Meitar is Israel's leading law firm in securities and capital markets. We represent issuers, underwriters and investors in all stages of initial and secondary public offerings of equity, debt and hybrid securities in the US, Europe and Israel. Most of our partners have trained previously in corporate departments of leading international law firms, and we offer clients the knowledge and understanding of the public offering process both in Israel and abroad. Our work in capital markets has received the top Israeli ranking from Chambers & Partners, Legal 500 and other leading guides, and we have been ranked by IPO Journal as the non-US law firm with the largest number of initial public offerings in US capital markets.
As part of our securities practice, we regularly address complex legal issues that arise in the context of public offerings, including the use of sophisticated and novel financial instruments. We also advise on compliance with securities regulations and assist clients in the preparation of the various types of securities filings and reporting under US, UK and Israeli securities laws.
Representative experience:
- $1 billion private offering of notes by The Israel Electric Corporation. (2008; counsel to Citi and Lehman Brothers).
- $185 million follow-on public offering by NICE Systems (2007; counsel to Bank of America).
- 100 million Euro initial public offering of Queenco Leisure International on the Main List of the London Stock Exchange (2007; company counsel).
- $117 million initial public offering of Mellanox Technologies (2007; counsel to Credit Suisse and JP Morgan).
- $90 million follow-on public offering of Ceragon Networks (2007; counsel to Bank of America and Lehman Brothers).
- $116 million follow-on public offering of Saifun (2006; counsel to Lehman Brothers).
- $34 million initial public offering and $72M follow-on offering of Omrix Biopharmaceuticals (2006; company counsel).
- $210 million follow-on public offering by NICE Systems (2005; counsel to Bank of America and JP Morgan).
- $117 million initial public offering of Saifun (2005; counsel to Lehman Brothers).
- $75 million convertible debentures offering by M-Systems (2005; company counsel).
- $110 million follow-on public offering by M-Systems (2004; company counsel).
- $124 million initial public offering of Shopping.com (2004; company counsel).
- $80.1 million follow-on public offering by Tower Semiconductors (2004; counsel to CIBC World Markets, Piper Jaffray and C.E. Unterberg, Towbin).
