OUR TEAM

Yoel Neeman's practice covers a wide range of matters associated with mergers, acquisitions and other corporate matters. He regularly advises leading corporations and other institutions in planning and structuring acquisitions, divestitures, restructurings and other associated transactions. Yoel has extensive experience in cross-border transactions, including the United States, Europe and the Far East and has represented a broad range of clients in a variety of different industries.

Among Yoel's recent notable transactions are the representation of:

• Blackstone Capital in its acquisition of Hilton International;
• Eurocom Group in its acquisition of Enlight Renewable Energy;
• Thales in its acquisition of CMT Medical;
• A consortium of the four largest Israeli banks in the three-way merger of the cable operators companies in Israel, and the related approximately $1.0 billion debt restructuring of the merged entity;
• Markstone Capital in its sale of Yellow Pages for approximately $123 million.

Yoel also provides general corporate advice, including with respect to all commercial activities, director duties and responsibilities, corporate compliance matters and financing transactions, to a number of firm clients on an ongoing and regular basis.

Yoel also represents both venture capitalists and Israeli start-up companies on a regular basis.

In the past, Yoel was a mergers and acquisitions attorney at the New York law offices of Skadden Arps Slate Meagher & Flom.

Publications:

Co-author (together with Yaniv Aronowich) of "Should a Bank Selling Debt Grant the Guarantor a Preemptive Right to Purchase Such Debt?", published in Ta'agidim (Corporations) quarterly (Vol. G/3 (August 2010)