Global merger and acquisition (M&A) activity shattered all-time records in 2021, comfortably erasing the high-water mark that was set nearly 15 years ago, as an abundance of capital and sky-high valuations fueled frenetic levels of dealmaking, according to an analysis of Dealogic data. Technology and healthcare, which typically account for the biggest share of the […]
Author: Idan Nishlis
We caught up with Yis Hiller, who leads Asserson’s newly formed US Litigation and Dispute Resolution practice. Yis is a dual-qualified US-UK lawyer who sits in Asserson’s Tel Aviv office. Yis joined the firm ten years ago as a US litigator after having worked at several top US law firms. Yis qualified as a British […]
Meshek Energy has signed an agreement to buy 40% of Dalia Energy from Mishkei Hakibbutzim, a major commercial organization of the kibbutzim in Israel, at a value of NIS 3.2 billion. Mishkei Hakibbutzim is the owner of one of the largest private power plants in Israel. Upon completion of the transaction, Meshek Energy will become […]
Tel Aviv-based rail cybersecurity start-up, Cylus has raised USD 30 million in order to help protect trains and metros worldwide and tackle the rapidly growing cyber threat to rail networks. Ibex Investors led the Series B with Vertex Growth Fund, Strides International Business, Magma Venture Partners, Vertex Ventures Israel and GlenRock Israel. Israeli serial entrepreneur […]
Epitomee Medical Ltd. has completed an IPO on the Tel Aviv Stock Exchange. As part of the IPO, Epitomee raised NIS 162 million for a valuation of NIS 632 million. Epitomee’s groundbreaking technology allows a patient to receive biological treatment directly to the digestive system, by swallowing a capsule containing small medical devices, instead of […]
Israeli cultivated meat company Future Meat has raised USD 347 million in what is believed to be the largest amount ever invested worldwide in a cultivated meat company. The sum will be used to build a production plant in the U.S. Sources in the foodtech industry estimate that the money was raised at a company valuation […]
A huge real estate deal – one of the largest private transactions on the TASE, at NIS 3.1billion, has been signed, as Equity Finance, owned by businessman Aharon Frankel, sold a 37.2% stake of Bayside Land Corp. (Gav Yam) to Discount Investment Group’s Property & Building Corp. Eitan Shmueli, Zuriel (Zuri) Lavie and Ido Zborof […]
A report by Start-Up Nation Central showed that the number of companies that reached a USD 1 billion valuation and gained Unicorn status more than doubled, with 33 new Unicorns being born this year, taking Israel’s total to 53. Foreign-based VCs were responsible for the lion’s share of investments, including Insight Partners (participated in 49 […]
Gornitzky has announced that 13 senior lawyers from Eitan, Mehulal, Sadot have joined the firm. Among the new arrivals are partners Netta Shaked-Stadler, Guy Hadar, Karen Reichbach Segal, Shirley Gal, Alon Rom, Guy Ido, Aline Wekselman, and Gil Sigal, whose experience span a vast range of fields, including high-tech, international transactions, intellectual property, and insolvency […]
Agmon & Co., Rosenberg Hacohen & Co. adds labor law expertise and depth, with the joining of Labor law boutique firm Lapidor & Co. Dganit Lapidor Singer and Menachem (Hemi) Lapidor, two of Israel’s leading labor law attorneys, will join us as partners and lead the firm’s labor law practice.
