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Profile
Nitzan is a partner in the firm’s corporate and M&A department.
Nitzan’s practice is focused on domestic and cross-border M&A and private equity transactions, corporate finance, and investment transactions, usually representing foreign buyers and investors in acquisitions and doing business in Israel in a wide array of sectors, including industrial and manufacturing companies, financial services, telecommunications and entertainment, healthcare and technology.
Nitzan further specializes in handling M&A transactions involving complex regulatory aspects, mainly relating to capital markets, the financial services sector, and telecommunications.
In recent years, Nitzan has represented multi-billion-dollar leading funds and commercial companies, as well as high-profile local and foreign investors, in the most high-profile, complex, and innovative transactions valued at billions of dollars.
In addition, Nitzan provides ongoing counseling to private and public companies in Israel and abroad on various commercial, corporate, and regulatory legal issues throughout their operations.
Nitzan also heads our firm’s equity benefits practice and has extensive expertise in providing legal advice on all aspects of designing and implementing management, employee, and service providers’ compensation plans, equity-based incentive plans, performance-based awards, and other awards schemes, including obtaining tax rulings from the Israel Tax Authority.
Representative Experience
M&A and Private Equity
- Representation of EndoChoice, a US-based gastrointestinal endoscopy company, in a merger with Peer Medical Ltd., an Israeli endoscopic start-up, involving a substantial equity investment by Sequoia Capital, at a transaction valued at US$150 million.
- Representation of S1 Corporation, a NASDAQ corporation, in a potential stock-for-stock merger transaction with Fundtech Ltd., an Israeli company controlled by IDB Group (dual listed), valued at US$700 million.
- Representation of ProSiebenSat.1 Media AG (then indirectly controlled by KKR and Permira), the largest TV operator in Germany and one of Europe’s leading media companies, Acquisition of July August Communications and Productions Ltd., a leading Israeli production company based on a company valuation of € tens of million.
- Bizzabo (Round E), Skyline (Pre-Round A), PhaseV (Seed Round), and many other companies in their investment rounds.
Financing
- Representation of XIO Group in a financing transaction with Mizrahi Tefahot Bank, in connection with A US$514 million merger transaction with Lumenis Ltd.
- Representation of a global multi-billion dollar investment fund in a US$70 million financing transaction, in connection with the establishment of a Middle-Market Israel Fund.
Regulation
- Representation of David Shield, travel and health insurance agency, in a complex process for the establishment of a new insurance company, and obtaining insurance and control permits.
- Representation of Golan Telecom, a cellular operator, in the Ministry of Communications (MOC) Tender 12/2010 for new mobile operator in Israel.
- Representation of T2T Communication Ltd., obtaining an MVNO license from the MOC.
Biography
Bar Admissions
Israel, 2009
Education
LL.B., Cum Laude, Tel Aviv University, 2008
LL.M. (Commercial Law), Tel-Aviv University, 2010
Prior Experience
• Prior to joining EBN, Nitzan was an M&A partner at the Zellermayer, Pelossof, Rosovsky, Tsafrir, Toledano & Co.
• As a student Nitzan was a legal assistant in the Environmental Justice Clinic.
• During his studies Nitzan was a member of the Law, Society and Culture publication.
Languages
Hebrew, English
