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ERM partner Natalie Noy moderated a panel that included entrepreneurs, representatives from technologies companies and a VC at an event organised by Harvard Kennedy School. The panel session aimed at showing the benefits and challenges of being an entrepreneur in Israel.

Natalie is a partner in our high-tech and start-ups and corporate and M&A practices.

Panelists included Ilai Fallach co-founder of StoreSmarts, Tomer Dikerman Co-founder & Chief Product Officer at Comeet, Chaim Motzen Co-Founder of Gigawatt Global, Barak Rabinowitz, Partner at Genesis Partners and Nir Marom, founder of three energy companies (Greenlet Technologies, SunIsrael and Nova-Lumos).

High-Tech and Start-Ups and Corporate and M&A practices

Epstein Rosenblum Maoz (ERM)’s High-Tech and Start-Ups and Corporate and M&A practices are widely renowned for their cross-border expertise and ERM regularly advises leading Israeli and international clients on the most complex transactions carried out in Israel or by Israeli companies abroad.

For more information, please contact Natalie Noy or another member of our team.

ERM is proud to have co-sponsored The 4th Israel Smart Energy Conference which brought together around 250 Energy & IT market and industry leaders, government officials, developers and entrepreneurs from around the world.

Amnon Epstein, head of ERM’s projects and finance practices, led a panel at the conference on “Opportunities and Challenges with Distributed Generation”.

Panelists included Dr. Nanad Katic, Head of Smart solutions BizDev, Mr. Eitan Parnass, Founder and CEO of the Green Energy Association of Israel, Dr. Ilan Suliman, CEO & Owner, ISCON – Economic and regulatory consulting and Mr Oded Agmon, Head of regulation Department, Public Utility Authority – Electricity.

The conference focused on Energy Utilities Business Innovation; Microgrids and empowered communities; and Smart Energy as a path to Smart Cities.

Energy and Infrastructure and Corporate and M&A and Technology practices

ERM is considered a market leader in the renewable energy market, regularly acting for many of the leading Israeli and international owners, developers, EPC contractors and financiers in this sector.

ERM’s Technology and Corporate and M&A practices are also widely renowned for their cross-border expertise and ERM regularly advises leading Israeli and international clients on the most complex transactions carried out in Israel or by Israeli companies abroad.

For more information, please contact Amnon Epstein or another member of our team.

ERM was delighted to host MBA students from the Tepper School of Business at the University of Carneggie Mellon in Pittsburgh, for a discussion on venture capital in Israel and the Israeli high tech market.

Speaking to the group were representatives from Maverick Ventures, a venture capital fund focusing on growth stage Israel related technology ventures and Hoop, a fast-growing Tel Aviv based start-up which develops an innovative social video product.

Introducing the talk were ERM’s Natalie Noy, a partner in our technology and corporate and M&A practices and Jeremy Seeff, an associate who also specialises in these practice areas.

High-Tech and Corporate and M&A practices

Epstein Rosenblum Maoz (ERM)’s high-tech and corporate and M&A practice are widely renowned for their cross-border expertise and ERM regularly advises leading Israeli and international clients on the most complex transactions carried out in Israel or by Israeli companies abroad.

Please click here to read more about our high-tech and start-ups and corporate and M&A practice.

ERM hosted a round table discussion on amendment 12 to the Control of Financial Services (Provident Funds) Law – 2005, which will take effect on 5 February 2016 and which might affect the pension budget provided by employers. Taking part in the discussion were around 30 employment lawyers from leading Israeli law firms.

As agree during the talks, Maya Schneider, who leads the employment practice at ERM, has sent a letter to the Ministry of Finance seeking clarification on the amendment.

To read ERM’s analysis of amendment 12 and its potential implications in Hebrew, please click here.

Employment practice

ERM’s Employment Law department regularly acts for international and Israeli clients, as well as for senior executives, from the private and public sectors, which operate, inter alia, in industry and in the high tech, banking and real estate sectors.

For more information, please contact Maya Schneider.

ERM partner Asaf Rimon has featured in Globes, a leading Israeli financial newspaper, in their coverage of the round table discussion hosted by the firm with former South African opposition leader Tony Leon, now Senior Advisor to K2 Business Intelligence.

The event, which was attended by various industry leaders, addressed the topic of “Doing Business in Africa” with Tony imparting his wide knowledge of the region.

Tony observed that: “Resource-dependent economies are obviously keenly sensitive to downturn in metal and energy prices and the effects are being felt across most West African coastal states. But common to all of Africa, and a huge trade and investment deterrent, are chronic infrastructural bottlenecks. Transport costs in the continent are reckoned to be 63% higher than in other developing regions and a 2010 World Bank report estimates that $93bn is needed to bring in basic infrastructure across the continent.”

Asaf, partner in ERM’s energy and infrastructure team stated that: “the thirst in Africa for Israeli knowledge and entrepreneurship is no longer limited to defense and security matters and many Israeli companies are currently active in Africa. Foreign companies and banks negotiating the establishment of projects in Africa will commonly prefer selecting London as a place of jurisdiction or arbitration and will choose for the governing law to be English law rather than that of the location of the project”.

Please click here to read the full article in Hebrew.

International expertise

Epstein Rosenblum Maoz (ERM) is regularly ranked as experts in the leading international legal directories, including IFLR 1000, Chambers and Partners, Legal500 in our core practice areas (corporate, finance, projects and technology) and as one of the leading Israeli law firms.

For more information, please contact Asaf Rimon or another member of our team.

ERM is proud to announce that Gideon Weinbaum has been elected to the partnership with effect from 1 January, 2016. Gideon’s practice is focused on dispute resolution (including arbitration).

Prior to joining the partnership, Gideon spent several years working as an associate at the firm and Gideon completed his legal internship at the Israeli Supreme Court, clerking for the Honourable Judge Yoram Danziger.

For more information about Gideon, please click here. For more information about ERM’s dispute resolution practice, please click here.