Notwithstanding the global COVID pandemic and economic recession, 2020 is proving to be a record-breaking year for Israeli technology start-up companies. In this article, published in the US-Israel Legal Review 2020, Simon Weintraub and Nimrod Vromen, partners in the High Tech Practice Group at Yigal Arnon & Co., look at how the Israeli economy has […]
Author: Idan Nishlis
DLA Piper’s Israel Country Group last week hosted a virtual event, in collaboration with Axis Innovation, focused on the Nordic region. DLA’s Peter Näslund (Managing Partner, DLA Piper Sweden), Salla Tuominen (Partner, DLA Piper Finland), Camilla Wollan (Partner, DLA Piper Norway) and Jens Krogh Petersen (Partner, Head of Corporate, DLA Piper Denmark) discussed business opportunities […]
As 2020 comes to a close, we take this opportunity to look back at some of the more significant developments that we discussed in the blog this year. The first is the EU Court of Justice’s Schrems II decision, finding that the EU-U.S. Privacy Shield was not a valid mechanism for transferring personal data from […]
Gross Law Firm has acted for Melio, in closing a USD 110 million financing round, on a USD 1.3 billion valuation, bringing B2B payments for small medium businesses into the 21st century. Melio, a business payments service focused on small and medium businesses in the U.S., raised the money in a funding round led by […]
Gornitzky & Co. represented ZeroWaste Ltd. in the financial close of approximately USD 250 million BOT Project for the construction, operation and maintenance of a waste treatment facility in the Shafdan, a project our firm has been overseeing for six years. The project is the first of its kind in Israel and 400 thousand tons […]
Erdinast, Ben Nathan, Toledano & Co. represented Tene Investment Funds in its USD 45 million equity and secondary investment, in GlassesUSA.com, A US-based Ecommerce company, and one of the global leading online retailers of prescription eyeglasses and eye wear accessories. Tene Investment Funds was represented by partners Lior Oren and Viva Gayer and associate Gad […]
Led by Mona Dajani, the Global Co-Head of the firm’s Energy & Infrastructure Projects team, a team of Pillsbury lawyers represented Shikun & Binui (S&B) USA Energy in its purchase from Capital Dynamics of 108MW in California of a solar portfolio consisting of two projects: Beacon II (59.6 MWdc) and Beacon V (48.2 MWdc). TortoiseEcofin partnered […]
Up until recently, regulations surrounding the public listing of cannabis firms has been unclear. However, since the FCA released a set of rules in September 2020, cannabis companies were quick to set things in motion. Herzog Fox & Neeman has been advising Tel Aviv-based Kanabo, which has developed the world’s first medicinal cannabis vapourising device, […]
Taboola is going public via a merger with ION Acquisition Corp. 1 Ltd. (NYSE: IACA), a publicly traded special purpose acquisition company, or SPAC, with UDS 259 million in trust. The transaction is expected to close in Q2 of 2021. Taboola is focused on providing Open Web digital properties (including websites, devices, TV apps and […]
A first-of-its-kind research, conducted by Nishlis Legel Marketing, in collaboration with ACC Israel, presents for the first time a glimpse into the world of Israeli legal advisers and provides insights gained from the study, which every lawyer, domestic and foreign – who has activity in Israel, must read and comprehend. According to Nira Poren, CEO […]
