Contact Information:
16 Abba Hillel Silver Rd.
Ramat Gan 52506, Israel
Tel: 972 3 610 3811    Fax: 972 3 610 3687
Education:
Hebrew University of Jerusalem (LL.B., 1995);
Fordham University School of Law, New York, NY (LL.M., 1998).

Admitted:
Israel 1996, New York State 1999.

Main Practice Areas:

Mike Rimon
”Michael Rimon combines New York experience with success in the Israeli venture capital market.”
Chambers and Partners

“A rising star who is considered 'a cut above the rest'”
Chambers and Partners

Mike Rimon is a partner in the Corporate and Securities Group. He represents international and domestic public and private companies and individual entrepreneurs in a wide range of corporate and securities matters, including mergers and acquisitions, joint ventures, venture capital transactions, private and public equity and debt offerings, licensing and commercial transactions. In addition, Mike provides ongoing corporate and securities advice to both private and publicly-held companies on Israeli, US and UK corporate and securities laws.

Prior to joining Meitar in early 2004, Mike was a corporate associate at Parker Chapin LLP in New York for over five years.

Representative experience:
  • Representation of Luxembourg-based private equity firm Altice Securities in the NIS 750 million (and up to NIS 1.2 billion) sale of Mirs Communications Ltd. to HOT Telecommunication Systems Ltd.
  • Representation of Sapiens International Corporation in its $75 million cash and stock acquisition of two Israeli privately held companies.
  • Representation of Alvarion Ltd. in its $30 million cash acquisition of Wavion Inc.
  • Representation of London Stock Exchange-listed TMT Investments Plc in its acquisition of 10% of the shares of Unicell Advanced Cellular Solutions Ltd.
  • Representation of Carmel Ventures, the largest stockholder of Axerra Networks Inc., in the sale of the company to DragonWave Inc.
  • Representation of F.T.T. Investments B.V., one of the two shareholders of Elettra (together with Telecom Italia), in the sale of the company to France Telecom.
  • Representation of VocalTec Communications Ltd. in its stock merger with YMax Corporation.
  • Representation of the French private equity firm Altice in acquisition of Mirs Telecommunications Ltd.
  • Representation of Amdocs in its $110 million cash acquisition of UK-based MX Telecom.
  • Representation of UK-based Bunzl plc in its $18 million cash acquisition of Israel-based Silco Utensils Ltd.
  • Representation of Sapiens International Corporation in its $8 million cash and stock acquisition of Canada-based Harcase Software Ltd.
  • Representation of ECtel Ltd. in its $21 million sale to cVidya Networks, Inc.
  • Representation of shareholders of CopperGate Communications Ltd. in the $186 million sale of the company to Sigma Designs, Inc.
  • Representation of St. Jude Medical in its acquisition of MediGuide Inc. for $300 million.
  • Representation of Bank of America and Lehman Brothers in a $90 million follow-on public offering of Ceragon Networks.
  • Representation of the Fishman Group in its sale of 012 Golden Lines to Smile Communications for $140 million.
  • Representation of Emblaze in its acquisition of the controlling interest in the Formula Group for $70 million.
  • Representation of the controlling shareholder of the Alliance Tires company in the sale of the Alliance company to Warburg Pincus for $45 million.
  • Representation of VocalTec Communications in its merger with Tdsoft.
  • Representation of LeadCom Integrated Solutions in its acquisition of Ytelcom.
  • Stock swap between the Fishman Group and Telecom Italia relating to shares in Mediterranean Nautilus and Elletra TLC.
  • Representation of Xpert Integrated Systems in its acquisition by One Software Technologies.
  • $110 million equity offering by M-Systems.
  • $75 million convertible debentures offering by M-Systems.
  • 100 million Euro initial public offering of Queenco Leisure International on the Main List of the London Stock Exchange.
  • $117 million initial public offering of Mellanox Technologies (counsel to Credit Suisse and JP Morgan).
  • $117 million initial public offering of Saifun (counsel to Lehman Brothers).
  • Representation of the Fishman Group in a complex real property joint venture in Thailand.

Publications:
  • Mike is the co-author (with Dan Geva) of the Israeli chapter of the 2009 edition of an international comparative legal guide on Mergers & Acquisitions.

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Languages: Hebrew and English
Born: Detroit, Michigan, USA