Noam Sharon

Noam Sharon is a partner in the Corporate and Securities Group, heading the Israeli capital markets practice. Noam is one of the leading practitioners in Israel in the areas of domestic securities law and capital markets. Noam's practice reflects a wide range of Corporate Finance and Structured Finance transactions, including public debt and equity offerings, tender bids, private placements, restructuring arrangements, securitization and structuring of hedge funds and ETF's. His clients include a wide variety of large domestic corporations, such as major banks and other corporations within the sectors of real estate, engineering and construction, industry and finance. Noam also provides his clients with ongoing advice on corporate law matters, with an emphasis on compliance with the applicable requirements of the Israeli securities laws.

Representative experience:

• Representation of  Bank Mizrahi in an issuance of NIS 1 billion of hybrid capital instruments in December 2006.
• Representation of  Israel Discount Bank in an issuance of NIS 1 billion of hybrid capital instruments in May 2007.
• Representation of  Bank Hapoalim in an issuance of  NIS 600 million of subordinated debt in August 2008.
• Representation of Plastro Irrigation Systems in a $100 million going private acquisition by John Deere in March 2008.
• Representation of Queenco in a private placement of $250 million of securities to finance a merger transaction, and issuance on London Stock Exchange Main List  in July 2008.
• Representation of Excellence Investments in an NIS 500 million securitization for institutional investors of an innovative swap transaction based on cash flow from bonds issued by Israel Electric Corporation in December 2006.
• Representation of Excellence Investments in an issuance of an NIS 2 billion of innovative financial instruments, EFTs and derivative instruments, 2006-2008.
• Representation of Global Finance in a complex financing transaction that included simultaneous acquisition of unlisted notes from institutional investors, restructuring bonds based on the resulting cash flow in two tranches, both public and private, followed by a public offering of the senior tranche pursuant to an NIS 1.2 billion prospectus in December 2007.
• Representation of Israel Discount Bank in public offerings in December 2006 and May 2007 of NIS 1 billion of Tier-1 hybrid capital, including interaction with the Bank of Israel on regulatory issues and listing procedures.
• Representation of Mizrahi-Tefahot Bank in November 2006 in an NIS 459 million private issuance of hybrid securities followed by preparation of a prospectus to list the securities.
• Representation of one of Israel’s leading investment houses in an NIS 2 billion issuance of an innovative financial instrument consisting of convertible deposit certificates converting to interest bearing US Dollar denominated debt.
• Representation of Nissan Medical Industries in an NIS 142 million private offering of bonds and convertible instruments.
• Representation of Mizrahi-Tefahot Bank in an NIS 450 million public offering of subordinated debt pursuant to a shelf prospectus, May 2007.
• Representation of Israel Discount Bank in an NIS 350 million public offering of subordinated debt pursuant to a shelf prospectus, May 2007.
• Representation of a number of companies from the Excellence Group in an NIS 1 billion of public offerings of structured financial instruments pursuant to shelf prospectuses, 2006-2007.