The Legal 500 EMEA 2022: Capital Markets
Naschitz Brandes Amir boasts of one of Israel’s most active and innovative Securities and Capital Markets practices advising global and domestic companies, issuers, underwriters, shareholders and other stakeholders across the full spectrum of equity and debt capital markets transactions, including IPOs, secondary offerings, equity, convertible and debt securities offerings, tender offers, public disclosure and reporting, corporate governance, and other regulatory matters. Our extensive client base includes NYSE, NASDAQ, LSE, and TASE-listed Israeli companies in a range of industries, as well as substantially all leading global investment banks active in Israel.
As recognized leaders with a preeminent reputation in global and domestic equity and debt capital markets, our practice and individual lawyers are consistently cited by international and domestic industry publications including Chambers Global, The Legal 500, IFLR1000, Who’s Who Legal – Capital Markets, Dun’s 100 and BDI.
Global Securities and Capital Markets Practice
We combine our broad legal knowledge and market-leading experience to represent Israeli issuers, shareholders, and global investment banks and underwriters in cross-border securities offerings of Israeli companies on NASDAQ, the NYSE, and the LSE, whether SEC-registered, Reg S or Rule 144 A offerings. We also provide ongoing expert advice to a long roster of global public company clients traded on NASDAQ, the NYSE, and the LSE, as well as to "dual-listed" companies traded both in the US/UK and on the Tel Aviv Stock Exchange. A number of partners in our practice have years of experience working for leading US, UK, and global law firms and are admitted to practice law in New York, which provides us with the ability to deliver sophisticated and prompt advice in real-time. Naschitz Brandes Amir’s global securities and capital markets lawyers leverage the firm’s network of partners from leading US, UK, and international law firms to support clients’ cross-border and multi-jurisdictional needs.
Local Securities and Capital Markets Practice
Our domestic capital markets team is well versed in handling all aspects of securities and company law for companies publicly listed on the Tel Aviv Stock Exchange, including IPOs, right and other offerings, equity, convertible and debt securities placements, tender offers, interested party transactions, public disclosures and reporting corporate governance, and other regulatory matters.
How we help our clients:
- IPOs
- SPACs
- Follow-on and secondary public offerings
- Convertible debt offerings
- Investment grade and high-yield debt offerings
- Rule 144A/Regulation S offerings
- Corporate governance
- Shelf registrations and takedowns
- At-the-market offerings
- Registered direct offerings and PIPE transactions
- Tender and exchange offers
- M&A financing
- Spin-off transactions
- Stock exchange listing, compliance, and disclosure matters
- Securities litigation and enforcement
- Represented Tremor International in its $1.5 billion NASDAQ IPO led by RBC and Stifel ($130 million)
- Represented NASDAQ-listed Wix.com in its 144A Convertible Notes Offerings led by J.P. Morgan, Bank of America, Goldman Sachs, and Morgan Stanley ($1.020 billion)
- Represented the initial purchasers in NASDAQ/TASE-listed NICE's 144A Convertible Notes Offering led by BofA, Citi, and Morgan Stanley ($460 million)
- Represented the initial purchasers in NASDAQ/TASE-listed Nova Measuring's 144A Convertible Notes Offering led by BofA and Citi ($200 million)
- Represented the initial purchasers in NASDAQ-listed CyberArk Security's 144A Convertible Notes Offering led by Morgan Stanley, Goldman Sachs, Barclays, and Citi ($575 million)
- Exchange ($2.5 billion market cap) and in a series of secondary offerings ($625 million)
- Represented ImageSat in its TASE IPO (NIS 950 million)
- Represented G1 Security (formerly G4S) in its TASE IPO (NIS 550 million)
- Represented Solaer Renewable Energies Ltd in its TASE Initial Bond offering (NIS 240 million)
- Represented Aeronautics in its TASE IPO (NIS 1 billion)
- Represented Inrom Construction Industries in its TASE IPO (NIS 350 million)
- Represented FIMI in share offering by NASDAQ-listed Kamada
- Represented UNITRONICS (1989) (R"G) LTD in its split of UTRON LTD to a new public company in the TASE
- Represented Tremor in London Stock Exchange share placing to News Corp
- Represented Connexa Sports Technologies in its share exchange with PlaySight Interactive and in its Nasdaq IPO
- Represented Guggenheim and Oppenheimer as underwriters in the public offering of NASDAQ-listed Vascular Biogenics
- Represented LSE-listed Amiad Water Systems in its TASE IPO
- Represented INTER GREEN LTD in its TASE Initial Bond offering (NIS 200 million)
- Represented OVERSEAS COMMERCE LTD in its TASE IPO (NIS 400 million)
- Represented Taptica International in London Stock Exchange primary and secondary offerings ($125 million) and HSBC bank financing ($30 million)
- Represented Gilat Satellite in NASDAQ/TASE Global Rights Offering
- Represented Magal Security in NASDAQ Global Rights Offering
- Represented Goldman Sachs, J.P. Morgan, Deutsche Bank, Barclays, Merrill Lynch, and UBS as underwriters in CyberArk Software's NASDAQ IPO ($100 million) and in a series of secondary and follow-on offerings ($600 million)
- Represented Marimedia in London Stock Exchange IPO ($50 million)
- Represented Plus500 in London Stock Exchange IPO ($75 million)
- Represented Citi and Deutsche Bank as underwriters in the NYSE IPO of Gazit-Globe ($90 million)
- Represented Imperva in NYSE IPO ($85 million)
- Represented EZchip Semiconductor in NASDAQ secondary offering ($50 million)
- Represented Citi, Deutsche Bank, and Goldman Sachs as underwriters in the NYSE IPO of Cellcom ($400 million)
- Represented E & M COMPUTING LTD in its split of HIPER GLOBAL LTD to a new public company in the TASE
- Represent the Tel Aviv Stock Exchange in capital markets matters