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ERM is delighted to announce that Erez Gurion has joined as partner in our real estate and urban renewal practice.

Erez brings significant experience in complex real estate transactions as well as real estate project finance, having previously worked as partner in the real estate department at another leading Israeli law firm. In addition to this, Erez also served at the Military Advocate General’s Office for thirteen years, in several positions, including as Head Legal Advisor to the Residential Projects Administration Unit.

For more information about Erez, please click here. For more information about ERM’s real estate and urban renewal practice, please click here.

ERM is proud to be a founding signatory of the Israel Diversity Standard and its “Statement of Principles“; a huge step for building inclusiveness for the LGBT+ community in the workplace.

The Israel Diversity Standard works with Israel’s leading organisations to establish a standard of support and equity for the LGBT+ community in the workforce and the Statement of Principles serves as a benchmark by which Israeli companies of all sizes can be measured for their inclusiveness and treatment of the LGBT+ community.

Jeremy Seeff, associate in our corporate and M&A and finance and banking teams, has taken a lead role, pro bono, in establishing the benchmark, which was launched at an event at the Tel Aviv Stock Exchange. The event was attended by hundreds including leading Israeli companies such as IBM, HPE, Stratasys and WeWork who are already signatories of the benchmark.

Epstein Rosenblum Maoz (ERM) is a leading law firm in Israel with particular expertise in international corporate, high tech and finance transactions. We act for a host of clients ranging from pre-incorporation start-ups to major international banks on deals ranging from small to multi-billion dollars in value. We are a long-term supporter of diversity efforts and provide pro-bono support to the Israel Diversity Standard.

For further information, please contact Jeremy Seeff.

When approaching a funding round, entrepreneurs and start-ups can often have differing expectations on what and how they need to prepare, what investors are looking for and ways to make sure they are presenting their business in the most effective way.

Panel discussion with Q&A

This workshop will be presented by three panelists highly experienced in advising entrepreneurs and start-ups.

They will address key questions such as:

What does a strong team look like?
How can you make sure that you are presenting the right set of skills to investors?
What financial preparations should I make before reaching out to investors? (Business plan, budget, go to market, building out WooCommerce websites, expenditure of company cash flow etc.)
Who is the right investor for my company?
How do you raise funds without losing independence?
What are the accounting guidelines before and after funding?

* This workshop will be very interactive so please feel free to bring questions you would like to ask the panelists. Please click here to sign up for the workshop.

Date: Monday 03 April
Time: 18:00
Location: Derech Menachem Begin 65, 4th Floor

Panelists

Natalie Noy, Partner at ERM

Natalie’s practice focuses on high-tech, technology, M&A, corporate finance, private equity, venture capital investments and general corporate law.You can also seek the help of experts from council tax debt as they can help you in debt recovery.She co-heads ERM’s technology practice. Natalie advises leading Israeli and international technology companies and investors on their local and international transactions. The deals Natalie has advised on include domestic and cross-border M&A transactions, venture capital financings, venture lending transactions, strategic R&D agreements, complex technology transfer agreements, licensing agreements, distribution agreements and joint ventures. Her clients include Maverick Ventures, Kuang-Chi, Tel Aviv Angels Group, Songo Media Group, Tech Novative, as well as start-ups and investors in the technology, media, and fin-tech sectors.

Ilan Regev, Senior Partner at ERB

Ilan is an Israeli certified CPA, a pioneer in the field of CFO services for tech companies in Israel, which he provides through ERB. Ilan has over 20 years of experience in the Venture capital consulting field for Israeli and Foreign companies, and served a key role in IPO processes of Israeli public traded companies, in private investment and due diligence of Venture capital portfolio companies. Throughout his career Ilan has guided hundreds of global companies in many different countries through M&A, IPO processes and more.

Itai Buchan, Partner at Lions

Itai is a former corporate executive with an international business experience, specializes in sales and digital marketing with an expertise in Socialboosting. He is a partner at Lions an agency of entrepreneurs and innovators who partner with innovators and entrepreneurs on their journey to see their visions become valid and successful businesses. They provide you with a fresh perspective by diving with you into chaos only to emerge enlightened. They question every paradigm and evoke surprising insights and new ideas together.

ERM partner and Head of our energy and Infrastructure practice Amnon Epstein was on the Renewable Energy CEO’s Forum panel at the 7th International Eilat-Eilot Renewable and Clean Energy Conference, Israel’s largest international green energy conference which brings together all of the country’s major energy figures.

The conference, which ERM also sponsors, focused on next generation technologies as well as smart solutions to the obstacles facing the global Cleantech industry. The panel that Amnon spoke at addressed current challenges and future trends in the renewable energy market, particularly in light of developments in the PV market in the next quarter that the electricity authorities expect to release in January 2017.

Other panelists included Eitan Parnass (Chair), Director General & Founder; Green Energy Association of Israel (GEA-IL); Nurit Gal, Director, Electricity Regulation Division Public Utility Authority (PUA); Gilad Yavetz, CEO, EnLight Renewable Energy; Yaron Szilas, CEO, Shikun & Binui Renewable Energy; Shai Porat, CEO, Inbar Solar Energy; Nadav Barkan, Regulation & Business Development Manager, EDF EN Israel, and Shahar Ben Moyal, CEO, Arava Meshakim & Partners.

Amnon was joined by the rest of our Energy and Infrastructure team including partners Lior Aharon and Asaf Rimon as well as associate Eran Ifargan.

Energy and Infrastructure practice

Epstein Rosenblum Maoz (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.

