Banking & Finance

EBN’s banking and finance department has been instrumental to lenders and borrowers in some of the most significant and complex international financing transactions, providing a refined understanding of the global financial markets. 

EBN has represented some of Israel’s largest commercial banks, financial institutions, funds, and significant borrowers in various finance transactions, including corporate financing, M&A financing, Real-state financing, and syndicated loans. Other key clients of the firm’s global banking and finance practice include leveraged buyout sponsors, private equity funds, hedge funds, strategic buyers, securities and financial institutions issuers, and the private sector.

Our clientele relies on our banking and finance team for comprehensive expertise in complex local and cross-border transactions across every industry and sector. EBN lawyers have an extended background in various regulatory matters concerning banks and their key or controlling stakeholders.

EBN has gathered extensive experience representing global clients in cross-border financing transactions and advising foreign clients on perfecting securities in Israel. 

Our banking and finance advice and transactional expertise in a full range of fields help us counsel regulatory-related matters and represent them before relevant regulators such as the Bank of Israel, the Capital Markets, the Insurance and Savings Authority, and the Securities Authority.

• Representing Mizrahi Tefahot Bank, facilitated the merger of Union Bank of Israel, the country’s sixth largest bank, with and into Mizrahi Bank, amounting to a significant 1.4 billion NIS transaction.
• Representing Netafim Ltd., a global leader in smart irrigation solutions, in a refinancing transaction of over 660 million USD from no less than 11 foreign and domestic lenders to finance its operations in multiple jurisdictions.
• Representation of Bain Capital in a transaction for the financing of an acquisition of an Israeli hi-tech company.
• Representing Hellman & Friedman in obtaining finance for the 1.15 billion USD acquisition of Checkmarx, Ltd.