General Motors buys Israeli software start-up Algolion to detect early battery defects
General Motors has bought Israeli software start-up, Algolion, which developed software that warns against potentially explosive batteries in electric vehicles.
As part of the acquisition, Algalion employees will join General Motors’ development center in Israel.
Arnon, Tadmor-Levy acted for Algolion, which was founded in 2014. The company was represented by attorneys Kobi Ben Shitrit, David Rons and Menachem Landau, also supported by Boaz Feinberg, Yocheved Novogruder-Shoshan, Miriam Friedman and Yaara Serry.
Mayer Brown’s team, which represented GM as lead counsel, was led by partner Nina Flax, and attorneys: Thomas Wu, Anthony Felix, Ziv Schwartz, Richard Assmus, Ryan Babcock, Remmelt Reigersman and Michael Gill.
Meitar acted as local counsel to GM with a team that, included Dan Shamgar, Yael Nardi, Keren Shitrit, Lilach Shacham Kaneti, Dana Yagur, Dr. Shimrit Itay-Horev, Lilach Gur, Or Rujder, Avigail Arfi Ben Shushan, Danielle Dotan and Noam Goorhuis.
