Kramer Levin Naftalis & Frankel LLP is actively involved in representing clients based in Israel and doing business in Israel.  The firm’s Israel practice group has broad experience in the market, serving a client base that includes some of Israel’s largest and most established companies, as well as younger companies in the vanguard of the global technology industry.  The group brings a truly interdisciplinary approach to serving our large and growing Israeli client base, tapping our expertise in early stage representation, capital markets, securities law compliance, mergers and acquisitions, taxation, intellectual property and technology law, labor and executive compensation law and, when appropriate, litigation.

The group offers a keen awareness of the unique business and legal issues facing Israel-based companies, arising from the extensive work of Kramer Levin attorneys in this market.  When combined with the firm’s deep resources in a broad range of complex legal areas involving the unique characteristics of high technology, as well as cross border transactions, this specialized knowledge enables the firm to offer unmatched service and commitment to assist our Israel-based clients in achieving their worldwide objectives.

The firm’s Paris office and Kramer Levin's participation in a preferred network of firms from countries around the globe, allow Kramer Levin to offer expanded service to Israeli clients in European and other markets.

Recent transactions include:

• representing an underwriting syndicate led by a “bulge bracket” manager both in a $95 million follow-on equity offering and a later $75 million Rule 144A convertible note offering by an Israeli manufacturer of consumer and telecommunications memory devices;
• representing an Israeli publicly traded wireless equipment company in acquiring a publicly traded U.S.-based company in a related business sector;
• representing a publicly traded Israeli company involved in the software and network security business in its $40 million follow-on equity offering underwritten by a “bulge bracket”-led underwriting syndicate; and
• representing a publicly traded Israeli company involved in the wireless communications infrastructure business in its $90 million follow-on equity offering underwritten by a "bulge bracket" led underwriting syndicate
• representing a subsidiary of a publicly traded Israeli company in the real estate investment business in a Rule 144A offering of a tranche of its $350 million listing on the London Stock Exchange.