PRACTICE AREAS

Lawyers in our M&A Group have extensive experience in the full range of complicated merger and acquisition transactions. Our team is sophisticated, experienced, creative, efficient and responsive in helping our clients achieve their M&A objectives.  Many members of our M&A team have worked in overseas jurisdictions and have had experience in some of the largest M&A deals in Israel. We represent a broad range of public and private companies, private equity firms, investment banks, large conglomerates, government entities and other institutions and individuals in almost every type of M&A situation.

The types of M&A matters in which we have experience cover a broad spectrum of deals, including:

• Asset sales and purchases;
• Public takeovers;
• Corporate governance advice;
• Complex multi-jurisdictional deals;
• Joint ventures;
• Private equity;
• Recapitalizations;
• Disposals; and
• Tender offers.

As well as assisting clients in negotiating and structuring the transaction, our M&A lawyers take an holistic approach to M&A deals and combine their expertise with lawyers in our tax, antitrust, capital markets, corporate governance and securities compliance practice areas to advise our clients on a wide range of complex issues that can arise in merger and acquisition transactions.

We have appeared on many of the most challenging and high profile transactions in Israel in recent years.  Some recent transactions include representing:

• Corning Corp in its acquisition of Mobile Access Ltd.;
• Housing and Construction Ltd in its acquisition of a controlling interest inDerech Eretz, Highway 6 operator;
• Thales in its tender offer to purchase the share capital of CMT Medical Ltd.;
• Blackstone Capital in its acquisition of Hilton International;
• a consortium of the four largest Israeli banks in the three-way merger of the cable operators companies in Israel, and the related debt restructuring of the merged entity; and
• Markstone Capital in its sale of Yellow Pages.

For more information about our M&A practice, please contact David E. Tadmor or Yoel Neeman.