Parking services provider Pango has announced the acquisition of 100% of the Israeli taxi services company Gett for USD175 million. FBC & Co. advised Gett and its primary shareholders, including Access and Swedish fund VNV, the largest shareholder. The FBC team was led by Eran Yaniv, co-head of the Hi-Tech, Technology & Venture Capital practice, […]
Author: Idan Nishlis
Alicorn Venture Capital Partners is to buy Glassbox Ltd. for approximately USD150 million. Alicorn was one of the funds that invested in Glassbox at an early stage. Glassbox, which went public on the Tel Aviv Stock Exchange at a USD500 million valuation three years ago, provides software-as-a-service (SaaS) solutions to analyze browsing data for customers on […]
Permira Growth Opportunities II, a fund advised by global private equity firm Permira, has agreed to acquire a majority position in BioCatch, a Tel Aviv-based cyber company and global leader in digital fraud detection and financial crime prevention. Latham & Watkins represents Permira in the transaction with a private equity M&A team led by Washington, […]
In Israel, contenders for Firm of the Year are Agmon with Tulchinsky, Erdinast. Ben Nathan. Toledano, Epstein Rosenblum Maoz (ERM), Greenberg Traurig Tel Aviv, Herzog, S. Horowitz, Lipa Meir, H-F and The Luzzatto Group. The Pro Bono award sees a competitive field, with EBN, ERM, The Luzzatto Group, and Herzog among the nine firms vying […]
The rankings showcase those magic circle firms, global powerhouses, large corporate law firms, and specialist boutiques that are most active in Israel-related deals in 2023. Check out the rankings and editorial here.
Whichever way you slice and dice it, these are challenging times in Israel but out of adversity there is a great deal of hope, solidarity, and innovation. One such country where we see this is Germany, Israel’s strongest trade partner in the EU. “There is a lot of compatibility between this big German economy and […]
Lipa Meir & Co. has been awarded the Israel Law Firm of the Year at the prestigious IFLR Europe Awards. As has been tradition at IFLR for over 25 years, its awards also focus on innovation and cross-border deals. Furthermore, the Women in Business Law Awards have unveiled their nominations for this year. In Israel, […]
Venture capital giant Andreessen Horowitz has raised a new USD7.2 billion fund that will focus, among other things, on gaming and artificial intelligence. The fundraising is not only one of the largest completed by the company but also relatively significant, given the current slowdown in the technology market and general caution on the part of […]
Despite the war and the Passover holidays, Israeli start-ups raised over USD1 billion in April 2024, according to press releases seen by Globes. In the first four months of 2024, Israeli start-ups have raised USD2.6 billion. In March 2024, large financing rounds were led by data security company Cyera which raised USD300 million. Enterprise browser […]
Israeli digital printing company, Velox – Predigital has completed a Series B financing in which it raised USD38 million from several investors, led by Fortissimo Capital, the Israeli private equity fund. FBC represented the company in the transaction led by Sharon Gazit, Hi-Tech, Technology and Venture Capital partner, together with associate Matan Hanina and intern Chen Schechter.
