Category: Deals
ERM acted for SoftBank Vision Fund and other investors on the US$ 100 million Series C investment round in StreamElements.
Simon Marks and Ron Abelski, partners in our High-Tech & Venture Capital practice, acted for SoftBank and the other investors, together with associates Errel Peli, Itamar Lev and Yarden Arad.
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ERM advises IKEA’s investment arm – Ingka Investments, on its investment into Israel’s Jifiti – The POS Financing Gateway, marking its first entry into a FinTech company.
Jeremy Seeff, partner at ERM’s High-Tech & Venture Capital practice, acted for Ingka together with associates Jonathan Zerker. Eti Avnery, partner in our Employment practice, and associate Yarden Arad, assisted on employment law matters.
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ERM advises Capital One Bank as co-investor in the series B and lead investor in the series B-2 financing of customer – interaction start-up Lightico, including advising on the creation of a new bank- regulatory- compliant class of shares. Despite initially joining as an additional investor in the round, Capital One’s complex bank regulatory requirements effectively created the need for renegotiation of various financing documents, led by ERM.
Jeremy Seeff, partner at ERM’s High-Tech & Venture Capital practice, acted for Capital One Bank together with associates Dr Laura Jelinek.
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ERM advises on all Israeli aspects of the spin-out of all of Daimler AG’s (and its Israeli subsidiary – Mercedes Benz R&D) IT assets.
Ron Abelski, partner at ERM’s Corporate and M&A practice, acted for Daimler AG and Mercedes Benz together with associate Itamar Lev.
ERM advises Capital One Bank as co-investor in the financing of fintech unicorn Melio, both by way of direct investment and by way of warrants linked to commercial milestones tracking a commercial agreement as between Capital One and the company. Due to complex US bank regulatory matters, and timing of the investment, Capital One’s joining of the previously negotiated C round (alongside investors such as Coatue, General Catalyst, Accel, Bessemer Venture Partners, and others) required re-negotiation of various elements of the previously signed series C SPA, as well as significant changes to the target’s articles.
Jeremy Seeff, partner at ERM’s High-Tech & Venture Capital practice, acted for Capital One Bank together with associates Dr Laura Jelinek.
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ERM advises Modiin Energy and Alon Gas Energy Development (two Israeli oil & gas public corporations), who entered into a framework development agreement with Fusion (an American energy company). Under the agreement, the parties will cooperate in developing solar power projects in the US. The initial pipeline includes eight projects with an aggregate capacity of 118MW .
Asaf Rimon, partner at ERM’s Energy & Infrastructure practice, acted for Modiin Energy and Alon Gas.
For media coverage of the deal (Hebrew), please click here.
ERM advises Kape and its 6 Israeli subsidiaries on a financing transaction across the bank of Ireland, Barclays, BNPP. The Israeli subsidiaries were required to provide a broad set of securities to the banks.
Asaf Rimon, Partner of ERM’s Corporate and M&A practice acted for Kape together with associates Adi Rafaeli and Jonathan Zerker.
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ERM acted for GoTo Global Mobility for the acquisition of German shared electric scooter company Emmy.
Nimrod Rosenblum and Ron Abelski, partners in our Corporate & M&A practice, acted for GoTo Global together with associates Dr. Laura Jelinek and Michal Gazit, and with assistance from interns Ori Zeevi and Lin Nanikashvili.
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