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Profile
Kobi leads the Intellectual Property Practice and is a member of the firm’s Corporate, M&A and Hi-Tech Departments.
Kobi represents and provides general counsel to public and private companies, private equity firms and venture capital funds in a variety of cross-border corporate transactions, including mergers & acquisitions, investment rounds and capital markets transactions, with a special emphasis on intellectual property, cyber and information technology matters. He also provides ongoing legal advice to companies at all stages of development on a variety of corporate and commercial issues, including with respect to corporate governance matters.
In addition, Kobi regularly advises on all aspects of intellectual property and technology law, including licensing of intellectual property rights, namely the commercialization and monetization of patents (including utility and design), trademarks, trade dress, copyrights, design rights and domain names as well as commercial agreements throughout the entire product lifecycle, agreements involving the protection of trade secrets and other strategic engagements, such as joint ventures and complex collaborations. He has particular experience in the fields of internet law, AI, IoT, Big Data, Open-source software, Fintech, media and entertainment law, life sciences, and research & development activities.
Before joining the firm, Kobi was an Associate at Simpson Thacher & Bartlett LLP, where he represented leading investment management corporations such as BlackRock and some of the largest private equity firms in the world, including Blackstone, KKR and Apax Partners, as well as their portfolio companies, in a variety of M&A, equity and debt capital markets offerings and transactional intellectual property matters.
Representative Experience
Since joining the firm, Kobi was involved in the following representative matters:
- Emerge, Insight Partners, R136 Ventures and Square Peg in the sale of Deci.AI to NVIDIA Corporation
- Amdocs, Amiti Ventures and Singtel Innov8 in the sale of Flow Security to CrowdStrike
- Permira in its acquisition of a majority interest in BioCatch, reflecting an enterprise valuation of $1.3 billion
- BeyondTrust, a portfolio company of Francisco Partners and Clearlake Capital, in its acquisition of Entitle
- Euclid Transactional in connection with the acquisition of a majority interest by Blackstone in Priority Software from TA Associates and Fortissimo Capital, reflecting an enterprise valuation of $800 million
- Euclid Transactional in connection with the acquisition of Gett by Pango
- Euclid Transactional in connection with McDonald’s acquisition of Aloniel (Israeli franchisee of McDonald’s)
Prior to joining the firm, Kobi was involved in the following representative matters:
- BlackRock in aspects of its $15.5 billion acquisition of a minority interest in a corporation controlled by Saudi Aramco and subsequent refinance, including the establishment of a $11.5 billion global medium term note program on the London Stock Exchange and Rule 144A and Regulation S debt offerings of $4.5 billion
- KKR and its affiliate, Viridor Energy Group, in the private placement of £1.585 billion senior secured notes, as part of a £2.815 billion refinance, following its £4.2 billion leveraged buyout
- KKR and its affiliate, Q-Park, in the Rule 144A and Regulation S €430 million senior secured fixed-rate notes offering and concurrent tender offer, following its €3 billion leveraged buyout
- KKR and its affiliate, ContourGlobal, in its private placement of senior secured notes, following its $2.2 billion leveraged buyout
- Blackstone in several transactions and engagements for the distribution of its various retail funds
- Caesars in its $4.4 billion sale of Playtika to Shanghai Giant Network Technology
- Centerbridge Partners and Gallatin Point Capital in their NIS 1.7 billion acquisition of a majority interest in Phoenix from the Delek Group
- 3i Group in its acquisition of Degania Silicone
- Rafael Advanced Defense Systems and Avihai Stolero in the NIS 850 million acquisition of Aeronautics, through a reverse triangular merger
- Channel 10 in its merger with Reshet Media
- Various investment banks, including J.P. Morgan, Morgan Stanley and Citigroup, as underwriters in SEC-registered debt offerings of $12 billion global notes by German state-owned development bank KfW
- I Squared Capital and its affiliate Energia Group in the Rule 144A and Regulation S €600 million senior secured notes offering
- Various notes purchasers, including CVC Capital Partners, Bain Capital, Barings and PGIM, in the private placement of Infopro Digital of €115 million senior floating rate notes
- Qualcomm Ventures in several of its investments, including in CoreTigo and CyberX
- Claridge Israel in several of its investments, including in AlgoSec and Infinidat
- Pitango Venture Capital in its investment in Venn
- ClalTech in its investment in Yotpo
- Apax Partners and one of its affiliates in the online retail sector in its proposed initial public offering
- Intel Corporation in the negotiation process and its tender offer for Mellanox Technologies (the deal value of the winning bid by NVIDIA Corporation was $6.9 billion)
Biography
Bar Admissions
Israel, 2016
New York, 2023
Texas, 2024
Education
LL.M., The University of Chicago, 2021
Gruss Lipper Fellow, recipient of the EGL Fellowship Award; Donald M. Ephraim Scholar in Law and Economics
LL.B., Reichman University, magna cum laude, 2014
B.A. in Business Administration (Information Technology specialization), Reichman University, magna cum laude, 2014
Prior Experience
Associate at Simpson Thacher & Bartlett LLP, focusing on M&A, capital markets transactions and intellectual property.
Instructor and Teaching Assistant at Reichman University and Tel Aviv University in Corporate Law, Contract Law, Intellectual Property Law and Cyber and Information Technology Law.
Languages
English, Hebrew
