The Times of Israel reports that Israeli tech companies raised $2.24 billion in the third quarter of 2019, the most since 2013. Firms made 142 fundraising deals, a 37% increase over last year, although researchers noted a move away from risky investments. Read the article here.
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DWF, the global legal business, is to open its 4th office in Germany through the recruitment of the entire Düsseldorf office of Marccus Partners. Ten people, including five partners, will join DWF. Marccus Partners specialises in company law, M&A, insolvency, banking & finance, real estate and tax. Dr Norbert Knüppel, who is transferring from […]
World Tax has published its 2020 rankings for Israel for General Corporate Tax, Private Client, Real Estate and Tax Controversy. Click here to see the rankings: https://www.itrworldtax.com/Jurisdiction/Israel/Rankings/48#rankings
Mergermarket has published the legal advisory shortlist for the 2019 M&A Awards. The shortlist for Israel M&A Legal Adviser of the Year 2019 includes the following law firms: Herzog, Fox and Neeman Meitar Liquornik Geva Leshem Tal Naschitz Brandes Amir & Co Yigal Arnon & Co. Winners will be announced December 4th. The entire legal […]
With Israelis having gone to the polls again, for the second time in five months, we take a look at one of the vitally significant issues affecting the electorate – infrastructure. WIth projects amounting to hundreds of billions of shekels, we speak to a number of key experts about the latest trends in the market […]
Aric Press, the former editor in chief of The American Lawyer and then its parent company, ALM Media, is the doyen of legal commentators in the US. Here he conducts a roundtable discussion with two of Israel’s senior in-house technology counsel: Edva Liveanu-Justo, Region Counsel, Central Europe and Israel, at HP; and Gideon Rosenberg, Deputy […]
In January 2019, approximately 200 representatives from nearly 100 Japanese companies, including Mitsubishi and Toshiba, accompanied the Japanese Minister of the Economy, Hiroshige Seko to Israel. They attended meetings of the Japan Israel Innovation Network (“JIIN”), whose goal is to advance and strengthen economic cooperation between Japan and Israel and which has organized business networking […]
Murphy & McGonigle launch Blockchain Litigation Database (BLD) to bring cryptocurrency cases from different jurisdictions into a single, searchable location. Created by Murphy & McGonigle’s Innovation Lab, the BLD tracks total cases, trends, designation of cases as criminal or civil, and whether it involves the SEC or the CFTC. The first full year of tracking […]
Greenberg Traurig represented Future Media in an acquisition that brought W Magazine together with Surface and Watch Journal to form Future Media Group.
With more than 600 smart car and transport start-ups, up from less than 100 in 2013, Israel is leading the mobility and smart transport technologies. For a country without a single auto assembly line, it is astonishing that it is today a leader in fields such as automation and connectivity, urban mobility, shared mobility and […]