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

ERM has represented Kibbutz Kalia in its share purchase of Clal Sun’s holding in Kalia Clean Energy Ltd, having exercised its right of first refusal. Following the purchase agreement, Kibbutz Kalia will hold 100% of the issued shares of Kalia Clean Energy Ltd., which is the owner of an approximately 11MW PV ground plant located at Kibbutz Kalia, situated on the northern shore of the Dead Sea.

Energy and infrastructure practice

For more information on this transaction and our energy and infrastructure practice, please contact Lior Aharon or another member of our team.

ERM has represented Netafim, a pioneer and global leader of smart drip and micro-irrigation products, in exclusive global distribution agreements with Dorot Control Valves, a leading producer of control valves and Amiad Water Systems, a global producer of water treatment and filtration solutions.

Under the terms of the agreement with Amiad, Netafim will market their product lines for the irrigation market in numerous countries outside of Israel, as part of its filtration offering.

Under a similar agreement with Dorot, Netafim will market control valves for the agriculture, greenhouse, landscape and mining markets in numerous countries outside of Israel. In this deal, Netafim boosts its irrigation offering, helping farmers grow more with less as well as improve their profitability.

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 further information on these transactions and our technology practice, please contact Simon Marks or another member of our team.

ERM has represented Karamba Security, a startup selected by Forbes Israel as one of Israel’s Top 10 Most Promising Cybersecurity Companies, on its raising of $2.5 million in a new Series A funding led by Fontinalis Partners, with participation from existing investors YL Ventures and GlenRock.

Karamba develops industry-leading autonomous cybersecurity solutions for connected and autonomous vehicles and the latest round follows the $2.5 million in funding they received earlier this year which our technology team also acted on.

The closing has received widespread press attention, including in TechCrunch and Business Wire.

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

For further information on this transaction and our technology practice, please contact Nimrod Rosenblum.

ERM is proud to be co-sponsoring and co-hosting a panel event with Irish law firm Philip Lee that will bring together prominent women and members of the LGBT community from Israel and Ireland’s tech sectors to discuss the latest trends and challenges they experience.

We are delighted that the panel will be introduced by the Ambassador of Ireland, Her Excellency, Alison Kelly with panellists including: Clyde Hutchinson, Partner, Journey Partners (moderator); Sivan Kaniel, Trip Manager, Airbnb and Co-Chair InterTech Ireland; Shachar Grembek, Founder of LGBTech and entrepreneur, and Pamela Newenham, Co-Founder, GirlCrew.

The event will be held on Sunday 25 September and will be opened by Niamh Bushnell, Dublin Commissioner for Startups.

Also sponsoring the event are the Embassy of Ireland, the Ireland Israel Business Network, LGBTech and Seidman & Co. Advisors.

If you would like to attend, please RSVP to Adi Lavee: [email protected] or +972 (0) 3 6061619.

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

Epstein Rosenblum Maoz (ERM)’s high-tech and start-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.

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

ERM partner Roni Abelski has featured in 2016 Mergers & Acquisitions Annual Review by Financier Worldwide, a publication that canvasses the opinions of leading experts from around the world who advise on mergers & acquisitions (M&A). Roni contributed the Israel chapter of the report, providing insight into key developments in the region.

Among the areas that Roni addressed were the M&A activity in Israel over the past year, the steps a buyer should take to minimise transactional risk in a deal, the importance of local market knowledge when it comes to closing deals and recent regulations that will affect transactions in Israel.

On the M&A activity in Israel, Roni commented: “The M&A market in Israel has seen a great deal of activity in the last 12-18 months. A large portion of M&A transactions are focused on the high-tech sector where Israel has shown a strong record for innovation that is internationally recognised. This has led to an increasing number of global corporations, most of which have not traditionally been focused on investing in the development of technology, open innovation hubs within Israel to give their industries a technological push. This, combined with acquisitions in non-tech focused industries, means that the Israeli M&A landscape has been very broad. In terms of industries of focus, high-tech companies continue to dominate, especially in cyber and FinTech, where Israel is commonly regarded as a leading source of disruptive technology. Agro-tech and medical devices continue to show growth and account for a significant source of international acquisitions of Israeli companies.”

For a full copy of the report, please click here.

Corporate and M&A practice

Epstein Rosenblum Maoz (ERM)’s corporate practice is widely renowned for its cross-border M&A expertise and it 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 corporate and M&A practice.

For further information, please contact Roni Abelski or another member of our team.

Following their widely publicised establishment of a $300 million technology fund in Israel, ERM is delighted to have advised the Chinese conglomerate Kuang-Chi on their investment in Beyond Verbal Communication, a Tel Aviv based company which enables machines to understand human emotions by analyzing raw voice intonations as people speak.

This is Kuang-Chi’s second investment in an Israeli company since its fund was launched in May 2016 and their investment of $3 million in Beyond Verbal Communication brings the total raised by the startup to $10 million since its founding in 2012. The new funding will go towards recent and future research projects for the company in the health and wellness space.

For coverage of the investment in Geektime, please click here.

High-Tech and Start-Ups practice

Epstein Rosenblum Maoz (ERM)’s high-tech and start-ups practice regularly provides legal advice to leading Israeli and international clients from pre-incorporation through to exit, as well as on the most complex transactions carried out in Israel and abroad. Our cross-border focus, effective approach, cohesive partnership and strong team of excellent individuals are widely acknowledged by leading international and Israeli technology companies, entrepreneurs, start-ups, investors and major legal directories.

For more information on the investment or our high-tech and start-ups, please contact Natalie Noy or another member of our team.