As Israeli companies continue to be attracted to the American market—and as U.S. investors, in turn, covet cutting-edge Israeli technologies—our Israel practice group will continue to provide unique assistance to parties from both countries. We have over two decades’ experience in helping Israeli companies enter U.S. markets and engage in deals with U.S. investors and partners. We regularly handle strategic transactions on behalf of both public and private Israeli entities, and we have been instrumental in a large number of public equity financings of U.S.-listed Israeli companies.
We have long enjoyed deep ties to the Israeli business community, and our strong relationships with Israeli legal and accounting firms make us ideal partners in the structuring of a variety of M&A and capital markets transactions for the American market. We are sensitive to the differences in the two business cultures, and have grown adept at translating between them.
What needs no translation is the pragmatic, “get-it-done” approach we bring to all our transactions firm-wide—an approach very much attuned to the results-oriented predispositions of our Israeli clients.
Chambers Global 2011 selected Kramer Levin’s Israel practice and partners Richard H. Gilden and Ernest S. Wechsler as some of the best in the legal field in the area of Corporate/M&A: Overseas Counsel. Clients remarked that the “[the team has] a lot of commercial sense, and can put problems into a business context when you need to strategise. They give practical, helpful advice.” “They spend a considerable amount of time in Israel, so they understand the culture, which is very important.”
Drawing freely from the various disciplines within the firm, our services include:
- Early stage representation
- Capital markets transactions
- Securities law compliance
- Mergers and acquisitions
- Taxation
- Intellectual property and technology law
- Labor and executive compensation law
- Litigation