholders;
• Conducting legal due diligence reviews and assisting selling companies in the preparation of due diligence disclosures;
• Advising boards of directors on corporate governance issues;
• Advising on the treatment of management and employee participation and incentive programs in M&A transactions;
• Securing regulatory approvals and licenses;
• Assisting in the preparation of registration statements and completing the appropriate filings for the Israeli Securities Authority;
• Drafting and negotiating documents for financing M&A transactions such as bank and convertible loan agreements.

Our team has led the way in advising on different types of M&A transactions in recent years, including the sale of management activities of provident funds, mutual funds management, ETFs, transfer of portfolio management activities, stock or asset purchases of private and public companies, splits, tender offers, purchases of shell companies and equity restructuring of major Israeli public companies.